May 30th ~~~~ Just moved to Laredo. Now this is a city that knows how to live!! Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. What a place! I watched the sunset from a park lying on a blanket. It was beautiful. I've finally found my home. I love it here.
June 14th ~~~~ Really heating up. Got to 100 today. Not a problem. Live in an air-conditioned home, drive an air-conditioned car. What a pleasure to see the sun everyday like this. I'm turning into a sun worshiper.
June 30th ~~~~ Had the backyard landscaped with western plants today. Lots of cactus and rocks. What a breeze to maintain. No more mowing lawn for me. Another scorcher today, but I love it here.
July 10th ~~~~ The temperature hasn't been below 100 all week. How do people get used to this kind of heat? At least it's kind of windy though. But getting used to the heat and humidity is taking longer that I expected.
July 15th ~~~~ Fell asleep by the pool. (Got 3rd degree burns over 60% of my body). Missed 3 days of work. What a dumb thing to do. I learned my lesson though. Got to respect the ol' sun in a climate like this.
July 20th ~~~~ I missed Morgan (our cat) sneaking into the car when I left this morning. By the time I got to the hot car for lunch, Morgan had died and swollen up to the size of a shopping bag and stank up the $2,000 leather upholstery. I told the kids that she ran away. The car now smells like Kibbles and ****s. I learned my lesson though. No more pets in this heat.
July 25th ~~~~ The wind sucks. It feels like a giant freaking blow dryer!! And it's hot as hell. The home air-conditioner is on the fritz and the AC repairman charged $200 just to drive by and tell me he needed to order parts.
July 30th ~~~~ Been sleeping outside by the pool for 3 nights now. $1,500 in damn house payments and we can't even go inside. Why did I ever come here?
Aug. 4th ~~~~ It's 115 degrees. Finally got the air-conditioner fixed today. It cost $500 and gets the temperature down to 85, but this freaking humidity makes the house feel like it's about 95. Stupid repairman. I hate this stupid city.
Aug. 8th ~~~~ If another wise ass cracks, "Hot enough for you today?" I'm going to strangle him. Damn heat. By the time I get to work the radiator is boiling over, my clothes are soaking wet, and I smell like baked cat!!
Aug. 9th ~~~~ Tried to run some errands after work. Wore shorts, and sat on the black leather seats in the ol' car. I thought my ass was on fire.
I lost 2 layers of flesh and all the hair on the back of my legs and ass. Now my car smells like burnt hair, fried ass, and baked cat.
Aug. 10th ~~~~ The weather report might as well be a damn recording. Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. It's been too hot to do **** for 2 damn months and the weatherman says it might really warm up next week. Doesn't it ever rain in this damn desert? Water rationing will be next, so my $1700 worth of cactus just might dry up and blow into the damn pool. Even the cactus can't live in this damn heat.
Aug. 14th ~~~~ Welcome to HELL!!! Temperature got to 115 today. Forgot to crack the window and blew the damn windshield out of the car. The installer came to fix it and said, "Hot enough for you today?" My wife had to spend the $1500 house payment to bail me out of jail. Freaking Texas. What kind of a sick demented idiot would want to live here?
Posted by Roy Frisby (Member # 736) on :
"Oh, but it's a dry heat!" I remember one year when I was a kid on the farm, it got sooo hot that all the popcorn we had planted popped in the field. If that ain't bad enough, the old mule we had thought is was snowing and stood right there and froze to death!
Posted by FranCisco Vargas (Member # 145) on :
hahahahaha, i'm still laughing at that one. someone once had one simular about the snow and how beautiful it was...
Posted by Joey Madden (Member # 1192) on :
David, thats the funniest post you ever made, God Bless You
P.S. I meant every word!
Posted by Robert Beverly (Member # 1907) on :
David
Although my first thought was that typical..."Don't mess with Texas" theme, I thought...heck....I would have to agree with you on that one... Posted by David Wright (Member # 111) on :
Yeah, I would like to see the one on snow. My daughter sent me this who lives in Tampa. Heat or snow, both can be taxing, but like someone on this board said before, no one is retiring and moving up north.
Posted by Santo (Member # 411) on :
Just back from Laredo Friday. It was a nice cool 99. Got some nice terracotta pots for gifts. Funny thing was that 2 hours south, it was 72 degrees in Monterrey.
[ June 23, 2003, 10:58 AM: Message edited by: Santo ]
Posted by Ray Rheaume (Member # 3794) on :
David.
I'd like to see the snow post too.
I beg to differ about the retiring north part, though. On a smaller scale, many signers in the southern New England area seem to be heading north these days. I have several who are semi-retiring up my way. Many have made thier names and built up solid customer bases in Mass, Conneticut and New York, and are lowering their overhead by heading north into the hills. I've had the pleasure of meeting some of these folks and admire the plan. They carry some of their better accounts up with them and pick up a few in the new area. The distances are small here and the weather, although able to change in a heartbeat, doesn't factor in too much.
Maybe if you like snow at Christmas and a few bears in the neighborhood, it's not too bad....lol.
Posted by Glenn S. Harris (Member # 2190) on :
Jan. 10: It's starting to snow. The first of the season and the first one we've seen in years. My wife and I took our hot buttered rum and sat by the picture window, watching the soft flakes drift down, clinging to the trees and covering the ground. It was beautiful!
Jan. 11: We awoke to a lovely blanket of crystal white snow covering the landscape. What a fantastic sight. Every tree and shrub covered with a beautiful white mantle. I shoveled snow for the first time ever and loved it. I did our driveway and sidewalk. Later, a city snowplow came along and accidentally covered up our driveway with compacted snow from the street. The driver smiled and waved. I waved back and shoveled it again.
Jan. 12: It snowed an additional 5 inches last night, and the temperature has dropped to around 11 degrees. Several limbs on the trees and shrubs snapped due to the weight of the snow. I shoveled our driveway again. Shortly afterwards, the snowplow came by and did his trick again. Much of the snow is now brownish-gray.
Jan. 13: Warmed up enough during the day to create some slush which soon became ice when the temperature dropped again. Bought snow tires for both cars. Fell on my ass in the driveway. I went to a chiropractor and spent $145, but nothing was broken. More snow and ice expected.
Jan. 14: Still cold. Sold the wife's car and bought a 4x4 to get her to work. Slid into a guardrail anyway and did a considerable amount of damage to the right rear quarter-panel. Had another 8 inches of the white **** last night. Both vehicles covered in salt and crud. More shoveling in store for me today. That g*****n snowplow came by twice today.
Jan. 15: 2 degrees outside. More f#$%^ snow. Not a tree or shrub on our property that hasn't been damaged. Power was off most of the night. Tried to keep from freezing to death with candles and a kerosene heater, which tipped over and nearly burned the house down. I managed to put the flames out, but suffered second degree burns on my hands and lost all my eyelashes and eyebrows. Car slid on ice on way to emergency room and was totaled.
Jan.16: G@$%^ m@$% f@$% white s@$% keeps coming down. Have to put on all the clothes we own just to get to the f@$%^ mailbox. If I ever catch the s@$%^$%h that drives the snowplow, I'll chew open his chest and rip out his heart. I think he hides around the corner and waits for me to open our driveway again! Power still off. Toilet froze and part of the roof has started to cave in.
Jan.17: Six g@$% more f@$% inches of f@$%' snow and f@$% sleet and f@$% ice and God knows what other kind of white f2$%' s#$%^& fell last night. I wounded the f#$%^& snowplow @$$hole with an ice axe, but he got away. Wife left me. Car won't start. I think I'm going snow blind. I can't move my toes. I haven't seen the sun in weeks. More snow predicted. Wind chill -22 f$%%% degrees. I'm moving back to South Carolina!
Posted by David Wright (Member # 111) on :
Thanks Glenn, that was hilarious.
Posted by Glenn S. Harris (Member # 2190) on :
Little more profanity to edit in that one.
It's very hot outside today. Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
hey ray....as an ex mainer(aroostook county,the prettiest part of new england).....and now a transplant floridian.....more come here ..from there....then the other way round!!!! we have white x-mas...al you gota do is go to the beach(we got sand as white as snow) hehehehehehehhe
Posted by Gail & Dave Beattie (Member # 572) on :
i love those posts moving to a new climate is always interesting though don't you think, it's hardly ever what you think it will be
when we moved from Oz to new zealand in the early 80's i was worried that i wouldn't like the cold when the fantasy and the reality collided
but i found that all the houses we lived in where built to get the most out of the NZ climate.... and of course we didn't move to the real frezzy part of the country either
we had big windows facing north (which for us is the best) and a huge wood stove right in the middle of one house we lived in so it was shorts n t'shirts in the middle of winter when devo had that thing crankin
but i think the best indication that we have moved to the right spot now (queensland) is the phone calls back down south where we used to live
in november when we bought the house we now live in, the first thing i did was get a big a/c fitted thinking that when the summer hit (december) we would really cook, if for no other reason than we weren't used to living this far north
i rang my daughter who is renting our old house and she told me that it was 42c most days down there she said that the kids were living in the pool and she was stationed under the a/c in the lounge... hadn't seen the kitchen for days cause it was just to hot to move!
me on the other had was wandering if our a/c would ever get turned on at all, with a balmy 28c being the norm
now that it's winter (june, july, august) my daughter tells me that between the wood fire, the reverse cycle a/c and the gas heater she is managing to keep the house sorta warm durning the day, but the nights are really cold down there...
and here i am wondering if i'll get to wear on a long sleeve shirt again?
i have managed to change into jeans from shorts everyday though and the adverage temp is 22c droping to a cool 14 at night
so yup i think we did the right thing moving to qld to para phrase the adds, beautiful one day... perfect the next!
cheers gail
[ June 23, 2003, 08:39 PM: Message edited by: Gail & Dave Beattie ]
Posted by Nancie W. Phillips (Member # 3484) on :
Hey Gail... I grew up in Arizona (so I can identify w/ the Laredo post) but I'd love to try the weather in your part of the world. It's one of my dream destinations...
Posted by Deb Fowler (Member # 1039) on :
Ha, ha, ha, I was told about this post, hilarious, I can't quit cracking up! I've lived in S. Fla for 14 years off and on for 30 and back up north for the last 15! I love them most the time, but then there are the other sides to the story! Now, Australia is a dream at this point along with New Zealand, too. I think we need a letterville jet. And I thought of it first, you guys!!!!
Posted by Del Badry (Member # 114) on :
We hit a high of 7c.. or around 46F today.... 2nd day of summer.... if were lucky we'll be ice fishing by August....
Posted by Sheila Ferrell (Member # 3741) on :
LOL! david! That was a hoot! I lived in Denton the year it was 119+. 1980. They made T-shirts that said "I survived the summer of '80". But the dry heat IS better than the humid heat to me. Some one sh'ud write one of those about sweet home . . . humidity today...100%. Humidity everyday for the entire months of May, June, July, August and most of September...100%. Chances of paint drying within this week...10%. Weather for next 5 mos: "clear to partly cloudy with a chance of rain, everyday."
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