A post for all you down south guys

[Dennis Eugene]

took a 4 or 5 hour walk with a friend this morning and got a few pics. Just wanted to share them with you poor guys who are already suffering from the heat and fires of summer. Here's one of me,http://i1120.photobucket.com/albums/l497/youngmaster357/P1010056.jpg
and another one of my friend Troy http://i1120.photobucket.com/albums/l497/youngmaster357/P1010054.jpg

[292]

Wow! Went turkey hunting this morning, by the time we got back to the pickup we had worked up a sweat. Too hot.

[Tom W.]

Whazzat white stuff???

[Ratliff]

I don't think he's gonna catch any Bass in that stuff..

[waksupi]

It doesn't look like your tomatoes are up yet.

[WILCO]

Thanks for the pictures Dennis. I'll take the heat for a spell though.

[Dale in Louisiana]

Shame on you! It's eighty-eight degrees down here in southwest Louisiana.

dale in Louisiana

[fatnhappy]

looks like perfect weather for a pig roast or clam bake

[starmac]

It doesn't look like your tomatoes are up yet.

LOL I have been setting my tomatoes out in the daytime, and bringing them in at night,(if I remember) We had a two day cool spell a few days ago, and solved that for me, my tomatoes are graveyard dead. lol

[41 mag fan]

I bet your not sitting in shorts and no shirt on like i am right now.....

[runfiverun]

nope.
i watched a dusting of that get laid down this morning,then watched it get covered in dust this afternoon.

[starmac]

I bet your not sitting in shorts and no shirt on like i am right now.....

I personally only wear shorts when I go swimmin, and the waters still a little cool (and hard in some places) but folks have been running around in them for a month or more. I have worked outside with out a shirt quite a bit, though.

[Casper29]

Thats whi I left Montana and moved to Nevada, Shoot all year long and ride my GoldWing all year long.

[williamwaco]

:twisted:


91 here.

[geargnasher]

96 and dusty here. What IS that white stuff? The only white stuff we get here is kind of yellowish, gets kicked up off the caliche roads, and does tend to coat things.

Gear

[waksupi]

LOL I have been setting my tomatoes out in the daytime, and bringing them in at night,(if I remember) We had a two day cool spell a few days ago, and solved that for me, my tomatoes are graveyard dead. lol

I've been doing the same with most of them, although the ones in the greenhouse seem to be doing fine with no extra heat. A few years ago, after the third planting and being frosted out the last time on June 20, I gave up on 'maters for that season.

[gbrown]

My tomatoes are only about 2-1/2 feet tall and the cucumbers are over a 4 foot chainlink. Temps in the mid 80's. Glad you enjoy that white stuff. I'm good down here in TX. All is good in the world. Thanks for sharing.

[canyon-ghost]

Wow, you gotta be tough to live up there. I wouldn't know what to do with that much winter.

[Lefty SRH]

Wow what a contrast to here in Alabama

[starmac]

When I was a young man, I watched a special on tv where they asked a texan that had worked on the pipeline how he had kept from freezing, he said he got way colder on a deer stand in llano tx. I totally understand that now, I get much colder in tx and nm than I ever do up here. lol

Just because there is snow piled up doesn't mean it is cold, and I can take the cold way easier than the heat down south.

[geargnasher]

When I was a young man, I watched a special on tv where they asked a texan that had worked on the pipeline how he had kept from freezing, he said he got way colder on a deer stand in llano tx. I totally understand that now, I get much colder in tx and nm than I ever do up here. lol

Just because there is snow piled up doesn't mean it is cold, and I can take the cold way easier than the heat down south.

There is much truth to this. I spent over two weeks in SW Colorado last December, it snowed the powdery stuff every few days, lots of sun in between, never got above 25 the whole time and I was comfy during the day in a tee shirt and jeans. I did need earmuffs and a good cover, though. In most places in Texas, when it's 40 degrees at less than 2,000 feet and the dew point is 38, it's MISERABLE, the kind of damp cold that makes everything in your body that you ever tore, pulled, or broke in your life ache really badly.

Gear

[Blacksmith]

I never had to shovel heat!

[starmac]

I never had to shovel heat!

Very true, but I sweated more before daylight, just walking from the front door to the pickup in texas, than I do in a years time here. lol

[jsizemore]

When we got that amount of white stuff it's usually the beach and there's girls in bikinis not some old dude in camo. Thanks for wearing the camo and not a bikini.

[TCLouis]

Here in Tennessee we get fog like that too in the spring.

[SciFiJim]

I'll take the heat and flies. I don't live where it snows for a reason. My knees start to ache just looking at that white stuff. We have snow on the mountain tops here. That's close enough. I can look at it from a long way away and admire it while being warm.

[garym1a2]

ttttttttthhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaattttttttttttttttt, it was only 94 here this weekend.

[RP]

Dennis every think of going in to lawn care ? looks like you only have to work like two weeks out of the year lol

[gbrown]

+1 with Tom W. It was 86 down here today. Nice. My tomato plants are up to about 3.5 feet and the cucumbers are going nuts. About 20 days from now, I'll be picking figs. About 30 days and I'll be giving cucumbers and tomatoes to the neighbors. I'm good with it all. Life is Good! Dennis Eugene--Glad you found your piece of Heaven!!!

[dpaultx]

We haven't had our first 100* day yet this year (last year we had over 100 days in a row that the temp exceeded 100*) but we are already eating garden fresh lettuce and onions and the tomatoes aren't far behind.

I get a kick out of calling my brother, who lives outside of Green Bay, on Sunday afternoons in December and January, after I've come in from mowing the grass, and asking him how his snow blower is working.

[geargnasher]

I never had to shovel heat!

That's a GEM right there! [smilie=l:

I'm stealing that one.

Gear

[Blacksmith]

Gear
Your welcome to it that's the same way I got it.

[nelsonted1]

I moved from Minnesota to Kentucky 15 years ago. The only time I get homesick is in the winter. They, family, do laugh at the Ky heat and humidity but don't dare mention winter weather. Distinct seasons are what I miss. Plus, even 1/2 way down the continental U.S. I am absolutely amazed at the weather pansies. How limp must the people living further south be? Probably boneless wonders.

Ted