This and That.................

 Fiorella is sooooo bored! She's taped and re-taped her paper Halloween pumpkins on her front window, tried (and failed) to get an appointment with her doctor's office, then couldn't find something worthwhile on TV. Even Hercule Poirot is getting old, old, old.

You might suggest that Fio get in touch with her brother, but she called him last night and we had a nice talk, and your girl doesn't want to overuse him. 

What your girl would really like to do is visit with her friends....but the only ones she seems to have are in Vermont and England. What a change from her former life, when she was usually at the head of the tribe.

Ah, well....time marches on and maybe tomorrow will be better. 

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Deutsch is the language

Deutschland is the country 

Deutschstunde is the schoolclass                    

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 This may be an observasion Fio has posted before:

  I watched a laughing child in years gone by

  Below my window gather bits of Spring

  Arbutus whiter than the moon could cry

 The joyous news of life's awakening

 

 The child would touch the vine about my door

 And just as quick, it shed it's coat of frost 

  Her feat had scarcely trod the forest floor

  Before the winter's hard campaign was lost

 

 The seasons roll themselves up into years

 As springtime swiftly burns itself to fall

 A woman clothed in black appears

 And walks the dying world within my wall