Below is a short excerpt from an article I wrote several years ago about how our warm climate repeats the climate of our ancestors. "Just like today, Christmases were often described as 'spring-like,' 'warm summer-like,' and 'beautiful warm sunny day.' Such depictions were taken from Judge W. W. Edwards' diary. From 1883 through 1894, Judge Edwards made these and similar entries on seven of twelve Christmases in Abbeville." Below is another description of weather that was taken from the Planters' Banner. "In St. Mary, bananas are still untouched by the frost, gardens look green and springlike, the brass is springing up as though the winter months had passed away, and fires are hardly eve needed, even mornings and evenings. And this is the 29th day of December 1867." Surely, the weather in Vermilion Parish was much like this at that time. So, the next time you hear someone say that our weather in December is so much warmer than it used to be, you will know better. Such mild weather often extended into January too, and there were descriptions of how fruit trees were budding even late in January. Ken Dupuy