Weather Watch

Alright, be on your toes. There will be some riddles and jokes later on in the column that require just a little extra thought. You have been warned. In the meantime, kudos go out to all the guys and gals who worked on putting together the feast (and it was a feast) down in the basement of City Hall on Thanksgiving. I know it can’t be easy making a dinner for over a hundred people, but they sure make it look easy. From the salad table right on through the main course and desserts, everything was great, and I’m already looking forward to next year. I guess Turk Peterka has been kind of the chief cook and bottle washer for this enterprise, and he is planning to slow down and allow others to take the reins. That will interesting to see. It seems that wherever there is good food, Turk is usually involved. In fact, he is kind of like Batman, who appears whenever and wherever help is needed. The same goes for Turk. Now that I think about it, I’ve never seen Batman and Turk in the same room at the same time. Have you? I’m just saying.

My son, Dan, does the play-by-play for the Sioux Falls Sky Force whenever they are in town. He was able to get us tickets to the game played last Saturday, against a team from out west who’s affiliated with the L. A. Lakers. They were pretty good (the L.A. team was), and it was a heck of a ball game even though the Sky Force lost by three.

Now we’re going to ease slowly into some of these jokes: Two thieves were caught stealing a calendar. They each got six months. Don’t worry, it can only get better. Little Johnny was helping his Dad working in the shop, and he started asking questions. “Where does the wind come from, and where does it go?” Dad replies, “I don’t know”. “Well, how can dogs bark so loud and so long?” Again, “Son, I don’t know.” After a few more tries with the same result, Johnny says, “I hope I didn’t bother you with all of these questions.” “Why of course not, son. How else are you going to learn?”

The committee approached an athlete and asked if he would be interested in running a marathon. “Gosh, I don’t know,” he replied. “I’ve slowed down some.” “The marathon is for crippled and blind children,” he was told. He thought for a minute and then agreed. “I think I’ll have a pretty good chance against them”.

What did the bald man say when he received a comb for his birthday? “I’ll never part with it.”

Then there was the giant panda that went into the grocery store and ate the bamboo shoots. Then he pulled a pistol and fired several shots into the ceiling. As he ran for the door, the produce manager hollered, “Hey, who are you and what do you think you're doing? “Just google me on Facebook,” the panda yelled back. The manager did, and sure enough it said, “Giant Panda, eats, shoots, and leaves.”

As you drive through the country side, it really looks like there are quite a few folks who are done harvesting. Then you run into some areas where there are large fields of corn and even a few beans still standing. I guess we’ll need more good weather, no matter how you slice it. The snow geese are arriving in large flocks and I hope they find enough to eat without getting into the standing corn fields. The week ahead looks pretty good for getting more and more harvested. There will be a cool down, but no big snow events. Highs will be in the lower thirties, with just a chance or two for some flurries.

Finally, what did the pirate who was born in 1938 say when asked his age? Aye, matey.