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Show - ' ' JGST STUFF I have come to a staggering, earth-shattering conclusion that Mother Nature is a tease plain and simple, no ifs ands and buts about it. . . '.' Quite often tftien fall is but a thing of the past and the leaves have fallen ( and the trees are bare, Mother Nature will send a flurry of snow. Just enough to dust the mountain tops, make the roads slippery and the ground slushy, and enough to tempt winter sports enthusiasts to setting their hearts and minds to skis and snowmobiles, but that's all. Then the sun comes out and it's fall again. She just tempts. Rarely will she send, right off the bat, a storm with enough snow to ski or snowmobile on. She just plays with our anticipation. Of course the same thing happens in the spring of the season; When the ground is fine and the rivers are runnng swollen with the runoff, when the robins are flitting around the lawn, looking for worms, and the kids are running around in cutoffs and bare feet, she pulls her trick again. A few weeks ago people were pulling up weeds, tilling up gardens, raking up lawns, cleaning up yards, while: soaking ..tip the '-sun. Snowmobiles and skis were replaced with boats and water skis. I packed away my winter woolies and pulled out the summer duds. I was ready, along with everyone else, for summer. But, perhaps the sunshine, was Mother Nature just whetting our appetites, just putting us in that anticipatory mood, waiting for summer, because last weekend it snowed and the temperature dropped, Maybe that bit of summer warmth is all the summer we're going to have. That's all she wrote folks, were into fall. Hopefully the snow was just Mother Nature reminding us that we're all at her mercy and maybe, just maybe, she'll send us summer. While it's "not nice to fool Mother Nature", she sure can fool us! |