Texas Spring/Summer Thread

[Jisgren]

Australian Shepherd from Jamie Burns. Her website is Cutnloosestockdogs.com and they are just north of Dallas. Good line of working dogs!

I also have a friend with a healer out of Oklahoma if you are interested

 

[NativeSon]

For 2 days I couldn't get logged on to TBN. Every time I got on the computer they would send me another pass word and I couldn't get it to log on. Finally got it to work this morning. Don't know what I did but it's working. Sometimes I hate these things.

I did finally get my insurance for my tractor settled. Kubota Ins. that I had had for 2 years went up to $500 a year. Called them and they said that by lowering the value of the policy to $26K. the premium would be a little less that $400 a year. Went to my homeowners policy and got the $26K value for $178 a year. That's a long way from the $500.

Charlie

 

[Bird]

I hate Summer. We had a 1:30 p.m. appointment this afternoon just south of downtown Fort Worth and left that place about 3 p.m. Shortly after turning north on I-35W from I-30 in very heavy traffic, I noticed on my digital instrument display that the outside temperature was 117! As we traveled north, it gradually lowered to 104 in Denton. Too danged hot to suit me!

 

[mikim]

I hate Summer. We had a 1:30 p.m. appointment this afternoon just south of downtown Fort Worth and left that place about 3 p.m. Shortly after turning north on I-35W from I-30 in very heavy traffic, I noticed on my digital instrument display that the outside temperature was 117! As we traveled north, it gradually lowered to 104 in Denton. Too danged hot to suit me!

I like summer and normal heat doesn't bother me -- but I quit fencing at 2:00 today -- no deadline so why endure 100+ ? I'm OK up to 97 or so -- but 100+ is too hot to work in the sun. Prefer the heat to cold of northern winters! They can keep that cold & snow -- I'll take the heat.

 

[ronjhall]

I hate Summer. We had a 1:30 p.m. appointment this afternoon just south of downtown Fort Worth and left that place about 3 p.m. Shortly after turning north on I-35W from I-30 in very heavy traffic, I noticed on my digital instrument display that the outside temperature was 117! As we traveled north, it gradually lowered to 104 in Denton. Too danged hot to suit me!

MI weather last 2 weeks. Mid 50's at night high 70''s during the day. Love our summer weather. Much prefer south Texas weather in the winter. :thumbsup:

 

[wroughtn_harv]

They're saying today's thermadiity index (what the temperature feels like on the body) is going to be 109 today. I'm stuck between a really hot place and an even hotter place. I bid on a job to build this really kewel project for the local fire department. In my bid I explained that I had to haul butt for Santa Fe and then Arixzona no later than the 11th of August. It looks like I will be at least two days late leaving because of the time it takes the city to shuffle paperwork.

Ten or so years ago I accepted that the body wasn't what it once was. When I was young I would get hot and grab a lower gear and keep on plugging along. The transmission no longer functions when it gets hot. Some times it will take me two hours to just gather tools and climb into the truck when I get overheated.

Today will be fun. It will be hot, everything will be even hotter because it is steel and welding, the location is a concrete building in a parking lot, no shade, and all of it is heavy. But it is what I do.

I wouldn't change a thing.

 

[Bird]

I like summer and normal heat doesn't bother me -- but I quit fencing at 2:00 today -- no deadline so why endure 100+ ? I'm OK up to 97 or so -- but 100+ is too hot to work in the sun. Prefer the heat to cold of northern winters! They can keep that cold & snow -- I'll take the heat.

Mike, that sounds just like my Dad in the 1940s, '50s, and early '60s. Didn't have air-conditioning in the house or his business and never turned it on in the car. So I was astounded when he and Mother decided to move to Alaska in the Fall of 1965.:laughing: But they loved Alaska, lived in Anchorage for 7 years until he retired and they came back south, then for the next 4 or 5 years still went back to Alaska each summer.

MI weather last 2 weeks. Mid 50's at night high 70''s during the day. Love our summer weather. Much prefer south Texas weather in the winter.

Me, too, Ron.

Next week we're going to West Virginia for a couple of days where it's currently about 30 degrees cooler than here.

 

[Bird]

Today will be fun.

It's great when a person enjoys his/her work, but I can't say I expect today to be fun.:laughing: I'm just waiting for daylight to start lawn mowing, edging, and trimming.

 

[txdon]

Today will be fun. It will be hot, everything will be even hotter because it is steel and welding, the location is a concrete building in a parking lot, no shade, and all of it is heavy. But it is what I do.

I wouldn't change a thing.

I think today you should throw up one of those 10'X10' pop up tents by your truck like we had at Jim's.

Today is heavy trash day in the County. I'll take all my nonburnables to town. This once every 2 month free dumpster use really keeps the dumping down in the county.

 

[NativeSon]

It's great when a person enjoys his/her work, but I can't say I expect today to be fun.:laughing: I'm just waiting for daylight to start lawn mowing, edging, and trimming.

Bird-- I'm with you. I get out and get it done as early as possible. If I'm on the mower or the tractor I can stand a little more heat but sometimes just being out in the sun will just cook you. I too don't handle the heat like I use to, so when it gets toooo hot I call it a day. It'll still be there tomorrow.

Charlie