Free Range by Bill Whitehead for July 02, 2024

Today’s forecast is for “canned ham”.

And only a select few will understand.

Yes Alex, I’ll take Great R&H openings for $200.The hills are alive with the sound of music !

I would be tempted, too. But all the tv screens would shatter.

He relocated shortly after that, as the weather didn’t agree with him.

Oklahoma—OK! (A comment for the postal carriers out there.)

They couldn’t pick a better time to start in life, It ain’t too early and it ain’t too late. Startin’ as a farmer with a brand-new wife. Soon be livin’ in a brand-new state! Brand-new state. Gonna treat you great! Gonna give you barley, Carrots and pertaters. Pasture fer the cattle. Spinach and termayters! Flowers on the prairie where the June bugs zoom. Plen’y of air and plen’y of room. Plen’y of room to swing a rope, Plen’y of heart and plen’y of hope. Oklahoma, Where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain. (And the wavin’ wheat. Can sure smell sweet. When the wind comes right behind the rain) Oklahoma! Every night my honey lamb and I Sit alone and talk And watch a hawk Makin’ lazy circles in the sky. We know we belong to the land, And the land we belong to is grand. And when we say; Ee-ee-ow! A-yip-i-o-ee-ay!We’re only sayin’, You’re doin’ fine, Oklahoma! Oklahoma, O.K.!

Oklahoma – Song by Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers

But, is he proud to be an Okie from Muskogee?

Beryl, where the winds come sweeping over the Gulf!

The sun will come out…Tomorrow! Show tunes!!!!!

Say, what do we call the wind?

Not show tunes, but “Sneaking your requests in the weather.” In Houston, we have a weather forecaster who sneaks song lyrics (and other things) into the daily weather forecasts. It’s pretty cool. He is on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, X, & Threads. I’ll post his Linktree if you want to check him out!

linKtr.Ee/WeatherAdam

Normally I’d say don’t quit you day job, but in this case.

It’s a little strange, since his weather show is in Maine.

Ooookaaay!

How could he not?