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min åttonde nationaldag
Jun. 6th, 2018 10:43 pmKnowing that today would be too busy to do it at any other time, I triked in to uni this morning for an 08:00 acroyoga session with Johan. My friend Wilhelm joined us with his camera and took lots of photos, which, I think, made for a much better acroyoga session, since it kept me, at least, thinking of holding the poses well and as long as possible. After a very good hour’s workout I pedalled home again and got ready for folk dance performances. I managed to deal with laundry (I loaded the washer just before heading out), get a shower, get dressed, food and sewing packed, and was about to braid my hair when David arrived to pick me up (about five minutes earlier than expected).
We joined the others at the Gillestugan, and then after a quick discussion about the day’s plans went up to the church to gather for the parade down to Hägnan. After the parade we enjoyed the free fika for the performers and then I followed the musicians to one of the houses near the stage where I worked on a sewing project while they played music for about 45 to 50 minutes. Then it was time to join the dancers for one last-walk through of the set.
David hadn’t planned on dancing with us this year for this performance, since he has been feeling like he has enough on his plate, but he was performing with the Luleå Nyckelharpa group. However, one of our members is sick (tonsil issues), so wasn’t able to dance after all, so he stepped into her place for the performance at Hägnan. However, to keep things simple for everyone else he actually took her place, which meant that I didn’t get to dance with him. However, before our performance the Luleå Hembygdsgille musicians have a performance set, so he and I used the empty dance stage to dance together for a number of songs during their set.
After that performance David went back to the house to finish up the sunshade in progress, and I went to town with the rest of the dancers and musicians, where we did another performance (this time we just did things with sets of three couples instead of four, save for one dance where the choreography is for 8 people—that one we just did with one invisible dancer, plus we all eight danced for the final dance of the set (the sick dancer was along for the day anyway, since most of the rest of her family was there, and decided she could manage one dance, but looking at her afterwards, that was clearly pushing it. I hope she gets her surgery soon, and then enjoys a full recovery.)
Then I caught a bus back to Porsön and David picked me up at the uni (I wouldn’t have minded walking from there, but my sewing basket was big and heavy (viking coat in progress), and I didn’t really have the time to spare). My first order of business was to cook a soup for dinner and so that I will have food for tomorrow. We then did one additional modification to the other part of the sun shade addition (the recycled white canvas that used to be an extender for my pavilion awning before we had a sunshade) and then packed things away and tidied up the house a bit. Then he went home, I dealt with the next load of laundry and then did some grocery shopping. After shopping I hung up the last of the laundry, baked a lingonberry pie (except I did the wheat flour version of the crust--4 dl wheat flour instead of 3 oat flour and 1 almondmeal, and I used filmjölk instead of yoghurt) , and then took a bit of time to update logs, check messages, and post this.
Tomorrow I have a meeting at work in the morning, followed by more SEM training. With luck I will be able to manage another acroyoga session between training and heading to the airport to pick up Thorvald (from Avacal) at 15:30. He will be here for two weeks, and I have no idea if I will make time for reporting on our adventures while he is here, of if I will have to remember it all and do a summary afterwards.
We joined the others at the Gillestugan, and then after a quick discussion about the day’s plans went up to the church to gather for the parade down to Hägnan. After the parade we enjoyed the free fika for the performers and then I followed the musicians to one of the houses near the stage where I worked on a sewing project while they played music for about 45 to 50 minutes. Then it was time to join the dancers for one last-walk through of the set.
David hadn’t planned on dancing with us this year for this performance, since he has been feeling like he has enough on his plate, but he was performing with the Luleå Nyckelharpa group. However, one of our members is sick (tonsil issues), so wasn’t able to dance after all, so he stepped into her place for the performance at Hägnan. However, to keep things simple for everyone else he actually took her place, which meant that I didn’t get to dance with him. However, before our performance the Luleå Hembygdsgille musicians have a performance set, so he and I used the empty dance stage to dance together for a number of songs during their set.
After that performance David went back to the house to finish up the sunshade in progress, and I went to town with the rest of the dancers and musicians, where we did another performance (this time we just did things with sets of three couples instead of four, save for one dance where the choreography is for 8 people—that one we just did with one invisible dancer, plus we all eight danced for the final dance of the set (the sick dancer was along for the day anyway, since most of the rest of her family was there, and decided she could manage one dance, but looking at her afterwards, that was clearly pushing it. I hope she gets her surgery soon, and then enjoys a full recovery.)
Then I caught a bus back to Porsön and David picked me up at the uni (I wouldn’t have minded walking from there, but my sewing basket was big and heavy (viking coat in progress), and I didn’t really have the time to spare). My first order of business was to cook a soup for dinner and so that I will have food for tomorrow. We then did one additional modification to the other part of the sun shade addition (the recycled white canvas that used to be an extender for my pavilion awning before we had a sunshade) and then packed things away and tidied up the house a bit. Then he went home, I dealt with the next load of laundry and then did some grocery shopping. After shopping I hung up the last of the laundry, baked a lingonberry pie (except I did the wheat flour version of the crust--4 dl wheat flour instead of 3 oat flour and 1 almondmeal, and I used filmjölk instead of yoghurt) , and then took a bit of time to update logs, check messages, and post this.
Tomorrow I have a meeting at work in the morning, followed by more SEM training. With luck I will be able to manage another acroyoga session between training and heading to the airport to pick up Thorvald (from Avacal) at 15:30. He will be here for two weeks, and I have no idea if I will make time for reporting on our adventures while he is here, of if I will have to remember it all and do a summary afterwards.
