I’m fortunate that my grandma is still alive at 102. She has lost two of her three sons (including my dad) and 7 of her 8 siblings. She was the oldest.
Can you imagine the extreme weather...and NO weatherman! Of course, I remember as a kid that we learned to watch the sky. You were never so far from home that you couldn’t pedal there pretty quick when the sky turned.
It just amazes me how the “intelligent” stupid left keeps thinking that people in flyover country are dumb.
And they’ve never had to work as hard.
You can also happen on the frequent amazing situation when that so-called “idiot” farmer happens to be an expert on something specific like aviation history, or legumes or oriental rugs....or ....
well...you know what I’m saying, you’ve met them. It’s always a privelege.
My great grandmother know all the weather sayings that for the most part are fairly accurate.
Wind in the west, fish bite the best.
Wind in the east, fish bite the least.
Wind in the south blows bait in the fishes mouth.
Wind in the north, fishermen don’t go forth.
She is the last person I knew who actually used her weathervane as more than decoration.