Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Sat 21 Jun 2008 10:19:20a, George Shirley told us...
>
>> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>> On Sat 21 Jun 2008 06:58:06a, jmcquown told us...
>>>
>>>> Nancy Young wrote:
>>>>> notbob wrote:
>>>>>> On 2008-06-20, mequeenbe.nospam > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> live in socal, i'll come & help you cook for a dinner
>>>>>>> party/breakfast party/bunch over for lunch...name it.
>>>>>> Ahh... Harriet, you are such a sweetheart. I would love to take you
>>>>>> up on you gracious offer, but I live over a thousand miles away.
>>>>>> I'm sure it's just a short-lived state of mind due to being so far
>>>>>> away from my daughter and GDs and long time CA friends. There are
>>>>>> other issues, but I'll not bore you with them. Thank you.
>>>>> Have you thought of taking up walking? Get an ipod shuffle or
>>>>> a walkman and you'd be surprised how much better you feel
>>>>> after walking a mile or three listening to music. How about biking?
>>>>>
>>>>> nancy
>>>> I'm thinking of taking up walking or getting a bicycle but it's so
>>>> friggin hot (tropical hot) here in South Carolina I'd probably faint
>>>> dead away before I made it around the block. I don't have much
>>>> tolerance for this climate. It's humid in the Memphis area, sure, but
>>>> somehow it's different down here surrounded by salt water marshes.
>>>> Even when it's only in the 80's temperature-wise it's extra sticky.
>>>> Almost feels like I'm back in Bangkok. (I didn't fare very well there,
>>>> either.)
>>>>
>>>> Jill
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Of course it's a "dry heat" here in AZ <g>, but the only time I see
>>> people biking, walking, jogging, etc., is around 6:00 a.m. or earlier,
>>> before the heat really comes out. At 8:00 a.m. this morning, it was
>>> already 97°F. This entire week has been a succession of 112, 113, 113,
>>> 112, 113, 114, beginning with Sunday.
>>>
>> That's why so many folks go to Arizona in the wintertime. We've been
>> thinking about a winter trip to Stanton to metal detect for gold
>> nuggets. Might even have to wear a long-sleeved shirt then. <VBG>
>
> Yes, we have a lot of snowbirds that winter here, but the window of their
> stay varies considerably. Some come just for the winter and others stay
> the entire year except for the summer. And, yes, you might just need a
> long-sleeved shirt in Stanton during the winter.
>
> I spent several separate weeks up in Payson during January training some
> our staff at one of our sites. I never needed a coat, although sometimes
> they do up there. There were threats of snow storms, but I never saw one
> during my stay.
>
Don't mention snow please. I won't go anywhere that white stuff falls or
where anything freezes outside of the freezer compartment of a
refrigerator. I turned down a very lucrative job in Alaska because they
said I would have to winter over on the North Slope.