CHAPTER 22Over the following three weeks the monastery was a hive of activity; seamstresses sewed tiny clothes for the oncoming babies, weavers weaved scarves and caps, cooks cooked food and goodies, dairymaids milked goats and cows and churned butter, chambermaids cleaned and hung curtains, nurses tended to coughs and colds, midwives cared for those closest to having their babies and hairdressers cut hair. And that was just the women. On the male side, farmers tended to the animals, hunters went out into the forest and returned with two boar and a massive stag, a monastery boat was repaired and fishermen caught fish off the coast, wood carvers carved tiny toys out of wood, builders built new furniture and altered rooms while woodcutters cut up firewood and felled several more trees. Metal
