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:

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 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 I 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. IT'S ABOUT THE
TRUTH. LOL

Kind of funny in a warped way, come up to Seattle and you will find out what rust is about. It's not a tan, it"s rust.:D:D:D:D:D:D

Sorry .. not me ..haha.. I've been in Texas since 1979. Love this heat!!! The temperature in Houston is actually not that bad.... around 100. If it's 115, it's probably up in Dallas / Forth Worth area. :tumble:

I haven't hated living in the desert but above 105 starts to cause you to stay inside. Shade in the parking lots is primo. No grass in my yard, but no cacti either. A few palm trees though. A far different landscape than East TN where I grew up.

just too funny to pass up!

My friends in Dallas are reporting 110 degrees at night right now. I check my pond in the back yard and half the water already evaporated. Would be much more tolerable if it was dry here. Feels like a sauna outside.

Loved it! That would surely be me if I lived in TX. If it is over 65, I tend to get miserable! I think I need to live in Montana!

LOL! I'd like to be sympathetic with the guy, but it is 132*F in the compartment I'm workin in on the aircraft carrier.The sun shines on the side and the deck above,so by noon the metal is just full of built up solar energy.And the ventilation system is shutoff,so the heat just radiates like an oven. Sometimesit sux being a weldngod.

Newport News Ship Building Welngod? Do they still have that crane, Big Blue? (think thats what they called it)

Wickedly funny story is so much like OZ in summer, bring on the heat I say, beats wearing sweaters