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First nyckleharpa night of the season
Now that summer break is over regular activities are starting to pop back onto the calendar. Tonight was the first Nyckleharpa session of the autumn (note: it really is autumn--not only does it now get dark at night, the birches are pretty much all yellow in their leaves). We meet every other Monday, though, come October, when our Finnish Language class starts on Monday nights, we will be missing some of the Nyckleharpa nights.
I brought my dulcimer and the Norrskensbard Cloak in progress. I still only know a couple of the tunes they play, which means that it is a perfect sewing night for me--I get to listen to them playing beautiful Swedish folk music and sew, with one randomly timed break to join them for a couple of tunes before sewing again. I invited the group to come to Norrskensfest and perform during the feast, and explained about the Norrskensbard competition, and how the winner will get the cloak for a year, till their successor is chosen. They are all keen to come and play. Too soon to say if any of them will be tempted to participate in the competition, but one can hope.
I have been doing the usually late summer harvesting--drying black currants and nettles (not on the same session!), and freezing berries. The strawberries and smultrons are done, as are the red currants. The raspberries are still going, but there aren't enough of them to bother freezing--I could easily eat more each day than are ripe. Today I put some black currants into the freezer instead of drying them. It is a tough call as to how much we should freeze--we still haven't finished last year's frozen currants, but we don't want to run out before next year.
I brought my dulcimer and the Norrskensbard Cloak in progress. I still only know a couple of the tunes they play, which means that it is a perfect sewing night for me--I get to listen to them playing beautiful Swedish folk music and sew, with one randomly timed break to join them for a couple of tunes before sewing again. I invited the group to come to Norrskensfest and perform during the feast, and explained about the Norrskensbard competition, and how the winner will get the cloak for a year, till their successor is chosen. They are all keen to come and play. Too soon to say if any of them will be tempted to participate in the competition, but one can hope.
I have been doing the usually late summer harvesting--drying black currants and nettles (not on the same session!), and freezing berries. The strawberries and smultrons are done, as are the red currants. The raspberries are still going, but there aren't enough of them to bother freezing--I could easily eat more each day than are ripe. Today I put some black currants into the freezer instead of drying them. It is a tough call as to how much we should freeze--we still haven't finished last year's frozen currants, but we don't want to run out before next year.
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But the Svartvinbär (black currents) may well still be ripe and on the bushes (no way we can pick them all by then). And there are strawberries in the freezer you can enjoy.
I have juustuo in the freezer waiting for you, too...