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10/08/2003: "Favorable Stats"

Weather on Columbus Day weekend in northern Michigan is always risky at best, but this year has really been twitchy. How do you mean? Well, I've been watching from Chicago, where September temperatures have been much like October would normally be. Which, the way I look at it, could've caused October to break one of two ways. October might have continued the butt-assed cold weather we had in September, giving us something like November, or might have reversed the trend to give us the September we never had. Better late the never. Click more.. below.

Why are you up obsessing about the weather? I'm not, anymore at least. It seems that October is the chosen month for returning to statistical norms. And the reason I have been obsessing is because tradition demands that I drive to northern Michigan and sleep in a completely heat free small wooden building that, when it's below freezing outside, is several steps below the average comfort level of an igloo buried in Arctic Snow. What kind of tradition is that?

Nobody in his right mind likes to call the "end of summer" any earlier than he has to, and, since stalling is the natural state of humanity anyway and Columbus Day weekend is on the bleeding edge of survival that far north in a bad year, tradition calls Columbus Day weekend the time to close your cottage for the summer. In all honesty, there is more to it than that, it's an adventure, and once every few years you catch a break in the weather. When that happens, when it's warm I mean, there is absolutely nothing like trudging up-and-down the lakes shooting pictures of fall colors and getting a seasonal last look at everything from the water side. Part of it, I'm sure, is that it happens so infrequently that it almost has the feel of getting away with something and that's good. Isn't it?

Hey, Wednesday is new "This week's Fantasy" day. Don't miss it.

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