Always a good conversation starter
December 15, 2009 (Tuesday)
We have had several days with fog here in Houston. Funny how fog seems to be commonplace one winter and nonexistent the next. I recall a foggy winter in Rockport that followed an absolutely beautiful winter the year before. One of the “Winter Texans” complained to me about the fog. He had been so impressed with the beautiful weather of the previous winter that he had talked several families in Indiana into trying Rockport for a winter. That year the sun was hidden and the fog was thick, day after day, week after week. He let me know he was very disappointed, and for some reason I got the feeling he blamed me and the other permanent residents for the foggy weather.
I’m happy to say I didn’t have anything to do with creating weather anywhere that year. And every year since. And all the preceding years as well. Like everyone else, I take it as it comes.
One day in the sixties, a fellow in Rockport caught me and two other ministers speaking with each other, and demanded to know what we were going to do about the dry weather. He gave us orders to do our jobs and bring some rain.
Well, it rained a few days later, and the man cornered each of the ministers to ask, “How did you like that rain I brought you?” Seems he had given up on us and decided to take matters into his own hands. From that day on until his death many years later, he would ask us to thank him whenever it rained. I liked that guy – he knew how to have fun.