[Bordermarch] 12th Night Weather Forecast

[tessa]

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From: "Lathrop, Dave" <David.Lathrop at valero.com>
To: "Barony Bordermarch" <bordermarch at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 2:01 PM
Subject: [Bordermarch] 12th Night Weather Forecast


> Greetings Bordermarch,
>
> January 2nd, 12th Night, is by my reckoning less that 3.5 months away from 
> today. I'm still trying to decide what type of dish HE Elisabeth will 
> bring to supplement the pot-luck evening meal.
>
> I'm very excited about the A&S stuff that's going to be happening during 
> the day, we've already got several folks who have volunteered to teach 
> some classes.
>
> After many sleepless nights I finally found the jelly jar that contains 
> the family weather pickle, it was in the very back of the fridge, hidden 
> behind something sort of brownish! I decided to give the pickle a squeeze 
> to see if I could get a weather forecast for our 12th Night gathering.
>
> Those who are unfamiliar with pickle squeezing should become friends with 
> Dr. Gherkins' best seller, " The Pickles in Our Lives".
> If a pickle is to be used as a weather pickle it should be kept isolated 
> from most of the common vegetables one finds in the home these days. A 
> large jelly jar works just fine if you decide to use a smallish pickle. 
> When the pickle is first placed in the jar add just a touch of salt to 
> help with moisture retention.
>
> Place a bowl of curdled buttermilk on a flat surface like a counter top, 
> and add four small pieces of onion skin to the buttermilk, make sure that 
> the onion skin remains floating on the surface.
> Hold the pickle about 6 inches above the center of the bowl and lightly 
> squeeze it until it makes a smallish squeaking sound. The squeaking is an 
> indicator that the pickle has just released a drop of pickle juice into 
> the bowl.
> Make certain you start your timer as soon as the pickle drop hits the 
> curdled buttermilk, this is the step that most picklologist mess up!
>
> The acidic pickle drop will start separating the surface of the curdled 
> buttermilk as soon as it touches it, thereby forcing the onion skins to 
> float into equally spaced quadrants on the buttermilk.
> The surface tension of the curdled buttermilk has now been compromised by 
> the pickle juice drop, thereby causing the onion skins to sink beneath the 
> buttermilk's surface.
> Make a note of the time when the first onion skin completely disappears 
> beneath the surface.
>
> When only three skins are left, squeeze the pickle until another squeak is 
> heard and another pickle drop hits the buttermilk.
> If the remaining onion skins move to the center of the bowl it means there 
> is a high probability of rain in the next few days, if the skins don't 
> move at all it indicates that you didn't start your timer
> correctly when the first pickle drop hit the buttermilk.
>
> My forecast for January 2nd  calls for some clouds but no rain, and a 
> slight chance of moderate temperature inversions around the noon hour. Due 
> to incandescent lighting in the near vicinity of the event, the evening of 
> January 2nd will not be dark.
>
> Anyone and everyone, friends and family, and people you don't really know 
> very well are invited to Bordermarch's 12th Night, which will take place 
> starting  around 11:00 am and ending around 11:00 pm January 2nd.
> The event will once again be at St Anthony's church on the corner of 
> Gladys and 23rd street in beautiful  Beaumont TX.
>
> HE Santiago
>
>
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