Wally Kairuz wrote:
> debra wrote:
> NP: tv newscast; the cold rainy weather here doesn't seem so bad after
> looking at the temperatures elsewhere.... MINUS 50 degrees .... just
> thinking about that makes me shiver.
>
> and i exclaim:
> where where where? i belong there!
> wallyK, wondering how i will survive until march, when the cold weather
> returns
Fargo, North Dakota, although as soon as I heard that temperature all I
could hear in my head was brrrrrr, brrrrrrr, brrrrrrrr, people live
there??? So I'm not positive it was Fargo; maybe I was just remembering
all the snow that was in the movie. As a survival tactic, can you put your
head into the freezer until March and just imagine snow and ice, and do
some shoulder shivering and say brrrrrrrr a few times.... and feel better?
:-)
Other tactics (that don't include possible freezer burn) are the ones
Southerners use... do everything very slowly, including speaking with a
long drawn-out drawl, and drink lots of iced tea and fan yourself gently
(vigorously would be like exercising and just adds to the heat) and wear
billowy clothes so you can flutter them and build up a breeze that way and
say Lordy it's hot while you delicately dab off the sweat that's
collecting everywhere and making even your lace-edged handkerchief limp,
and then find an air conditioner as soon as you can.
Debra Shea
P.S. Said with all due respect to our southern-living listmembers. I'm
fondly remembering summers spent in the middle of North Carolina,
relentlessly sunny and hotter than hell. Great weather for tobacco.
