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Posted by Shar on April 13, 2002, at 12:56:20
>>Shar, It's a beautiful day here today. I need to force myself to walk in the sun before the temps jump to 106 degrees.
Phil,
hahahahaha, this reminds me of when you said you went for a walk and got several compliments on your robe and flip flops. lol, Cracks me up.But, seriously, don't forget your sunscreen. I've learned that after being in the house for 10 months and turning pasty white, it is a lot easier to burn.
BTW, I've already started sweating INSIDE the house with the AC on. It's great to be on TWO meds that have "increased perspiring" as side effects...esp here in Hell...er, I mean Texas summer.
Shar
Posted by IsoM on April 13, 2002, at 13:43:40
In reply to Phil, u must be revved! Gonna walk!, posted by Shar on April 13, 2002, at 12:56:20
Shar, I'm curious to know what the humidity gets like there. I lived in three very different climate zones in Canada - Montreal with HOT, very humid summer days (& nights), the Prairies with very hot summers that alternate with high humidity (thunderstorm & tornado weather) or extremely dry windy conditions depending on which way the weather system's coming from, & now back again near Vancouver BC (north of Seattle some) but without a nice ocean breeze, with windless, humid summers that feel much hotter than they are.
I, too, sweat like a horse in summer & do my housework naked with the curtains drawn. But at my job, outside, I have to wear long pants, socks & heavy shoes. The sweat just runs off me there. I feel ill by the time the day's over, no matter how much I drink & even with heavy salting of food. This is going to be the last summer I do this. I don't think I'll survive another working like that.
If I was rich (ha!), I'd live in Sweden in their summer (lovely mild days with 18 or more hours daylight!) & then head to New Zealand for their summer. Anyone want to sponser me?
Posted by Phil on April 13, 2002, at 14:11:06
In reply to Phil, u must be revved! Gonna walk!, posted by Shar on April 13, 2002, at 12:56:20
hell no, I didn't exercise. what are you, nuts???????? I'd never do such a foolish thing.
Gotta get mt haircut in an hour. Hope they like my robe with no belt, a 2 day growth of growth whiskers and my worn out Teva's with the blown out velcrow. They would make a slapping sound so I shuffle. The mall walkers think I'm cool.
Posted by Phil on April 13, 2002, at 14:18:35
In reply to Texas Hell Summer? » Shar, posted by IsoM on April 13, 2002, at 13:43:40
Isom, I think the last few summers it's gotten over 100 for, like 30 days straight. I used to jog around Town Lake and at 7 in the morning itwas already 85 with 95% humidity. We're about to pay the price for mild winters.
Wish I could be somewhere else for 6 months.
Posted by IsoM on April 13, 2002, at 14:28:25
In reply to Re: Texas Hell Summer? whaddaya think Shar, posted by Phil on April 13, 2002, at 14:18:35
Posted by beardedlady on April 13, 2002, at 15:33:06
In reply to That Is Hell!!! I Would Die There (nm) » Phil, posted by IsoM on April 13, 2002, at 14:28:25
I can't say we're much different this far north. It's usually 85 and 95% humidity when I jog or race walk around our lake in the morning at 7:00, too! Fortunately, we've had Spring for the last few years (an unusual thing here in C-harm City), and our summers have been relatively mild--only one or four 100 degree days in a row, but temps mostly around ninety something daily!
Last Sunday, we had a freeze warning. Today, it's 79.
lotsa beardy : )>
Posted by Phil on April 13, 2002, at 16:55:25
In reply to Texas Summers/Baltimore Summers, posted by beardedlady on April 13, 2002, at 15:33:06
Geez, didn'know it was that hot there.
I used to know some hippies and during summer months, they would haul ass to the jazz festvals and such in Colorado pulling a big BBQ contraption.
They would come back to TX in the winter. I don't know how they made money here. No, really, I have no clue...pot.
That was early 80's; this couple epitomized the laid back Texas hippie pair.
Sounds good right now.
Posted by beardedlady on April 13, 2002, at 17:17:55
In reply to Re: Texas Summers/Baltimore Summers bearded one, posted by Phil on April 13, 2002, at 16:55:25
We're pretty far from Colorado. But maybe that was just a non-sequitur. (But pot's how we make our living here, too, so there you go.)
smokin' a beardy : )>
Posted by Shar on April 13, 2002, at 18:20:41
In reply to Baltimore Summers » Phil, posted by beardedlady on April 13, 2002, at 17:17:55
A couple years ago the AC in my car went out, and getting in to the 200 degree car (I'm guessing, but it did sort of scorch my skin), and driving 45 minutes home, even with windows all open (so the 100 degree "breeze" could come in) made me very sick!
When I see roofers or people doing road work here in the summers, I truly don't know how they do it. Plus, there are people who LIKE the weather. sheeesh!
Shar
Posted by Ritch on April 13, 2002, at 23:05:11
In reply to Re: Texas Hell Summer? whaddaya think Shar, posted by Phil on April 13, 2002, at 14:18:35
> Isom, I think the last few summers it's gotten over 100 for, like 30 days straight. I used to jog around Town Lake and at 7 in the morning itwas already 85 with 95% humidity. We're about to pay the price for mild winters.
> Wish I could be somewhere else for 6 months.Phil,
Dallas/Ft.Worth is supposed to be the worst in Texas for protracted heat. Isn't the Texaco building in Dallas with that big red winged dragon thing on top? The reason I ask is remembering that PBS documentary a long time ago: "The Thin Blue Line" about the guy who went to Dallas looking for a job and went to the drive-in with somebody, smoked some pot, and then the guy kills a cop when they get stopped later, and *he* gets blamed for it and sentenced to death for it. He said something about "hell on earth" being Dallas. Wow, the actual temperatures may actually reflect the psychic ones?
Mitch
Posted by Phil on April 14, 2002, at 6:26:23
In reply to Re: Texas Hell Summer? whaddaya think Shar » Phil, posted by Ritch on April 13, 2002, at 23:05:11
I personally can't stand Dallas; all concrete and big ugly buildings. If your north of Waco, you're a Texan lite anyway!
From living in Houston, I can tell you, it can be the hottest, muggiest place on earth. It's near the coast and that humidity in Houston sucks.
I gotta wake up.
Posted by Ritch on April 14, 2002, at 11:42:27
In reply to Re: Texas Hell Summer? whaddaya think Shar..Isom, posted by Phil on April 14, 2002, at 6:26:23
> I personally can't stand Dallas; all concrete and big ugly buildings. If your north of Waco, you're a Texan lite anyway!
> From living in Houston, I can tell you, it can be the hottest, muggiest place on earth. It's near the coast and that humidity in Houston sucks.
> I gotta wake up.
Phil,Never been to Texas. I was watching "Slacker" the other day and I remember the part about the guy driving the van talking about how bad the ANTS were in Austin. Are the ANTS that bad? I know from talking with people from Texas that homes are all on concrete slabs, no wooden subfloooring! I also heard about scorpions on the ceiling-is that true? :0
Mitch
Posted by IsoM on April 14, 2002, at 12:03:36
In reply to Re: Texas Hell ANTS? whaddaya think Shar..Isom » Phil, posted by Ritch on April 14, 2002, at 11:42:27
Posted by Phil on April 14, 2002, at 14:33:09
In reply to Re: Texas Hell ANTS? whaddaya think Shar..Isom » Phil, posted by Ritch on April 14, 2002, at 11:42:27
AINTE'S OR ANTS AS YOU call, have a flourishing sub-culture here.
Mostly concrete slabs.
Several friends, who live out near the lake have scorpions out the ass, no kidding.
They get another creature less often...centipedes.
About 6-8" long. They ARE SCRARY and don't die easily.My best friend woke in the middle of the night hearing the centipede strolling across the kitchen floor. He said there was no way he would go back to sleep with that in his house. It took him awhile to finally get it.
Posted by Phil on April 14, 2002, at 14:38:49
In reply to Re: Texas Hell ANTS? whaddaya think Shar..Isom » Phil, posted by Ritch on April 14, 2002, at 11:42:27
The therapy group I just bailed on had a lady in it that lived with one of the major characters in Slacker. She got sick of him laying around. He's in his 40's and still slacking. She kicked him out.
Have you seen Dazed and Confused?
Posted by Ritch on April 14, 2002, at 15:48:58
In reply to Re: Texas Hell ANTS? Mitch, posted by Phil on April 14, 2002, at 14:33:09
> AINTE'S OR ANTS AS YOU call, have a flourishing sub-culture here.
> Mostly concrete slabs.
> Several friends, who live out near the lake have scorpions out the ass, no kidding.
> They get another creature less often...centipedes.
> About 6-8" long. They ARE SCRARY and don't die easily.My best friend woke in the middle of the night hearing the centipede strolling across the kitchen floor. He said there was no way he would go back to sleep with that in his house. It took him awhile to finally get it.
I had to chase down two millipedes last week. But, they aren't poisonous like centipedes are! I see an occasional scorpion here (in the Ozarks), but they are little compared to the ones down there and in the SW (about 3" max.). Here, they are called stingin' lizards. Those things can move though! They just drop that tail and whoosh! The one thing that is definitely abundant here is stinging venomous insects. Those bast*rds are everywhere! God forbid that anybody ever has to experience being chased and stung by a group of yellowjackets.
Posted by Ritch on April 14, 2002, at 15:57:12
In reply to Re: Ritch...Slacker, posted by Phil on April 14, 2002, at 14:38:49
> The therapy group I just bailed on had a lady in it that lived with one of the major characters in Slacker. She got sick of him laying around. He's in his 40's and still slacking. She kicked him out.
> Have you seen Dazed and Confused?
I don't think so-I will have to go check it out. I was thinking about all of this "geographical (sense of place) posting" that has been going on and popped in a tape of "Vernon, Florida" which I found very entertaining. The grandpa with the pet turtle and possum reminded me of my great Uncle (he had to catch the possum because it was eating his chickens).
Oh, I opened up my map software and started checking out Texas and I noticed something rather odd. All of the counties south of Dallas and East of San Antonio are all "twisted" counterclockwise allmost 45 degrees. It seems that everything got settled from the Gulf Coast inward and all of the highways run parallel and perpendicular to the Coast instead of East/West and North/South. When you get up to Dallas everything turns into the usual checkerboard pattern that you see all the way up through the plains. I wonder why that is?Mitch
Posted by Shar on April 14, 2002, at 19:20:26
In reply to Re: Texas Hell ANTS? whaddaya think Shar..Isom » Phil, posted by Ritch on April 14, 2002, at 11:42:27
>Are the ANTS that bad?
~~Far aints have changed life here. When I was a kid, I went everywhere barefoot, I could even walk on blacktop that was softening in the heat. And, rolling down a grassy hill was considered great fun, plus just sittin in the grass talkin. Now, with far aints, I don't think that happens much anymore. They swarm on their prey and at a given time they all start stinging together. They kill everything from dogs to cows, that I've heard of.
Then, there's the killer bees that someone had the great idea to import. Tho not originating in Texas, we have several people die from gettin them mad every year by doin stuff like mowin the lawn.
Plus, the other critters mentioned in the subject line...it can make one very "in the moment" like Phil's friend not wanting to sleep in the house with one of em wandrin around. Snakes here in Austin have been benign in my experience, mostly grass snakes, and I did have one crawl in under my not-so-flush screen door years ago--it was big, but non-poisonus. I used to live in Sweetwater where they have the rattlesnake roundup. We had lots of snakes there, esp in new houses. Saw more tranchulas in West Texas, too.
>>homes are all on concrete slabs, no wooden subfloooring!
~~There are a few pier-and-beam houses around, but they haven't been built for decades on a regular basis. But, we have to remember trailer dwellers like me....no solid slab to crack and replace, but in a tornado it's off to Oz!
8-)
Shar
>>I personally can't stand Dallas; all concrete and big ugly buildings.
~~Phil, I agree! I used to love Dallas as a kid, have a bunch of relatives there, was born there...but now, ick, it's awful...I'm even beginning to have a hard time with north Austin...
Posted by kristi on April 14, 2002, at 23:44:02
In reply to Far Aints-Cinipeeds-Scorpyuns-Tranchulas-Snaykes, posted by Shar on April 14, 2002, at 19:20:26
I thought Las Vegas was bad.........
I mean... we have scorpians and spiders..... and a HUGE AMOUNT of cockroaches........
but they don't spend a lot of time being uninvited guests... Thank God. Well... I take that back..... the cockroaches are pretty insane. Sometimes I'll walk out to put out the garbage late at night... and as I'm walking down the driveway, the cockroaches scurry by what seems like the hundreds.
I hate bugs. Sounds like the humidity of texas may draw more. Never would have realized
Posted by Phil on April 15, 2002, at 6:40:35
In reply to Far Aints-Cinipeeds-Scorpyuns-Tranchulas-Snaykes, posted by Shar on April 14, 2002, at 19:20:26
Yeah, North Austin is becoming Dallas except I haven't seen mink coats worn to the grocery srore. Course, I haven't been to a g. store in N Austin.
I remember what you said about the lack of far aints when we were kids. Although I remember hearing about a friend in high school that was sitting on the practice field with everyone else after football practice. The coach was talking and this guy gets up and looks like he's spazzing
out. He was covered w/ aints and trying to get the hell out of his uniform.
I used to see 'horney toads' everywhere; now just see them on license plates. Remember those baby dinosaurs?
Posted by Shar on April 15, 2002, at 23:26:04
In reply to Re: Far Aints-Cinipeeds-Shar, posted by Phil on April 15, 2002, at 6:40:35
Yes, horney toads! So wonderful, feeling scrabbly in your hand when you catch them. We used to get a shoe box, poke some air holes in it, put a bed in it (about 3 sprigs of grass)and some water, and go huntin. We just walked the flower beds around the house, and they'd be poppin up all over. Then, into the box (I'm sure they were thinking, Oh, God, not again...) and we'd watch them and pet them, vow to keep them happy and healthy forever, and after we went to bed our parents would, of course, let them go. We would also catch them at school recess, but that was harder without the shoe box to keep them in.
With far aints and the elimination of habitat go horney toads, armadillos, fawns....and they make better neighbors than humans.
Shar
> Yeah, North Austin is becoming Dallas except I haven't seen mink coats worn to the grocery srore. Course, I haven't been to a g. store in N Austin.
> I remember what you said about the lack of far aints when we were kids. Although I remember hearing about a friend in high school that was sitting on the practice field with everyone else after football practice. The coach was talking and this guy gets up and looks like he's spazzing
> out. He was covered w/ aints and trying to get the hell out of his uniform.
> I used to see 'horney toads' everywhere; now just see them on license plates. Remember those baby dinosaurs?
Posted by Ritch on April 15, 2002, at 23:51:33
In reply to Horney Toads....yes, indeed!, posted by Shar on April 15, 2002, at 23:26:04
There are Horney Toads up here in the Ozarks, but not as many as used to be. Horney Toads have a perfect camoflouge pattern for hiding in the woods. I like listening to Tree Frogs at night. They make this cacophonous "clicking" sound that ebbs and flows (in large groups), that is very mysterious.
Armadillos have wondered north considerably. They are usually around up here after an El Nino year when it has been warm all winter. It has been over a year though since I saw one run across the highway.
I tried to find information about whip-or-wills and got a lot of Buddhist stuff interestingly. You have to get away from town a ways before you hear those.
There are *lots* of white-tailed deer that live just outside of town, however. I haven't seen one in my backyard yet, but I did see a silver fox a couple of years ago in my backyard after a blizzard.Mitch
> Yes, horney toads! So wonderful, feeling scrabbly in your hand when you catch them. We used to get a shoe box, poke some air holes in it, put a bed in it (about 3 sprigs of grass)and some water, and go huntin. We just walked the flower beds around the house, and they'd be poppin up all over. Then, into the box (I'm sure they were thinking, Oh, God, not again...) and we'd watch them and pet them, vow to keep them happy and healthy forever, and after we went to bed our parents would, of course, let them go. We would also catch them at school recess, but that was harder without the shoe box to keep them in.
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> With far aints and the elimination of habitat go horney toads, armadillos, fawns....and they make better neighbors than humans.
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> > Yeah, North Austin is becoming Dallas except I haven't seen mink coats worn to the grocery srore. Course, I haven't been to a g. store in N Austin.
> > I remember what you said about the lack of far aints when we were kids. Although I remember hearing about a friend in high school that was sitting on the practice field with everyone else after football practice. The coach was talking and this guy gets up and looks like he's spazzing
> > out. He was covered w/ aints and trying to get the hell out of his uniform.
> > I used to see 'horney toads' everywhere; now just see them on license plates. Remember those baby dinosaurs?
Posted by Phil on April 16, 2002, at 6:39:31
In reply to Re: Horney Toads....yes, indeed! » Shar, posted by Ritch on April 15, 2002, at 23:51:33
Sar you have a great memory. I'd forgotten all that stuff.
Mitch that silver fox must be an awesome sight.
I have this vision of an armadillo (cattle) drive headed north! Horney toads are on an optional license plate in Texas. Think I'll stick with the generic plate.
Posted by Ritch on April 16, 2002, at 9:41:21
In reply to Re: Horney Toads....yes, indeed! Ritchshar, posted by Phil on April 16, 2002, at 6:39:31
> Sar you have a great memory. I'd forgotten all that stuff.
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> Mitch that silver fox must be an awesome sight.
> I have this vision of an armadillo (cattle) drive headed north! Horney toads are on an optional license plate in Texas. Think I'll stick with the generic plate.
The fox evidently had come out of the woods behind the house foraging for an easy meal out of somebody's trash after the blizzard. I was just looking out the window and saw it come zipping by running out to the edge of the street. It stopped there and nervously looked back and forth trying to make a decision and then would zip all the way back behind the house and into the woods. After a few minutes he would make the 300 foot dash to the street edge again. This happened about half a dozen times and then he finally whoosh! zipped across the street between a couple of houses. Hopefully, somebody didn't run him over.The Armadillos were the worst in the early 90's. They explained on TV(the local weather guys)why they were moving this way and it was just that our winters had been warm so many years in a row it allowed them to stay over during the winter and survive. Some maintenance guy at work was asking me once about Armadillo shells (like I would know). He wanted to make something out of their shell. Well, what can I say-hayseed mechanics can have some very odd ideas.
Mitch
Posted by Shar on April 16, 2002, at 21:02:39
In reply to Re: Horney Toads....yes, indeed! Ritchshar, posted by Ritch on April 16, 2002, at 9:41:21
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