Weather or Not
To recap the weather situation in Oklahoma:
- Seven days ago, I was wearing shorts and my air conditioner was running.
- Six days ago, I was wearing a raincoat and changing my socks after every walk outside.
- Four days ago, I was eyeballing the first tornadoes of spring.
- Three days ago, I was wearing a heavy coat and had turned the central heat back on.
- This morning, I was using a broom to brush a half-foot of snow off my car.
- This afternoon, I was wearing a short-sleeved shirt.
- This evening, I was back in the coat and wishing I could live someplace normal, like New Mexico.
I’m going camping with the Boy Scout troop this weekend. I had better make the appointment with the orthopedist for next Monday, because my backpack is going to be carrying one of everything.
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Joe,
If you have looked at my blog, you know a lot of my posts have mentioned the whacko weather here, too. I seriously feel your pain. The weather has always be capricious here, but mercy, I think it is going nutso nowadays. I never know how to dress, and I threatened just the other day to put on my swimsuit with shorts and a tank top over it, then sweats, my heavy coat and boots over all. Then I’ll just start taking off till I reach the required combination of the moment. All the while noting that it may change several times in the course of a few hours, much less an entire day.
It does afford us lots of blog and conversation material, though.
Good stuff — looks like Quality Blogging is a Goodwin trait!
You TRULY know you’re an Okie on the day you have to run the heater and the air conditioner within 12 hours of each other.
No kidding, Stacey. I think that is why my electric bills are so high. A typical day for me from this past February: 6 am: It’s freezing. Turn the heat up. 10 am: Oh, it’s kind of nice outside. Turn the heat off, and let’s open the windows. 2 pm: Man, it sure warmed up outside. Close the windows and crank up the air conditioner. 7 pm: It’s too cold in here now. It’s nice outside again. Open the windows back up. 10 pm: Geez, Judy, aren’t you cold? Close the windows and turn the heat on.
Next day: Lather, rinse, repeat.
Joe, just make sure you packed those panties for your Boy Scout trip that you never have to change or wash or whatever that unibomber person invented.
Change and or wash your undergarments? What a novel idea.
You know he went to Camp Kickapoo. I still have nightmares about that place when I was a Cub Scout. No offense, Joe. Although our trip there was a week long day trip thing, the only thing I really enjoyed about it was the archery. I think the thing that bothered me the most was that everytime I turned around, we HAD to go swimming. One problem. I couldn’t swim. I still can’t, for that matter, but I float really well. Please Jane, no weight/buoyancy ratio jokes. 