A tad chilly

Here's a skinny little squall line working across Michigan right now:

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/32042722/perth-and-south-west-shiver-through-coldest-night-of-the-year/

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  Yes it is!!     

 No, not yet.  Maybe someday if I find myself in the oldfolks home, I might give it a shot.    

Here's a bit of a ramble-- a few days ago when I was selling at the local farmers market I heard someone mention the common quote "well, you know what they say about the UP, if you don't like the weather just wait five minutes and it'll change."

OK, the part about the UP wouldn't be common to any of you, but I've never lived anywhere where there weren't people who cited that line as applying to their locale, and many are convinced the quip was originated with specific reference to their location. One of those places I lived that claims to be the origin of the quotation is Oklahoma: "If you don't like the weather in Oklahoma, wait five minutes. It'll change." But unlike all the other places, I think Oklahoma has a real chance of being the actual origin, because they've got a specific person they credit with the quotation: Will Rogers.

Will Rogers lived long enough ago (died in 1935) that most people now don't know of him unless they're from that part of the country (for instance, the primary airport in Oklahoma City is Will Rogers World Airport with about 4 million passengers each year). But when he was alive the entire country knew him as major social wit, who wrote several thousand nationally syndicated columns and was the highest paid actor in Hollywood. He had zillions of quips, many of which would still be recognized without people necessarily knowing of the source. Here are a few:

• I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.
• Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
• Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
• If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
• Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.
• I never met a man I didn't like.

and . . .

• If you don't like the weather in Oklahoma, wait a minute and it'll change.

Mark Twain is also credited by some for a similar weather phrase, but remember that he and Rogers overlapped with one another during their adult lives, and with both being famous columnists with the same flair for social commentary, they would certainly have been aware of one another's writings. Either one of them could have "borrowed" the line from the other.

EDIT: BTW, the attribution of the quip to Twain refers to the weather in New England, of course, rather than Oklahoma.

This quote is just too true and it still happening today....

• Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.

   I bet that microwave dish would make cooking in a microwave oven seem as slow as cooking on a charcoal grill.     

  I pity the poor guy walking behind the tractor that has to pick up everything that falls off the trailer.

 I bet anybody that can do NaNoWriMo, could get to everyone of these falls in one year and post a picture of each one of them to a thread somewhere or another.

 (How many High Falls do you count?)     

  I did a Bridal Veil Falls count and came up with 25 in the US and another 16 around the world.  A popular name for waterfalls it would appear.

  Don't make me have to post six in a row, because I will!    

Yipes! Here's the 3-month temperature probablity for August, September, and October, released this past evening.

  That's just what I would've predicted, except for the country breaking apart.

Ba-da-boom- ching  

Ugh! It's not quite 1:00 p.m. and the temperature is 90°F with a heat index of 101° . Very un-UP-like!

 September is just around the corner.  

  I was going to post some pictures of the "hail bomb" that hit Co. and the "once in a thousand years storm (NBC)" that slammed a town on the East coast, but then the curiosity of seeing how long my little "joke" would remain as the last post got the better of me.

    Definitely not the sentiments of the OP, CP, in the UP!                 

8 days left in August now, and as of today the weather buoy in eastern Lake Superior reports the surface water temperature has reached 60°F .