[Sca-cooks] The "rain" of Queen Mary Grace

[Elaine Koogler]

Sorry you guys got so much rain.  Fortunately the event I worked on, the Calvert
County Relay for Life, was much luckier...instead of getting the thunderstorms
they were predicting for all afternoon Friday and Friday night, we got a couple
of showers Friday night, but the brunt of "Allison" held off until we'd cleared
the site and crawled home for some sleep!

Let's keep our fingers and toes crossed for your July event!!!

Kiri

Olwen the Odd wrote:

> Hi all.  Well, another event done and now the dishes are washed and the pig
> cooker is safely back in the yard.  Now to wash off more mud from our
> clothes and towels...
>
> We cooked for our Queen in the rain...again...at Highland River Melees.
> Lord Hugh was head cook and asked the household (house Blackstar) to lend a
> hand.  We put up the pavillion and started the fires and washed the leeks
> and stemmed and washed the spinach, the beef was defatted and cut into
> chunks and the sky darkened and the wind picked up.  The mushrooms were
> stemmed and the cheese was shredded and the rain began.  And as two men with
> an axe and mallet split mostly frozen chickens in two the heavens opened up
> and let down such torrents of rain to wash away all the blues and woes and
> once again house Blackstar was teasing and cooking and laughing and soaking
> wet and still Court went on and as Lord Hugh was called into Baronial Court
> to recieve induction into the Order of the Lark (for service) the cooking
> pavillion emptied as the household ran through the rain to see and cheer on.
>   Then back to work as pies were made and the water wench set back to the
> task of draining the pools of water out of the saggy pavillion roof.  Then
> again the cooks ran out of the cooking pavillion to cheer and watch as
> another of our Household, Adam, was proclaimed Lord Adam in the Court of our
> "Raining" Queen and King and the happy dance was done and back through the
> torrent to rotating pies on the fire and slicing the beef and turning the
> chickens while saffron was added to the rice and more straw was strewn on
> the ankle high waters of the pavillion floor.  Still the water wench did her
> bidding and endlessly circled the pavillion dumping gallon on gallon of
> water off the tent roof as we laughed and cooked and hugged and never
> thought of why we do this insanity for sheer fun.  And jokes were made of
> the pig roast upcoming at Pennsic and how much rain will be forth-coming as
> the fires are started and the pigs are dressed and off go our shoes to
> squish in the mud once more in service to our "raining" Queen Mary Grace of
> Atlantia.
>
> So goes the story of the feast at Highland River Melees.
>
> Lady Olwen the Odd
> Clan of Odds
> House Blackstar
> Bright Hills Cooks Guild
> Barony of Bright Hills
> Kingdom of Atlantia!
>
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