Good to be back ....

[slide5r4fun]

When you first started describing your symptoms I thought for a minute that maybe Jerry Jones was working you over with a voodoo doll or something. Go Cowboys!

Seriously B47, all kidding aside. Glad you are home and feeling better. Take it easy for a while.

[B47]

Originally Posted by slide5r4fun

When you first started describing your symptoms I thought for a minute that maybe Jerry Jones was working you over with a voodoo doll or something. Go Cowboys!

Seriously B47, all kidding aside. Glad you are home and feeling better. Take it easy for a while.

Oh Man I started smiling reading the first couple lines of your message and I see JJ and Go Cowboys and everything went downhill after that:roflblack

You going to the game tomorrow ? I predict Giants 27 -Cowgirls 10.

Thanks for the kind thoughts.

[GASPEDDLER]

I'm currently repairing the roof of my well pump shed and even though it's a cool 86 degrees and somewhat cloudy, I had to step inside twice to cool off Guess I'm not as young or as in shape as I used to be.

[B47]

Originally Posted by GASPEDDLER

I'm currently repairing the roof of my well pump shed and even though it's a cool 86 degrees and somewhat cloudy, I had to step inside twice to cool off Guess I'm not as young or as in shape as I used to be.

86 degrees and your in Texas? It's 99 here currently.

[GASPEDDLER]

Very cool for a September day in Texas!

[B47]

Originally Posted by GASPEDDLER

Very cool for a September day in Texas!

I thought you guys would down there would be hotter than us up here - that 88 does seem a bit lower than normal to me.

[slide5r4fun]

Originally Posted by B47

Oh Man I started smiling reading the first couple lines of your message and I see JJ and Go Cowboys and everything went downhill after that:roflblack

You going to the game tomorrow ? I predict Giants 27 -Cowgirls 10.

Thanks for the kind thoughts.

I was hoping the JJ/Cowboys comment wasn't going to make you bust a blood vessel.

Not going to the game tomorrow but will certainly be watching it at home while enjoying a couple of cold ones. I think you've got the score backwards though, I think the Boys will take this one.

[GASPEDDLER]

Originally Posted by B47

I thought you guys would down there would be hotter than us up here - that 88 does seem a bit lower than normal to me.

Courtesy of a tropical disturbance out in the Gulf. Lots of clouds and wet stuff.

[B47]

Originally Posted by slide5r4fun

I was hoping the JJ/Cowboys comment wasn't going to make you bust a blood vessle.

Not going to the game tomorrow but will certainly be watching it at home while enjoying a couple of cold ones. I think you've got the score backwards though, I think the Boys will take this one.

Same here - home with a few cold bottles of Rolling Rock ( got to keep hydrated ) and No the score is correct as posted

I'm sending you a PM reply.

[B47]

Originally Posted by GASPEDDLER

Courtesy of a tropical disturbance out in the Gulf. Lots of clouds and wet stuff.

Send some of it up here

[campnqueen]

Remember... it doesnt have to always be hot to get dehydrated... Drink MORE WATER everybody!!

[B47]

Originally Posted by campnqueen

Remember... it doesnt have to always be hot to get dehydrated... Drink MORE WATER everybody!!

Good advice

[GASPEDDLER]

Another sign of dehydration to look for is; are you urinating (taking a leak, for my fellow Texans) regularly. If you are not urinating or if the urine is dark, you may be dehydrated.

[Weezer]

Send it up here! We're locked in high 90s with rain so scarce we're all under a burn ban.

(paid a neighbor boy to water all my plants (and our chickens) while we were gone for 10 days....grrrrr...showed him how three times....

Long story short...arrived after midnight and instead of unpacking essentials and going to bed I was "emergency watering" the chickens and the plants.

thankfully I didn't pay him in advance, so we had a talk with him in front of his parents about responsibility, docked his pay and then adjusted that due to the fact that for *some* reason he raked up a *huge* pile of leaves for us....makes no sense...raking leaves is harder work and takes longer.

We explained we would be doing him no favor if we paid him in full for a half arsed job. Damn near lost a couple of my most cherished plants....*blue* hibiscus tree and my dwarf pomegranate tree. grrrrrrr


OK, off topic rant over...

Glad you're doin' better B.

[F and E Damp]

B47:

Yeah it rains a fair bit in late fall and winter, but we only get an average of 20" or so a year in Anacortes. The majority of the crappy wet weather comes from the southwest, and a lot of the time, the Olympic mountains shelter us from the worst of it.

The worst feature is that it's "gentle rain". After 24 hours of what we think is "heavy" rain, we've accumulated half an inch. When we lived in Tidewater VA, we'd get 3" in 45 minutes in those 3:30 pm summer thunderstorms.

The other nice thing about our area is that we don't get much snow. Last winter, it snowed twice - a half inch the first time and about 1.5" the second time. Both occasions it was gone the next day. If we want snow, the Mount Baker ski area in less than an hour away.

On average, though, we like Anacortes better than anywhere we've ever lived. It's the only place we've lived in the US that my sister, who lives in the UK, is jealous of our living here!