[Sca-cooks] Fw: [EKMetalsmiths] MSS4 Thank you

[Phlip]

Haroldr Bassi just sent us his thanks for how well our Frosted Hills gets
Dirty/Metal Smiths Symposium IV went, and I'd like to share the information
with the rest of the EK- that's why I've been waiting.

It was cold.

It was wet.

It was miserable.

And it was one of the best events I have ever attended in my life ;-)

Because of the weather, we didn't have the attendance we might have
expected, so those of us who were there tended to be serious teachers,
students, or both. There was a lot of learning dome, not only in "Official"
classes, but every time 2 or more of us gathered, the conversation was
stimulating, and aspects of the different crafts got shared.

And the food was unbelievable.

Someone made sure there was COFFEE first thing both mornings- a kindness we
soggy folk appreciated beyond measure ;-)

Lady Oksana's dayboard was absolutely excellent. This was followed by
Mistress Brigitte's Feast, also wonderful, and concluded by the subtlety by
Lady Blackwolf, which was so exquisitely done, that it was a shame to eat
it- absolutely beautiful ;-)

You missed it, folks- as far as I'm concerned, it was the best event of the
year ;-)

And now, our Autocrat, Master Haroldr, comments.

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> Now that I am recovering from a cold I picked up after MSS4 and while
> waiting for my connecting flight in Pittsburgh, allow me to take a few
> moments and thank again the crew who helped me with this event. I will
> endeavor to not miss anyone, but if I do, please ascribe it to a muddled
> head still racked with coughs ;)
>
> First, my lovely wife, Lady Oksana Goncharova who graced us with a
> wonderful dayboard that was both filling and visually stimulating. She
> also put up with me and all the stress and that comes from combining an
> autocrat and a cook in the same house. She didn't even try to kill me ;)
> Mistress Brigitte Flamin of Nordenhalle and her staff who picked up the
> task of making our feast with only three weeks notice, allowing Oksana to

> teach an afternoon of clay classes. Staying with the food we come to Lady
> Blackwolf Gryffyth of Frosted Hills who made a truly awesome and inspiring
> soteltie of a phoenix rising from flames. I am reasonably certain that my
> wife has at least 35mm pics and I will try to find if someone has some
> digital pics. We found out later that our crazy shire mate had hand
> painted each of the phoenix feathers. This was also her first ever solo
> cooking effort on behalf of our shire. We hope to see more from her in the
> future ;)
>
> I also have to give a hearty thank you to Lady Carowyn and Lord Corwyn who
> stepped up at the last minute to pull our class schedules together when
> work had taken more time from my schedule than I had anticipated. With way
> less notice than they should have had, they pulled together a delightful
> series of classes.
>
> I want to extend warmest thanks to my local staff, Lord Kean Gryffyth, my
> co-autocrat and reservationist, Lady Alistrina d'Mann, our tollner, and
> Aodhen of Frosted Hills, our site liason and go to guy.
>
> In addition thank yous go out to my daughter Lady Gytha Haraldsdottir and
> her boyfriend Jay who assisted Oksana with maintaining the dayboard, and
> drove up from Eisental to help ;)
>
> Without the instructors, we would have had a crowd of very angry people
> seeking knowledge. I'll try to locate a list of teachers from Carowyn as I
> can only come up with about half of them off the top of my head. Though I
> want to mention one teacher of note who came to us all the way from the
> West Kingdom, Viscount Cheandr, thank you for bringing us a truly
> wonderful class on making coins. If any teacher didn't receive their cast
> pewter sturgeon teaching token, please let me know so I can make sure you
> get one.
>
> Lastly, thank you to all the people who came and shared knowledge and
> attended classes. When I did the final walkaround the cabins, the only
> thing I had to do was shut down the fridges, turn off the heat and pull
> the trash bags. You all left the cabins in a wonderful state. Thank you.
>
> I suspect that even with the rain and the less than anticipated attendance
> that I will have no problems convincing my shire to host Frosted Hills
> Gets Dirty 2. Hopefully next time we won't have almost half of our local
> shire members unable to help at the event due to having emergency surgery,
> back injuries or conflicts with their jobs.
>
> Again, for all of you who made this thing work in spite of me, thank you,
>
> Haraldr Bassi

Saint Phlip,
CoD

"When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
 Blacksmith's credo.

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....