To quote my life long friend Kurt (Zing)  from years ago, "It's May, you can't wear a coat...not allowed."  I've never forgotten that, and I don't wear one this month. But this year it's gonna be tough.  I wonder if a down vest is a coat?  I'll have to call Kurt for a ruling on that.

And to quote my life long friend Don (Beef)  "This weather, what the......."  Well, you can fill in the blanks.  Don is also right. Good gravy man, it's May can't we have all this cold, and SNOW behind us?  Seems not.  If you've seen the forecast (which of course can change)  there is a chance of measurable snow Friday night into Saturday morning and it will be in the 20's. Oh, BTW Friday and Saturday in Fairbanks, Alaska?  68 and sunny, overnight lows, 53! NO snow!

I've looked at a few sources, and it seems the latest it has snowed around here and stuck, was May 15, 1904, (Yankee Doodle Dandy by George M. Cohan was the big hit song) with an honorable mention to May 1989 (the year Garth Brooks debuted on radio) when it seems to have snowed some on May 7th. Both are unacceptable, sheesh!  How the heck are we supposed to play golf in this crap? Or do much of anything outside?

OK, LOL, enough pontificating about things we can't control, and this year, that seems to be the problem, more than most.  Right now, we are not really in control of much of anything. The virus has made that clear.  Then there are those telling us how to act and what to do on many sides of many issues.  And now here come the Murder Hornets.  I think we all are just looking for something to go our way, and not have to worry about anything for a while.  And a nice run of great weather would be a big step in the right direction.

Of course it will get here, and the sun will shine, days will get longer, the evenings milder and the mornings brighter, plus good times are ahead.  Just like most summers, although for unrelated weather reasons this one will be a bit different. I mean concerts seem to be online, the only corn dogs you'll get are from Costco, and we're watching the Korean Baseball league on ESPN.  So we need to be patient.  But every now and again, you gotta get it off your chest.

But I'm still not wearing a coat....