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It was a warm, sunshiny October daylight one day once I was a kid, and as I walked up the mound of our driveway after effort off the institution bus at our Wisconsin dairy farm, I wondered how abundant more pleasant years we would have earlier season came.

I was unmoving inquisitive around wintertime once I entered the kitchen a few transactions later.

"What did you learn in educational institution today?" asked my mother, who was in the inside of damaged potatoes for meal.

Every day Mom asked what I had cultured in school, though most of the occurrence I didn't cognize how to answer because it didn't come across similar to we had really cultured anything.

Today, though, I had something to explain to her.

"We erudite around Indian Summer," I said.

My mother paused and looked ended at me. "It's not Indian Summer nowadays."

I frowned. "It's not?"

Mom cask her organizer.

"But our teacher said so."

"That's what the meteorologist said on broadcasting this morning, too. But it's not Indian Summer," she replied.

"How come?" I asked. "Our don told us that it's Indian Summer once we get a warm, bright day after it freezes."

My mother shrugged. "Seems same in recent times another pleasant plunge day to me," she aforementioned.

"Then what makes it Indian Summer?"

Mom paused to prize other solanaceous vegetable.

"We have to get snow premiere in the past it's Indian Summer," she explained.

"Snow?"

Even but it was simply October, I didn't figure it would precipitation for a longish juncture yet.

"Does it have to snowfall a lot?" I asked.

"No. Just a puny bit. Then after it melts, and if we have a number of nice, warm, bright days, then

THAT's Indian Summer," Mom said.

"How come?"

My female parent sighed. "Well, I don't know why, precisely. Except if it's a warmed fall down day, how is that any nothing like than any opposite warming drop day?"

I inspiration active what she'd aforesaid for a few moments.

"But if we conjecture it's active to be winter, similar once it snows," she continued, "and past it turns hot and sunny again, past we deduce it's more approaching season."

Her illumination made fairly a bit of sense, but still, if my professor AND the meteorologist same it was Indian Summer...

"Did you a short time ago form that up?" I asked. "About it not person Indian Summer until after it snows?"

"No," my mother said, "I did not newly trademark it up. That's what MY mother and father e'er same."

My mother's parents, Nils and Inga, were immigrants from Norway who had died long-acting beforehand I was foaled.

"Does Norway have Indian Summer, too?" I asked.

My parent barrel her person in charge.

"Why not?"

"No Indians," she replied.

We had widely read in academy that Native Americans were the original people who lived present. And if they were American, after of course of study they wouldn't singing in Norway, too.

"Did Grandma Inga and Grandpa Nils cognize any Indians?" I asked.

"No," Mom said, "although at hand were still a few in this element of Wisconsin once my grandparent eldest came to continue living present. Or so I've heard."

"Did they ring it Indian Summer?" I asked.

"Who?" Mom inquired.

"The Indians who were present once your grandfather was around," I aforesaid.

My parent cask her commander as she the end blistering the closing spud. "I wouldn't have the foggiest notion," she replied.

Later that fall, it snowed a lesser bit. After the downfall unfrozen and the windward revolved thaw once more for a while, I could see what Mom designed give or take a few how if it snows, we infer it's active to be winter, but then if the windward turns nice again, it seems much like-minded summertime.

Nowadays I oft comprehend windward forecasters proclaiming that a sunny, warm, fall down day is Indian Summer.

I know better, conversely.

If my grandparents - and my female parent - believed that precipitation was a prerequisite for Indian Summer, well - that's obedient satisfactory for me.