Welcome to “Earl ‘n’ Lester’s Bait Shop and Sushi Bar” right here near Playfair on the “Caroliner” line.
It’s been a bit of a different string of days we’ve had here… with showers… and temps in the evening in the ‘50’s and 60’s and we don’t quite know what to make of it all.
The folks in the upper mid-west have been having their own rather ‘cranky’ Spring not knowing whether all the ‘buckshot’ frosty mornings are over or not. It can get pretty cold up in
My Dad had another friend in the RWY POSTAL service back in the 40’s and 50’s who ran a small ‘nursery’ for various plants and I guess he grew some vegetables too… I recall visiting there with Dad sometimes and thinking what a lot of work that must be to ‘tend’ the furnace that ran the boiler which kept the ‘hot house’ hot… and wondering how often he had to get up at night – or get his wife to get up when he was out on the rwy postal route in an overnight trip that would require *somebody* having to keep a close eye on the thermometer. I think the closest we came to that kind of thing was a glass-covered frame that was not too big and in which he got some early spring seedlings going – but that was up in Virginia – and the later ‘cold snaps’ were probably more often encountered. Even here in SC.. they call the upstate ‘semi-tropical’ because it can get very warm in the Summer… (and I guess the lower half of the State is ‘tropical’) and still those ‘outlier’ mornings or evenings may come along and spoil your Spring garden.
So this year seems like a sort of throw-back to those earlier days. While I really think there’s been too much hype given to ‘global warming’ – I have to admit I do remember colder winters… when we had enough cold days to freeze over the neighborhood park enough to have some “good” ice skating (Not that I was ever good at it. – but I saw some good ‘amateur’ skaters… and it was cold enough that a bonfire by the lake was welcome to warm fingers and toes. And make morning paper boys – of which I was one – miserable when there was ice and snow on the sidewalks.)
Well… this has been a pleasant enough Spring season… I even think for a while I might set out a couple of bee hives… and then I think about it some more… and decide I’m not up to being a ‘busy bee-keeper’ again… although I did find it an interesting hobby for the few years when I had a good friend who handled getting the honey out of the frames and into the bottles… it was a rewarding (not monetarily) hobby and we still have a few jars of ‘home grown’ and harvested honey. For which I thank the Lord – and the bees HE created and looks after.
Well…. Time to close up shop for tomorrow. Have a great day!
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack
“JUST A MINUTE”
DONALD “DUCKS”!
BB: Jist a Minit: Mr. Jack whut in th worl is a-goin’ on this week?
Jack: Looks like it’s re-grouping time Mr. Bill.
Homer: Ah thank Mr. Jack means they’s tryin ta reorganize. – But the ‘lection’s a long way off.
BB: You’d thank hit wuz nex week.
MizP: Deed you would Mr. Beelie… Why did Th’ DONALD jist dump hissef out’n the race?
BB: Yeah – I heered Larry O’Donnell of MSNBC said May 16th was th day th TV schedule was
a-gonna be announced. He predicted Th’ Donald wood bow out by then.
Homer: Well … yestiddy was th’ 16th an THE DONALD done bowed out.
Jack: Exactly right Homer… you’re the best detective in th’ bunch.
Homer: Aw – shuks hit won’t nuthin’…
MizP: Did you know, Mr. Jack.
Jack: I had a guess – but no inside information.
BB: You prolly called up summa yo hi-powered frens.
Jack: Not me, Mr. Bill.
MizP: Dint summa your chillun let th’ cat out’n th bag?
Homer: Ah heered… you worked forwa th CI and A an you chillun coun’t tawk ‘bout hit.
Jack: I did change jobs when we lived in
MizP: The kids din’t know where you worked.
Jack: Uh….Miz Pearl…
BB: I heered a banker fren out in Fee-Gee where you was visitin’ said hit was a cover story.
Jack: He said it ‘sounded like’ a cover story… but…
MizP: You mean hit wasn’t a cover story – hit was ‘f real?
BB: Was hit real? Didja work for th’ C I and A?
Homer: Oh, don’t ast him tha-ut… he coun’t tell you if’n he did.
Jack: Oh my…
MizP: Well… you kin tell us… we won’t tell nobody.
Jack: Ahhh… OK…
MizP: You mean Ah guessed hit?
Jack: No … I mean don’t tell that to … anyone … It’s not…
Homer: Hit’s not fer publication Miz Pearl – you unnerstand.
MIzP: Oh – I unnersands….
Jack: Oh fer goo’ness sake… we’re totally out of time. Please be with us next Wednesday. <> I’m Jack Buttram.
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