[Vision2020] Living in Idaho

[Ralph Nielsen]

When I visited Mexico for the first time, during the Xmas season of  
1968, imagine my surprise to see this headline in Excelsior, the  
largest newspaper in Mexico City: "-40 grados en Moscu, Idaho!" (-40  
is the same in both Celsius and Fahrenheit). When I returned home I  
heard it had been even colder in Troy and Deary.

When I lived in Edmonton, Alberta, before coming to Moscow, I  
remember reading in the newspaper that during the usual two-week cold  
snap in January, when the temperature went below -20F, they would  
open the windows and vents of the grain elevators to freeze any  
insects that might be lurking. That saved the bother and expense of  
fumigation.

One winter I tried growing some parsley in a flower pot in my  
apartment. Unfortunately, some plant lice, that came with some cut  
flowers, got onto it. So one night, when it was 30 below outside, I  
plucked a sprig of lice-covered parsley and poked it outside the back  
door for just a few seconds. When I pulled it back inside, the whole  
thing disintegrated into dust. Both lice and parsley had become  
instantly freeze-dried. That fixed them.

Ralph

J Ford privatejf32 at hotmail.com
Mon Jan 8 21:51:09 PST 2007

Hey, how's this for making you feel good about living in Idaho:

Fairbanks, Alaska is ***minus 40*** degrees, with ice crystals, right  
now!
with a high expected tomorrow of ***minus 25*** degrees, a "warm up" of
***11*** expected by Thursday!

Jeez, but that's cold!

J  :]