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TxLadyForever
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Jun 04, 2009 12:27PM
if i worked in the tax office i would give everyone an executive size bonus!
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My husband temped for the IRS when we lived in Austin, TX...What part of Texas are you from, TX Lady?
Spring? Spring, TX? Near Houston, right? How hot and humid is it there, today?
yupper just north there of! HOT not too bad! it is 100 in the shade I am in! but I am a Houstonian so am use to it!
Woof. 100? The first time I played in Houston was when leather pants were in. It was an outdoor festival in June and I nearly died of heatstroke.
100's not so bad as long as the humidity isn't high. That's always a questionable factor in Houston. I have family in the Houston area too, btw TxLady. :)
Heidi that almost makes us kin er??? it is always humid here - right now looks like an afternoon sprinkle is gonna happen to make it sticky!!!!
WOOF WOOF - Sarah Pi that was some time back! time for a revisit don't you think - just to make you know your happy where you live???LOL
Houston has always treated me well, but I don't need another summertime visit to remind me that I like it here better (not that we're any less humid once summer really kicks in).
yeah humid is humid (to me) I need more coffee!!!!!!!!
TxLadyForever wrote: "Heidi that almost makes us kin er??? it is always humid here - right now looks like an afternoon sprinkle is gonna happen to make it sticky!!!! "
The fam's in the Katy and Memorial area.
As long as the humidity's at 60% or under, it's not unbearable. 116, 100% heat index already factored in - that's miserable... especially if the mosquitos are out to prey. Little Rock gets that kind of weather starting in late June and it stays hot and humid until mid-October.
sketters are not too bad for me - yet!
We're in the process of making our "back 40" into another sitting area instead of a jungle, in the hopes of cutting down on the mosquitos this summer. We'll be working on it all weekend, in hopes of cleaning it up in time for a barbecue next weekend.
your gonna be so happy with that - hard work but worth it!
I went to lunch at a Mexican restaurant today (somewhat inspired by Sally's post) and eavesdropped on the lady at the table next to mine while she was talking to our waitress. She told the waitress she looked very familiar and asked how long she'd been a waitress at the restaurant (I thought the same thing, and decided against asking because I didn't want to seem rude if I was wrong about it). She answered that she'd been waitressing at this same establishment for 46 years. She also added that wearing comfortable shoes helps. :)
Wow, Heidi. Just finding a restaurant that's been in business for 46 years is something.
The tips must be worth it! Wow. I cannot imagine waiting tables for even a year, let alone 46!
sure glad someone wants to wait tables - I sure like to eat!THANKS to all those that wait tables!
I tipped her well (36%). The food is overpriced, but pays off in nostalgia for me. My dad used to take me to this restaurant when I was a kid when we'd come to Arkansas to visit family. He said most of the waitresses there were waiting the tables in that restaurant when he was a kid. I've spent several birthdays there, too.Larry, the restaurant's changed hands a few times, and it's still kept its original menu, with a few additions (including some healthier alternatives to the traditional mexican fare) over the years.
Good for you on the tipping. So many people do this so poorly.If/when I get to Little Rock again, I'll hit you up for the name and address.
Dude, when you make it to Little Rock, you'd better be giving me a shout.
ok reading and posting friends - I have back to back meeting today - Friday stuff ugggg - see ya'll later! Have a Grand FRIDAY!
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I'm apparently now collecting succulents. They're so cute and fail-proof!
I'm also going bonkers for climbing vines and my front, sunny flowerbed.
My backyard garden gets too much shade during the day to be able to produce fruit or veggies to any degree, so I'm in the process of making it into a shade flower garden. Today I'm going back for some impatients, Bleeding hearts, Chiming Bells, and Hosta. I've already established some nice zinnias and moss rose.
Sally, that sounds WONDERFUL! :) My neighbors have some really cool succulents in front of their place. I should take some pics during lunch and post them for you. I think of you every time I pass them. Is that funny (like weird funny, not ha ha funny) - that I think of you as the gardening lady now?
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Gardening is becoming a passion for me, one I didn't see coming. It's not about making a victory garden, or food for after the apocalypse, it is just, for me, the fun of tweaking the soil and watching some blooms grow.
We've had a lot of unusual rain this month, so it's easy right now. Check back in with me mid-July to see if I've given up and everything is dead. hesh.
This is where I canoed last Saturday (Buffalo River between St. Joe and Gilbert, AR). 
I'm ready to go back again. Too bad I have something to do every day between now and whenever. I hope the water stays as high as it was last weekend all summer long. Walking the canoe across the rocks is no fun, esp. when the rocks decide to climb into your shoes under your feet. Ugh.
It was a PERFECT day - I wish I could've taken pictures (the one I just posted was one I found online), but everything in our canoe got wet and I knew my camera would've been absolutely soaked. The sky was clear and bright blue, the water was clear and cool, it was 96 degrees out (no humidity) - perfect with cool water, and the sun was bright and summery. I had the biggest grin on my face all day long (except when my goofy drunk friends who latched their canoes onto ours ran us into some low hanging trees and I got scraped up on my arm by the trees). I've been waiting for friends to post pics. When they do, I'll share some.
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One more reason to visit Arkansas (not that Colorado or Washington states suck, I'm just sayin')... :)
Trying to help fix copy written by a professional. The copy's good - but damn its long. Aren't Friday surprises fun!
Wow, I've never seen anything that nice in Arkansas. I had kind of written your whole state off. I'll have to look more closely the next time I pass through.
The picture doesn't do it justice. It's not nicknamed "the Natural State" fer nuthin'. ;) I can assure you, I'd have been long gone if we didn't have beautiful lakes and rivers and hiking trails and waterfalls and state parks...
Mammoth Springs, Lake Bull Shoals, Spring River, and White River are all places I've enjoyed when visiting the state.
Greers Ferry Lake/Heber Springs, Eureka Springs, Hot Springs National Park/bath house row, Petit Jean Mountain (my grounding place), Mt. Magazine, Mt. Nebo, the Ozarks (as in the Ozarks period). Norfolk Lake/Mountain View - it really is a beautiful state.
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Are these first few ALL hot springs?
Nope. Only Hot Springs... my grandfather used to get their monthly supply of drinking/cooking water for the farm from Hot Springs - he'd drive down there with egg crates full of old milk cartons to fill with the water (which was hot when he'd get it... duh) to fill at the public hot springs fountain. They're all over town and in the national park, but the one downtown is the one most tourists would use.
Sitting in a hammock chair outside in 75 degree weather drinking a margarita watching a hummingbird come and go from the feeder.
Now back to Arkansas
Now back to Arkansas
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I'm really yearning for a hummingbird feeder these days. Perhaps it had something to do with Benjamin Button.
The place we stay at in CO has hummingbird feeders and there is almost always one at it. You should definitely put one out.
BunWat wrote: "Or some red or bright pink flowers. I put fuscia geraniums on my porch and the hummingbirds come to them. And I don't have to clean and refill the geraniums. "
That's a good point too. A weigela bush is good also.
That's a good point too. A weigela bush is good also.
my BFF has hummers in her back yard all the time - at any given moment she is calling me to brag that *there are 6 no 7 no 8 ...... at the feeders!* She changes the water for them ever 2 days if there is any left! :)
I am gonna put out feeders as soon as I fine something to hang them from - the pine trees here are very very very tall!
Re: 2065: Why are the rocks purple?I'm back from Chicago, where I ate too many tortas and too much pizza. But I had fun.
Tremendously sad. Must be the weather.The fact that it's no longer 2005 really hurts. I'm no longer fifteen. Four years ago.
It's almost as if my life can go no further. How strange.
I'm obsessed with time travel. I've been reading through stacks of tunneling equations. Nothing appears to be impossible.
Consoles me.
Sir, when can you get back home? Are those grad ceremonies done yet? When can you leave?At least the Phils are doing well. Latch on to that. Latch on to the fact you can pitch again.
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