Here today, gone tomorrow
Apr. 23rd, 2007 07:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
There's an old Maine joke, this flatlander is up on a "foliage" tour in the fall and asks a Native,
"What do you folks do in the summer around here?"
"Well, if it comes on a weekend, we usually try to have a picnic."
83 F today, forecast for 63 F tomorrow, and 50s later in the week.
"What do you folks do in the summer around here?"
"Well, if it comes on a weekend, we usually try to have a picnic."
83 F today, forecast for 63 F tomorrow, and 50s later in the week.
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Date: 2007-04-24 02:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-24 07:14 am (UTC)I laughed at your post initially because I used to live in Colorado, where a native of Maine would be considered a flatlander. Pretty much anyone from outside of Nepal, Switzerland and parts of Alaska are considered flatlanders there, though. ;)
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Date: 2007-04-24 12:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-24 01:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-24 02:12 pm (UTC)The funny thing about that "flatlander" label is that few people in Maine actually live in the "mountains" -- not hospitable house lots or farms, what with no soil covering the granite and all. Most of them wouldn't support a goat.
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Date: 2007-04-24 02:24 pm (UTC)I now in southern England, which is very much flat land. I like visiting Wales and Scotland and wandering in their foothills (er, mountains ;).