Welcome to Texas, Carrie! Hope you love it here as much as some of us do.
TEXAS: its a whole nother world, thankfully !
I very much hope to love it! It would be so wonderful to love it, and I am starting to dislike Boston! I can't dislike everything..some people do and I don't want to be one of those people.
Carrie, be warned!! It's already in low 90s with high humidity. :/
The heat today is pretty rough for sure. But every area has it's faults.
It's FREEZING back here....I'm in bed with the covers up to my knees. Do you guys all have tans and lie out in bikinis all summer?
In our dreams, maybe, but Texas sun can cook you to a crisp in no time. Seriously.
You will probably find less tans here than in MA. We chuckle as our MN kinfolk will get out the bikinis and sunbathe at 50 degrees if the sun is shining.
Here I "a/c bathe" during the heat of the day and work the yard/garden in the morning or evening when the sun is weaker.
This humidity is grim right now. The 'wind' map keeps showing it being drawn off the gulf. C'mon rain!
Ok, Kristi. haha. I remember your wind map. A/c bathe1
But when the sun isn't up, the mesquitoes are out to get you!
I'll go home then, or in then. (Back-peddling here.)
Tans are different in different states, Texas tan resembles leather, Calif tans are 'golden beaches' tan - seriously, was told we had a mini quake in Nacogdoches today- see- we have a bit of everything!
Did you deel it ?
My fb friends say they have them up in OK a lot but most they never feel.
me? no
Didn't Burleson or points west have lots of small ones a year or two past?
They are suspecting the Nac earthquake is possible fracking issues here also.
Lots of gas wells have been drilled in this area over the past two or three years.
http://www.ktre.com/story/18253128/39-earthquake-hits-east-texas
Coming from shakyland I will tell you why you don't feel most of the quakes it has to do more with the depth shallow faults cause the real damage if you want track the quakes go to the USGS site it is very complete will show the time and severity as well as how deep..In Nevada we lived practically on top of a shallow fault it was quite active but also very small ..It was more annoying than anything else,,
There were several quakes down in Cleburne last year. They also think those were caused by the drilling going on.
Carrie
when is your ETA ?
I was there last weekend, now I'm back in Boston for MD appointments and so on. Absolutely in Euless full time permanently after June 1! OMG!!! Can't wait for a real bed, stuff like that. Cooked food instead of drive-through, etc. (DH is on the Aerobed, poor thing.)
Well Carrie ?
Please share your thoughts
on living in Texas so far...
Texas hugs
Maybe we better not ask her, I don't think she is too thrilled with the heat we are having.
She is likely thinking like an old friend was when told that he could either except a transfer to Empire Nv. or hell ,he said " I din't know it was the same place" untill I got here ..
Bahahaha!
Very funny Grits!!!
It's ummmm HOT. But I'm having fun! Everyone I'm meeting is from somewhere else--Iowa, Idaho, Georgia, elsewhere.
We import a lot of folx into Texas, usually they bring their cultures with them- and food! Closer to Houston the trail rides and chili Cookoffs are happening - then toward San Antone there are the beer festivals, flea markets, strawberry festivals, summers end rodeos, but, look around! Our nickname for Euless is Useless, Bedford- Bedroom, etc
Hostas are basic low plants for any yard or pot in Texas . Sylvia just sent me a big bag and if I don't get her postage in the mail she'll think I'm a deadbeat .
I'm posting from Georgia but have to have my Texas winter , six months out of the year . I ARE a born TEXAN ! God smiled on me .
Yes, I've heard of Useless Euless. What do you call Hurst?
I call William rich
Useless Bedroom Hurts
Texas grassburrs hurts too .
Chuckl, Texas is a Lot like Arizona in that, if it doesn't stick you, bite you, scratch you, claw you, or poison you, it isn't native, I can name more stickers than grassburs to cause bodily harm to you, chuckl
I've been pulling them up by the roots , before the stickers get hard , for three years . I think my neighbor brought them in on the tires of his lawn mower when he does me a favor and mows while I'm out of state .
They lay dormant for abt 5 yrs, animals carry them in too
hahaha Useless Bedroom Hurts! I think it's hurting DH more than me!
Chuckl, it really is sad, I do feel for what he's having to deal with, hadn't expected that to EVER make sense to me, was nicknamed along with Cowtown long before my time.
Cowtown is my stomping grounds (Fort Worth) for Carrie, who probably doesn't know. It is also "where the west begins" (Will Rogers once said). We are a laid back though cultural too, home loving, Texas loving city. A restaurant once had T-shirts made that said " In Dallas it's Sushi...in Fort Worth it's bait".
Hahahaha that's a good one. Except of course, coming from the place where they actually CATCH the fish, we are terrified to eat fish out here. Way too far from the ocean. DH is at the airport all day watching shipments of frozen seafood thaw out and get re-frozen when they get picked up 4 hours later after a delay. (Shudder.) Not eating sushi in Dallas! I had a wonderful tuna steak in Las Colinas before we moved but knowing what I know now....no way.
Btw there's a lobster surplus in Maine this year for some reason, so they are trying to think of more ways to use it--lobster butter and jelly sandwiches? Kraft lobster and cheese? McLobster sandwiches in the kids' meals?
Yeah, seafood is best close to where it's caught- not that I eat any of it with a seafood allergy- can't even stomach the fish pills Dr wants me to take, yuk, shudder,
I was allergic to something a few weeks ago and the ER nurse told me I was allergic to TEXAS. Very helpful. Not.
No, don't eat fish. Are you allergic to all seafood, or crustaceans (lobsters, shrimp, crabs), or fish (uh, cod, tuna, trout) or bivalves (oysters, clams, scallops, mussels)?