Res Ipsa Loquitur

Snow showers here for the past 24 hours. It's the Apocalypse!

I was up at 4 am (my deer stand callethed. No not hunting yet. I just go and sit in it for the animals get used to me going out at insane hours of the morning.) and it was colder than taters. Started sleeting here around 04:30 or 5ish.

I'm debating getting a hot cup of coffee and standing outside the Wal Mart Neighborhood Grocery Store off 62 just to watch the panic, traffic jam, and eye gouging/finger flipping action in the parking lot.

I can imagine Keith. Here's it's supposed to briefly dip below freezing tonight, and all the local news is 'Bring in your pets! Protect tender vegetation!' Like it's going to get cold enough to crack steel or something.

You can pretty much see that any Friday evening, can't you BS? lol I have to go by Store #100 this afternoon to drop off a 'script. I think I'll walk through the food section just for laughs.

While this has been the earliest that I've seen it get this cold, it certainly isn't the coldest. I wonder why it's such a big deal. I remember my first year here (11 years ago) it dipped sub-zero. By the way, what does this mean "it was colder than taters"?

It never ceases to amaze me that people who don't even *drink* milk on a regular basis will follow the other lemmings to the dairy cases and load up a shopping cart with gallon jugs of the stuff.

And, aside from French toast, what do you make with bread-and-milk that's so doggone critical to winter survival?

Ooop -- the temp just dipped from 52F to 50F! Where are the keys to the Jeep?! I've gotta go get milk so I can prime the snow-blower!!

Valerie, I don't know why it's such a big deal, seems pretty normal to me for mid-October. I've never heard "colder than taters". I'll ask my parents this weekend, maybe they'll know.

Hehe BillT. You must really be in panic this morning, as it just dropped from 36F to 34F! I've never figured out what the deal is with bread & milk. Though if you have kids, milk is essential. Mine once went through 6 gallons in a week during a big snow in Farmington. No school, so they sat around playing video games & eating cereal all day. Goofy teenagers. Plus every day after lunch, I'd make 'em go out & shovel out our driveway after the snow plows ran.

"Colder than taters" is a product of my North Georgia/Irish raising I'm afraid.

It essentially means colder than hell, but to keep small ears from repeating such things (as they often will) my family changed it to "Colder than taters" some decades ago.

Or at least thats how my Dad explained it to me once I became old enough to say the correct version :)

I serve my taters piping hot.

As for "what can you make with bread and milk?", I should remind BillT that correlation does not equal causation. Or something like that.

Thanks BS, I'd never heard that...though I have heard 'it's cold enough to freeze yer taters off', which is also meant for small ears.

I dunno Keith, tater salad is pretty good.