Feast Night, May 15, 2011

Tonight was the first feast for our new Senechal, Falco di Lucio. And it was a wonderful feast too.

I arrived `fashionably late` to find the side room tables already set up for Morglyn`s lost wax casting project. I was not able to attend previous meetings where the projects were just beginning, but I can tell you that to this point we have many exceptional carvers in our midst! Morglyn will cast the wax objects at his own pleasure in the next short while, and there are many in our shire that will sport unique treasures very proudly!

Even certain members of our Rapiers managed to squeeze in time away for their fervent practice to work on their pieces of art!

Also up for inspection and claiming were 11 of Hrafn`s game board sets that were cut by Morglyn and Ulfrekker. (The game will not be named at the moment.) They were taken in hand to be personally embellished by some citizens of the shire. More dice for these game boards will be produced by Morglyn from exotic wood that will be provided by Ulfrekker at the next practice. I was wondering about the dice...

Ismerelda was very kind and generous to accommodate me by bringing with her some of her collection of blackwork articles and patterns. This will be a leisure project that we will work on while our warriors sweat away at practice for the next few weeks :-)

Hengest expressed an interest in one of Ismerelda`s patterns for his cloak edge. A forest tree line. I`m excited to see it come to working, it will be quite a lovely piece of stitching! Morglyn choose a blackwork pattern that he will try to work out into a weaving.

I presented my finished `nine-man-morris` portable game board, and it was well received. As well, the collection of blackwork patterns, and particularly the coif patterns developed from Scholehouse and V&A images were shown much interest.

Paddy and Maddy Fernow were missed at the main meal, but were happily received for the dessert course, since THEY brought it! Yay! And it certainly was a pleasure to be able to spend some time with them.

Two birthdays were celebrated at this feast, Christov at a tender 23, and Sigrunn (that`s ME!!!!!) at a not nearly so tender 49 :-) Genevieve provided a wonderful cake and we were serenaded by the entire group :-)

We were seated very nearly to the prescribed hour of 6pm, nearly. And though the company was small, the feast would have pleased many more... There was enough time after dinner to enjoy leisurely discussions (one being the desire for more banners for events and displays) and enough time to play some rounds of "the game that shall not yet be named".

And I made it home just minutes after 9! Unheard of!

Well done Krakafjord! Well done.
HUZZAH!!!!