[Editor's note: While I toil in the Editor's frozen cubicle (and I should add that a hat makes all the difference!) on more mundane money-making matters, please enjoy the latest entry from My Old Man.]
(from the emails of David G. Morris, with permission)
Wow! Comes now, known as a phenomenol occurrence, the weather that we're not used to... I live in Houston, Texas on the coastal flatlands of the Gulf of Mexico, ya unnerstan. Some strange stuff is about to come upon us regular flatlanders. Folks here get all excited about this kinda thing. They go out and buy long-sleeved shirts and everything!
Been watching the magic electric box that shows pictures that move back and forth (up and down, too) while one of those talkin' guys who calls himself a geologist (oops, my mistake -- he says he's one of them there meteorologists, one of those who study meteors, I reckon.) Anyhoo, he claims we'll have snow shortly, maybe starting in the later hours of this coming Thursday and lasting through Friday AM. Says, "We might get 3 to 4 inches of snow." Dang! Brang out the sleds and snowshoes forthwith, huh? Too bad we don't have a hill or two in my area to slide down. But that's okay 'cause I burned my ski (didn't have but one) in the fireplace one winter, long ago. (Won't ever have to drive or fly in snow, for any reason, again. Left Rhein Main in the snow by a transport plane in late December and just glad it made it across the "pond" safely, even though I was in one of them there misguided U.S. Navy planes.)
Mein Gott! It's liable to look like the weather we had in Furstenfeldbruck, Bavaria back in the winter of '54-'55. And I don't even have any chains for my auto tires, either. Too bad that McLain doesn't live closer so's I could borrow some tire chains from him. Is he still alive?? Quien Sabe?
By the way, should that have been, "Barvaria" in the above? The "Bar" part makes sense to me.
Okay, gotta go see if the snowplow is still on the street ready to work -- takin' the driver some iced tea.
Dave the M (Fox)
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