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[beckyb1012]

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@Spurt wrote:

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@Kachina624 wrote:

@mspatmac  @MamaWick    The heat in Texas is a primary reason I no longer live there.  I suffered through 35 summers and said, "enough!".  It was hot, humid, buggy, and ugly.  Its not nearly as hot here in NM and none of those other things.  I won't even go back to visit friends which is okay because they rather come here.

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@Kachina624 

Now friend I'll agree that Texas is hot, humid, and buggy---but thats just in the summer and there are some parts that are pretty like the Texas Hill Country and nothing beats Texas in the Spring with the beautiful wildflowers...Even parts of the West Texas desert has it's own brand of "beauty" and please don't compare all of Texas with "the swamp" also known as Houston (it was actually built over a swamp)....nor with the flat as a pancake area known as the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex area....

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One thing I have noticed with all this heat are there are no wasps and bees anywhere. 

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@Spurt wrote:

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@Kachina624 wrote:

@mspatmac  @MamaWick    The heat in Texas is a primary reason I no longer live there.  I suffered through 35 summers and said, "enough!".  It was hot, humid, buggy, and ugly.  Its not nearly as hot here in NM and none of those other things.  I won't even go back to visit friends which is okay because they rather come here.

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@Kachina624 

Now friend I'll agree that Texas is hot, humid, and buggy---but thats just in the summer and there are some parts that are pretty like the Texas Hill Country and nothing beats Texas in the Spring with the beautiful wildflowers...Even parts of the West Texas desert has it's own brand of "beauty" and please don't compare all of Texas with "the swamp" also known as Houston (it was actually built over a swamp)....nor with the flat as a pancake area known as the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex area....

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One thing I have noticed or not noticed with this intense Texas heat are no wasps or bees.

[mspatmac]

@Spurt 

[Kachina624]

@Spurt   Yes you can't beat Texas wildflowers but its the other 11 1/2 month a year I'm considering.

[katiemichelle]

Current backyard temperature 113, southeast Arizona.  Husband's windshield temp reached 123 yesterday traveling between Phoenix and Tucson.

[MamaWick]

@Spurt  yep

[MamaWick]

The Wicks are looking forward to a reprieve in August when we go to Eagle River, WI to visit our besties.  At least we hope it will be a reprieve.

[SharkE]

I've been to parts of New Mexico and it was depressing. Flat roofs on all the houses. Clay colored buildings like indian stuff I seen on Tv.

No color, drab, like death valley.

To each their own. The North in the Fall is the prettiest. Get out before winter LOL West Virginia is pretty too. Every place has it's good and rotten things about it. I'm one of the few that don't want nothing to do with ocean states. Yeah, it's pretty, but, windy, cold, dangerous, expensive, crowded, etc.

[katiemichelle]

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@SharkE wrote:

I've been to parts of New Mexico and it was depressing. Flat roofs on all the houses. Clay colored buildings like indian stuff I seen on Tv.

No color, drab, like death valley.

To each their own. The North in the Fall is the prettiest. Get out before winter LOL West Virginia is pretty too. Every place has it's good and rotten things about it. I'm one of the few that don't want nothing to do with ocean states. Yeah, it's pretty, but, windy, cold, dangerous, expensive, crowded, etc.

Wow!  I love New Mexico!!  Beautiful land and architecture.  Second only to Arizona, I am a southwest girl through and through.  To each her own!

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[SharkE]

Pretty jewelry only reason we went over there.

**** stupid network won't let me show some of my jewelry I've gotten from over there.

I already can't 'edit' nothing, now, I can't upload pics.

[shoekitty]

I'm in California and we get temps over 100 often in summer.  Mainly in September we break records.  One year it was 114. Wow.  I had to leave little pans all over lawn  for finches. They were clinging to branches panting.  They loved the water. We watched from house while dozens cooled themselves off