Nothing New Under the Sun

I wasn’t going to write a blog post this week since it’s not been a stellar week consisting of extra time nor was I feeling inspired. But as has been apparent previously, I sometimes read something in our newspaper’s weekly “archive” column that piques my interest. That just happened.

I don’t think anyone would disagree that our weather this winter has been freakish—from shore to shore. Our Ruby Mountains have very little snow depth and I have scooped snow twice this winter, consisting of 3-5 inches. That’s pretty puny snowfalls for us.

In contrast, I just talked to my son who lives in Ft. Worth. He was working in 80 degree weather yesterday and today it was 20 degrees! He had considered leaving his dog outside last night because it was so warm. Good thing he didn’t or he might have had a mighty big pup-sicle this morning L

So getting back to the archive’s news column.  One hundred twenty-five years ago on March 1, 1889 the Elko paper stated, “The weather continues fair and mild as May. There is very little snow in the mountains and the valleys are dry and roads dusty.”

It goes on to talk about a “ball” held in Deeth—which is now pretty much a ghost town—with 40 couples in attendance who were fed by a Mrs. McAdams who provided “all the delicacies of the season.” I’m really curious about what kind of delicacies one would find in March of 1889 in Elko County. (But I just threw all that in for free.)

So returning to my premise that there is nothing new under the sun, including our aberrant weather patterns, I’ll sign off with this thought. As far as I know, King Solomon was the first to make the statement that  “there is nothing new under the sun,” in Ecclesiasters 1:9. In reading the context of the verse, the Preacher (Solomon) reminds his readers that these things have happened many times before. So take heart, bundle up, or put on your rain boots and slicker, or whatever works for your part of the country. And stay thankfulJ