Left Behind
My wife left me today. She left me for another city. Normally this would not be that traumatic, but she’s cavorting with that city on a hill, the air-conditioned one.
What a time to leave me behind. The mercury here in the Twin Towns reached a sultry 96 degrees F. (35 Celsius) with the dew point dripping in the 70s. That pushed the heat index into the 105 – 110 range.
And there she was in Duluth. Almost to Canada. By the Lake. With breathtaking views of the harbor. The cool-deprived part of the state broasts the Twin Cities, while the free A/C region chills the Twin Ports.
It’s been almost a year since I’ve been that far north. We traveled to and through Duluth on our way up near Lutsen last August. It was our first camping excursion with Inga, and a time when all the Nelsons were able to get away together. If memory serves right, we also left oppressive temps in the cities that weekend. Only to arrive on the shores of Lake Superior and find that the strong western winds were bringing 90 + heat and humidity to a campground that never sees air-conditioning used. The electrical circuits were popping as everyone tried to run the A/C in their RVs. We were forced into the Lake. And swimming in the big one was actually on the warm side of refreshing. It only “kinda” took your breath away.
My Brother Greg’s family had rented a beach front cabin and called the campground office wondering why this place didn’t have A/C. The managers just laughed. A day like this was about as rare as snow in Miami. But things turned to normal the next day. And we all enjoyed the cooling effects of Lake Gitchigoomi. The skies returned to baby blue and we could look out to the horizon with no sign of land in sight.
It was a glorious day, the kind that we had planned on finding up there. My wish and hope and prayer for the Swansmith, the ever diligent “Talkalong,” the Northwoods Soccer Mom, and the proud, new parents of Kimberly is a day as magnificent as that. May they remember us as we sweat like Richard Simmons down here. Stay COOL in God’s Country!
1 comments:
You needn't have been jealous, honey. It was in the nineties in Duluth, too. We went out on the pier in the late afternoon/early evening, only to endure heat and humidity right there at the "cool" shores of Lake Superior in the "air-conditioned" city.
I talked to one man at the mall (which was air-conditioned), and he said that Duluth has not really had summer weather this year, so even though it was hot, at least they could say that had one or two days of summer.
By the way, the next day the temperature dropped 25 degrees or more and we enjoyed the change very much. Of course, that day we headed back home to the Twin Cities, but fortunately the temp had dropped there, too.
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