[Artemisia] OT - Where are My Peasants?

[S CLEMENGER]

While I don't have my own estate (I tend my brother's, while he is away in 
foreign places), our people were sadly diminished during the devastating 
plague (no, not Normans...bubonic) that swept through some 20 years ago. 
That same plague took my husband and his apprentices and almost all of our 
household.  I've had to do many things not appropriate to my high station, 
simply because someone needed to do them....
(We never had to move pipe in the spuds--that was all up on wheels, but we 
sure did have to move it in the barley....weight of that pipe being the 
hardship right *behind* having to get up that early!)
--Maire, oddly up at about the same time she'd need to be if she had to move 
that pipe....


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allen Hall" <earlalan at srv.net>
To: "Kingdom of Artemisia mailing list" <artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 10:06 PM
Subject: [Artemisia] OT - Where are My Peasants?


> > --Maire "why yes, I AM a farm girl from Montana" NiNuanain
>
> Moving pipe is one of the miseries of the universe!  Especially in spuds
> when the vines are long or in grain when it's tall.
>
> During some of the urbanite moving, many of us have wondered where our
> peasants are?  This is much to much work for nobles such as 
> ourselves......
>
> Alan
>