a little adventure
Mar. 21st, 2021 09:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaThis weekend, instead of attending virtual SCA stuff from the comfort of my home, I drove E two hours south, to a friend's house in Vebomark, a village south and inland of Skellefteå so she could relax in a place with cats to cuddle with for a few days before her next Asylum interview on Thursday. K and M (and their daughter (A) have a nice house they are fixing up and have only recently moved into. One of the outbuildings is a lovely octagonal barn--I love those. So, of course, they have fixed it up to be a useful SCA space, and they have hung a variety of shields, painted with SCA heraldry on the walls, there are tables and benches, etc. Therefore I took along a costume, and we took advantage of the pretty setting to film he and I singing one of the songs I wrote. I am reasonably happy with how it came out. Of course, once I saw it on the big screen I realized that my belt had twisted a bit, so the center embroidered bit isn't actually centered on my body. Oops. I also noticed that my circlet and veil had shifted a bit further back on my head that I prefer, so my forehead looks huge... No one else will notice, right?
It was so wonderful to see them, eat their homemade ice cream and pie (which they ate last night after we arrived, but I wasn't hungry that late, so I had it for second breakfast), and the yummy vegetable omelette that K made me for dinner (he's much more generous with the butter to cook the frozen veg in before adding the eggs than I would have thought about doing, but oh the result was tasty), cuddle their cats, and go for a walk through the village. E. liked it (and the cats--one Norwegian Forest Cat, and one Sibrian) enough to decide to stay a few more days, so I left her there and came home this evening. The roads were much better today than they were yesterday. Yesterday they were wet, and my windshield wipers need replacing, so visibility was often not so good, but today the roads were clean and dry (well, except for the dirt roads, which were sometimes still icy snow, but those weren't wet, and they had no traffic, either--I suspect the GPS had been set to "shortest route" rather than "fastest" route given how many little roads I took after leaving the highway and before arriving at the destination).
(note: even though there is still a pandemic going on, I deemed this trip worth it to give E more time to cuddle animals and help keep her from stressing too much before her interview. Besides, this family already had covid, back in November/December, so, hopefully, don't have it now to give to us, and if we had somehow picked it up without noticing, then hopefully their bodies would reject it, having learned how to fight it then.)
It was so wonderful to see them, eat their homemade ice cream and pie (which they ate last night after we arrived, but I wasn't hungry that late, so I had it for second breakfast), and the yummy vegetable omelette that K made me for dinner (he's much more generous with the butter to cook the frozen veg in before adding the eggs than I would have thought about doing, but oh the result was tasty), cuddle their cats, and go for a walk through the village. E. liked it (and the cats--one Norwegian Forest Cat, and one Sibrian) enough to decide to stay a few more days, so I left her there and came home this evening. The roads were much better today than they were yesterday. Yesterday they were wet, and my windshield wipers need replacing, so visibility was often not so good, but today the roads were clean and dry (well, except for the dirt roads, which were sometimes still icy snow, but those weren't wet, and they had no traffic, either--I suspect the GPS had been set to "shortest route" rather than "fastest" route given how many little roads I took after leaving the highway and before arriving at the destination).
(note: even though there is still a pandemic going on, I deemed this trip worth it to give E more time to cuddle animals and help keep her from stressing too much before her interview. Besides, this family already had covid, back in November/December, so, hopefully, don't have it now to give to us, and if we had somehow picked it up without noticing, then hopefully their bodies would reject it, having learned how to fight it then.)