For those of you who believe that you can’t change the
weather, I’ve discovered a way to do it.
Here’s what happened. Last
Saturday it was in the 90s at our Roshara cabin. High humidity. Sticky.
Sweat a lot weather. Son-in-law,
Paul, a handyman extraordinaire, spent more than an hour stuffing our little
window air conditioner into place.
Finally, when he plugged it in late morning, the temperature in the
cabin was in the middle 80s. At four in
the afternoon, the temperature in the cabin was still in the middle 80s.
Sometime
during the winter, when the air conditioner rested on our porch, it had died. Quietly, without fuss it left us, in spirit
if not in body for the thing still weighed nearly 50 pounds. What to do?
The temperature outside continued in the low 90s.
My brother, Donald and I drove to
Stevens Point, where I bought a replacement.
A healthy, longer life machine—I’m hoping. This time Donald and I worked for an hour
removing the dead machine and replacing the new one, following the “some
assembly required” directions. Donald is
also quite a skilled “fix it” guy. (Admission—about
the only thing I can fix, is the order of words in a paragraph.)
We turned
on the machine. It worked. But here is where the weather changing business
occurred. It wasn’t an hour after the
new air conditioner was in place that the temperature outside began
dropping. This morning it was 56
degrees. No air conditioner needed.
How to squelch
hot weather—buy a new air conditioner.
You may never need to use it, but the action was obviously necessary to
convince the weather to change.
THE OLD TIMER SAYS:
Who says you can’t change the weather?
Special
Announcement: No new blogs for the next
two weeks. On vacation.
Upcoming Events:
June 28, 11:00 a.m. Larry Meiller Show. Wis. Public Radio. Discussion of Roshara Journal and Telling
Your Story (New Books)
June 28, 7:00 p.m. Book
Discussion-with Steve Apps. Mystery to
Me Book Store, Madison. Event at
HotelRed, 1501 Monroe St., Madison, WI—parking at hotel. Roshara Journal and Telling
Your Story (New Books)
July 19, 11:00 a.m., Farm
Technology Days, Snudden Farms, Lake Geneva, Walworth County. History of
Wisconsin Agriculture.
August 9, 6:30 p.m. Winnebago
County Historical Society. Oshkosh
Library. History of Wisconsin
Agriculture.
August 12 9-4, Writing Workshop,
The Clearing, Door County.
August 20, 10:30-11:30 am. Waupaca Annual Arts on the Square.
Purchase Jerry’s DVDS and his Books from the Patterson Memorial
Library in Wild Rose, Wisconsin (a fundraiser for them):
The
library now has available signed copies of Jerry’s DVDs:
Emmy Winner, A
Farm Winter with Jerry Apps (based
on The Quiet Season book.)
Jerry Apps a Farm Story (based on Rural Wit and Wisdom and Old
Farm books.)
The Land with Jerry Apps, (based on the book Whispers and
Shadows.)
Also
available are several of Jerry’s signed books including: Jerry’s newest novel, The Great Sand Fracas of Ames
County. and Wisconsin
Agriculture: A History.
Contact the library for prices and special package deals.
Patterson Memorial Library
500 Division Street
