{"id":3404,"date":"2026-07-15T08:58:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T12:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=3404"},"modified":"2026-07-15T08:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T12:58:16","slug":"ohio-layers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/15\/ohio-layers\/","title":{"rendered":"WEATHER OR NOT"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
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I knew a building manager who followed the weather reports relentlessly and thought the end of the world was coming every day via hurricanes, heat waves, or snowstorms. I don’t think she ever went outside.<\/p>\n

\"\"Another manager was also fixated on the weather. He did a lot of indoor apartment painting and wanted every day to be 74 degrees, like Costa Rica, so he wouldn’t sweat.<\/p>\n

A neighbor of mine once asked if I had a winter place in Florida.<\/p>\n

I was surprised. I’m not there — retired in Florida.<\/p>\n

However, I know a klezmer musician — a bushy-haired, ex-hippie clarinetist — who moved to Florida and took up golf. Anything is possible. I hope he plays a hora by the water fountain on the 16th<\/sup> hole. (Mickey Katz did that. His band surprised a golfer on his birthday.)<\/p>\n

Arizona versus Florida. That is a question. Which place is too hot, or not too<\/em> hot.<\/p>\n

Alice and I went to a wedding in Florida, where a guest asked, “Are you still in Cleveland?” Meaning\u00a0 “Are you nuts? Do you like gray skies, slush and potholes?”<\/p>\n

Another Clevelander at the wedding said, “The day I hit sixty-two I had to leave.” She spends her winters in Scottsdale, Arizona. A third Clevelander, originally from South Africa, prefers Florida over Arizona. “I like the ocean,” she said.<\/p>\n

One time in Florida, at a Yiddishe Cup gig, I ran into a man who had lived in both Florida and Arizona. He said summer in Arizona is unbearable, and Florida is bearable.<\/p>\n

What about Ohio? Is it bearable? I think so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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