Happy All Saints' Day!

[Angel_Gabriel]

Happy All Saints’ Day!

Tomorrow starts the Apostles’ Fast…only 12 days this year woohoo! ( and those lucky Revised calendar folks only have 5 days! :crazy_face:!)

 

[dochawk]

This used to be the day for All Saints in the west, too.

Feeding the pilgrims was rough on the meagre stores this time of year, so a cleve Pope moved the date until after the harvest, where it has remained.

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[ZMystiCat]

Feeding the pilgrims was rough on the meagre stores this time of year, so a cleve Pope moved the date until after the harvest, where it has remained.

Imagine Halloween in the summer. Those costumes would be so uncomfortable!

 

[adf417]

Imagine Halloween in the summer. Those costumes would be so uncomfortable!

…but the watermelon pie would be so tasty.

 

[Pattylt]

Imagine Halloween in the summer. Those costumes would be so uncomfortable!

My kids celebrated Halloween in Wyoming. Since the temperature was often 10 degrees F, they were so bundled up no one could see their costumes!

 

[dochawk]

I had a “table interview” requested at a conference with a school from the Dakotas that was interested in my research.

It went well, until the weather came up. While Iowa would hit -60F with wind-chill (-20F, and another -40F of prairie wind), they would hit actualY -60F–and stay there for weeks at at time.

I asked about the kids, and they said that you just bundle them up and send them out to play

I never even sent my resume . . .

 

[Pattylt]

We went through a winter where minus 30 was the HIGHEST temp reached for two weeks. That isn’t a normal winter. Usually it stays below minus 30 for only a few days. The kids elementary school was just up the road and no one let their kids walk to school during those temps!

We often took the kids door to door for Halloween in our SUV’s so they could warm back up in between houses. It was the only option to allow them to trick or treat. Car heaters are the norm. Water pipe heaters are the norm. Busted water pipes, even though heated, are the norm. Eighty mile per hour gusts with winds steady at 40 mph or the norm.

The best people I ever met were in Wyoming. It is the redeeming feature of living there. Neighbors help neighbors still. People wave to each other while walking or driving. Grocery shopping always takes an hour or more because everyone stops to chat. I saw the least amount of prejudice amongst Wyomingites that anywhere else I’ve lived. It can be Hell on earth or paradise…depending on the day. I don’t regret living there, I just have no desire to do so again.

 

[dochawk]

Eighty mile per hour gusts with winds steady at 40 mph or the norm.

Around here, that’s more like 100 & 50 than 80 and 40 . . . but not only happens a few times a year . . . so I laughed when I got a call insisting something came loose from a building in what he called “gale force winds” when check showed the winds peaked at 30 . . .