We had 20 people come out and take advantage of the rain holding off.
Scores submitted were:
Open:
Gryffyth – 76, KC – 54, Geoffrey – 90 (career high, now ranked Master
Bowman!), Alaricus – 93, Debora – 19 (first score ever I think)
Longbow
Gwalchgwyn – 52, Alaricus – 77, John – 49, Tymme – 51
Crossbow:
Tymme – 94
Period Crossbow:
Avine – 70 (career high!), Tymme – 100
Tymme Lytefelow, OGGS
Greetings Archers,
The autumn briskness greeted us even as the sun brightly shone on the range today, reminding us the season is just a few weeks from ending on All Hallows Eve. 15 archers enjoyed the last Wednesday practice and many turned in some great scores adding to their progress!
Something that inspires me is people finding a way to keep enjoying archery despite giving up a category or two by finding another. First Tymme, recovering from neck surgery a few years ago, turned to crossbow and absolutely excelled at it. Now, his wife Avine follows in the same footsteps as physical limitations dictate the change. And guess who is make great strides now? Got it in one, it’s Avine!
Another thing is seeing a person who has languished in lower scores with a “I enjoy shooting but I’ll never get any better” attitude rededicate themselves and see real progress. Gwalchgwyn “Gawin” of Blatha an Oir had just struggled in the last couple of years since coming to Wednesday practices with us, but this year something has clicked. His renewed passion has brought him to weekend practices and for the first time attended Bows and Blades last weekend. Way to go!
To the scores!
Open:
Geoffrey of the Reeds: 77
KC: 43
Gwalchgwyn: 66
Sebhdann: 62
Evrard: 98 (Season High)
Onora: 58
Longbow:
Tymme: 58
Crossbow:
Avine: 68 (Career High!)
Period Crossbow:
Avine: 68 (Career High too!)
In service,
Evrard de Valogne,
Chief Archer of Wyewood
Wyewood Business Meeting Minutes … Sep-25-2015
Meeting started at 7:15pm; Ended at 8:01pm
OFFICER REPORTS
Chronicler (Lady Vashti) – Getting caught up on minutes and newsletter, should be good in the next few days.
Marshal (Lord Evrard) – There were 30+ archers at the Black Lion Emprise. HL August Konker won the Madrone Baronial Championship and HL John de Percy won the Black Lion Emprise archery tournament. Wednesday practice next week (Sep-30) is the last of the summer season. There will be a gathering on Oct-24 at AFK Tavern in Renton after that day’s practice to celebrate the archery season.
Chatelaine (Lady Gwen) – No news
Exchequer (Lady Sofia) – Checking balance $5,122.51; Savings balance $6,698.51; Donations received from FCS to date $588.92; Donations received from Archery practices to date $347.00
Herald (Master Mir) – Helped with Sergeantry Opening Court; Thank you to Madrone’s Sergeant HL Karrel der Ermutigender for heralding the Sergeantry Closing Court. Award recommendations are needed, especially for the Piece of the Wye. Mir asked if reimbursement would be possible for attendance at the Kingdom Heraldic and Scribal Symposium (site fee $15; Mileage tbd). The Herald budget has money enough to cover this.
Chamberlain/Rapier Marshal (Lord Donato) – No report
Webster (Lady Isidora) – No report
Baron & Baroness (Robert) – Sergentry trials went well despite epic winds, rain, and power failures. The B&B will be splitting attendance of nearby Yule events in December.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Sep-26-2015 … Arts Unframed (Dame Esclarmonde) – Thank you to Sofia and Symonne for taking on more than originally planned (gifts were given). The event is tomorrow. Set-up is at 8am, meet at the bus loop. Bring pens please for the Laurel scavenger hunt. Tear down will be from 5-6pm. Based on responses to date this should be a profitable event 🙂 Bring books to share, your displays, and any projects you might be working on.
Jan-16-2016 … Yule “Feast of Saint Bubba” (Lady Avine) – Due to my major family emergency, I did not get the Crier copy in on time this month. It was a few days late and I have not heard if it has been accepted. We are organizing a planning meeting in the next two weeks and I hope to have a staff meeting in October. We are still looking for a prize for the rapier tourney. Any suggestions will be gladly looked into.
– Lady Symonne is looking for history on Bubba. HL Ameline believes there is some contained in the documents held by the Seneschal. HL Alessandra will check the boxes. Baron Robert indicated there may be some contained in the early canton newsletters.
Jan-13-15-2017 … 12th Night (Lady Liadain) – The deposit check has been delivered to the hotel. A request has been made to the populace re: team leaders. This event will NOT be publicized until after 12th Night 2016. Room reservations can be made beginning February 2016
NEW BUSINESS
2016 Budget (Lady Sofia) – Please submit budget requests to Sofia(exchequer@wyewood.org) by October 14. Budgets will be discussed at the Financial meeting and presented to the populace at the October business meeting.
– Arabella would like a budget line item for Hospitality. She was asked to determine approximately what has been spent this year and to submit her request.
– Culinary Guild wants to purchase 10 sets of pottery serving ware at $80/set. Each set consists of two sizes of serving platters and two sizes of serving bowls. Individuals or groups who are interested in sponsering a set should contact Lady Symonne. There are three sets needing sponsorship remaining.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Oct-1 … Fiber Night at Benson Plaza Starbucks
Oct-2/3/4 … Blatha An Oir Baronia Sergeant’s Trials
Oct-2/3/4 … Wastekeep Barons Ball
Oct-9 … Wyewood FCS
Oct-10/11 … Kingdom Heraldic and Scribal Symposium
Oct-17 … Madrone Baronial Banquet – Preregistration is required
Oct-23 … Wyewood Business Meeting
Nov-6/7 … Kingdom Feast and Bardic Celebration – Preregistration is required
Nov-8 … Fall Crown Council
Nov-13 … Wyewood FCS
Nov-27 … Wyewood Business Meeting (Thanksgiving weekend?)
I am again opening my house on the following dates for Wyewood Scribal activities:
Sunday, September 13th from 1pm – Alamanda’s house
Time to work on our calligraphy ! Come see and try pens and certain types of calligraphy.
Saturday–Sunday, October 12-13th ALL DAY – Barony of Wastekeep
I am going to the Heraldic & Scribal Symposium in the Barony of Wastekeep. I plan to teach scribalclasses and have fun (maybe overnight it).
Sunday, November 15th from 1pm – Alamanda’s house
So long as the world works in my favor this will be another fine day for working on calligraphy and illumination.
Sunday, December 13th from 1pm – Alamanda’s house
I will have open house with Christmas goodies, apple cider and scribal goodness!
There may be other evenings that I will open my home – let me know if Sunday’s are not good as I want to have as many people as possible able to enjoy trying their hand at the Scribal arts.
NEWCOMERS and EVERYONE else! There is no previous skill of any artistic kind to come and enjoy the afternoons. I have a modest library of illuminated manuscripts where the artwork is a wealth of ideas for lifestyle, garb, tools; basically everything you may want to visually enjoy of the many time periods that we all play in. Please come out!
Email me for address or call/text Alamanda
Alamanda de Claret
Wyewood Scribe (and Shenanigan Instigator)
Greetings Wyewood,
This is just a reminder that we DO NOT have an FCS scheduled this Friday, August 14 due to the conflict with Autumn War.
I will see you at Champions tomorrow, Autumn War next week, or at our rescheduled Business meeting on Aug-26 at 7pm at the archery range.
Alessandra
Seneschal Wyewood
Greetings,
I wanted to share some of the decisions that were made at the business meeting last night that will affect the barony.
1. The FCS scheduled for August 14 has been cancelled due to the conflict with Autumn War.
2. The business meeting scheduled for August 28 will instead be held at 7pm on August 26 at the archery/rapier practice location. This change is to allow baronial members to get up to the sergeantry trials site for set up.
Yes, I will be reaching out to the church to determine if our August rent can be applied to January.
In Service
Alessandra
Seneschal Wyewood
Greetings Wyewood,
Those present at the Fiber Night at the Benson Starbucks last night would like to propose a change in the regular meeting time for Fiber/Threadworkers night from the 3rd Wednesday to the 1st Thursday. We happen to have a pretty good size group in this discussion, including both regulars and some folks who cannot usually make it on its current night.
If there is some reason that this change should not be made please speak to the whole list, not to me personally. I am not the head of the group (I’m not sure we really have a head) but just happen to be taking the initiative with starting the discussion. If I hear silence on the e-mail list and FB I will assume the change is OK and ask our web mistress to put it on the calendar appropriately.
In Service,
Esclarmonde
Scribal Shenanigans!! Wyewood Champions is almost upon us and there is much Scribal work to be done! Mark your calendars that I am opening my house up on the below dates to drop in, pick up, hang out and drop off the many wonderful works of scribal delight that are needed for this upcoming event and more events to come!
Sunday, July 19th – 1pm to 5pm
Monday, July 20th – 6:30pm
Tuesday, July 21st – 6:30pm
Friday, July 24th – FCS (yup, after months and months I should be able to make it)
Sunday, July 26th – 1pm to 5pm
Monday, July 27th – 6:30pm
Tuesday, July 28th – 6:30pm
Sunday, August 2nd – 1pm to 5pm
This is all Scribal come and go and I will be providing all the supplies and paper for any skill level to come, learn and enjoy the fun!
Please do send Lady Alamanda a message or call me at 425-306-6224 for address and directions.
14 people came out to enjoy an unexpectedly modified practice that also
included the return of lost archers!
Today we saw Lovell, Leonard and Trish, and Edwin on the range!
The practice was modified due to the unexpected presence of cars on the
range, so most of the practice we could only shoot the 20, with the 30 able
to be uncovered near the end of practice.
Score submitted:
Target Buster:
Tymme – crossbow – 105
Tymme “Prodkiller” Lytefelow, OGGS
Greetings Archers!
Well the weather was not set to “Broil” today and a breeze kept things cooler and much more interesting for shooting!
Apparently apologies are in order, one of the guys must have put out the “No Girls Allowed” sign and we were stuck with six men on the range. Mea Culpa!
To the scores!
Open:
Evrard: 87
Gervais: 84
Crossbow:
Tymme:101 (One of his best and he’s back to a Grand Master average again!)
Gervais: 79
Period Crossbow:
Tymme: 90
This weekend I’ll have the range with full loaner gear. Weather looks like it will be optimal for archery!
In Service,
Evrard de Valogne,
Chief Archer of Wyewood