Page 1: April 29, 2021 Hey friend! Listen. I’ve been remote teaching and remote happy houring and remote board gaming then this week I ALSO had remote book club, and I cannot look at another screen for one more minute. Can’t, won’t, shan’t. Contemplating renting a boat and dropping my computer into the exact center of the sea. Hence the longhand here. Anyway. I hope you’re doing okay, or whatever “okay” looks like right now. OK, so, Thing 1: My mom’s been keeping herself busy with some next-level cleaning, and I’m 75% sure the main reason she’s glad I’ve moved back to town is so she can move stuff out of her house and into mine. Normally it’s stuff like my second-grade math quizzes and an alarming collection of MASH games I apparently kept under my bed. But last week, she dropped off a package with a bunch of letters and scraps and things from our great-great-great-etc. aunt Georgiana. Have I ever told you about her? Bit of a family legend. She was from a super wealthy English family back in the Regency (ahem, the period between 1795-1837 - it’s the teacher in me!) then just picked up and moved here in her twenties to run a school. So! I thought you’d dig them too. I’m going to send the letters and some trinkets along to you as I go through them. I may also send some light crafting projects to keep us busy while we wait for normal. Or “normal,” anyway. I’ve enclosed the first letter (hold onto your bonnet, it’s a SCANDAL!), along with a little painting-slash-research project I did on my own after reading it. I hope this is fun for you! It is for me, so...sorry not sorry for roping you into it! Thing 2: I kept hoping we’d be able to keep our re-re-re-rescheduled 7th Annual Best-Teas Party on the books, but that’s not looking likely. Rather than rescheduling for the