This is old blowers and I'm gonna do another podcast for you. It's gonna take me two or three Podcasts to tell you this story because it's a long story, but it's it's kind of funny But it's you know it's kind of pitiful too really but anyway I'm gonna go ahead and start today and it'll take me you know a couple three or four days to tell you but What happened was that this teacher appeared of Francine? You know she reads to her kids all the time and they says uh This woman named Laura Wilder and she wrote these books, you know about growing up and so Francine Reads them to the kids and and they all like them and there was one book that she was reading to them called a little town on the prairie and In this story that she read them or see they had this spelling being I know all of you know what a spelling bee is and see the whole town They was looking for some way to have some fun and of course they didn't have no television or radio or nothing so they went up to the schoolhouse and and they decided that they would have a spelling bee and So anyway, she read them the story and the kids liked it so good that what Francine done was that she wrote a play about that, you know where she she wrote a play and she told a story and so they have these programs up there at school, you know and They and they invite community if they want to come and they had these they was doing this play that Francine had wrote And so you know I was like everybody else I want up there to see it because of course my girl goes to that school up there and besides, you know Francine is I've known her all my life and and I want to support Whatever she does and then I want to support the school too So I went up there and watched her play and see I never had read that story before and my girl Emily has read me parts Of her books, but I never had heard that particular story before but it was a real good show a real good play And I liked it, you know and and so What happened what next was that the kids? Decided that they wanted to do the same thing They wanted to have you know They do this stuff for the community and they thought you know what a good idea would be to have a spelling bee and and let the whole town take part in it and so Since they voted on it, you know, they they vote on these activities every every month, you know and whatever they vote on Whatever wins, well, that's what they do so that spelling bee see that got more votes than anything else so Francine said that they would have this spelling bee and they would have the whole community to come up there and so so it was scheduled last Tuesday a week ago Tuesday and we all went up to the schoolhouse and They they chose us everybody in town up to the To one of the two teams see they've got these two men up here in town that's supposed to be good spellers They claim to be and so they got two catams You know one of them was captain of one team and one of them was captain of the other team And then they would take turns choosing the people that was going to be on their team And I'm gonna tell you that I was the next to the last one chose Which you know that didn't bother me because I can't spell I told you that I had much of education and and I'm not ashamed of that but I can't spell but you know I was gonna take part in it because it was a community activity and and Everybody knows that I can't spell no house So he don't you know it don't embarrass me and nothing like that but anyway, I was next to the last one chose and it had a If you know, I probably should have been the last one chose But I was glad to be next to the last anyway But you know the kids and adults and everybody was taken part in the spelling bee And then they was recording it because they were gonna do a podcast of the spelling bee, you know And they were gonna put it in on they put it on tape so that they could what they call edit it and and put on the podcast of the spelling bee and So I'm gonna stop Right here because I've got to give you some more Background before I start telling you about this spelling bee and what happened, but it was It was funny, you know But like I say it was kind of pitiful too But I can't tell you no more about it until I tell you about some of the people that was was taken part in the spelling bee And I'll do that in the next next podcast.
Oh Why I meant to tell you before I quit that my girl Emily had a part in the place she done real good She got a You know they wrote about her up there in the paper and she played this old smart Elite girl named Nelly Olsen that I know you read the books or some of you have and Nelly Olsen's this old girl and she was always smart elik and and you know making fun of other kids and stuff and and Emily ain't like that at all. She ain't nothing like that, but she dislikes the play parts like that I don't know why but she does and she got a real good write-up They said that what they said of course I mean, I know they was just joking but they said she was ready for Hollywood's what they said But anyway, I just want to get that in there and I'll be back with the next podcast here in in the day or two