Bone Chilling 60.4 Degrees This Morning

[897tgigvib]

When hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana 9 or so years ago I lived in Montana. Montana did not have cash money to help, but offered many convoys of hay, Straw, Alfalfa, canned goods, frozen meats, and lots of big rigs hauled these things down there, along with search and rescue teams and other things. They discovered yet another way to help in that there were many thousands of good families left homeless, and some south of New Orleans whose lands were gone. The trucks returned with families, and went back and forth with goods returning with families.

Most of those families stayed in Montana. Several of those families stayed to live in Dillon Montana. One family had only one surviving man. He was a skilled electrician and was hired by the local electric power company. The mother in law, a new widow, was so...beautifully southern! I met them while working at the greenhouse nursery. One of the first things they wanted to do to settle in was to make their new house have the southern charm they would be missing. Yes mayaam, you're right, Wisteria won't grow here, closest things are some other flowering vines. Several kinds of Clematis, and you should see how the honeysuckle vines grow. The older daughter, also a new widow, my God, what a voice from heaven. Showing her the Lilacs, telling her yes, Lilacs grow super well, smell very very nice, and yes, the pannicles of flowers can look like small upside down wisteria, but sorry, I don't think there is a vining Lilac. I just...felt like, yes, now I've heard the most beautiful form of english. She described they were from south of nyeeahlyahnz, and south of bayaatn roooj, all the way to where the land ended. A kind of niceness, a penetrating understanding, a politeness that...it's right! They got things like clay pottery, and lots of soil pep amendment. I reminisce...

 

[baymule]

Ah, I have a strong Louisiana heritage.......for over 200 years.....family landed in the Carolinas in early 1700's, migrating to Louisiana as planters. I was born in deep south Texas, my fathers people were early Texicans. mountain men from out of Kentucky. I am deep south and crazy a$$ Texan-what a mix! With my southern accent and slow Texas drawl, I sound dumber than a box of rocks......then I spout off some big words and correct grammar and just confuse the what-for out of people.

 

[897tgigvib]

That deep south talk from south as south can get and still have dirt to walk on voice, it just matches so well with the kind of politeness, an honoring of motherhood.

Virginia has it too. I lived there for 6 months in 1976. Such comfortable language and ways. My dad also lived in Virginia for 6 months in 1945. His mother was born there in 1879.

I still reminisce...

edited to fix a tyop...

 

[canesisters]

YIKES!!! The temp was 56 when I got up this morning! IN AUGUST!!!
It was very nearly impossible to shove the dogs and cats off the bed and crawl out from under that blanket. I thought I was gonna freeze to death in the shower but was so happy to have 'cool' and no humidity that I just couldn't bring myself to close the window.

Going to be back up in the mid 90's by tomorrow.... :/

 

[dewdropsinwv]

About a month ago we got up and it was about 48 out!!!! In JULY!!!!!!! monty had his heavier jacket out and the HEAT on in his work truck!!!!!

 

[897tgigvib]

I've not yet ever used the heater in my new (2002) Subaru! Supposedly almost all the windows have those new defrosters built into them. Guess maybe I oughta figure out how to work those newfangled gadgets!