Beneath the Surface

We had our May Day blot to Freyja today. Although we've also done a Maypole for years, this year it was so damned cold and windy that we decided to have our Maypole as a part of our Midsummer celebrations instead. (Probably more culturally appropriate anyway!) It just doesn't seem like May Day when it's below freezing... At least it had stopped snowing. Although we're due more tonight.

We used a bottle of Polish mead that Dan picked up a while back, not bad and we will probably never locate it again :). Mead is easier to find now than it used to be (I remember the first time I came across a bottle of mead in a store--I don't remember the brand, which is probably just as well since it was pretty much honey diluted with white wine :)) but it's still not a common thing, and we tend to stock up when we are around it (trips through Wisconsin tend to detour to White Winter, for example).

I made a cheesecake--tried something different this time, divided the batter in half and added chocolate to one half, then layered it (debated marbling it instead, maybe next time), then after it was done glazed it with semisweet chocolate. I hope it looks good; it should taste good in any case. You know, I always make cheesecake for these things. (Okay, not always, but really, really, really often.) But I like cheesecake!

We are still undecided as to exactly which spot we will be holding the Mayday blot tomorrow--one would be more convenient, the other would be a bit more dry. But we're pretty much set, I think. (Thinks, do we have a nonalcoholic option for sumbel?...hm, not sure.) The weather should be tolerable--high of about 50, not too much wind, overcast, so not too chilly. (Might rain on Sunday so I guess we picked the right day.) We'll be feasting indoors in any case.