Banner painting and earth cellar progress

I took a couple of vacation days around the weekend, and Friday was a holiday, giving me five days off for the price of two. And I loved every minute of it.

Thursday I painted more of the banners advertising our Medieval Days event. I did some on my own, and then was joined in the afternoon by M. and C., who are part of Phire. She did the last of the sewing rope channels on the ones that hadn't gotten finished at the Frostheim meeting while he and I painted, then she joied us in the painting. We reached the end of that banner about the time that lord_kjar finished making a yummy soup of reindeer, frozen mixed veg, and black currants, so we fed them dinner before they went home and we headed to the park where people were putting leaves onto the midsummer cross for one extra rehearsal before Friday's folk dance performance.

Friday was a fairly typical midsummer: up early, at the Gillestugan by 9:30, dance rehearsal at 10:00, traditional Swedish midsummer lunch at 11:15, parade to Hägnan at 12:45, raise the cross and do all the traditional dances aroun it at 13:00, followed by our dance performance on the stage.

For this one lord_kjar was recovered enough from his cold that he not only danced, he even flipped me over his shoulder in the first polska. This made me very happy.however, in the process of flipping me my extra braids must have gotten caught on his wool shirt or something, as they came off.

Oddly enough, they managed to come out from under my headscarf without my losing the scarf, and without losing the pin which had held to my head the band of fabric to which the hair is sewn.

After that performsnce I handed out a few Medieval Days flyers on our walk back to the car to drive to the park in town for te second cross raising and dancing.

Some of my friends from Phire were at that park for a picnic, and a bunch of them joined us for the final dance, which is one of those long dances with everyone holding hands in a line while the line coils, uncoils, breaks apart and reconfigures.

By then I was feeling rather tired, so after the sound system etc was packed up lord_kjar and I went home, where I enjoyed some popcorn and a book, followed by a nap, work on the Medieval days event, yoga, and a reasonably early night to bed. I found out later that the Phire people wound up staying at the park till after midnight, even though there was an evening rain shower (which may have felt good after the heat of the day).

Saturday I did my workout in the morning, then lord_kjar and I did some worko the earth cellar. Only one batch of concrete, but it was our first this year, and it felt good to get to it. The rest of the day was spent doing indoor projects, other than hanging one of the banners alongthe road near the university.

Sunday we also did earth cellar stuff in the morning--found the rocks that will make the last layer of wall in the downhill back corner. Later in the day he worked on the extender for the kitchen cabinet that will let the microwave sit under the glass cabinet and on top of the lower half, while I did the alterations to my 12th Century underdress, whose upper arms have gotten too tight from all my working out this year. I had just exactly enough of that linen left to replace the square under arm gores with ones that go from armpit to elbow.

Monday I worked a few hours on a grant proposal, despite the fact that ir wasa vacation day.

Today I had a meeting with the client from work to show her te results of the laser ablation ICP-MS work we did for her. After that I got a massage, hungup three more banners, made nettle pasta with garden spinach and chard, and did a bit of Medieval Days event work before yoga.