Novice Schola/Weekend
Thursday (hey, it's a _very_ long weekend, for me!):
Had a lovely dinner last night with fitzw. We got to Greenfield early enough to get to the bead store first, where we got the most beautiful silver hawk pendant. I'd seen it the last time we were in town, for the winter fare farmers market, and it was still there. My plan is to secure it to my crane bag with a really good pin, so that it can represent air most of the time there, but I can still take it off to wear on occasion.
The restaurant was crowded but we were seated in about 5 minutes. Service was still good in spite of the workload, although probably not as high as they'd like -- when it's quieter the waiters do things like prepare your chopsticks for you :D Had a most excellent discussion about the Coligny Calendar. L has been working away at studying it in more detail and wanted to lay some of it out in discussion, to help him sort things out. Since I'd been having some trouble following some of how it worked (in spite of gwynt_y_storm's good lecture - I'm just slow on some things), it was great for me too, as L was able to explain some things to me so that I could keep it in my head. It took a few tries, but I have the basics down finally. The math of the system is what intrigues him the most, of course. I believe it goes well with the sacred geometry stuff he's studying, too. We also talked about the calendar in relation to other calender systems, and a bit about the language as well (old Gallic). A wonderful time!
Bought some little composition books for the teachers at Novice Schola last night. Just little ones, but handy for taking notes at a museum, library, someone else's class. Or jotting ideas in, that kind of think. Don't like the covers though, so I tried decoupaging some nice paper onto the covers of a few of them.
Friday:
Decoupage isn't strong enough, will try some double-sided tape I have. That sticks to pretty much anything. Need to finish covering the gift notebooks today.
Also:
- Pack green bog dress (loaned from gwynt_y_storm, the cat clan's cheese slicer, L's teaching materials, feast gear, baronial chairs, coronets, harp(s) (although they won't go into the minivan until tomorrow morning). Pouches or bags for notebooks and other odds & ends. Travel snacks and water. Site donation check from a friend in NH.
- Ready clothing for tomorrow
- Clean minivan, put in two seats for the folks we're taking to the event. May have to put cartop carrier on as well, because of the stuff we'll be picking up at the event.
- PT and a little weaving. And maybe a bit more spinning, although if I do it'll be the Icelandic, as I want to get further along on that project.
Saturday:
Novice Schola. Long day. Have to get Eli there for helping with setup, so we'll be up super early, since we have to get down the mountain, pick up him and Sarah L, and then get to Springfield by 8:00 a.m. We'll be staying for dinner of course, which from the sounds of things will be a nice intimate affair. Then cleanup (at least a little, before the event staff kick me out), take people home, go home.
During the day:
Do baroness stuff (hold hands as needed, chat with folks, check out the arts displayed, help out where needed, and of course, be decorative and spiffy-looking). I'm sure everything will go wonderfully, although we always have a glitch or two -- part of the fun :D Hm, maybe I should browse through my class handouts and see if I can throw together another class, in case we need it...
Collect items from Sir Jeff, Mistress Caitlin O'D, and Mistress SD ellid, which will be displayed at Wandering Moon in Shelburne Falls on Feb. 23 (part of a renaissance-themed fundraiser for the local food pantry).
One of my apprentices, gwynt_y_storm, has been working away at various things Roman. I've been reading up on her progress with various projects in her journal with great interest, and she did show me a couple of things a few weeks back, which only whets my interest in the rest of what she's been making. The greatest holdup for her has been lack of a proper place to do metal work/forge work, but she's been doing a good job working around that lack so far. Hopefully we can do something about this soon, perhaps later in the year.
Sunday:
- Trip to transfer point for recycling.
- L and I think there was something else, but can't remember what it was. Hopefully it will come to one of us....
- I don't expect to do a whole lot Sunday, being the day after an event. I still get tuckered out after being out and about all day.
- History Channel is showing Life after People at 8pm. We caught a few bits of it last time, but not the whole thing. Hypothetical scenarios on what would happen if people suddenly weren't living in various given places (degradation of structures, how domestic and wild animals will fare, etc.). One of the bits we caught last time was from an actual place -- cities and towns do get abandoned, even today; it was really something to see how quickly the place they were at had gotten overgrown. Not completely surprising to me, with the stuff I've had to deal with in my own semi-tended garden spaces, but still interesting.
Monday:
L has the day off and my PT is on Tuesday! Lady Alfdis will be coming by sometime in the morning to pick up the items from Novice Schola, as well as some items from myself and fitzw. (We'll have to pack up those things Sunday and/or early Monday morning). After that, who knows? We'll probably give Una/sorcieredeneige a call, to see how things are going. The basement flooded and she and her mom and a couple of friends have been working on cleaning up. ellid will be going over Sunday to see what she can do. Hm, I'll talk to Una at the event Saturday and see how things are going. If she knows that she'll have help on Monday, she can put some things off until then so that the weekend isn't quite as hard on her.
I'm sure we'll still have some time to ourselves in there somewhere. Good thing we're used to flexible schedules!
***
Time to get busy!
Had a lovely dinner last night with fitzw. We got to Greenfield early enough to get to the bead store first, where we got the most beautiful silver hawk pendant. I'd seen it the last time we were in town, for the winter fare farmers market, and it was still there. My plan is to secure it to my crane bag with a really good pin, so that it can represent air most of the time there, but I can still take it off to wear on occasion.
The restaurant was crowded but we were seated in about 5 minutes. Service was still good in spite of the workload, although probably not as high as they'd like -- when it's quieter the waiters do things like prepare your chopsticks for you :D Had a most excellent discussion about the Coligny Calendar. L has been working away at studying it in more detail and wanted to lay some of it out in discussion, to help him sort things out. Since I'd been having some trouble following some of how it worked (in spite of gwynt_y_storm's good lecture - I'm just slow on some things), it was great for me too, as L was able to explain some things to me so that I could keep it in my head. It took a few tries, but I have the basics down finally. The math of the system is what intrigues him the most, of course. I believe it goes well with the sacred geometry stuff he's studying, too. We also talked about the calendar in relation to other calender systems, and a bit about the language as well (old Gallic). A wonderful time!
Bought some little composition books for the teachers at Novice Schola last night. Just little ones, but handy for taking notes at a museum, library, someone else's class. Or jotting ideas in, that kind of think. Don't like the covers though, so I tried decoupaging some nice paper onto the covers of a few of them.
Friday:
Decoupage isn't strong enough, will try some double-sided tape I have. That sticks to pretty much anything. Need to finish covering the gift notebooks today.
Also:
- Pack green bog dress (loaned from gwynt_y_storm, the cat clan's cheese slicer, L's teaching materials, feast gear, baronial chairs, coronets, harp(s) (although they won't go into the minivan until tomorrow morning). Pouches or bags for notebooks and other odds & ends. Travel snacks and water. Site donation check from a friend in NH.
- Ready clothing for tomorrow
- Clean minivan, put in two seats for the folks we're taking to the event. May have to put cartop carrier on as well, because of the stuff we'll be picking up at the event.
- PT and a little weaving. And maybe a bit more spinning, although if I do it'll be the Icelandic, as I want to get further along on that project.
Saturday:
Novice Schola. Long day. Have to get Eli there for helping with setup, so we'll be up super early, since we have to get down the mountain, pick up him and Sarah L, and then get to Springfield by 8:00 a.m. We'll be staying for dinner of course, which from the sounds of things will be a nice intimate affair. Then cleanup (at least a little, before the event staff kick me out), take people home, go home.
During the day:
Do baroness stuff (hold hands as needed, chat with folks, check out the arts displayed, help out where needed, and of course, be decorative and spiffy-looking). I'm sure everything will go wonderfully, although we always have a glitch or two -- part of the fun :D Hm, maybe I should browse through my class handouts and see if I can throw together another class, in case we need it...
Collect items from Sir Jeff, Mistress Caitlin O'D, and Mistress SD ellid, which will be displayed at Wandering Moon in Shelburne Falls on Feb. 23 (part of a renaissance-themed fundraiser for the local food pantry).
One of my apprentices, gwynt_y_storm, has been working away at various things Roman. I've been reading up on her progress with various projects in her journal with great interest, and she did show me a couple of things a few weeks back, which only whets my interest in the rest of what she's been making. The greatest holdup for her has been lack of a proper place to do metal work/forge work, but she's been doing a good job working around that lack so far. Hopefully we can do something about this soon, perhaps later in the year.
Sunday:
- Trip to transfer point for recycling.
- L and I think there was something else, but can't remember what it was. Hopefully it will come to one of us....
- I don't expect to do a whole lot Sunday, being the day after an event. I still get tuckered out after being out and about all day.
- History Channel is showing Life after People at 8pm. We caught a few bits of it last time, but not the whole thing. Hypothetical scenarios on what would happen if people suddenly weren't living in various given places (degradation of structures, how domestic and wild animals will fare, etc.). One of the bits we caught last time was from an actual place -- cities and towns do get abandoned, even today; it was really something to see how quickly the place they were at had gotten overgrown. Not completely surprising to me, with the stuff I've had to deal with in my own semi-tended garden spaces, but still interesting.
Monday:
L has the day off and my PT is on Tuesday! Lady Alfdis will be coming by sometime in the morning to pick up the items from Novice Schola, as well as some items from myself and fitzw. (We'll have to pack up those things Sunday and/or early Monday morning). After that, who knows? We'll probably give Una/sorcieredeneige a call, to see how things are going. The basement flooded and she and her mom and a couple of friends have been working on cleaning up. ellid will be going over Sunday to see what she can do. Hm, I'll talk to Una at the event Saturday and see how things are going. If she knows that she'll have help on Monday, she can put some things off until then so that the weekend isn't quite as hard on her.
I'm sure we'll still have some time to ourselves in there somewhere. Good thing we're used to flexible schedules!
***
Time to get busy!