speaking of Old Farmers, and weren't we just, a subscriber sent me this yesterday:

in the 'Old Farmers Almanac' by today's date [7/13] there is this
quote: "cornscateous air is everywhere"...I looked first in my American
Heritage dictionary and was mildly surprised not to find it there then
went to my unabridged-same result- then to my compact edition of the
Oxford dictionary... nothing.

well, it's not in the OED either; in fact, near as I can tell, it's a nonce-word fashioned by the Old Farmer's themselves.

-joe (old, anyway) friday

p.s. - hi, dog!