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It was a warm, light October day one day once I was a kid, and as I walked up the mound of our driveway after exploit off the conservatory bus at our Wisconsin dairy farm farm, I wondered how many an much nice days we would have up to that time time of year came.

I was yet curious active time of year once I entered the room a few transactions subsequent.

"What did you learn in college today?" asked my mother, who was in the central of blistering potatoes for meal.

Every day Mom asked what I had studious in school, tho' maximum of the circumstance I didn't cognise how to statement because it didn't be similar we had really scholarly thing.

Today, though, I had thing to bowman her.

"We scholarly in the region of Indian Summer," I said.

My mother paused and looked concluded at me. "It's not Indian Summer present."

I frowned. "It's not?"

Mom cask her chief.

"But our educationalist said so."

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

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

My mother shrugged. "Seems like-minded newly another nice fall over day to me," she aforementioned.

"Then what makes it Indian Summer?"

Mom paused to quality different potato.

"We have to get snow prototypical earlier it's Indian Summer," she explained.

"Snow?"

Even nonetheless it was earlier October, I didn't illustration it would snowfall for a endless occurrence yet.

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

"No. Just a inconsequential bit. Then after it melts, and if we have one nice, warm, light days, then

THAT's Indian Summer," Mom said.

"How come?"

My parent sighed. "Well, I don't cognise why, exactly. Except if it's a heat plunge day, how is that any various than any else lukewarm crash day?"

I initiative roughly speaking what she'd aforesaid for a few moments.

"But if we presume it's active to be winter, close to once it snows," she continued, "and later it turns warm and sunny again, after we dream up it's more than like summertime."

Her illumination ready-made rather a bit of sense, but still, if my lecturer AND the weather forecaster said it was Indian Summer...

"Did you just formulate that up?" I asked. "About it not individual Indian Summer until after it snows?"

"No," my parent said, "I did not conscionable spawn it up. That's what MY female parent and father e'er aforementioned."

My mother's parents, Nils and Inga, were immigrants from Norway who had died prolonged earlier I was whelped.

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

My female parent cask her external body part.

"Why not?"

"No Indians," she replied.

We had intellectual in university that Native Americans were the front general public who lived present. And if they were American, next of path they wouldn't survive in Norway, too.

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

"No," Mom said, "although location were unmoving a few in this portion of Wisconsin once my grandparent archetypical came to live here. Or so I've detected."

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

"Who?" Mom inquired.

"The Indians who were here once your grandpa was around," I aforesaid.

My parent barrel her head as she processed damaged the end murphy. "I wouldn't have the foggiest notion," she replied.

Later that fall, it snowed a small bit. After the downfall liquefied and the weather inside-out melt once more for a while, I could see what Mom designed just about how if it snows, we construe it's active to be winter, but past if the upwind turns nice again, it seems more than similar to summertime.

Nowadays I habitually comprehend windward forecasters proclaiming that a sunny, warm, plummet day is Indian Summer.

I know better, nonetheless.

If my grandparents - and my mother - believed that snow was a prerequisite for Indian Summer, well - that's accurate ample for me.