A nice website on Anglo-Saxon Buckets!



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I stumbled on that site because I WANT a bucket and have been looking around for a reasonably priced, but functional bucket. Good gods, there are a lot of "decorative" buckets out there. For my reference and yours, some of the sites with "real" buckets and associated items:

Probably the best one is at Panther, on their Christmas list. Bonus - it comes with a lid!

Others:
Custom Wagons - Pine buckets, oak buckets, butter churns
AmishCraft - oak bucket
Smoke and Fire - pine waxed bucket
Bucket outlet - oak barrels
Amish Shop - buckets - not sure if these are decorative
Bratcher Cooperage - oak bucket
Colonial Trading - buckets and butter churns

Sadly, not many of them are "reasonably" priced. Or maybe I'm just cheap. *sigh*

It has been a busy, but largely pleasant weekend for me...

Friday night, dread_ex came over for dinner and House. Yum. Then, late in the night teffan showed up and the three of us and kumakun spent some time chatting - probably until entirely too late.

Saturday we got sort of a late start, but did get to That Moot Thingy in Coille Stoirmeil before lunchtime. The day was spent in quiet and enjoyable pursuits - I turned out a small pile of linen "baggies" in my continued effort to eradicate the modern from my kit. Sadly, the ceilings in the hall were too high to teach whipcording - I really should work out some portable frame option. I have a few ideas, but have yet to try putting them together. Ideally, it would be small and cheap enough I could make enough to teach at least small classes at events. Thinkthinkthink... The event went reasonably well and the Canton had two lovely surprises for me - some silly froggies (including a Hypno-Toad) and a good feast by a 15 year old feast-o-crat! In all, a very successful day!

However, one of the highlights for me was not directly related to the event... Saturday I received the beautiful little cart that the wonderful Edwin made. It is SO nifty! I could not resist using it to  haul our stuff out to the car at the end of the evening and I just can't wait for an event where I actually have significant stuff to haul. :) Even better - the price for the cart is a few dyeing projects. The green is easy enough now that I have tested the three-kindergartener pot, but the madder will take some practice and experimentation, plus some additional experimentation with wool, since I have been concentrating on linen, which requires different processing... Hey, dread_ex! When are you up for another dye-date? :)

Today, I slept in a bit and, after some struggle, managed to haul myself to Milwaukee for Easter lunch with the family. The highlight of the dinner was a visit from Father Gabriel - a Xavrian missionary from Africa who became a friend of the family on his first visit to the US about 15 years ago. It was nice to visit with him as well as the family. When the snow picked up, we went over to my grandmother's house and visited for awhile more over there. My grandpa is doing poorly, but they are trying some new things and I had some suggestions for things to try or ask the doctor about at their next appointment this week. *sigh* Here's hoping... The drive home was pretty uneventful - there were some snowy and some wet places, but it was not bad driving except that I hit E just about at Lake Mills. For some reason, I always seem to run out of gas at the same place on 94 whenever I am driving in cold and/or crappy weather...

I'm home again now, and happy to be so. I should think about some late dinner, or at least a snack, before too long. Then a shower, and bed, and morning altogether too soon...

Monday was a Good Day.

* Just past midnight, I got the notice that some friends had welcomed their son into the world. Happiness and extreme cuteness!

* First thing this morning, I got an email that the wonderful and talented Edwin finished a cart for me and I may get it as soon as this weekend. (Minions, take note, this cart will be a factor in your education, I am certain. ;P)



* Then, I got positive confirmation that I will be getting the help I need in the Pharmacy department at work. I may need to cut my hours a but to make it work, but it is really going to happen!

*Oddly enough, my body is still not hating me. I need a prescription for twice a week hot tub and mudslide days, I guess. *grin*

* With a bit of a lead from damej, All Things Considered and Newsweek, I got the placebo article (see previous post).

* I made tasty dinner - a chicken dish that even kumakun would eat, despite its being covered in suspicious Greek seasoning. Yum! ;)

* I got some happy email and birdie time - one of the few (and minor) failures of the day was delaying the linen order AGAIN - the online shipping calculator won't work for the volume of linen I am ordering and then I got a last minute request from Toshikage and some CAM folks. Tomorrow, tomorrow we will have success and tasty linen, however!

* Then I had tea and talkies with a friend. It is nice to be useful and loved. :)

* And finally, I had a Shamrock Shake and Fries for a bedtime snack.

Life rarely gets better. :)

I was organizing some of my notes from my trip out East and ran across my notes for my discussion with Cariadoc of the Bow. The notes included, in part, some information about Anglo-Saxon lyres. Since I know that eyja at least is looking at that topic, I thought I'd post and share what I had.

Trossingen Lyre
   Cariadoc of the Bow's article on making a Lyre, including info from the Trossingen Lyre
   Germania article about the Trossingen Lyre, sadly in German, but apparently very good
         Barbara Theune-Großkopf, "Die Vollständig erhaltene Leier des 6. Jahrhunderts aus Grab 58 von Tossingen, Ladkr. Tuttlingen,
                 Baden-Württemberg," Germania 84, 2006.
   Some pictures of the lyre
   More plans on how to make a lyre, plus video on how to play it

Prittlewell Lyre
   Pretty pictures
  
And some info from Thora Sharptooth.

I was playing with Google, working on a different name research question for someone, and idly wondered, if I googled "Eithni" how high would references to me personally (without any modifiers like SCA, Jara, Jean, etc,) pop up? 23 of the first 25 entries is the current answer. I was, however, very deeply amused by the 26th entry, the first hit on an actual medieval woman's name. The web page provides this translation of a story, apparently from a medieval Irish source:

"The Violent Death of Medb

What is the cause of the violent death of Medb, the daughter of Eochaid Feidlig from Temair?

The three sons of Find[gail] [were] Conall Anglonnach and Eocahid Find and Eochaid Feidlig. Now Eochaid Feidlig had three sons and three daughters. The three sons [were] Bres and N�r and Lothur, that is, the three Finds of Emain. The three daughters [were] Eithni Uathach [For this reason she was called Eithni Uathac (Eithni the Terrible), namely, she used to eat the flesh of infants so that the children always disliked her to be mentioned] and Medb of Cruachu and Clothru of Cruachu...

"Aided Meidbe: The Violent Death of Medb" ed. and trans. by Vernam Hull. Speculum. v.13 issue 1. (Jan. 1938), 52-61."
from: http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/medb.html



Bwhahahahaha!


If that were not funny enough, the story goes on to explain that the death of Medb was actually a case of murder by cheese. *grin*

Yum... Just yum...   (ilaifire, follow the link at your own risk!)

http://tinyurl.com/3xr687

Technically, a little "post-period," but conveniently I believe that if we are going to cover a full millennium of history, we ought not quibble about a couple decades...   And I DO have some white linen in the basement...   ;)

Not kid safe, not work safe, but authentic and funny...

Naughty Laurel Coins

So, damej and aaron_pike - do you think we could involve Kaydian in another uncomfortable Laurel conversation with these? ;)

Introduction to Old English Language and Script: 
http://pages.towson.edu/duncan/brittene/brittene.htm
As is right and proper, a fair bit of the lesson disusses the Picts. :)

Additional excellent resources about Old English and related topics are at:
http://pages.towson.edu/duncan/475home.html

Enjoy!

Stolen from pepperbeast

A Psalm of Historic Clothing

Historicity is my guide; I shall not guess.
It maketh me to measure accurately:
It leadeth me beside the primary sources.
It restoreth my wool:
It leadeth me in the paths of authenticity for its name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of synthetics,
I will take no messy shortcut: for thou art with me; thy books and thy artworks, they comfort me.
Thou preparest a cutting table before me in the presence of my snarkers:
thou clothest my head with linen; my fabric box runneth over.
Surely style and fit shall follow me all the days of my life:
and I will dwell by the historically informed wardrobe for ever.