The big issue these days about Climate Change seems quite silly to me. I agree our planet needs some nurturing but if you go back a couple of hundred years you will see that the climate was just about a wacky back in the 1400's as it is today.
Basically it is cold in the winter and hot in the summer. Leaves fall off the trees in Autumn and plants pop up out of the ground in the Spring. All the other stuff in between is just hit or miss depending on the whim of the God's and good old Mother Nature. One year you can have thirty feet of snow in the winter and the next year there is none. It's just the way the world works. It is pretty standard that there are four seasons each year and each season has its own unique events that occur.
UNLESS YOU LIVE IN THE U.P.
Up here in God's country we have FIVE seasons. I came to this realization today as I drove into town.
Our first season is Autumn which usually arrives around October first and lasts until October second. Some years it may last an entire week but that doesn't happen often.
The next season to arrive is Winter. This is the primary season of the U.P. because it lasts the longest. Winter begins somewhere around the second week in October and lasts until the first week in June. I kid you not !!! There may be tons of snow or there may be only a few feet but what ever the snow accumulation is I can guarantee you it is COLD !!!!!!! When folks up here tell you it was a "MILD" winter that means that the temperatures only dipped slightly below zero. A "COLD" winter means temperatures went down well below minus 20.
Moving along after the LLLLL OOOOOOOO NNNNNNNNNN GGGGGGGGGGGG winter months and months we finally arrive at Spring. Spring may show up around the middle of June and last a full two weeks until the beginning of July. It is often hard to distinguish between winter and spring because the temperatures only warm up slightly. The one sure sign that it is actually spring and not winter is the fact that when you step out of your house you are probably standing in mud up to your hips. When the winter temperatures melt into spring the ground also melts and the resulting quagmire of wet ground is your sign that Spring has arrived.
After the two or three weeks of Spring it is finally Summer !!!! You will know when summer arrives by the amount of RV's and tourists driving through town. The temperatures may still be in the 60's but once the tourists arrive it is officially summer. That and the fact that the Dairy Flo ice cream store on Main Street in town finally opens up for its very short season. If you are lucky you may actually get to enjoy warm temperatures for a full SIX weeks. That is not guaranteed but usually summer makes it to at least the middle of August.
Which now brings us to our fifth and last season of the year . . . FLANNEL SEASON !!
As I drove into town today I noted not less than ten of the fifteen people that I passed, men and women AND children, all wearing some sort of flannel attire. Shirts were the most common but there were a few flannel jackets and even one flannel hat. Flannel seems to be the official "go to" article of clothing as soon as the temperature dips below 65 degrees. Today we woke up to 53 degrees with the high only being 65. Thus the huge display of flannel on the citizens of Gladstone.
I believe Flannel season lasts until all the leaves on the trees have fully changed color. This color change begins some time in mid August, (This is a true fact. I have my colorful collection for this year already started.) and continues for about two months until mid October when the trees are pretty close to being naked. By mid October the world has turned grey, the hummingbirds and many other species of animal and snow birds have left town or settled in for the long winter season. The flannel has been replaced with muckalucks, parkas and snow shoes.
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