The First Hint of Autumn in the Air and the Trees
September 4th, 2010
The first hint of autumn always seems to show up first on the dogwood tree in our front yard.
Meanwhile, the weather forecast for Labor Day weekend reveals the first real break from the scorching summer heat in Middle Alabamaland, according to the National Weather Service forecast.
Saturday’s college football forecast looks like football weather should, cool with low humidity. The low temperature Saturday night in Tuscaloosa should be around 53 under fair skies. The day time high could reach 85 with sunny skies and a 10 mph wind out of the north.
In Birmingham, skies will be clear with a low around 56, with north winds calming to 5 mph.
On Sunday, it will be sunny, with a high near 84 and a low around 54.
For Labor Day Monday, it will be sunny with a high near 90. The winds will turn around and come out of the south at about 5 mph. But it will still be cool and clear at night, with a low around 62.
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September 4th, 2010 at 1:59 pm
My dad moonlighted as an electrician for a buddy of his who was a contractor, working on Saturdays and other days off from the phone company.
This time of year always brings memories of one particular Saturday, when I was maybe 11 or 12. Dad took me along to his moonlight job that day, installing new wiring in a small church somewhere out north of Gardendale.
It was a day like today, with the same smell and feeling, and there was an Alabama game on the radio with Morey Farrell and John Forney doing play-by-play and color commentary. The doors to the sanctuary were open — no need for an air conditioner that day since the church set under an extensive array of pines — and the wind blew in the aroma and the odd leaf now and then.
Somewhere around the pulpit area I cocooned with a transitor radio, occaisionally running out to the car for dad to get some tool or wire he needed. But I managed to hear the entire game, and gave dad a fairly accurate recap on the way home that afternoon. I think Bama won (they usually did, this was the beginning of the heydey of Bryant’s national championship teams, the first in 61).
I will always associate Saturday afternoons with that balmy, sleepy experience listening to the Crimson Tide on radio in a church sanctuary. Odd combination, isn’t it? Or maybe not so odd for a kid growing up in Alabama in the sixties.
September 5th, 2010 at 10:11 am
I know you are a Bama fan, but I have to shout War Damn Eagle this Sunday morning!!! Get your snicker on…
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2010/09/auburn_quarterback_cam_newton_1.html
Newton stood so tall, looked like so much of a man among boys, I’m pretty sure irate angry Arkansas State parents were demanding to see his birth certificate, the way they do in peewee football when a Goliath appears.
September 5th, 2010 at 10:36 am
It is not that I am an Alabama fan. I have two degrees from the University of Alabama, but we are a news organization that covers big, national news, not fair and balanced local news.
Alabama was a national story last year. They won the national championship and the Heisman Trophy. They are also ranked No. 1 in the polls now. That is BIG news.
September 5th, 2010 at 3:12 pm
The really BIG news yesterday was the David and Goliath story of Jacksonville State knocking off Ole Miss in double OT 49-48.
I have family connections with Jax State going back to a great-grandmother who made clothes for Jax state coeds. That was back in the 30s and 40s when there were, of course, very few coeds, most of them studying to be school teachers.
At that time, to get decent outfits, the young ladies would have had to mailorder it from Sears or go to Anniston, Atlanta or Birmingham, and it was much easier to go over to Grannie Owens’s place and tell her what you wanted. She was brilliant with her old Singer and could essentially reproduce anything you had a picture of from a catalog.
Incidentally, from what I understand everybody called her “Grannie” from about the time she was in her late 30s. (Never heard anyone explain why, she just had that kind of presence.) She was one of those Normal Rockwell mythical small townspeople who could be found here and there, if you looked hard enough. Over a thousand people turned out for her funeral in 1957, including Jax State faculty and students.
September 5th, 2010 at 3:20 pm
That may be big news locally, but not anywhere else in the country.