We got down to 3 early in the week. For those of you of
the Celsius persuasion, that's minus 16.1 degrees. If you inhale
through your mouth, it takes your breath away. We're now back in
to more normal territory. Our day-time high on Friday was 52 or
11 Celsius.
I'll try to scratch any further cat puns.
I bet your daughter's hands were aching by the time you
got to school. One time, it was about 4 degrees, here, and I was
in my first year of college and just forgot to get any mittens.
I had a class at 7:30 that day and it was about a 20-minute walk
to where it was. By the time I got there, both my hands were numb
especially my right hand which held my cane so it was right out
there in the wind.
When I got in to the warm room, my right hand began to
throb with pain as the blood returned and it was probably about
15 or 20 minutes before it quit hurting to the point where one
wanted to yell in agony. I've heard of the agony of defeat. De
agony of de hand was pretty bad that day. I am glad it was
Biology class as that was interesting and gave something else to
concentrate on.
One sad factor in the cold weather we've had is that a
couple of kids were killed last week when they fell in to frozen
ponds. The incidents were totally unrelated to each other but
they were the same sort of event. One was a six-year-old boy who
was playing with his older brother on a partly-frozen pond. The
boy fell in and got trapped under the ice. His older brother
also went in to try to rescue him but couldn't find him in time.
Another boy, 15 years old, fell in to a different frozen
pond and also drowned. There have been several police and fire
spokesmen on television reminding everyone that Oklahoma simply
does not usually get cold enough for long enough for it to be
safe for people to venture out on to frozen ponds and lakes.
I do remember one time in the early sixties when we did
have a long-enough spell of freezing weather that it was safe to
go on to the ice of smaller ponds and lakes. My parents, sister
and I went to a park in Tulsa where the lake was frozen and we
got to experience what people in Michigan and Minnesota get to
do all Winter. It was really fun and I will always remember it.
People were skating and sledding on the ice which was as
smooth as glass. It was safe that day but several days later, it
warmed up and we read of a man who died on that same lake when
he walked out on the now thin ice to retrieve stray golf balls.
What a stupid reason to loose one's life.
So much for the weather. This afternoon, i will be part
of a service that the Stillwater Amateur Radio Club is doing
with the Salvation Army. We will be ringing bells in front of a
large store to encourage people to put money in one of the red
kettles that are traditionally used by the Salvation Army at
Christmas time.
Until later,
Martin
"Melissa Wobschall" writes:
> I very much enjoyed your punishing puns, Martin. Thanks!
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