Re: a few tips for coping w/ heat from East Texas

You need to borrow someones' pool!

Theresa

Kitty wrote:

>No bath/shower?  Can you go to a friend's house somewhere else in town
>that's not affected?
>Kitty
>neIN, Z5
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Pam Evans" <gardenqueen@gmail.com>
>To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 7:18 PM
>Subject: Re: [CHAT] a few tips for coping w/ heat from East Texas
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>>It's not aluminum siding, it's that old shiplap wood siding.  Wish I
>>had aluminum or vinyl siding - wouldn't have to paint then.  And that
>>old wood is thirsty boy, really drinks up the paint.  And now we've
>>got a water main break so all our water is turned off.  So much for
>>getting a bath tonight!   Plus I wan't done watering yet - bah!!
>>
>>
>>On 7/3/05, Donna <gossiper@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>>>Excuse me... but why are you painting aluminum siding? I once lived in a
>>>wood house years ago....the paint claimed one coat guaranteed. When it
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>bled
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>>>thru, they gave me the second coat of paint free...
>>>
>>>Donna
>>>Who now lives in brick houses...
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>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
>>>>Behalf Of Kitty
>>>>Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 1:51 PM
>>>>To: gardenchat@hort.net
>>>>Subject: Re: [CHAT] a few tips for coping w/ heat from East Texas
>>>>
>>>>Pam, I've done it twice.  Once by myself and the other time with a
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>little
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>>>>help from my husband, but not much.  Both houses were alumninum siding
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>so
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>>>>I
>>>>had to first clean the chalk off.  On the first house I did, the owner
>>>>decided to go cheap and did not get the paint I told him to get.
>>>>Consequently I had to paint it twice to cover properly.  I'm a lot
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>older
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>>>>now
>>>>and I worry that someday I'll have to paint this house again; it's
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>been 19
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>>>>years with a 15 year-rated paint.  It has faded, but coverage is still
>>>>good.
>>>>Tan over the original chartreuse-yellow.  I wouldn't paint in such
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>high
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>>>>temps though if I could help it.  Good luck.
>>>>
>>>>Kitty
>>>>neIN, Z5
>>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>>From: "Pam Evans" <gardenqueen@gmail.com>
>>>>To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>>>>Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 12:44 PM
>>>>Subject: Re: [CHAT] a few tips for coping w/ heat from East Texas
>>>>
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>>>>>Well it's 92 now - THI of 99 and I just came in from starting my
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>house
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>>>>>painting project this morning.  Painting a white house on a warm day
>>>>>is rough.  All the reflection from the white siding has me feeling a
>>>>>tad fried.  Just moved the hose and am going to make me some lunch.
>>>>>At this rate it'll be the end of the year before I get done w/ this
>>>>>but that's OK.  I have to wait until the first frost kills the tops
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>of
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>>>>>the cannas before I can even get to part of the house.  Then I'll
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>have
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>>>>>to finish before all the Spring bulbs start to pop up in February.
>>>>>No wonder house painters charge so much.  What a pain.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>On 7/2/05, Cathy Carpenter <cathy.c@insightbb.com> wrote:
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>>>>>>Probably not...
>>>>>>It was 55 this morning at 6AM - glorious! But we need rain - have
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>had
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>>>>>>to water parts of the swamp, even.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Cathy, west central IL, z5b
>>>>>>
>>>>>>On Jul 1, 2005, at 9:24 PM, Donna wrote:
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>>>>>>>Does it really make a difference? I am sure it was at least a
>>>>>>>hundred on
>>>>>>>Sunday.. thought I was gonna die! (in her best Gilda Radner as
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>>>>>>>
>>>>Rosanna
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>>>>>>>voice)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Ok- this is IL-- it should not be in the high 90's for weeks
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>here...
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>>>>>>>especially in June!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Donna
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>Felt like 100, or was 100? We haven't had an actual 100 yet,
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>and
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>>>>I'm
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>>>>>>>>several hundred miles south and west of you. I'm glorying in
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>>>>today's
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>>>>>>>>temperatures... it's a "weed the swamp" day!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Cathy, west central IL, z5b
>>>>>>>>                
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>>>>>Pam Evans
>>>>>Kemp TX
>>>>>zone 8A
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>>-- 
>>Pam Evans
>>Kemp TX
>>zone 8A
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