OK, Time to make people that live up NORTH feel awful, 74 F @ 8 p.m.

and I was just sitting out in the back with the doors open (bug netting up of course) and burning the chiminea with aromatic pinon.

Not much wind, three tiki torches are lit, there's fish jumping in my pond, and my dog is at my feet or out worrying squirrels.

I am wearing shorts and a T-shirt, the wife is just inside through the open door, trying to figure out how to burn MP3's to WAV, a re-run of Carl Haas is playing on the SONY SW receiver, I'm drinking white wine, thinking life does not get better than this.

(BTW, I don't have to work tomorrow if I don't want to!)

AND 2 more posts, and I'm out of the 700 club!

HAH!



Compare and contrast, Michigan, Nebraska, Wisconsin, New York, Ohio, Maine, North Dakota, etc. etc.....

Hey from Brazoria County :hi:

Maybe even nicer, but I cannot imagine nicer weather the last two days.

Rode my bike to White Rock Lake, a little windy by the lake, but paradise weather. No humidity. WOW.

But they don't expect rain...didn't hear how low it's supposed to get.

ICH!
Still, right now it's 60.

Every time the barometer swings, I can't stop sneezing...it must be close by!

I confess this is the tropics -- I have to head south for the winter for health reasons.

We have these hiccups of good weather, but you have them pretty much all the time.

(Except hurricanes, I would guess.)

If I might ask, HOW YOU BE SO LUCKY TO LIVE IN THE CARIB????

just when my asthma and arthritis were getting unendurable during the winter.

I wished more Americans would travel outside of the US.

Me too.

It would broaden their understanding of the world and other peoples.

Sorry about the arthritis, I know that can be such a bitch!

and 24f can't beat it. I love the winter.

...but I just cannot stand snow and cold anymore.

Digging the car out, slippery streets, brown/gray grunge on the pavement when it starts to melt...and it's still too cold for shorts!

if I didn't ski and snowshoe I wouldn't enjoy the hassles of snow. At this point in my life I enjoy it. I do love the tropics...one day who knows?

in Dallas? I'd rather deal with snow than ice.

If that's any kind of answer.

Every once in awhile we get a pretty severe ice storm. It just freezes (pun intended) the city up.

We haven't had one in about 3 years, maybe more.

Since I learned to drive in Nebraska I can handle it pretty well. I often travel back, and during the winter, driving.

I've actually run into more ice in Oklahoma or Kansas then you ever do in Texas. It's just miserable up there in the winter.

I often ask my friends, "Why do you still live here?"

....Most of the time....no answer, just that they always have, will probably never move.

here in Kansas than ice.

But, I've been there done that, and seen the turnpike closed.

Yes, more snow than ice. Which means you have snow and ice.

One of the reasons that Texas closes down, is we don't have the equipment to deal with it when it happens every 3 years. Why buy it?

Just close the schools and businesses and hunker down for a day or two. Then it melts off. NBD. Up there, it goes on forever!

It was really beautiful though, those big fluffy flakes all day long. I could do without the cold though.

We went to Florida Jan. 30 through Feb. 11. I loved the few days that were in the 50's and 60's. All the little dogs had their sweaters on. I swam in the pool in the evenings. Pool temperature was about 87 degrees.

I love cold weather -- sunny, dry, and LESS than 70 degrees! I get to visit summer because even with the mild winters here in Portland, we get away from the cloud cover to warm places because my husband loves the heat.

It's good we have each other. I always tell him, if you're comfortable, I'm probably sweating, and if I'm comfortable, you're probably freezing. I love ya anyway, honey, and wouldn't have it any other way...

Can't stand the cold much.

Luckily my wife feels the same, and she grew up in London where the winters are pretty chilly.

Me? I grew up in Mich., Wisc, Nebr. I just got sick of it.

If you like it....more power to ya...not me...:)

What is there to be jealous about?

So it doesn't matter.

I'm a night owl and laid off right now so I rarely have to leave the house. I prefer it this way.

...I feel sorry for you for both of those things.

I cannot say I'm in you same position, but I'm trying to scare up some work too, but I love the outside (when it's nice.)

Hey! Chin up, and good luck!

No need to feel bad, I hate the sun and I don't feel like I'm missing anything. I'm not a hermit or a recluse, LOL.

... because my daughter, son-in-law and husband all hated the winter. I was outvoted... would have stayed in the Northeast if I had been married to a guy who loved winter! (My ex-husband is still living in South Hero, VT with the woman he married a couple of weeks after we got divorced. They do spend winters in Hilton Head, S.C., however.)

Both of the men in my family are software engineers. Some of the places we could consider were Silicon Valley (around San Jose, California), Seattle and Portland, OR. So our compromise was to Portland, where my son-in-law got a job at Intel and my husband worked on IT contracts until the tech field took a big hit in 2001.

We're retired volunteers now; traveling and loving it! In peace, Radio_Lady

Traveling can be good. I'm not sure I would want to do it.

Thanks for sharing, Radio Lady.

-LInTx

In Jersey. Walked outside with a sweatshirt on and felt warm

I'm at school in newark right now

now if this thread had been posted when it was in single digits...
:nuke: :silly:

Since I was a kid, here in Michigan. I can deal with cold, I can't deal with hot, anything over 70 degrees. Next year, when I retire, I'm thinking about going to the UP, or northern Minnesota, or Canada. The strange thing is, I've met a lot of people who feel the same. To each his/her own. :toast:

...I was born in Kalamazoo. Family moved to Milwaukee area, then to Omaha.

I just LOVE the UP, but now I live in Texas, and I guess I'm "acclimatized" or something.

I was up at the Shipwreck Museum a couple of years ago, just off where the "Fitz" sank, for a couple of days, IN THE SUMMER, and I froze my butt off!

It must be all of what you get used to.

in the fall, which for some reason(please don't make me research this)makes us more able to deal with cold. All I remember from the health class I took is that if you're born and raised in a warm climate, and move north, it takes about 7 years to adjust. If you're born and raised in the north, and move south, the adjustment is about two years. BTW, I love the UP too. Don't tell anyone about it, or the rich people will turn it into another money ghetto.

Rain for the next week and a half is my kind of weather.

on Ohio's Eastern Shore today. Beautiful day, lots of sunshine, I even fired up the grill and cooked out. Spring is on the way!!!

Windy and damp. Nasty weather.

I'm going to be in your fair city next month for a business thing, and have never been. I hear the weather is usually pretty fantastic.

Cold? Wow.

THE WEATHER SUCKS HERE

have you ever shoveled snow?

Yes, it gets hot, but, damn we have nice springs and falls.

I like the weather here in the Lone Star State.

I can always go inside and cool down.

(Actually the worst thing about Texas weather is the bloody humidity, if it weren't for that, who would care about the heat?)

and I would prefer shoveling after a blizzard than 99 degrees at 10:00 at night

And our "springs" and "falls" last like a COUPLE OF WEEKS

Yep, it can be 99 at 10 p.m. But how long does that last?

I'm going to have to take some disagreement with the 2 week spring and fall thing.

Granted, spring does not seem to last too long, but here in north Texas we have pretty long falls.

No, we don't have the riot of "tree-turning" like the north does, but October, November, pretty much of December are temperate.

I cooked on the patio on the BBQ on Christmas Day.

If you really like shoveling cars, sidewalks, driveways, biting cold, and all of the rest of that, I have no problem.

I don't.

from May to part of October!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

when it is 150 degrees there with 1000% humidity. :)

Still, in the evening. I build the fire in the chiminea, we open the doors up. (If humidity is down, of course.) Nice breeze from the lake, not bad.

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But a cold front hit about 9:30, and we are down to the 40's. So Winter is still here in the Panhandle of Texas. But hey Spring is trying to break in, and the storms should be here soon. Can not wait. Want some thunder and lightening.

Can't be far off from Dallas then, I'm thinking.

Any rain yet?

but we should have it here tomorrow through Friday.

it started raining this morning.

35-40 degrees rainy winters, and the 90 to 100+ summers. The only good seasons there were late spring and early fall. I decided to move back to Wisconsin and get All 4 good seasons. I know I'm bitching but some bad things happened to me down in San Antonio. I hope you can understand. Congrats on getting out of the 700 club.
:toast:

I'm not sure I'd like living in SA either, nice place to visit etc.

Yes, I lived in Wisconsin too, yes 4 seasons were nice, but I only felt we had summer for about a month and a half. Loved the upper part of Wisc. in summer (when it started in like JULY!) and the UP of Mich.

I guess I'm more of a warm blooded animal.

To each his own!

I was born in Buffalo, NY, been to the arctic five times, antarctic seven times, asked to be stationed in Alaska, consider Maine my home. I actually prefer the cold :)

Like girls walking around on the beach in practically nothing, or guys (if your a female) with shorts and bare chests?

It's just a thought. All parkas and snowsuits most of the time. UCH.

When I go to the grocery in the summer, it's a feast for the eyes. And that's the bloody grocery!

I love that. Then it got cold again tonight and had to put it up again.

Meh, can't complain.

I don't envy you at all. I am a winter person. I could live very comfortably if it was in the 40s year 'round.

indoors because it's just to damn hot outside to do anything.

jacket to work .

I also love the long fall, and very moderate winter weather here.


Those summer months when the temp just never goes down are miserable,
but at least up here in FW we don't have the humidity that Houston does.

I have come to truly enjoy North Texas weather for the most part.


Although the famous 2 day ice storm of two years ago was a real event.
Shut the entire metroplex down for 2 days. The freeway system was a big old skating park!!!

We have fireplaces, and when summer rolls around, I think about you melting into your car seat because you left the windows up.

/volley

It's 19F here with a bit of a breeze, and I just got back from an invigorating 45 minute jog. I like the fact that there are 4 distinct and very different seasons where I live. My only complaint about the winter is that when it gets cold cold (below 0 fahrenheit), it takes forever to get all the necessary layers on to be prepared to go outside...especially with a toddler.

A. There are more pleasant days in the Midwest during the year than in TX.

B. There are way more glorious Summer nights here in Chicago. You know, the one's where a perfect 80 degree day goes on forever with big puffy clouds and low humidity and the sun doesn't set until 9:40 and....well nevermind. I'm sure you have no idea that such weather exists.

C. Talk to me in August when you feet are melting to the pavement. Not just for a day, or a week....but continuously, for months on end.

D. And when you still slappin' mosquitos in November...I'll be sittin' by the fire outside in a sweater, with an Irish coffee.

sunny and 41 degrees by day and 19 degrees at night... there might be something good to be said about global warming after all.