The Crushing Weight of Fatigue

[madbaker]

So Tired.
Make that Exhausted.

Crown was good. The 15th c. feast we did went off stunningly. Too much good food, and the helmeted cock riding the roast pygge was spectacular, in all the meanings of that word. All the work that everybody did paid off. I was very happy with how my fine manchet baked up, and the baker's mark came out beautifully.

There were things that we could do better; next time we'll know how to correct those. Like my math error - eight batches of bread for trenchers makes 32 small loaves. Which then get cut in half to make 64. Duh.
(pauses for a minute to wipe off tears of hilarity)
Yeah, right. Not in the next year, bucko. My shoulders hurt from ten batches of bread in less than a week.

The feast made things odd, though. Camping with a much larger group than I prefer to (although we would have ended up spending time hanging out with them anyway); not actually having any real schmooze time outside our campsite; completely ignoring court and the main event. Well, we tend to do some of that anyway lately, I suppose.

Driving the Highlander was also odd, but good. While we didn't have rear view mirror room, we did have more than sufficient room for all our stuff. And I was able to pass somebody while driving uphill; with the gutless Saturn overloaded, I always erred on the side of caution.

I'm glad I took today off for laundry, dishes, and shopping. I'm mentally fried today.

Comments

[ornerie.livejournal.com]

eh?
15th century feast?

share the menu, please!!!!! :)

(I've been focussing on so much other things lately, I need do some vicarious foodie stuff :))

[goldenstag.livejournal.com]

And everyone who worked on the feast in any capacity deserves massive kudos. It worked really well. Of course, like any venture of this nature, there may have been things that could have been done better, but as someone who did his best to just stay out of the way, because I wasn't signed up to do anything for this (mostly because I've been so busy with other things, I guess -- I always felt like I was kind of an outsider for the plot), but got to enjoy the actual feast as a guest, I have to say it was really damn impressive. The food was fantastic (what I was able to eat -- the later dishes I didn't try because I was stuffed from earlier dishes); the presentation was great; the entertainment was really fun ...

The camp was a bit disconcerting in size, but still, it worked, and I think we managed to avoid killing anyone, or getting in each others' faces, making things uncomfortable. I wouldn't want to do that size camp for every event, but it did work (which I think was largely due to the specific combination of people as much as anything).

Anyway, good job, to everyone. It was really good, and Tangwystyl had a great time, which you could see if you just looked at her face. She was a bit embarassed to be the center of attention but really enjoyed it.

[loup_noir]

How many people were camping together? And I'll add to AM's request for a menu.

Just Couldn't imagine going to Sac in June. Almost too warm here at times. Would have melted and been very, very grouchy.

[goldenstag.livejournal.com]

It was a huge slum. The spouse and I got there first and set up the DE. Juana and Ivar and Genevieve. Wulfric and Donata. Leticia. Geoffrey and Crystal. Urtatim and SO. Juan and Rose. Rob, Hendy, baby, and Rio (Leonburger). Nightshade and Nevyn. Ghislaine. Cassandra and Isaac. And I'm sure I'm missing some folk. (21 adult humans, 1 baby, 1 HUGE dog ...)

We set up a courtyard of the medieval pavilions with the DE at one end, and the non-period tents were hidden from sight from the courtyard. Some cloths across the DE allowed people to move in and out, but hide the parking lot from view ... In the courtyard we set up the tables, with a cloth of estate behind the high table. The cooking was done in the DE and the barbeque pit/table that was on the site when we got there.

It was pretty astounding.

[goldenstag.livejournal.com]

Would have melted and been very, very grouchy.

While really warm, the weather was better than expected, and a cold/cool breeze (not really a wind, although it came close at times) came through and helped a lot, and was there all three days ...