The Known World Dance event was long enough that we established a "routine" schedule--up early, attend a class or two, skip a couple of classes around lunch time to eat good food, chat with people, and then go out for ice cream and/or yummy stuff from the bakery, attend more classes, practice singing for the choir performance on the last night of ( Read more... )

The SCA shire of Reengarda (Skellefteå area in northern Sweden) held its annual spring event this weekend. We went, of course, and once again found it to be a delightful event. The site they use is a small old school building. Downstairs there is a kitchen and small dining area/public place, some showers and a sauna. Up stairs there are a couple ( Read more... )

I already mentioned that I was up late at the SCA event on the weekend because I was having so much fun. Well, that pattern has continued into the week, too--I haven't made it to bed before 01:00 all week, but am still getting up early enough to do the 45 minute walk to work in the morning. Mind you, I am not arriving at the office at 07:00 or 07: ( Read more... )

This weekend we were at an SCA event held in an old village school house not far south of the city of Umeå. It was ever so much fun, and reminds me why, even though I now have many other hobbies to fill in the time between SCA events within a reasonable commute, the SCA really is the hobby of my heart. Höstdansen (The Autumn Dance) is a delightful ( Read more... )

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This weekend was Spelmansstämman, the big gathering of folk musicians and dancers from all over northern Sweden and further away (including a buss of 20 from Norway, a couple of guys from Germany, one of whom comes every year). It is always a fun event, but this time it was even more fun than usual. A couple of our SCA friends from out of town ( Read more... )

We had a couple of delightful couch surfers the first part of this week. They arrived Tuesday afternoon and stayed through to Friday morning. She is from California (grew up in Santa Cruz, went to UC Berkeley for undergrad, and is now at UCLA for a PhD studying butterflys), and her boyfriend/traveling companion is from Portugal--they met because ( Read more... )

On Saturday one of our friends (our folk dance teacher) had a 60th birthday party. Since she was born in the 1950's she decided on a 50's theme for the party, and nearly everyone went dressed in period-appropriate clothing, and a number of people went to the effort of doing their hair in 50's style too. I made a new skirt for the occasion. I have ( Read more... )

This has been one of those delightful weekends where I get to enjoy being at home, in the house I love. We did go out, briefly, Friday night--our Choir, which is a university student choir (one need not actually be a student to participate, one need only love to sing), has been about half exchange students this year. Therefore we agreed to be ( Read more... )

Ever since we bought the house last November we have wanted to host some sort of SCA gathering here (larger than dance practice), and, at long last, one has been scheduled. On Tuesday we missed choir practice (since lord_kjar came home from Double Wars with a bit of a sore throat, and so probably shouldn't be singing). Therefore we suddenly had a free ( Read more... )