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Things, Ideas & People . . .

Weather is such a prevalent topic in many conversations and often the precursor to real conversation that may propose that a person actually cares how you are doing and what is happening in your area.
We are slipping into fall here and not looking forward to winter. We were thinking about the famous quote . . . “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” Mark Twain generally gets the credit for that quote but it may have wrongly been attributed to him. Some research by “Quote Investigator” indicates he might have been merely repeating an observation of his good friend, neighbor and collaborator, Charles Dudley Warner, a well-known author and editor in the 1800s. Regardless, the quote is a bit out of date now as many believe they are doing something about the weather. Good and bad.   *T*I*P* COVID Comment We Heard The Other Day: “I neve...