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kareinaOn Saturday was the annual spelträff (music-playing gathering) at the home of Birger and Siv. They live on a beautiful old Norrbotten farm on the south bank of the Luleå river, and they know ever so many musicians, having been active in the folk music and dance societies forever. Most years we spend the whole day out there, but this year we are trying to finish up modifications to our sunshade, so we opted to work in the morning and not head out till after Ellinor’s exam was done at 15:00, so that she could ride out there with David, Caroline, and I. We managed to get this far along on the sunshade modifications—just one more seam to sew (one can see the loose flap of fabric in the middle), so there should be no problem getting it done before the two upcoming SCA events we want it for.

Even though we didn’t head out till late afternoon, the spelträff was still delightful, with much music, good food, and plenty of progress on my sewing (I am now up to the seam embroidery on my replacement viking cloak in progress).
Sunday, was, of course, folk dance, and some of the same musicians as we saw on Saturday joined us at the gillestugan for rehearsals for our upcoming dance performances. Today (Monday) was the last nyckelharpa night of the term, and practice for them for their upcoming performances (at the same events as we are dancing).
Today was also acroyoga (the first time since Friday) and training to use the Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM—it is such a fun toy!) at work. Tomorrow is work and more acroyoga and hopefully Durham work too (I am embarrassingly behind on that just now, hopefully admitting that here will inspire progress).
Wednesday is Nationaldag, which means we will gather at the gillestugan in folk costume at 11:00 to talk over the plans for dance, then head over to the church for the parade to Hägnan, where there will be performances of folk music and dance. Then we will head in to town to do more performances at Kulturenshus. Thursday morning we have a meeting at work, followed by more SEM training, and then I pick Thorvald (from Avacal) up at the airport. We have a week to do whatever adventures we feel for (so long as I am in town for dance rehearsal on Sunday), and then it is Spelmansstämman, and a full weekend of folk music and dance. Then we have another week for adventures and it is Midsummer, with more folk music and dance. Then he flies home and I get ready for the Broken Arrow SCA event locally, followed by a week back at work before I head south for Cudgel War in Finland, from which I will travel directly to Durham for a conference, finally returning to “normal” life here on 20 July, which, I hope means I get home before all of the wild strawberries are done ripening.
Even though we didn’t head out till late afternoon, the spelträff was still delightful, with much music, good food, and plenty of progress on my sewing (I am now up to the seam embroidery on my replacement viking cloak in progress).
Sunday, was, of course, folk dance, and some of the same musicians as we saw on Saturday joined us at the gillestugan for rehearsals for our upcoming dance performances. Today (Monday) was the last nyckelharpa night of the term, and practice for them for their upcoming performances (at the same events as we are dancing).
Today was also acroyoga (the first time since Friday) and training to use the Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM—it is such a fun toy!) at work. Tomorrow is work and more acroyoga and hopefully Durham work too (I am embarrassingly behind on that just now, hopefully admitting that here will inspire progress).
Wednesday is Nationaldag, which means we will gather at the gillestugan in folk costume at 11:00 to talk over the plans for dance, then head over to the church for the parade to Hägnan, where there will be performances of folk music and dance. Then we will head in to town to do more performances at Kulturenshus. Thursday morning we have a meeting at work, followed by more SEM training, and then I pick Thorvald (from Avacal) up at the airport. We have a week to do whatever adventures we feel for (so long as I am in town for dance rehearsal on Sunday), and then it is Spelmansstämman, and a full weekend of folk music and dance. Then we have another week for adventures and it is Midsummer, with more folk music and dance. Then he flies home and I get ready for the Broken Arrow SCA event locally, followed by a week back at work before I head south for Cudgel War in Finland, from which I will travel directly to Durham for a conference, finally returning to “normal” life here on 20 July, which, I hope means I get home before all of the wild strawberries are done ripening.