Living in Texas

June 15th:
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 every day like this. I'm turning into a sun worshipper.

June 30th:
Had the backyard landscaped with western plants today. Lots of cactus and rocks. What a breeze to maintain. No more mowing the 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 is taking longer than I expected.

July 15th:
Fell asleep by the community 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 Lomita (my cat) sneaking into the car when I left this morning. By the time I got to the hot car at noon, Lomita had died and swollen up to the size of a shopping bag, then popped like a water balloon. The car now smells like Kibbles and Chits. I learned my lesson though. No more pets in this heat. Good ol' Mr. Sun strikes again.

July 25th:
The wind is ridiculous. It feels like a giant frikkin blow dryer!! And it's hot as he!!. 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 on the patio for 3 nights now, $225,000 house and I can't even go inside. Lomita is the lucky one. Why did I ever come here?

Aug. 4th:
Its 115 degrees. Finally got the air-conditioner fixed today. It cost $500 and gets the temperature down to 85. I hate this stupid state.

Aug. 8th:
If another wise arse cracks, 'Hot enough for you today?' I'm going to strangle him. Darn 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 when I sat on the seats in the car, I thought my arse was on fire. My skin melted to the seat. I lost 2 layers of
flesh and all the hair on the back of my legs and arse . . . Now my car smells like burnt hair, fried arse, and baked cat.

Aug 10th:
The weather report might as well be a freaking recording. Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. It's been too hot to do chit for 2 freaking months and the weatherman says it might really warm up next week. Doesn't it ever rain in this freaking state? Water rationing will be next, so my $1700 worth of cactus will just dry up and blow over. Even the cactus can't live in this miserable heat.

Aug. 14th:
Welcome to HE11! Temperature got to 115 today. Cactus are dead. Forgot to crack the window and blew the freaking windshield out of the car. The installer came to fix it and guess what he asked me??? "Hot enough for you today?" My sister had to spend $1,500 to bail me out of jail. Freaking Texas . What kind of a sick demented idiot would want to live here?? Will write later to let you know how the trial goes.

Hmmm,come north,the winters here are realy nice...blah..blah...........

LOL

I like it.Want me to start on southern Arizona?

Sounds like you must be in the panhandle, we haven't seen enough rain since last Sep to make a difference. Some areas got 1" the other night and it was dried up by noon. If my wife would go I'd move back to KS in a heartbeat. Actually going back to Iceland looks great this summer. I was stationed there for 3 yrs.

downsouth? Are you bucking for one of us permanent Texas residents to buy you a bus tick back to New York City?......Somebody, Get a Rope!
As the old Cook told the young apprentice.....
If you cant stand the Heat, GET OUT of the Kitchen!!
Later,
John A.

Even Lyle and Bison get 90's... a few hours a year, it's the 115 that gets me... I found it hard to breathe. I mentioned that to a fireman neighbor, he said, your lungs don't want to inhale that heat any more than a burning smoke filled room, or 40 below air, so you have to stand there and 'think about breathing'. Makes for a long hard day- or heat wave week huh? Is it ever going to rain again down there?

Nope, never even been to Nu Yawk in my life. Born and raised in California, been living in Texas since 73. Married a native Texas gal in 77 and WE still live in the Great State of Texas. Have no reason to go anywhere else, we have it all.

well you could come to Iowa. It rains all the time,gets 100 and humid in summer and then gets to 40 below in the winter. You could have it all that way.

Just a normal year in Texas.

Billy
I don't call a drought classified as a 100 yr drought normal. Plus I think no one called 1980 normal and the June 100 degree temps are similar to 1980

Jim. Just pokken fun at the ones from up north.

Yes you are correct. This has not been a normal year for us. I remember 1980 very well. Thought the heat would never go away.

I live in Leon county. Things are really getting bad. Can't remember the last time we had any real rain. Sale barns are running over with cattle and stock being sold. I have seen some people bringing in water to fill the stock tanks. Some are pumping water out of the Trinty River and creeks to fill tanks. Even heard of some of the big ranches starting to let people go. Can't keep them with nothing to do.

I help send out the bills for the local feed store. The store sales have really gone down. What used to take three hours to process. Took an hour and half the other day. Things are getting bad.

I know all about poking fun at them there Yankees. I just bought the highest priced fert Coastal rd bales that I ever have bought. $55/bale and I plan on selling them for $75-$80 to the horse owners that have told me that cured Johnson Grass will kill a horse. I tell them only Prussic or Nitric acid on it will kill and they tell me I don't know what I'm talking about because they read the facts on the internet. Have a good un and try to stay COOL.

Hey it could be worse.. Just got back to my old place in NY to pick up some tools, etc, and I can't find the shop. There are weeds ten feet high. I gotta rent a brush mower to find the stuff I need to drag to Texas! And it is still raining.

I used to hear men from Texas were tough. Well some must have thin skin and cant take a joke. Look at the dates, last I checked we hadnt passed July 4 yet and he's date stamping August? Laugh a little, The story is funny. Thanks for the chuckel downsouth and Im laughing with you not at you.