First 12 Days Determine Entire Year’s Weather

Hopefully, a popular old saying will be proved wrong this year.

“The weather of the first 12 days of January determine the weather for the 12 months of the year,” does prove true sometimes.

So far this year, the first seven days have been dry and windy; so dry that there is no dew early, except one day there was a heavy frost. The eighth day is cloudy — hopefully!

Now for some healthy humor:

On Hunting

A hunter stopped by the butcher shop to buy a duck.

“I’m sorry, but we have no ducks today,” said the butcher. “How about a nice leg of lamb?”

The hunter replied, “Don’t be silly. I can’t tell my wife I shot a leg of lamb, can I?”

The Wisdom of Men and Women

A successful man makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

There are two times men don’t understand women — before marriage and after marriage.

A woman has the last word in any argument. Anything a man says after that is the start of a new argument.

A man has six items in his bathroom (toothbrush, toothpaste, bar of soap, razor, shaving cream, comb). A woman has 337, most of which a man is unable to identify.

Happy birthday to Doris Thurman, Doug Hulse, Kenneth Jordan, Johnny Swain, Darlis Holloway, Edwin Roy, Caleb Lipford, Verna Lou Snodgrass, Sheryl Roy, Tom Pennell, Ronnie Rinehart, Paul Myers, Chris Bradley and Kim Brock.

Happy anniversary to Bill and Barbara Griscom, their 23rd on Jan. 14. Happy years, all! The library will be closed Jan. 14-16.

Thoughts for every day: “A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”

“The upper crust is just a bunch of crumbs stuck together with their (or someone else’s) dough.”