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Post by puffy on Jun 14, 2017 11:50:54 GMT -5
I was without air conditioning for two days and I was ready to move to Santa's work shop at the North Pole.When they got the new unit working it was 91 degrees with 82 percent humidity in my house.Now that I'm comfortably sitting and smoking my pipe again I think back to the old days when I was young.My grandparents lived on a farm their whole lives.They had no electricity,and probably didn't know what air conditioning in the home was.I don't know how they did it.They must have been a really tough bunch back in those days.If you've ever worked in a tobacco field in 90 degree sunshine then you know what I'm talking about...I hope all of you are cool and comfy,and enjoying a good smoke
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jun 14, 2017 12:25:20 GMT -5
 Ah yes I remember sleeping on a feather bed , summertime in the high 90s sweat running down to the crack of your arse, sorry Margeret it wouldn't sound good any other way. Glad you're Cooling 
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Post by Darin on Jun 14, 2017 12:25:55 GMT -5
Not tobacco, but I did my share of detasseling corn and bailing hay in the Midwest summers. 
Glad you're back to being as cool as a cucumber ... take care!
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Post by trailboss on Jun 14, 2017 12:30:27 GMT -5
Today we should hit 110 here in Phoenix, had I lived "back in the day", the wagon would have kept rolling.
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Post by Darin on Jun 14, 2017 12:47:07 GMT -5
Charlie ... we're hitting 110 or so here this weekend so you guys are in for some hate ... err ... heat! 
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Post by papipeguy on Jun 14, 2017 16:00:19 GMT -5
I remember taking the "winter" rug out of the living room and putting down the "summer" rug. It was a lighter woven rug. when you laid on it and got up you looked like wheat chex. How did we do it? We were tough and we didn't know any better.
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Post by trailboss on Jun 15, 2017 12:20:01 GMT -5
Charlie ... we're hitting 110 or so here this weekend so you guys are in for some hate ... err ... heat!
121 predicted by Tuesday down here in the valley. I am glad that my A/C in the tractor kicks butt (and I drive nights)....my smoking lounge. weather.com/weather/tenday/l/USAZ0166:1:US |
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Post by Darin on Jun 15, 2017 12:56:03 GMT -5
It's might be another record year just like the last and, hopefully, monsoons will arrive sooner than later. Glad your cab keeps a good chill!  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2017 20:46:28 GMT -5
Just installed a new blower motor on the front AC unit of the Fifth Wheel . Nothing beats being cool all summer long when you live in a swamp .
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2017 22:08:05 GMT -5
Ah yes, the hot and humid days of summer,how I remember them well lying in bed with no covers in a pool of sweat.
Morning comes and I can't wait to get into the shower to cool off only to step out and go into a sweat before I'm even able to dry off.
We never had A/C, just one box fan for the whole house, in fact I didn't have the pleasure of A/C till well into my 30's and now I don't know what I'd do without it.
How spoiled we can become. 100 of years people lived without A/C and most had the brains not to live in an area that sees 99-110+ degrees on a regular basis.
Oh! and Oldcajun, That's a picture I'm going to have a hard time wiping from memory, just TMI my friend!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2017 22:21:19 GMT -5
Charlie ... we're hitting 110 or so here this weekend so you guys are in for some hate ... err ... heat!
121 predicted by Tuesday down here in the valley. I am glad that my A/C in the tractor kicks butt (and I drive nights)....my smoking lounge. weather.com/weather/tenday/l/USAZ0166:1:USI use to run to Tucson and Phoenix 4 times a week and I had to have the A/C on in the cab and sleeper just to keep it livable and boy when ya stopped and opened the door the fricken heat would just hit ya like a blast furnace. You guys can have Arizona , I just don't understand why anyone wants to live there, except maybe Flagstaff. And I don't care if it's a dry heat, heats heat and when it sits at 120 degrees in the shade it don't matter whether it's dry or humid, it'll kill ya just as fast.  |
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Post by Darin on Jun 16, 2017 9:47:34 GMT -5
Lived in Flagstaff for about 17 years and running your furnace 8 months out of the year at night also gets old!
Where I'm at now is a good compromise ... short times in the too cold / too hot range with the rest of the year beautiful.
Also, once that open-range desert, canyons and mountains get into your blood there's no turning back.
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Post by trailboss on Jun 16, 2017 12:15:43 GMT -5
You would have to dynamite me out of Arizona, anything up to 95 degrees, I usually don't break a sweat due to the normally low humidity levels today we have 8% humidity which is typical for this time of year. I just got back from Wichita, and although the weather was pretty nice in the 80's, and the humidity levels are still reasonable for this time of year, I had to constantly powder my butt from heat rash. Visiting my sis in law in Virginia...beautiful country, but at sunset and after dark the clouds of mosquito's made it unbearable, my cousin in Texas had to buy jungle clothes with face netting when riding his mower, even his hands turned to hamburger from the mosquitos, and fishing in kansas and Texas, the chiggers do a number on you...  All we have here are a few gnats, and very little flies from time to time due to the low moisture I suspect. I work nights in an air conditioned cab, sleep during the day, and in the hottest time of the year stay indoors....about an hour and a half drive from my home is the Mogollon rim near Payson where the weather is typically in the low 90's at the hottest time of year....that is where I take my guns and fishing gear.   And of course the winters here are really rough!  What I like most of all is the culture....the government pretty well respects individual liberties, a faaaar cry from where I moved from. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2017 12:26:34 GMT -5
Well Charlie, if'en that's your backyard I wouldn't mind too much either but, ya gotta agree anything off I-10 is the devil's kitchen as far as weather goes and just not for this ole cowboy.
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Post by trailboss on Jun 16, 2017 12:44:37 GMT -5
Well Charlie, if'en that's your backyard I wouldn't mind too much either but, ya gotta agree anything off I-10 is the devil's kitchen as far as weather goes and just not for this ole cowboy. I hear you...my nightly run is from PHX> Palm Springs>Phx...that ride pretty well sucks, but the scenery is better at night. But it is considered a number 1 route! www.popularmechanics.com/cars/g1261/10-of-americas-most-dangerous-roads/ |
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Post by Darin on Jun 16, 2017 12:48:51 GMT -5
Nice pics, Charlie ... is the bottom one at Wood's Canyon or Blue Ridge Reservoir?
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Post by trailboss on Jun 16, 2017 12:51:13 GMT -5
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Post by GRUMPY on Jun 16, 2017 16:18:55 GMT -5
Houston and HOTlanta seemed the most uncomfortable to me in the summer. I'm sure the whole southern tier of states can be very uncomfortable in the summer without A/C.
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Post by GRUMPY on Jun 16, 2017 16:34:01 GMT -5
I remember summers before A/C was in most homes. The afternoon matinee were popular with us because the theater had A/C. Had many night sweating trying to sleep. It was better once the parents got me a small fan.
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Post by Lady Margaret on Jun 16, 2017 17:03:24 GMT -5
we got central air when i was a little kid, but the worst thing about it was my Mom would always turn it off at night, she couldn't sleep with the air conditioner running -- the noise would wake her up when it would kick on and she got too cold, so the rest of us would lie awake at night for hours sweating and restless because we were too hot to sleep. Never heard of window fans, that probably would have helped a lot.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jun 16, 2017 17:04:52 GMT -5
We upgraded from open windows as a boy to Window Fans, waking up wet in the morning but comfortable, Still picking cotton, Baleing hay and breaking corn in the La Heat made you enjoy a dip in the Slew, that's pits drawing deep water from wells that irrigated rice fields, water was in the upper 50s and 60s , it gave you a headache but it was worth it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2017 13:40:37 GMT -5
I did 25 years of HVAC work, don't want to ever look at one again. But love the benefits of having one.
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Post by trailboss on Mar 4, 2023 19:01:40 GMT -5
Threadsuurection alert!
A nice cool breeze today, but the sun was a welcome baking of the bones...my neck flared up, got some muscle relaxers, but the ice on the neck followed up by the warm sun really made quite a difference.
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 4, 2023 20:37:06 GMT -5
It was 72 and gorgeous today. We opened up the windows most of the morning.
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Post by trailboss on Mar 4, 2023 20:49:54 GMT -5
Same here, looking forward to the days ahead!
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Post by Rattlesnake Daddy on Mar 4, 2023 21:09:36 GMT -5
10" of heavy wet snow today. Temps hanging out at 30 degrees F. Sat outside with my pipe in a T-shirt after a few hours of shoveling. A nice time to sit back and enjoy a pipe.
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Post by dervis on Mar 9, 2023 22:36:38 GMT -5
Gave up AC 6 years ago. Middle TN weather being mostly temperate. First year felt crazy, the ones after seemed easy. You get used to it.
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Post by Plainsman on Mar 9, 2023 23:05:14 GMT -5
A little more snow last night. Got up to 40 this afternoon so most is gone already. Good riddance.
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Post by Silver on Mar 10, 2023 0:01:14 GMT -5
It's supposed to start snowing at around 4 AM here. 3-6 inches is forecast. If we get the 6", this month will be our snowiest month this season. Weird winter in SE Michigan.
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 10, 2023 1:00:06 GMT -5
Gave up AC 6 years ago. Middle TN weather being mostly temperate. First year felt crazy, the ones after seemed easy. You get used to it. Not in Texas. |
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Ah yes I remember sleeping on a feather bed , summertime in the high 90s sweat running down to the crack of your arse, sorry Margeret it wouldn't sound good any other way. Glad you're Cooling 
