EVEN FLORIDA IS COLD

 Gentle Readers . . . and Maxwell,

Did Winter Storm Fern bring ice and snow and low temperatures to you? Although we don't have snow, Florida is cold. Our high was in the 40s on Monday and it will stay chilly all week with overnight lows in the 20s and 30s. 

Fern is such a mild name for a such a destructive storm.

Princess is prepared for a long winter night's rest.

We have a merry fire to keep us cozy.

In North Carolina, Favorite Young Man and K were iced in on Sunday and Monday. I'm pleased the schools were closed Monday and Tuesday so K didn't have to go to work. FYM was able to negotiate the icy roads to go to work Tuesday. 

Yesterday I recounted the story of our visit to the Holocaust Museum in DC many years ago. Today I'll add that when I was a reporter in Pennsylvania I wrote an article about a woman from Ukraine who told me the story of Nazis arriving in her village. The next day, the Jews were gone. Then the young people were ordered to go to the village square. Her grandmother told her, Do whatever they say, and you will be all right.

She, a 16 year old, and the other young people were shipped off to Germany to be slave labor. She and another girl had to work for a cruel German farmer. The farmer had a kind wife who helped them as much as possible. She did as her grandmother told her, and she was hungry but all right.When the war was over, she got a job cooking for the US Army, where she met a handsome GI who took her to rural Pennsylvania as his bride. Their 50 year marriage on their farm ended when he died. She missed him terribly.

I've mentioned my interest in history before. I read quite a bit, and I also like to watch documentaries, many of which are about World War II. Princess often watches with me.

A couple of days ago, Princess said, That chap with the strange, little moustache, and the animal with the orange face, they have much in common. They hold rallies and shout a lot. Sie sind hasserfüllt und grausam. Sie sind Brüder, oder zumindest beste Freunde, nicht wahr?*

Nein, I told her. The German man has been dead for a long time. Many people wish the American man would die.

Ich könnte das beschleunigen, indem ich viele Bisse auf seinen fetten Hintern gebe, Princess said.

I let Princess know many of you would join me in appreciating her offer, but I couldn't take her up on it because she would be harmed in the process. She would catch a disease from biting his fat ass. 

Infinities of love,

Janie Junebug

*Now you know Princess hasn't forgotten how to speak German and is rather more elegant in the use of her first language.