Book Board Chat

Good Evening Everyone! Pleasant day, not as warm as yesterday. A front is moving in. Going to be cold. Futima already has the front. Grano will get it next. Then LookwhatBobFound and Aquiltmaven and me. I suppose it will go all the way down to Antsy.

Rusty [see avatar pix] is going to have to go into deep therapy. I was raking some more maple leaves for the chicken coop [it upsets them if you put in too much at once]. Rusty was supervising on his side of the fence. I bent down to scoop more leaves for the garbage can I was carrying them in. Riiiiiiiiip, went my work jeans only a few feet from his face. They now have joined the rag pile. Poor Rusty thinks my clothes are my skin/fur and he had a worried expression on his face.

Joanne Jhill -- yep, they have preduices everywhere. Mother said an older officers wife had a little chat with them[other wives] before they went over. Said the Germans had to put everyone in a racial groups and that was left over from all those years of Hitler controlled schooling. Well, racial 'groups' mean one thing to Americans and another to Germans. It took my mother awhile before she figured it out. She was always being called an Englanderin [female English Person] and sort of ignored that because her father came over in 1905 at 4 years old. We always lived off base; she sort of thought it was because they thought it was politer to call her English than American.
Then a distant german cousin lady was visiting from my Father's side of the family. She commented, with extreme amazement in her voice in a mix of german and english to my mother "How could an englanderin have two such beautiful german children". Apparently, my brother and I both qualfied in the German 'box' of identities. That's when my mother 'got it'.

WAR HORSE -- thanks for the info, not that I am going to see the link to avoid the spoilers. I know they can train well [when they want to and the ASPCA really regulates things now.] but someone like spieberg can make things so real.