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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
"Hotter than Hell!"
I've spent the past few days with family in St. George, Utah. We had a blast, but it's sure hot here. 104 degrees right now as I sit in the airport waiting for the plane to fly back home. I think it hit 106 yesterday. I have a deeper appreciation for J. Golden Kimball's statement about this place in the summertime. He said that if he had a choice between spending the summer in St. George or Hell, he'd choose Hell, because "St. George is hotter than Hell!"
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I think this is what J. Golden had to say about St. George (also my grandparent's home):
"I don't know how the people of St. George can stand the heat, the Indians, the snakes and the flooding Virgin River. If I had a house in St. George and a house in Hell, I'd rent out the one in St. George and move straight to Hell."
Darn, I liked mine better. :) Now my swearing is without justification!
Actually, now that I read the quote as you included it here, that's what I remember reading originally. I think that's probably right, so thanks. I was going with what I remembered from reading it years ago but without checking for the source. But then again, with J. Golden lore, isn't that kind of thing acceptable?
I think it was historian Stanley Kimball who said (here I go again without documentation--too lazy right now) that "J. Golden Kimball wasn't a one of a kind, he was just the last of his kind!"
The ironic thing is that it isn't much cooler in San Antonio (my home) during the summer. I think we just spend more time inside with air conditioning that I don't notice it like I do when on vacation. But the weather during the rest of the year here in South Texas is perfect.
Ya gotta love J Golden Kimball!!!
I think you just like saying "hell"!
Ha ha that's funny. I've been to St. George and yes it is hot and looks like hell or Mars. My wife and I were on a road trip and we tried to sleep in the back of a truck the one night we stayed there. I think it must have been 85 degrees all night long. No sleep for me that night.
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