My in-laws, who are originally from Norway, are visiting, and on Saturday it was patchy sun and cloud kind of weather. We walked out of Chapters and my mother-in-law looked at the sky and said "There's enough blue to make a skirt!". A week ago I would have had NO CLUE what she was talking about, but of course I got what she was saying. I explained the "Dutchman's pants" thing and she told me that where she comes from, they talk about making a skirt instead. (Which brings us full circle - because weren't we talking about the Scandinavian origins of "sk" words a while ago?)

Serendipitous!