Deutsch Days

Saturday was for German days in Marthasville. The air was almost warm – a good day for Mom, OLeif, Collette, Linnea, and Puck to spend in the woods of an old farm where the annual Deutsch Days was held.

It began with homemade root beer and kettle corn. OLeif and Linnea took their turn cross-sawing a cedar log. Linnea brought home the disk, musky and red. Lunch was the usual German fair: brats, thick applesauce, and soft snickerdoodles. Hatchet throwing demonstrations and flint were higher up in the hills. Linnea was able to coax a spark in the charcoal cloth at one camp. Then they met the Native American version of Dwight from The Office in full face paint, who was camped with his wife and wolf-dog in a small wigwam:

“Wigwams last longer than teepees. They are permanent. Teepees are for moving from one place to another. I stay here in my wigwam.”

Period toys, gun shots, pewter castings, candle dippings, scrimshaw, bee-keeping and beeswax (OLeif enjoyed the lavender honey green tea and Mom purchased a bundle of various flavored honey sticks for the girls at home)… somehow funnel cakes also slipped in the mix. Good autumn day.