Making Kalana or Paga: In a special barrel, which has been cut in half, place a basket of kalana fruit. Bring a pail filled with water to the barrel. Wash your feet well. Stepping in the barrel, you crush the fruits with your feet. After the fruit has all been crushed, step out rinsing your feet. Now you need to strain the fruit through repcloths. After you have it strained, you add some yeast and sugar. Once cake of yeast and 3 cups of sugar per basket of fruit should be sufficient. Stir slowly till all the yeast is dissolved. Pour the juice into a wine barrel in the back of the storage area. After it ferments for about a month or so, ladle it into bottles; add a cork and seal with wax. Kalana is made from the fruit of the kalana, paga comes from grain, and sul paga is made from sul and ca also be made here. A bottle or two of sul paga is kept on hand for visitors. Basically the processess for making all three are smiliar. All of these are added to some sugar and allowed to ferment for a month or so.
Kal-da: In a special barrel, which has been cut in half, place a basket of kalana fruit. Bring a pail filled with water to the barrel. Wash your feet well. Stepping in the barel, you will crush the fruits with your feet. After the fruit has all been crushed, step out rinsing your feet. Now you need to strain the fruit. Pour the strained juice into a clean kettle sealing tightly with a fitted lid. Bring the juice to a boil quickly over a high flame on the cooking fires to extract the essence of the kalana. Once it begins to boil, move to the edge of the fires for a lower flame to allow concentrating. After it is concentrated, take to the serving area and place upon the counter to cool to room temperature. Add fruit juices then ladle it into clean botas or bottles and label.
Black Wine: Place three doubled rep cloths on the counter in the serving area. Add 3 large scoops of black wine beans to the centre of the cloth. Pull up the corners and tie off with a rence cord tightly ... With a heavy wooden mallet smash the beans several times till crushed but not powered. Place in a clean kettle and add water, setting the kettle over low flames as to not boil the wine.
Juice: Most fruit juice need only be crushed in a large bowl with a heavy clay bowl, or pestle after rinsing them well. The larger fruits such as tospit, peaches, plums and the cherries will have to be pitted before crushing. Strain the juice from the pulp, adding sugar to taste. Red fruit will need to be cut in quartes and cooked in a small amount of water to soften before crushing. Poured in pitchers, place in the chilling area of the wagon.
Making Rope and Twine: Both rope and twine are made from fibres, such as shredded rep cloth or from animal hair. They can either be braided into rope or twisted and rolled into twine.
Making Nets for Fishing: Fishing nets are made by loosely weaving strong cord together. This can be done on a loom or you can hand tie them. They can also be woven onto sticks to form handles.
Making Hammocks: Weaving strong cord together as well makes hammocks. This can be done by hand or on the loom. Make sure they are long enough for the tallest Master.
Making Purses, Boots, Bags, Etc. for Leather: Leather hides are found in the storage area. Make a pattern then cut out the leather after getting permission to use scissors or a small knife. Then sew the leather in the pattern you have chosen. You may then hook a design which means cutting slightly into the leather to make the design. Make sure you get permission to use a small quiva to do this. You may dye the leather with a design or leave it plain. Making boots or moccasins incudes decorating the leather as well as stitching the leather to a cutout sole.
Gathering Eggs and Changing Vulo Bedding: The vulo pen is a wire and wooden enclosure that is covered to keep the vulo from flying free. There are shelves with boxes to lay their eggs in. Each box has straw bedding. The floor of the vulo pen is also coverd with straw. Be sure to enter carefully and latch the door. The vulo like to sneak past and run free. Bring a basket with you for the eggs as well as grain or maize to feed them, a wheel barrel and fresh bedding. Toss the feed on the ground after raking the straw so that they will be busy while you find the eggs. Some may not lay eggs in the boxes so check everywhere. Then remove the old bedding from the floor and boxes and replace it with fresh smelling hay. You may want to place a damp rep cloth over your nose and mouth while cleaning the bedding. The dust from the vulo droppings is fine and that will stop you from breathing it in as you work.
Sewing Leathers for Master: Masters should be measured for the leathers to ensure a good fit. Get their waist, hip size and inseam. Then draw the pattern on the back of the leather hide, which is found in the storage area. Cut out the leathers after you get permission to use a quiva or scissors from a Free and sew the leather into the pattern.
Washing the Animals: (kaiila, bosk, etc.) Washing the animals includes actually washing them with soap flakes as well as polishing their hooves and horns.
Mucking the pens: Use a pitchfork or rake and clean out the old straw in the pens. There is a compost pile near the shed to put the old straw on. Then spread fresh new straw around. Make sure bosk dung is saved for fuel for the fires.
Making Spoons/Other Implements: Usually from tabuk/bosk, etc. horns. You will need permission to use a quiva to carve the horns and antlers. Carve spoons, forks, cooking utensils, etc from the horns.
Weeding the Pathways: (or clearning them of snow in the winter) This one is pretty self-explanatory.
Planting Flowers, tree's: (spring, summer, fall work) Use the straw/dung behind the stables for fertillizer.
Making Kurts, Whips from Leather: Get the leather from the shed, the strands of the whip are usually braided the handle can be made from the horn or wood (ask permission to use a quiva if you're going to carve it)
Cleaning the Spar Pit: Pretty self-explanatory as well
Clean the Dance Pit: Pretty self-explanatory as well. There is a dance pole that needs to be cleaned and polished in the center of the pit.
Cleaning the Whipping Post and the Branding Rack: (shrudders) The wood needs to be cleaned and polished. The leather straps for binding need to be cleaned and oiled, sweep away any debris.
Gathering Switches to Make Canes: (whipping) After getting permission to use a knife, cut slender branches from a bush and tie them in bundles. These are stored in the shed.
Making Needles: Carve little slender bits of bone, sharpen one end and put an eye in the other. Make sure you ask permission to use a quiva.
THESE CHORES NEED SUPERVISION
Making Arrows: Gather straight sticks and feathers. Strip the stick of the bark and shape it so one end is narrower than the other. Attach a metal arrow tip to one end of the stick. Ask at the forge and use leather twine to attach the arrows to the other end... You must always have a Free watch you as you do this chore. Be sure to turn the arrows over to the Free as soon as you are done.
Making Spears: The same as arrows, but on the larger scale.
Making bows: You must find a pliant stick brought back from a Frees travels since trees are limited in the plains( size can vary, you make large or small bows), then strip it of bark. Shape it so it is flat on both long sides and tapers toward the ends. Notches the two ends and attach the string. You will probably need to bend the bow over your leg in order to attach the string to the second end.