Places I'd rather be.......
I don't know about the rest of you, but if it doesn't cool down soon, I don't know if I can be responsible for my actions...
This morning I watched that silly CBS weatherman, Dave Price, clad in a purple and pink ski outfit, gaggling on and on from ASPEN,COLORADO about how COOL it was there! Forty-seven degrees, to be exact!
For Pete's Sake, he was JUST in Memphis yesterday, where it was 106!! It isn't fair!
And yesterday I got "Casual Living: a lighthearted approach to life," a catalog, filled with the most gracious, elegant, cool-looking, lounging-on-the-patio type clothes. Where do those women live, anyway? Not in the hills of Tillman, Missouri, that's for sure.... My dogs would rip that "shimmering gold foil georgette duster" all to pieces... (What IS "georgette," anyway?)
One especially elegant swimsuit (black, of course) is described as "makes legs look longer." Yeah, I think I'll order that little number and see if it works its long-legged wonders on this old decrepit body.
None of those long-legged models look as if they've spent a day in 106 degree weather in their lives...
When I was in my twenties and went on a diet, I'd clip an especially alluring photo like that little black number out of a magazine and tape it to the refrigerator. I don't know how much good it did, but my husband sure did enjoy it.. Wonder if it'd help me now?
All day I've been thinking of places I would rather be...... Lounging on a cool patio on the Gulf...with a hurricane blowing in... Walking on the beach in that "sea swept crinkle cotton capri set" on page 53...
How can it be 47 degrees in Colorado, when it's 106 in Memphis? Why do we all not live in Colorado? Mmmm...okay, I know why, don't tell me. Same reason we don't all live in Alaska, where the temps are oh so pleasant right now. They all have to pay the piper in December and January, while we're down here ....... uh, oh, can't finish that thought, because it might not be a picnic in Missouri in December and January...
Well, I'll just drink my ice tea and look through this silly catalog, pretending that I'm somewhere else...at least for tonight.
Maybe I'll feel better in the morning....
Signing off from the cool hills of Tillman, this is your Advance NSC staff writer
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It's hard for me to believe those days in Alaska, Rusty Nail. When we came back in '75, my husband was looking forward to SWEATING! Can you believe that? We hadn't sweated in six years!
Only about 5 inches of snow that winter, too, if I remember correctly. Strange year.
Still, it's a far cry from 107!
We would love for you to bring your mom, Yellow Rose! She sounds very wise!
Hahaha! Great to have all that fruit along, too!!
A Polish couple bought it last year and are adding some things, like a redwood pier from which you can feed very large catfish. It has what looks to be a very nice swimming area, and the cabins are rustic and charming.
I'm eager to try them out! I think I'll go on an outing there, instead of Van Buren. Whippoorwill is family-oriented.
You can't miss the turn off. There's a rustic wooden hut, sitting on the left side of the highway (if you're going north from Advance), with a wooden cowboy leaning up against it. The sign is very obvious, and it declares Whippoorwill Lake and Campground to be 4.5 miles south of Marble Hill. That would make it closer to them than to us -- but it's a short drive, either way.
I'm probably not gonna get the story done for next week, since I have to make a trip to my sister's ....but I'll try to do it for the first NSC in September.
I wore out before I got to see the inside of the cabins, but they are so cute! I don't have an RV, but I saw about two dozen of them in two different locations. The place is so peaceful! They also have horse trails, but they don't rent horses.
There's another place farther north, between Marble Hill and Marquand. It's called "Trail's End," and it's smaller than Whippoorwill Campground and more primitive. It's on the Castor River. I've never stayed there, but I've driven out there some. I'd have to look up the directions...
I find that idea very appealing right now. I'll bet it's cool in those hills at night....