Dublin Bound (Heading for the Emerald City)

I know that Dublin Ohio is not really the Emerald City but the excitement building about finally getting there for our fourth convention is nearly the same as arriving in Oz. Heartland Cradlesong with its music and food theme and most especially with its underlying celtic connection will really display those thirty shades of green found in the convention logo. There will be much green shelled out for those nativities that one must have at the manger mart that probably will put many of us a little over budget. There will be many green with envy that they they did not submit the highest bid and consequently lost the auction or did not have their raffle ticket pulled from the jar. The herbs of Christmas will no doubt display some new shades of green other than the normal evergreen or holly one associates with stable scenes and Christmas. I suspect there will be many creches displayed in the Members' Manger Museum using green technology, in other words, made from recycled materials including coal dust, used auto parts and so forth.

I also would like to extend a special word of welcome to our first time convention participants or let's say, "those a little green" because you will find a lot of friends there and will ripen overnight.

For those members of Friends of the Creche who are not able to join us in Dublin for one reason or another, you will be missed, but rest assured that we will do our best via photos and the final issue of the Crib Sheet for 2007 to share with you all the events.

Mike Whalen