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How are you spending the summer solstice?
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on June 22, 2023, 07:10:44 pm ---I thought in New Orleans it started getting hot in January and cooled down in December. ...
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Haha! No, the winters are very nice, but as short as Minneapolis summers.
Speaking of which, the longtime New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani, reviewing Lab Girl, which is partly set in Minnesota, once wrote "Ms. Jahren?s own childhood in a small Minnesota town, where there was snow on the ground nine months of the year and where most residents worked for a huge slaughterhouse, was filled with silences."
Oh, c'mon! Two minutes googling (or a better editor) could have fixed that. Minneapolis often has snow by Thanksgiving and sometimes sees a snowstorm in April. So at most it's about six months of snow on the ground. (Which, don't get me wrong, is about five and a half months too long.) And Austin, home of Hormel Meats, is farther south, so even less there.
Also, "filled with silences"? That's at best a poetic exaggeration. Though it may echo something in Lab Girl, which I read some years ago.
Sason:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on June 22, 2023, 05:26:53 pm ---
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Sason:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on June 23, 2023, 10:36:02 am ---Maybe that's why it's boring. Nothing exciting about normalcy. 8)
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Excuse you?
Nothing boring here, I assure you!! 8)
Sason:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on June 23, 2023, 10:38:12 am ---As I just wrote elsewhere, tomorrow is Midsummer Day (or Sainte-Jean-Baptiste Day).
I can never remember whether we're supposed to light a bonfire tonight (the eve of the day) or tomorrow night. :(
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We dance around a midsummer pole today
Sason:
You call us boring, Jeff?
This is how much fun we have on midsummer!
;D ;D ;D
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