RE: heat and water

Hum- is that how you got hooked up with that circus group? Were they
performing there and liked your sheep?

Donna
Ducking and running....


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> Behalf Of james singer
> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 2:39 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] heat and water
> 
> I got caught in one of those desert gully washers between St George,
> Utah, and Lost Wages one summer as I was driving a truckload of sheep
> from Longmont, Colorado, to Fresno. Not fun. By the time we got to LV
> we were driving in water over the hubcaps. VWs and other small cars had
> been swept into storm drains along the sides of the roads. Finally took
> refuge in the Circus Circus garage.
> 
> On Aug 8, 2005, at 11:25 AM, Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSR wrote:
> 
> > I was born in Los Angeles. I remember when I was little, and on the
> > radio
> > was playing that syrupy song "Little Green Apples". I was old enough
> > to know
> > that the singer was saying things that weren't supposed to be true,
> > but the
> > part about "it don't rain in (wherever) in the summertime" baffled me.
> > Because I knew even then, you see, that it DOESN'T rain in the
> > summertime.
> > It rains in the winter.
> > And here I am, mumble years later, and when we get a summer
> > thunderstorm all
> > us desert rats go out to watch, and stand in rain if we can. It's a
> > rare
> > treat. Although this summer has been a little odd - we've had
> > thunderstorms
> > pretty frequently over the past month. Last week we had lightning
> > warnings
> > almost every day and they are supposed to continue this week. On
> > Saturday it
> > did rain a little at my house.
> > So I went out to stand in it, of course!
> >
> > Cyndi
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> > Behalf
> > Of David Franzman
> > Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 8:28 PM
> > To: gardenchat@hort.net
> > Subject: [CHAT] heat and water
> >
> > Hi folks
> >
> > Just thought of an addition sparked by Pam's comment about how hot it
> > gets
> > here.  In northern Ca. it doesn't stay as hot as Texas that's for
> > sure.  We
> > have the cool ocean breezes that come in in the form of fog that keeps
> > us in
> >
> > a perpetual heat wave.  But many folks in the Sacramento and San
> > Joaquin
> > Valleys experience that kind of heat and then some.  That's not to
> > mention
> > southern Ca. in the desert regions where those are the normal type of
> > temps.
> >
> > My friend in Phoenix hasn't had a drop of rain since January where
> > they got
> > so much it almost flooded them out of house and home...but none since
> > then.
> >
> > Again, we're set up for that and I think that's the difference.
> > Mentally we
> >
> > don't expect any rain and so it's not depressing when it doesn't come.
> >  I
> > remember when we went through a decade long drought in the 80's and it
> > sucked.  You would see the clouds come over and break up before it
> > dropped
> > anything.  I know what it's like and I hate droughts so even though
> > I'm a
> > smart--- I do feel your pain Pam.
> >
> > David
> > http://www.atouchofthetropics.net
> >
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> Island Jim
> Southwest Florida
> 27.0 N, 82.4 W
> Hardiness Zone 10
> Heat Zone 10
> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> Maximum 100 F [38 C]
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