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[stitchwhich]

I watched the Netflix documentary on Cleopatra last night. I don't regret it but it makes me sad. I wonder if people think that if they shout something often enough and loud enough it will make it fact. I managed to sit through about half of it and then skipped to the ending. I wanted to see how they handled that. The answer was "More wishful thinking".

Oh well. Now I know what the hoopla was all about.

This is not to say that having a person portray a historical person who was not of that race is a bad thing. Making me feel that you are that person even when I know that you can't be - now that is acting. And the actor in this show did a fine job of it.



In other news, I (reluctantly) bought a pack of N-95 face masks to pack for Pennsic because of the Canadian forest fire smoke. Three weeks of camping while working there every day means I don't really get to hide somewhere with filtered air so this constitutes "insurance". May the fires subside soon. I can't even imagine the damage that has already happened up there. News in our area doesn't cover it, just the local air quality. I can't envision how dire it is, has been.

Also in other news, I'm making beef eggs for the Fourth of July barbeque we're hosting. I haven't done that in probably a decade but when I mentioned it during card playing last night one of the players, in a small wistful voice, said he missed my beef eggs. My spouse said he'd rather have egg salad for sandwiches. My spouse loses. Unless I hit the grocery store later today. We'll be setting up our pavilion for shade for the "picnic", so it'll be aired out and examined before the Pennsic Packing Panic. The only thing is that I am going to break my hubby's heart by telling him it has to come right back down because our lawn service is due the next day. (Not to mention leaving it up after dark, when fireworks will be erupting in our neighborhood, would be a bad idea.

Comments

[danabren]

What are beef eggs? Are they like scotch eggs?

I 100% agree with you that canvas needs to come down when there will be fireworks.

[stitchwhich]

Remember when tea eggs were a fad in the SCA? I thought they were so beautiful... but that was when we were more Euro-centric and I didn't want to use tea and star anise* to make them. So instead I peeled the hard boiled eggs and popped them into a pot of very strong beef bouillon, let it cool, and then put the broth and eggs in a container in the fridge for a couple of days. The whites ended up uniformly dark tan rather than "marble eggs" but that was okay. The bouillon lightly salted the whites and flavored them like beef while the yolks stayed creamy egg-flavored. They make good protein bombs.

*I didn't know if it was traded to Europe within the SCA time period. I know better now. Not that it matters with the expanded cultural opening.

[medievalbooks]

Pickled eggs is a big thing in PA. Altho some picked eggs I like better than others. The rubbery ones, not so much. It would be interesting to see if those are period.

[danabren]

Huh! Thanks for the explanation.