Good Day to you…
There have been a couple of ‘throwback days’ this week that manage to upset Al Gore’s Global Warming thermostat. Plus I’m always getting my non-existent gardener gene confused as to how warm it’s going to be. (or really how cold?)
But for the most part Spring/Summer is usually here here -- just not quite … Memorial Day in these lower climes marks Summer’s commencement… but you couldn’t tell it when the thermometer read F 41 degrees the other morning … and I’m sure some of our listeners up toward the Tennessee line worried about losing tomato plants and other tender crops.
I’d never had the time to research what was/is behind the “Three Chilly Saints” designation the Almanac give the 11th 12th and 13th of May. Turns out the Gregorian or the Georgian calendar back in the earlier centuries were the recorders of cool snaps… and when the slipped a few days this way or that… it apparently got the cool snaps… snapped… and besides that what works for South Carolina doesn’t’ really hold true for Maine and New Hampshire… so it’s all a rather rough guess in any case. However this year the cool snap came right there on schedule. I never can track it anyway… our wedding anniversary comes later in May… and by then … 57 years ago… things were pretty *hot* right here in Greenville… and the auditorium at BJU in those days operated *without* air conditioning.
Attempts were made to help performers in heavy Shakespearian costumes – plus academic robes worn during the last school days to cool off -- by dumping tons of ice in the air handling system … which raised the humidity a lot but didn’t do a lot for lowering the temperature. At least the effort was genuine. Contrary to Mr. Gore’s global warming opus and Pulitzer that’s talked about so much today… it seemed to me to be a LOT warmer back then. But I digress.
Today is a welcome day to skip some politics… although there are interesting things going on… I just need to take a break from 24/7 political chatter… and look around at weddings and graduations … and even funerals to remember there are a lot more important things going on that whether Mr. Obama is going to go up to PA to try and save Mr. Specter’s campaign bacon. I’m afraid folks… it’s already in the fire and blazing… One of the unforeseen consequences of GOP profligate spending along with the Democrat’s loose pursestrings is an electorate even more frustrated than usual with *both* parties and with the Tea Party folks it’s become time for the perpetrators to walk the plank (I think) … but we’ll just have to see how things pan out. [I’m looking for the frying pan.]
Well… I didn’t manage to totally skip politics after all… Sorry about that!
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack Buttram
Delayed audio link –
http://www.wmuu.com/blog/category/audio/just-a-minute/
“JUST A MINUTE”
WHAT’S WITH THE THREE CHILLY SAINTS?
MizP: Jist A Minute – Mr. Jack, Ah’ve got a question.
Jack: You know that often happens on Wednesday…
BB: Whut’s the question Miz Pearlie… Mr. Jack ain’t th’ onny one ‘roun here wif ansers…
MizP: Ah’m jist a wantin’ ta know ‘bout th’ three Chilly saints?
Jack: You read about them in the Almanac.
MizP: Rite… an I thought hit’d git usn’s away from th’ policiks fer once.
Jack: The Old Farmer’s says it’s three days in May in which some folks think there could be a frost.
MizP: Izzat rite?
BB: Oh I’ze heered of tha-ut – we had a farmer up air at Dark Corner frum
Homer: Ah ‘member him – Mr. Blenheim… he’s allus keerful ‘bout his gardning.
BB: Said sumtimes… May ‘even ,twelve en thirteen could come a quick frost an kill off th’ tender plants.
Jack: That’s right…
MizP: But what a-bout th’ saints?
Homer: Summa them old legends named th’ days after Mamertius, Pancras (or Pancratius) and Gervais.
BB; Yeah… May 11, 12 and 13 is called by them names. I bet you din’t know Homer could speak French.
Jack: Congratulations Homer. Homer: Aw… hit’s easy ifn’ nobody’s listening. ---
MizP: Ah’s heered tha-ut b’fore .
Jack: Sure… you can check it out yourself… Ephesians Chapter one verse one… or Romans one seven… and many other places in the New Testament all believers in Christ are called– saints.
BB: An at’s good ta know.
Homer: Hit really is.
Jack: Well – I’m glad you asked the question Miz Pearlie… and it has been a bit chilly the last few days…
MizP: So… I guess we’z fouah chilly saints…
Homer: Hit was a unintended consequent tha-ut you done ast the question.
Jack: And time’s up too quickly once again… we’ll be back next week
MizP: Rite here on JIST A MINIT.
Jack: I’m Jack Buttram. (END)
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