Welcome to HOT Friday … Hottest spell this year I believe –
So what do we do to cool off? I saw a picture of one fellow sitting in a plastic lawn chair beside a fire hydrant turned on HIGH! … But I can’t say I saw him look comfortable. I prefer seeing Apine scenes in Summer when you can still see some of the snow fields up high… but you don’t see people enduring them – unless they are Mountain Climbers… and I’m not sure those folks are playing with a full set of chess pieces.
Oh well… some people like pansies… and some daises – We tried some Impatiens (I think that’s the way they’re spelled) … Anyway they are pretty and petite – and somehow I cast them as ‘cheerful’ – can’t tell you exactly why. Pansies seem a trifle shy – although I’m always amazed at their ability to winter-over in people’s flower gardens. Apparently they are not as successful at ‘summering’ over.
Our yard already looks like autumn even though July is just getting warmed up… but most of the yards, not under irrigation…and even some that are… are getting rather strawey brown… and crunchy if you step on them. We’re ‘mighty dry’ – I recall visiting my Grandparents who were cotton farmers down below Mauldin … on
If there was too much rain… then the talk would be about how much grass there was in the cotton (and corn) and the problems it presented to making a crop. At this point in July it was too early to have local watermelons…but with the heat there was plenty of desire for them to hurry along. They too were affected by too little rain. It was also too hot and too early for Muscatines …but I really enjoyed them when they came – and my brother and I would have ‘maypop’ fights in the red clay ditches… where they often grew abundantly.
Well…those were different days… gone or moved away… but the heat remains… I can remember hot summer nights… and being scared nearly to death by a screech-owl that took up a perch in the barn one very moonlit summer night… and it sounded for all the world like a woman’s screams. Oh well… those are the vivid recollections of a pre- teen childhood visiting on Granma’s Farm… Grandpa was there too of course… I’ll tell you sometime how I remembered him cooling his coffee by pouring it in the saucer and neatly keeping his moustache out of the way while he blew on it to cool it down. Many, many sepia toned memories of days long gone by…. And HOT weather.
Keep cool – enjoy some cold water out of a tin dipper -- and water melons…
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack
Delayed audio link:
http://www.wmuu.com/blog/category/audio/just-a-minute/
“JUST A MINUTE”
WHO SAYS POLITICS IS PASSE’?
Just a Minute: -- A headline in yesterday’s Washington Post says the Democrats stand to suffer in the November elections…
MizP: Mr. Jack, Ah Thank you has been ignorin’ politics too much …
Jack: Oh… excuse me Miz Pearl – it’s not Wednesday…
MizP: Ah know… I jist figgered you ourt ta know Newsweek done put Miz Haley on it’s kivver.
Jack: Really?
MizP: See th’ Demercrats has started ‘tackin’ her sayin’ she’s b’comin’ a celebrity.
Jack: Seems a bit unusual.
MizP: When you run outta rocks you gotta pickup whatever’s at hand –
Jack: Who said that?
MizP: Hit’s out’n sum political handbook…Ben Franklin’s Ah thank…
Jack: Was he an early Democrat…
MizP: Sum people thank so… but Ah thank hit was David Axelrod …
Jack: The one who said “Never let a good crisis go to waste…?”
MizP: No -- tha-ut was Mr. Emanuel …
Jack: Oh…
MizP: Ah gits ‘em mixed up too…
Jack: The POST says the
MizP: Ackshully theys tackin’ Miz Haley ‘bout Newsweek ah thank is moah a sign of gittin’ worried… See Mr. Obama don’t have a - lotta ‘sperience. He’s good on campin’-painin’!
Jack: I’m glad to have your thoughts Miz Pearl… but it’s Friday…
MizP: Oh… Ah’m so sorry… see you nex week.
Jack: OK Miz P… thanks for stopping by – I’m Jack Buttram. (END)
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