Considering the current weather

[Hans Deventer]

I could not help but think of this:

[Diane Likens]

Beautiful photo, Hans! Looking at it has cooled me off considerably.

[Edith K. Thurmond]

I could not help but think of this:

You might also consider this one:

http://www.naznet.com/cgi-bin/ceilidh.exe/fellowship/wesley/?C341369a2dm2l-6046-10356+07.htm

Now don't you feel cooler already?

[Cecil Wallace]

Brrrrrrrrrrrr!
I'll go get my coat.

Cool scenery.

Supposed to only get up into the lower 90's F here today, versus 100 F.

Thanks.

[Barbara Moulton]

Brrrrrrrrrrrr!
I'll go get my coat.

Cool scenery.

Supposed to only get up into the lower 90's F here today, versus 100 F.

Thanks.

It's a lovely 75 here today :-)

[Cindi Hammons]

In Southern Ohio, I have the windows open with a nice breeze coming through. Hmmm, it might have something to do with the huge storms that we had come through yesterday evening and night. No complaints from us!

Cindi H.

[Joel Merrill]

Where's Pete V. and his I hate snow club? :fun01 He doesn't post much anymore.

Joel :cs01

[Dana Grant]

Where's Pete V. and his I hate snow club? :fun01 He doesn't post much anymore.

Joel :cs01

I love heat!! I hate snow!!

Now, clarification. I really don't mind the heat when I'm outside. But I do not like to be hot indoors. I need my AC!!

but I'd take heat over snow......any day!!!

But you look cute in that picture, Mr. Joel!!! LOL

[Barbara Moulton]

I love heat!! I hate snow!!

Now, clarification. I really don't mind the heat when I'm outside. But I do not like to be hot indoors. I need my AC!!

but I'd take heat over snow......any day!!!

But you look cute in that picture, Mr. Joel!!! LOL

The thing about snow is that it is only a problem when it is actually snowing. I don't like it when it is snowing and I have to travel somewhere.

But snow on the ground is just that...snow on the ground. Once it is shovelled out of the places you need to drive and/or walk it is just pretty ground cover in my opinion.

Heat that you can't escape, that follows you into your home and makes housework difficult, that makes outdoor activities unbearable.

That's what I hate.

So...although we are so much alike in many ways, on this we are different. I would take snowy winters over blistering hot summers anyday.

I guess it is a good thing that you live in Arizona and I live in Ontario. :)

[Dana Grant]

The thing about snow is that it is only a problem when it is actually snowing. I don't like it when it is snowing and I have to travel somewhere.

But snow on the ground is just that...snow on the ground. Once it is shovelled out of the places you need to drive and/or walk it is just pretty ground cover in my opinion.

Heat that you can't escape, that follows you into your home and makes housework difficult, that makes outdoor activities unbearable.

That's what I hate.

So...although we are so much alike in many ways, on this we are different. I would take snowy winters over blistering hot summers anyday.

I guess it is a good thing that you live in Arizona and I live in Ontario. :)

Yes, sisters across the miles, Barbara!!

Actually, I think it is probably all dependent on what we're used to -- I've lived in Arizona for nearly 30 years, so I can't imagine living where it's cold again, you know? And that last year in West Virginia -- well, I think that did it for me!!

I was driving my car and it got STUCK GOING DOWN HILL in the snow!! YES, STUCK GOING DOWN HILL!!!

Not only that, but several times during that winter I got stuck in my parking place at work. The docs in the next suite would come out and help me get going every evening. I guess I looked like a helpless little girl to them, so they'd come out and help me.

So, that last winter was a dooooozie for me. That was the winter that we were engaged and planning a spring wedding!

I couldn't wait to get married and move to where it didn't snow after that winter. Could it be that I was being prepared for this heat? LOL

So, I think we become acclimated to where ever we live. If I had to live in snow again, well, I'd probably deal with it somehow, now, wouldn't I???

I do love my faux fur throw in my bedroom -- so I guess I'd learn to like fur coats again!!! LOL

BRRRRRRRRR....SHIVER..........

[Marsha Gupton]

I love the picture Hans posted. That is so beautiful. This week in TN we have had 100 and near 100 degrees with high humidity every day. IT IS AWFUL!!!!

We had a thunderstorm last night and today has been very pleasant.

But I do love snow.

:fun01

[Jim Franklin]

Hans, Edith and Joel those are cool, as the teenagers would say. It was 106 today in Boise. My wife and I went to a lecture on Lincoln by Dr. Stephen Shaw of NNU who was a student at BNC when I taught there, then we went to the club for a bit of a work out and a dip in the pool before returning home.

[Joel Merrill]

Yes, sisters across the miles, Barbara!!

Actually, I think it is probably all dependent on what we're used to -- I've lived in Arizona for nearly 30 years, so I can't imagine living where it's cold again, you know? And that last year in West Virginia -- well, I think that did it for me!!

I was driving my car and it got STUCK GOING DOWN HILL in the snow!! YES, STUCK GOING DOWN HILL!!!

Not only that, but several times during that winter I got stuck in my parking place at work. The docs in the next suite would come out and help me get going every evening. I guess I looked like a helpless little girl to them, so they'd come out and help me.

So, that last winter was a dooooozie for me. That was the winter that we were engaged and planning a spring wedding!

I couldn't wait to get married and move to where it didn't snow after that winter. Could it be that I was being prepared for this heat? LOL

So, I think we become acclimated to where ever we live. If I had to live in snow again, well, I'd probably deal with it somehow, now, wouldn't I???

I do love my faux fur throw in my bedroom -- so I guess I'd learn to like fur coats again!!! LOL

BRRRRRRRRR....SHIVER..........
You have a point there. You do get acclimated to where you live. My sisters were raised in Wisconsin and Iowa like me but since they have lived in Arizona, they can't handle any cold and I can't handle heat. We visited my sister in Sierra Vista over Christmas a few years ago. We went to church with them and it wasn't any cooler than 70 degrees. I was very comfortable. Everyone else was freezing. The guitar player in the praise team was having troubles playing her guitar and was joking about trying to wear gloves.

Joel

[Hans Deventer]

You have a point there. You do get acclimated to where you live.

True. That is why we are having problems. When you get a Mediterranean climate in stead of your own moderate sea climate, you're not used to that.

[Barbara Moulton]

I do love my faux fur throw in my bedroom -- so I guess I'd learn to like fur coats again!!! LOL

BRRRRRRRRR....SHIVER..........

One of my volunteer chaplains also volunteers in a charity thrift shop. Last winter she asked me if I would like a winter jacket that she saw there that was really nice...that she could get me for $10.00.

I said yes. She gave it to me.

And it is an amazing jacket. Warm, warm, warm. I can be outside in the bitterest cold and not feel it at all.

I think another factor to consider is that Ontario is accustomed to snow. We have excellent snow removal programs and smart people put snow tires on our car. That makes a big difference.

But you are right. It is definitely a case of what you are used to.

Below, my front yard in summer and my backyard in winter. I love the contrast of the seasons.

[Joel Merrill]

One of my volunteer chaplains also volunteers in a charity thrift shop. Last winter she asked me if I would like a winter jacket that she saw there that was really nice...that she could get me for $10.00.

I said yes. She gave it to me.

And it is an amazing jacket. Warm, warm, warm. I can be outside in the bitterest cold and not feel it at all.

I think another factor to consider is that Ontario is accustomed to snow. We have excellent snow removal programs and smart people put snow tires on our car. That makes a big difference.

But you are right. It is definitely a case of what you are used to.

Below, my front yard in summer and my backyard in winter. I love the contrast of the seasons.
I was raised in Wisconsin until I was in the 6th grade. It was colder there and I think the winters were colder too. (Weather goes in something like 40 year cycles.) So I over prepare sometimes. I few years ago I needed a new winter coat. I got a heavy parka at Cabelas. It was more suitable for Alaska. I hardly ever wear it. Most of the winter I wear a light jacket with an insulated vest over that.
Our snow removal here leaves a lot to be desired. SUV's and 4X4 pickups have gotten very popular here but now they are all suffering from the price of gas. Front wheel drive cars have helped a lot but modern cars have such low ground clearance. If you do get in some deep snow you get hung up on it. We get a lot of college students here from the southern states. It is almost funny to watch them try to drive in it.

Joel

[Brad Mercer]

We're getting a break today! It's 3:23pm on 23 July, and the temperature right now is just 78 degrees! I just had a cup of tea on the back porch with my wife and pretended we were in Australia.

Brad

[Dennis M. Scott]

Brad,

I guess I slept through some stuff. Point me to a thread here where you discussed your call to Australia. I noticed a post yesterday referencing that.

dennis

[Brad Mercer]

Brad,

I guess I slept through some stuff. Point me to a thread here where you discussed your call to Australia. I noticed a post yesterday referencing that.

dennis

Oh, I really haven't said much about it. I'm just getting too anxious to not talk about it. We've been offered a job in Brisbane and have applied for a work visa for me and dependent visas for my wife and kids, and are waiting to hear something, hopefully within the next week or two. If we get there, the primary purpose is to work with Roland Hearn to launch a new church there along the lines of the one we started here in north Dallas, and along the lines of the stuff he and I talk about here on NazNet.

If I don't get there, I'll be a sad puppy, and will be looking to jump start a new career through at least tentative job offers I've received from a cousin in Austin, Texas and another cousin in Phoenix, Arizona. And I'll be working harder to find an outlet as a writer for the ideas that Roland and I have running around in our heads.

If we do get to go to Australia, it promises to be the adventure of a lifetime.

Brad