It's Cold Outside

Just in case some of you think it never gets cold down here, well, you're wrong. Last night the temperature dropped down close to single digits. And my cousin in Atlanta said they got down to 6 degrees last night. One of my neighbors is in Mexico for a month and he didn't turn off his automatic lawn watering. Their yard is a virtual winter wonderland this morning. I watched some kids this morning walking by and they seemed about twice their usual size because of all the wrapping up their mothers did before allowing them out. The weather is supposed to improve beginning today. This morning I overheard a woman in the library who had figured why all this chill had been cast upon us. She said, "God gives us days like this so everybody from those frigid northern states won't stay when they visit down here." Well, that's her view anyway. I figure there are other reasons, that God didn't participate in, that keep people from a making a permanent move to Harper.

Tales of Harper, short stories and poems about the fictional town of Harper, Mississippi is available on Amazon Kindle

Coming soon: More Tales of Harper (an ebook on Amazon)