Double Wars prep with bouts of home improvment

We leave Thursday for Double Wars, one of the largest SCA events in the Kingdom, held every Spring in Southern Sweden. Since we have a small car we can bring only so much stuff with us. We have talked for weeks now that we should do a test-packing session, to be certain that his new nyckelharpa box will fit in the car along with the other things that need to go. However, the driveway down to the workshop, which was originally intended to be a garage, had been too full of snow (since we hadn't needed to drive down there for the last half of winter we hadn't been shovelling) to easily drive that way, until this week, when the spring thaw/melt really took off. One day early this week lord_kjar decided that enough had melted to make it easy to shovel the rest, so he did. But then we didn't find time to do the test pack till today, by which time the tiny bit of snow he'd left had also melted.

Like all good projects, ( this one came with distractions )

At that point we could have gone straight into the house and started the cooking we need to do for the event, but, not surprisingly, we got distracted, again. This time we wandered down the hill and across our field to check out the large rocks we have down there, at the edge of where our trees are growing. When we got there we realized that we have some huge puddles lakes built up where snow melt has been accumulating, and then not draining to the ditch. So we decided it was time to split our labours. He fetched the pointy shovel to dig small draining paths from the biggest collections of water to the ditch, and I went into the house to start baking the oat cakes we want to take with us for the trip.

I had finished mixing, rolling, and cutting the oatcakes (made with a blend of mostly rolled oats and some skrädmjol, a flour made from toasted oats that is quite yummy) for the first batch and had put them into the oven by the time he came in from working playing in the yard and puddles. Since I had the second batch of oatcakes under control he went downstairs to make more arrows to take to the event. That took him long enough that I had finished the oatcakes and clean up (other than the ones still sitting on the cooling rack) and called my mother for a short visit before he came back upstairs, carrying a quiver full of arrows, and the ( the next distraction )

He is now nearly done with that, and I am nearly done here, and it is nearly 1:30 in the morning. So I will close this, go do my yoga, and be ready for bed about the time he is done. Total home-improvement tasks accomplished for the day: eight total tasks in prep for Double Wars accomplished for the day: four. I feel pretty good about my Saturday.