Ugg....I'd sooner go back to Minnesota winters than live with heat and humidity like that ~ not that we don't have it here from time to time. It's gets very hot here but it's usually not too humid when it does.
Callas are going bloom happy....
In 2004, my DH and I went to PA.....in August. It was so humid all you had to do was stand outside for a few minutes and the sweat would start rolling off your arms. We were doing some geocaching and the papers we had with us got moist just from being outside with us. I had never experienced anything like that before.
I reckon it just goes back to what we were saying...folks like what they are used to, or they grow to like somethign new as they get older...and some folks prefer the colder states while others prefer the warmer states. It didn't take much to prsuade my hubby to come down here after living his whole life up north...we would come down here in Janaury or February and leave eight inches of snow on the ground in Illinois...get down here and have to turn the AC on in our hotel room. After that, all I had to do was remind him that when he was a kid he used to watch the bowl games on TV and see the cheerleaders in the South wearing skimpy uniforms while the ones from up north were all bundled up...and he would think to himself, "Why can't we live down there where the girls run around half naked through the bowl season?!?!"
ROTFL!!! That is good incentive. I might want to live in a warmer place but without a lot of humidity. I don't want it totally dry tho. I din't know where that would be, so I'll stay here where it's different every month. For me each change has it's place. Today it's getting hot and humid. I stayed in and cleaned the house good! Even the bathroom - ick!
It always cracked me up how folks in the Midwest compalined about the heat and humidity down here. My first summer in KC, it got up to 108 and the humidity ws in the 90% range. The hottest I have ever seen it down here was 102...and I only saw that once in 35+ years. But I guess it is psycholgoical...it is the South, therefor it must be hotter and more humid. But I imagine it also has a lot ot do with how long the summer are here. It gets warm a good 6-8 weeks earlier. Whiel my MIL was fighting snow, it was 85 degrees here. And it gets cold up there in October and I have seen winters here where it was in the 60s every day. They are rare, but they do happen. For the most part, our winters last for abut 6-8 weeks...and the average temp is usually about 60 with ocassional dips down to 32 or a little below. One year it actually dropped into the single digits and people's pipes froze because they didn't know how to deal with it. I will probably miss the foliage change ths year...but I have my oakleaf hydrangeas, and I have two popcorn (melliluca) trees...the oakleaf hydrangeas turn red int he fall and scarlet to purple in the witner.....and the popcorn trees turn bright red in the fall....which is probably the only reason they have not been eradicated since they are considred nixious and are even illegal to import into Florida. I haven't cut mine down because I do like the colro change...and because it sits outside my guest room window at just the right hdight. the birds love to eat the berries off of it, so the cats sit in the window and squeak threats at the birds who they think are taunting them, "Nanny nanny boo boo...you can't get me!" And this spring I found yet another redeeming quality to this tree.....when it blooms, it smells so sweet!
But, I'm going to have to keep my eyes open for one of those dwarf blue spruces like your Fat Albert. That is one cool looking tree. Not sure where I would put it....but I want one!!!!!
Nice thing about Fat Albert is, it's supposed to be slow growing and only get 10' tall, or so, and 5' - 6' wide. Perfect for x-mas lights. I guess that's my biggest reason for staying thru winter. Lights wouldn't be the same without snow. Since we have a one story house, a tall pine would look out of place.
You will have to send me pics of Fat Albert with snow on his branches and twinkling lights peeking through the snow! I don't miss the snow, but I do mis how quiet it got during a snow storm.....and how neat Christmas lights look when they are buried under several inches of snow and the glow seems to radiate all around the lights....
The best snow is a warm snow. I love the big puffy flakes, and as you said, the perfect quiet in which they fall. I will take pictures. I don't know how they will turn out, but maybe we'll have a better camera by then.
Yep...big fat wet flakes...that are perfect of making snowballs to throw at your MIL and narcissitic SIL...LOL! Hee hee hee hee hee......
LOL!!!! MIL? Laughing!!!
I like to make a huge snowball as the base for a snowman and then try to lift another heavy one for the body. We haven't had that much snow since 1977, or that I can remember. We also haven't had 20*- zero either, and lets keep it that way!
I wanted to make some Calvin and Hobbes type snowmen before we left snow country...but I can't lift the big snow balls and couldn't even get my hubby's niece and nephew to help me (back to the narcissitic SIL again...her kids were not allowed to 'play' with me lest they find out I'm more fun than their mom). I wanted to do one by the interstate hitchhiking and holding a sign that read, "Florida or Bust"...and then I wanted to put one by the smelly manufacturing plant that polluted the air and contriubuted to DH's cancer...that one would have been 'mooning' the plant. Oh well......life is full of disappointments and if that is the worst one I have to deal with, I think I'll survive....
I love Calvin and Hobbs!!!
SIL, I got a better one than I had. I actually like her. The other, tried to fake it.
Good idea for snowmen. Love the mooning idea! I would have had some food coloring just to define a few good lines.
And some old pants around the ankles....LOL!
My SIL is evil. No other word for it...just plain evil.
ROTFL!!! I didn't think of pants. That would define very well!
Bet her kids know who is fun and who isn't!
She has them so brain washed, they don't have a clue. The daughter is learnign a little now that she is out on her own. It is nice to see her blossom now that she is not in that environment anymore.
Both kids may come out of it. I never saw the need to do that to a kid. What does she have against you? (Rhetorical question.) I hope you can have a relationship with both kids someday. By not badmouthing their mother, they will start to see that you're not so bad. You have a good sense of humor!
Bama, I new there must be some yankee in you. I love Calvin and Hobbs also. I always thought the best time of day was early in the morning after a good snow before everyone was out and about and the roads hadn't been cleared yet. On my way home from work after the night shift I used to roll the windows down and turn the radio and heater off. You could barely hear the car engine. Everything was so quiet, no road noise or nothing. Just peace, quiet and beauty everywhere.
I'm a night owl, so I rarely see mornings except from the abckside. However, when you don't go to bed till 2, 3 or 4 AM, and it starts snowing at 8 PM, you can sit and watch the snow fall with those big fat falkes....and then, before you go to bed, you can go outside and not listen to anything...LOL! It is soo peaceful.
I could always tell when it ws going to snow, too...there is something about snow clouds taht prevents light from escaping (rain clouds don't do that). I"d look outside and the mercury vapor lights would be reflected abck down to the earth and it would get really bright.
Once the snow fell and it was also reflecting the light, it would be bright as day even though it was the middle fo the night and you couldn't see the moon...but it would be a weird orangeish, reddish colored light ebcause of the mercury vapor.
We lived near places with lots of merury vapor lights both in KC and Illinois...so I will probably always associate that orange glow with snow. LOL!
We always say if the sky is the same color as the snow on the roof it will snow. Sometimes you can't tell sky and roof apart. It's usually works.