August 4, 1965 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. It’s hot. Really hot. In the nineties. Aunt Love says it’s supposed to be hot like this in August. I guess she should know. She’s been around for a lot of Augusts. Wes, on the other hand, says it’s never this hot on Jupiter – too far from the sun, …
Daisy Weather
June 23, 1965 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. It’s summer and it’s hot! This morning Aunt Love called it daisy weather. Now if you know Aunt Love, that probably surprises you. She isn’t the type you would ever bring a bunch of daisies to from the field. If I did, she’d just tell me to make sure I …
Roots – Shallow or Deep
“For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche We’ve been having dry and hot, very hot weather here in Kentucky. It’s weather a lot of others in the country are sharing. In a stretch of ten days we set seven record highs and went over 100 degrees many of those days. And …