Look At The Bright Side Sugar Plum...

Careful what you pray for senor Kayteg...

And here in Las Vegas for 9th month we keep sending prayers for a rain.
Tee-shirt business on the Strip made millions last week.

That's likely a bit more than we will see tomorrow night into Thursday but the Jersey shore is looking to pick up 4-8" in the next couple of days. With winds 15-25 gusting to 45 it should be a really nice day to stay inside! No idea if the diesel heat will ever kick out even with the 4 electric heaters on board. From there, things get worse with high temps the next couple of days at single digit levels!

Ain't you neveh seen a Neu Yawk **** roatch bee foah?

Very few people down here put up with them at all.
Hardware stores sell a crayon/chalk like tube that is rubbed across the floor surface near walls and entryways behind stoves and refrigerator. The little buggers do not stand a chance. My place is always 100% free of them. So is my kid's place. Friend's, restaurants and grocery stores.

Mexican Scorpions. Highly over hyped in the USA. About a year ago I walked to the bathroom -- barefoot. Set my right foot atop one.

BAM!
BAM!
BAM!
BAM!

Four times in the instep. The "feared" Arizona Bark Scorpion. The jabs certainly brought me awake. I thought it best to head on down to the clinic, given the intensity plus number of stings.

Yawn. The doctor said "Here, a shot of antihistamine will help". An hour later I was home, in bed, asleep. I put on shoes and walked around the next day without any "discomfort". At the time I was suffering from irregular heartbeat, episodes of Bradycaria (pulse rate of 35), etc. What the stings did was eliminate all effects of osteo arthritis for a week or more. Yawn. Toddlers and folks allergic to bee stings are another story.

I'd choose to suffer the same fate over again in lieu of a sunburn, flu, cold, or any number of natural catastrophes.

Oldfarts suffer thin skin thermodynamics. Sensitive to cold. Enjoy frozenose while you can. Once you reach 60 things start going to hell in a hand basket.

The neatest part about life in the tropics is the after sundown tee shirt climate and a day that varies very little in length between solstices. Listening the the roar of a summer downpour on the patio overhang is neat. Shorts, tee shirt and a pair of sandals. The weekly laundry load is tiny.

I have yet to shovel a tropical walkway or scrape tropicals off my morning windshield. Frosty the snowman us miniaturized and is flavored with cherry or lemon atop a sugar cone.

And an afternoon may see me in a gigantic hammock. Stretched between a pair of palm trees. The afternoon trade winds flex the palm's trunks, gently rocking the hammock back and for.....zzzzzzzzzz

Mex,

I shudder when I see scorpions, and cockroaches the size of my palm. I'll put up with a little bit of cold to help eliminate such pests.

I just talked to my buddy, and he and his wife are headed north to Montana so they can go snowmobiling. They love the cold white stuff.

Sounds flaky to me!

people have been doing that for thousands of years.
Less solar panels.

Dry

Yeah

When you walk the "dry" snow underfoot goes "snap, pop, crackle"

The thermometer doesn't go THAT low

A thin layer of ice forms on the inside of GOOD double pane windows.

Paradise

I shudder

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas... Next Christmas.

It's a dry snow