Hey, Calvin

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

Any degree with a minus in front of it, will chap your hiney cheeks!!!!!!

I do however know that dry heat ain't no where near as bad as wet heat....humidity takes some gettin used to. But once ya get used to it, and go back to the dry heat......when the sun goes down...70 degrees is downright cold!!!!!!!!!

 

[Yanuck]

I'll take dry cold over damp cold any day, same with heat...humidity is gross anyway you look at it!!

 

[Cal]

I got this from Soap's blizzard thread:

Hang tough everybody! We can sympathize with each other 'cause no one else really knows what it's like. I haven't turned my pickup off for eighteen hours now, glad we got some good tire chains. Got a few cows that calved during the night to try and get in, come daylight, and put them with their calves. With calving all the heifers out first, starting Feb. 10 with mostly cold weather......this is getting really old. The next moron that goes off about global warming......should be beaten.

I just wanted to let you know that I can feel your pain, buddy. I had the AC on in the tractor yesterday and it was working so good that the darn windshield frosted up in no time. It made me say to myself: "Self, this must be what it's like to be Cal." :lol:

Hey Texan, I think our little cultural exchange program has been quite an eye opener. I went to the internet and found a bunch of pictures from that show My Big Redneck Wedding, printed them off and hung them up in my bathroom, then I removed the lightbulbs, haven't flushed the toilet for a few days, and last but not least cranked the heat way up. Now when I get up in the morning and go into the bathroom I say to myself, "self, this must be just how our old buddy Texan starts his day, and we know how he feels." :twisted: :wink: :lol: :lol:

 

[Texan]

Hey Texan, I think our little cultural exchange program has been quite an eye opener. I went to the internet and found a bunch of pictures from that show My Big Redneck Wedding, printed them off and hung them up in my bathroom, then I removed the lightbulbs, haven't flushed the toilet for a few days, and last but not least cranked the heat way up. Now when I get up in the morning and go into the bathroom I say to myself, "self, this must be just how our old buddy Texan starts his day, and we know how he feels." :twisted: :wink: :lol: :lol:

I'm embarrassed, Calvin. Not just for myself (for not realizing how bad things were up there with the snow so deep) - but also embarrassed for you. You guys are really having to do your business/mess inside the house? :???:

That's just not the way I was raised. I guess maybe it's just a regional difference in the way we were brought up? I can still remember it as a kid - "Son, don't pay no 'tention to all the newfangled contraptions the neighbors has got. You watch close - even a dog won't mess in his own house. A rat and a bird - they'll mess in their nest. But you're better than them and at least as good as a dog. We'll never get so lazy around here that we can't go outside."

I stick to my raisin', Calvin - I can't imagine the snow ever being deep enough so that I couldn't make it to the outhouse in the mornings. But...you guys up there are really having to crap inside the house? That's just nasty. (Don't feel too bad, though. We had some people from the city move in here that were like that. Really backwards folks. They bought a big picnic table so they could eat outside - then they'd go inside to go to the bathroom. Huh ?!?!? :? )

And not to embarrass you further, but I don't care how deep the snow gets - I just wouldn't be able to ever consider myself much of a man if I wasn't tough enough to make my wife shovel me out a trail to the outhouse every morning. I really feel sorry for you, Cal.

 

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

Gotta give Texan a pat on the back for that post.......priceless!!!!!!!!!!! hehe

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

Personally I don't think Cal saw much humor in anything right about now. :?

Exhaustion at trying to do your best and sometimes not being able to do anything for your livestock take the humor right out of a person.

Hang in there guys. We are pulling for ya.

 

[burnt]

Hey Texan, I think our little cultural exchange program has been quite an eye opener. I went to the internet and found a bunch of pictures from that show My Big Redneck Wedding, printed them off and hung them up in my bathroom, then I removed the lightbulbs, haven't flushed the toilet for a few days, and last but not least cranked the heat way up. Now when I get up in the morning and go into the bathroom I say to myself, "self, this must be just how our old buddy Texan starts his day, and we know how he feels." :twisted: :wink: :lol: :lol:

I'm embarrassed, Calvin. Not just for myself (for not realizing how bad things were up there with the snow so deep) - but also embarrassed for you. You guys are really having to do your business/mess inside the house? :???:

That's just not the way I was raised. I guess maybe it's just a regional difference in the way we were brought up? I can still remember it as a kid - "Son, don't pay no 'tention to all the newfangled contraptions the neighbors has got. You watch close - even a dog won't mess in his own house. A rat and a bird - they'll mess in their nest. But you're better than them and at least as good as a dog. We'll never get so lazy around here that we can't go outside."

I stick to my raisin', Calvin - I can't imagine the snow ever being deep enough so that I couldn't make it to the outhouse in the mornings. But...you guys up there are really having to crap inside the house? That's just nasty. (Don't feel too bad, though. We had some people from the city move in here that were like that. Really backwards folks. They bought a big picnic table so they could eat outside - then they'd go inside to go to the bathroom. Huh ?!?!? :? )

And not to embarrass you further, but I don't care how deep the snow gets - I just wouldn't be able to ever consider myself much of a man if I wasn't tough enough to make my wife shovel me out a trail to the outhouse every morning. I really feel sorry for you, Cal.

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Hey Cal, Texan's wife told me personally that the reason that Texan is so full of it is because he's quite a bit less of a man than he thinks and she hasn't shoveled the trail to the outhouse for him all winter. So, he's bin holdin it in for quite a while and will until the last chance of a nip of frost is LONG GONE!

So how's that for "tough", hmmmmm?? :wink: :lol:

 

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

Ummm....we had what you northerners would call a "skiff" of snow....but other than that....I don't think anyone's been doin any shovelin (snow at least) here in Texas.

 

[burnt]

Oh my goodness! That doesn't help Texan's case at all!!

 

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

yeah it does....I don't think we've had but 4 or 5 mornins all winter that we had frost......so he's had it fairly easy.....as well as his wife. LOL

 

[Texan]

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Hey Cal, Texan's wife told me personally that the reason that Texan is so full of it is because he's quite a bit less of a man than he thinks and she hasn't shoveled the trail to the outhouse for him all winter. So, he's bin holdin it in for quite a while and will until the last chance of a nip of frost is LONG GONE!

So how's that for "tough", hmmmmm?? :wink: :lol:

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Hey, Burnt. I'm ashamed to admit that you caught me in a lie. As you know by now, we don't ever have enough snow to shovel. And even though I'm probably 150 miles north of JL and usually get a little more snow than she gets, what she said is true - we just didn't have much winter this year. (Although we did have one day when it spit a little snow. I was tough and bundled up real good and got out in it - until I got a little piece of it down my collar. I screamed like a little girl and ran back into the house by the heater and didn't get back out until the next day when it got back up to 60F.)

I guess I lied about shoveling the snow because I wanted to feel like part of the group. I wanted to be one of you. And really, the most important thing that I wanted to do is to make you guys feel better - to feel like you weren't in it alone.

Actually, the truth is that for the last couple of months, the grass has been growing so much down here that the little woman has been having to MOW me a trail to the outhouse every morning. Now that you know the real truth - that she has to MOW instead of shovel - I hope THAT makes you feel better. :lol:

 

[Texan]

Exhaustion at trying to do your best and sometimes not being able to do anything for your livestock take the humor right out of a person.

Hang in there guys. We are pulling for ya.

Yep, you're right about the humor, Big Muddy. And we're all pulling for you guys down here, too.

We're pretty fortunate down here that with the exception of drouth, most of our weather challenges come and go pretty quick. Any storms we have are in the form of fast-moving tornadoes or remnants of hurricanes that are over with pretty quick and let us get on with the cleanup.

I can't even imagine having to run cattle in the kind of weather conditions that some of you guys have to put up with. My hat's off to you - I wouldn't last one season up there.