Ha! If I thought it was "freezing cats & dogs" back in January, that was just a foreshadowing of the polar blast that hit us the first week of February ... I haven't missed 4 straight days of school since ... well, I don't know when. Maybe 15 years ago -- that's the date that the weatherman says we last had more than 1-2 days of below freezing temps. Considering our furnace decided to give up the ghost last week, Joy and I spent a frigid 4 days under blankets and bundled up in layers of clothes, a lesson we learned at Four Winds Faire when the Mother Nature reminds us that spring doesn't really happen until March 22, which is midway through the run of Faire. I only hope that the weather settles down after this. Yes, we have another 1-2 days of cold this coming week, but nothing like the Groundhog Freeze of 2011.
So, what news since January? I have started a rough draft for "A Fairy Tale Wedding," which stars the BJDs owned by Mariann, Joy and myself. I finally read through a 19th century analysis of the Italian Renaissance by a Swiss author ... very dense, a mix of confirmed fact and speculation. I suppose it's similar to works by Robert Graves (I,Claudius) and other writers of the late Victorian Age. I could tell that the Swiss was not a Roman Catholic; he had some unstated comments about the foolishness of Catholic customs, although he was too well-bred to put them into prose.
Ironically, the Duchy of Savoy was a country that I researched (lightly) when I was "Misling Nicola di Palmieri" in the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronisms) back in the 70s. The really old days when TRF (Texas Renaissance Festival) was a new concept for entertainment ... Back when Don Juan and Miguel let amateurs participate in their routines. Let's see -- that was what? 3 or 4 decades ago ... How time flies like a Lear Jet when you're busy doing other things.
Savoy is located on the borders of France & Italy -- depending on which map you check, you'll find some Savoy cities now located within Italian borders and others in France. Officially, Savoy is a French province ... but its port area was located in Monaco.
I haven't gotten very far -- Until Saturday, my fingers were too cold to type more than a few minutes ... I may need to sit down with the girls and brainstorm the conflicts -- and figure out who (at the moment) is ally or enemy of whom ... This wedding party puts on a happy face, but there's intrigue in the background. No one, even the ingenues, is what he or she appears to be.
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