The Ram Rebellion(47)
Of course, with my luck, the rotten ram will make nice.
Speaking of frustrated!
Your friend,
Flo Richards
Dear Veleda,
Thanks so much for the notification concerning the League of Women Voters meeting. Since it's during the day, I'll be sending the boys in my classes at the high school to the other section, and bringing all the girls from both American History sections. I'm getting Sarah Beth Cochran to bring her girls, too. We don't want to fall into the trap that happened uptime of getting this looked on as a project of busybodies who all fall into the category of, "The Old Gray Mare, She Ain't What She Used To Be!"
Even though most of us are, except for a few of the younger gals like Flo and Fran.
I do think that Sarah Beth and I can make a contribution to the manure discussion. Oliver and I keep five horses, you know, and have been riding to school with Sarah Beth since they hired us all to teach. Unless you work with animals, you don't realize just how big a manure pile just cleaning out the stables for five horses makes.
If we take the manure off the streets of Grantville, where are we going to put it? It will have to be somewhere that won't leach into the water supply, you know.
Should we ask Iona Nelson to bring the girls' choral group from the middle school? I know that we're keeping the "Star Spangled Banner" for the RoF anthem, but the contest for the N.U.S. anthem is going strong. Iona has picked a tune written by a man who's still alive. Melchior Franck, from down in Coburg. The original words are by Johann Matthaeus Meyfarth and it's called, "Jerusalem, Du Hochgebaute Stadt." She says that it fits the tradition properly, because it's just as hard to sing as the "Banner."
The middle school students are working on writing lyrics in English and German. They can give us a sample before they take it to the competition at the fairgrounds.
Yours,
Ardelle Edgerton
Dear Flo,
Well, I just talked to Veleda. She had the meeting scheduled for the public library, but she expected about twenty-five people.
She's moved it to the council room at city hall. Even that's going to be tight quarters. But the girls' choral group from the middle school will just come in, sing, and then go help with the baby-sitting.
The newest Brillo story is really cute.
Ciao,
Fran
Dear Veleda,
I announced the organizational meeting for the League of Women Voters when the Baptist ladies met on Wednesday. We have voted to provide refreshments.
It will be a memorable occasion for everyone.
Do you remember that flash flood in March before the RoF? That was the day before the Grantville Baptist ladies were to host the association for the District Women's Missionary Society. It hadn't been rescheduled yet. So we've been hoarding the supplies (it's not as if anybody was going to starve without them, really) until something came up that was worth using them for.
So we have five gallons of canned black cherries, and plenty of black cherry flavor Jell-O mix, and several cases of Coca Cola, and goodness knows we can get plenty of cottage cheese here down-time. Claudette will drop a note to Fred Swisher to put in a special order for us with the dairy that's supplying USE Steel and they'll send us three kegs the day before the LWV meeting, when the commuter bus returns.
So the Grantville Chapter of the League of Women Voters will be seen into existence by the very last black-cherry-and-Coca-Cola-and-cottage-cheese Jell-O salad in the world. If that doesn't make all our new immigrant voters sit up and start working for a world that can provide the ingredients again, we don't know what it will take.
We'll bring the serving dishes, too. We never did get rid of them when people started using paper plates. We just stored them.
Flo Richards picked up a copy of the old 4-H wrist pincushion pattern. I'll wait three days. If she hasn't decided to use it, then I'll just ask her for some of the wool she doesn't like. Karen can pay her something for it, and it's the kind of thing that Fabrics and Textiles can probably sell.
Yours,
Mary Ellen Shaver
Dear Fran,
Just got your note about the League of Women Voters meeting. Are we even sure the council room at city hall will be big enough? From the response I'm getting from the ladies I've seen lately, I don't think "voter apathy" is going to be a problem around here. I remember being so frustrated when people wouldn't vote in the uptime elections, don't you? The down-timers I've spoken to are thrilled to be able to contribute to the common good.
Yes, I agree that the ransom of Brillo story is cute. It's one of the reasons I don't think Johan Sprug can be the culprit. Where would he get time to read old short stories? The poor man works from sunup to sundown.