Dear Diary

Betsy

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Dear Diary

Just moved to Texas ! Now this is a state that knows how to live!! Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. It is 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 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 ****s. I learned my lesson though. No more pets in this heat. Good ol' Mr. Sun strikes again.

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 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:

It's 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 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 when sat on the seats in the car, I thought my ass 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 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 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 damn heat.

Aug.
14th:

Welcome to HELL! Temperature got to 115 today. Cactus are dead. Forgot to crack the window and blew the damn 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.:rolleyes:
 
My memories of Texas temperatures in the fifties had become vague until a revisit in 2003. Driving to a downtown hotel in Austin during rush hour was pure unadulterated hell but it made me mentally revisit those beautiful warm
(?) Texas summer days and nights. :D

Of course the best past of that day was the evening later spent at the Broken Spoke, cooling off with some ice cold Lone Star in between a lot of two-step with my bride of (at that time) 41 years!!
 
Y'alls a bunch of pansies. I grew up in El Paso and trust me it gets a lot hotter there than east Texas.
 
Ok.... El Paso aint got $#!T on my motorcycle ride last week.... I kid you not!!

Southern California.. decided to go through the Anza-Borego State Park to get back to the 8 Freeway from Julian... usually a nice ride... geat scenery.. all that... well...

it was 111 degrees in Borego Springs... hot.. but doable... the air temp on my bike read 120... now that's hot... but of course... it' either drive slow and take a longer trip... or drive fast and make it feel hotter... no brainer.. grin and bear it doin about 70 or more... which turned that heat index factor (got no idea how they calculate it.. but that's what "experts" in the next town said) of 135-145 degrees.... there were what felt like pockets of intense heat... and I swear I could hear my skin crisp and burn when I hit them... like the rice crispies.... I had a bottle of gatorade in my lap that I filled with ice cubes and water... 30 minutes later.. it was too hot to drink... .. ok... could go on and on and on... but you get the idea... it doesn't get much hotter than that. BUT... I can check it off on my list of stuff I've done.
 
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