okay the topic said to discuss the weather what is it like where you are and how's that different from normal and
well i tell you what it is it's warm where i'm at
well let's see if you're in Plano and i'm in Plano are you in east Plano or west Plano
uh west Plano
okay well i'm in east Plano i'm out in Las Rios so it's bound to be different over here but yeah yeah
okay
good deal well i tell you what uh yesterday i went out and played a little golf and uh i paid the price my neck got got burned to a crisp
oh
got a little sunburn yeah
yeah
but uh it was it was beautiful out
wow
i worked around in the yard a little bit and
i've got sunburned a few years ago and you know got one of those what second or third degree burns and the doctor looked at it and said don't ever
oh Lord
don't ever let that area get sunburned again
yeah
and uh it's got the you know the kind of the black freckled things on it that the doctor looks at every once in a while for that what melanoma business
right
exactly
so i am super whenever we go down to Galveston to the beach or something like that you know i look kind of stupid i'm out there in a T-shirt and everything else
all covered up
pretty much covered up but uh you know i'm never going to let my shoulders and back get sunburned again
well i tell you i'm the same way i tell you i i knew better i should have put some sunscreen on uh yesterday but i don't know it felt so nice out
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well it is March after all you know you're not supposed to worry about sunburn in March
well that's right that's right they shouldn't even be selling suntan lotion yet
that's right
but uh hopefully uh you know it's going to stay warm for this weekend
yeah
and uh
well yeah i hope so yeah we're going to go to Lubbock they'll probably have another sandstorm out there you know
so you're going to go to the big city of Lubbock huh yeah
big Lubbock yeah are are you a native type Planoite or you been here a while or
no i just been uh up here in Plano for about uh i guess close to three years now and uh
okay well well where did you come from originally
i grew up in a small town right outside of Amarillo and uh then when i went to school at Tech there in Lubbock
oh okay well i'm a Tech graduate so
are you okay
yeah i grew up over in New Mexico at Roswell
i see
and my wife is from Plains if you know where Plains is
i've heard of Plains yeah
it's on the it's on the road where do you know where well you go south out of Lubbock down to Brownfield and then you like you're headed over toward Roswell Plains is right there
right
uh about fifteen miles in from the New Mexico line
i see okay
so so yeah you talk of little towns in west Texas yeah i'm
well no see i'm from a town named Panhandle
okay yeah i know where Panhandle is that's north up there isn't it yeah
yeah yeah
right right right up there by Amarillo
yeah
so uh
yeah i had a friend who lived in Dumas
okay yeah on the other side of Amarillo yeah
so
yeah so anyway yeah we're kind of familiar with that part of the world now there's where the weather's interesting i think it's kind of dull around here compared to
well that's right because uh one day it'll be eighty and the next day it'll be about thirty below i tell you what and uh
yeah my mother still lives in Lubbock and we talked to her the other day and they said Friday they had or Thursday or Friday they had a you know one of the world class sandstorms out there that happens every once in a while hadn't had one like that in a couple of years
oh Lord
that's one thing i do not miss about uh being in Lubbock i tell you
because one i i'll never forget uh one spring we had a real big dust storm come in and it started raining and uh it was like raining mud out there you know
yeah i recall a snirtstorm out there one day where about this time of year that there was a big cold front coming in and they got the dirt up in the air and then it snowed a little bit
and uh
oh Lord
and uh
i can imagine that happening more in Amarillo than i could in Lubbock but still anywhere out there it could happen
right
that's exactly right i tell you
yeah i we like i said i grew up in New Mexico we lived in Albuquerque Karen and i both lived in Albuquerque for quite a long time and then i went to work for TI here
right
and i came here in sixty nine and then seventy two they opened or seventy three they opened up that plant out there in Lubbock
and uh man that was like going home and uh so we went out there were there for about ten years until that all folded up out there
i see
ended up coming back but uh
yeah the weather out there was uh-huh it it could get a little bit a little bit interesting now and again
oh it sure can because uh the you never just you just can never tell what it's going to do
uh-huh
and uh it's just hard to plan anything
well if you've been here for three years you didn't get here the year they had the big freeze and stuff here did you what was that eighty eighty four
uh that i did
this
okay
oh wow that would have been six or seven years ago then
yeah uh my first year down here uh uh that first winter i remembered TI was closed one one day uh
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with the ice yeah
that yeah with the ice but that uh that's about the worst worst winter i've been been through down here
well the uh
was it i guess it was three years ago that they had the real right before was it right before Christmas or
where
yeah where it got just real real cold
yeah yeah got down to around zero somewhere and then warmed back up and killed everything off
yeah
right
yeah that was that was bad news we're still try i set out a whole bunch of crepe myrtles and stuff and of course it killed th em
oh Lord
well they all come back from from the bottom
right
so i'm getting kind of convinced that if something doesn't grow naturally here there's no sense in planting it because eventually you're going to lose it
that's right because the weather's going to get it exactly
and you noticed all the pretty little trees that are out everything now the native trees
that still don't have the leaves on them yet that's right that's exactly right
they're they know better they know better yeah
yeah
and uh my wife and i are going through that process now we just bought a house and we're trying to decide what we want to do with our landscaping and we still have to put a yard in
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and uh i'm still trying to decide when when the best time's going to be to do that so uh
yeah
well you're just about there i think it's
that's that's right you know i'd i'd like to get the yard in before all the rain start and uh you know if we could get it up a little bit then the rain would really just help it
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well we moved into this house it was a year old and the landscaping was semi-in but there was still a lot more to do
i see
and one of the things that uh well they were really selling everybody on back then was this Indian Hawthorne boy you know that's the best stuff in the world
right
well i am somewhat less than enthused about that i've got some out here that's
five six years old now and still doesn't look a whole lot different than the day that i put it in
oh is that right
and i noticed that a lot of the garden well you know that Indian Hawthorne that didn't work out quite as well as we thought you know so now they're pushing something else
right
oh Neil Sperry hasn't been pushing that real hard and heavy here lately
yeah
yeah
well anyway uh like i said if it if it doesn't grow out in the woods here somewhere i'm not sure
that's worth planting huh
that it's worth planting yeah
that's exactly right
this uh photinia
the red tipped photinia
red tipped bush yeah
it seems to do pretty good we've got some here that's really taken off
well yeah i i i know everybody in our neighborhood has has those bushes and uh
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like i say really seem to to do well
that and uh the little dwarf yaupon hollies you know they they seem to or just yaupons period seem to do all right
right holley yeah
right
we've got a couple of Live Oaks in the front yard and of course they're
they weren't native to this particular spot but they seem to have done pretty good and
they sure have and that's a good tree it sort of stays green most of the year you know and
and uh
yeah it's it's it's a strange one it will kind of scare you if you don't know what it's doing because right now is when it's dropping it's leaves
right
and you go out there and look at your tree after a good windstorm and the thing is bare and you think oh no
the thing's dying
but you look look real close and there's all the little new leaves getting ready to come out so it holds it's leaves all winter then loses them in the spring
right
yeah
that and that red what is it red oak
red oak yeah
we're thinking about putting one of those in
only thing is those things grow pretty slow you have to
uh-huh
well you know i heard something about that here whether Neil uh here again it may have been Neil Sperry they say you know everybody looks at these oaks and says yeah they grow slow and all that
right
but most of the time that's the way that the native ones grow because they don't get the water they don't get the they're they're growing under bad conditions
oh is that right
yeah
and uh if you bring one in and put it under good conditions they'll grow about as fast as any tree
so if you really fertilize it and
huh well that's surprising
so yeah
that's good to know
so anyway that's that was i guess he was talking about some of the other kinds of oaks i don't know
right right
whether the live live oaks is not really an oak i guess it's something
oh
i think it's just by name yeah
yeah it just got the the name of being an oak because it's got a kind of an acorn kind of thing on it
right right
but uh i think the real honest to gosh oaks like the what bur oaks and
pin oaks and red oaks and all that sort of thing they they'll grow a lot faster
yeah huh
well i guess we were supposed to be talking about the weather but that's
at least we had a good conversation anyway yeah
yeah
well are you you with TI
but uh
yes i am yeah
yeah
how many these have you gotten very many of these calls at home
um probably about three i guess yeah
okay well i got the first one this evening that i had gotten at home i
i see
i'd made a couple at work
you know made made several from work but i'd never uh i'd never gotten one yet i was just
right
gotten one at home huh yeah i've gotten about three i guess
yeah
yeah
so
well
you know you'd think that this crazy system if you're going to talk about something about the weather they'd have tried to plug you in with plug you in to somebody
split it up a little bit
like you know New York or something yeah
like New York or somewhere yeah that's right
yeah weather difference between east and west Plano
but uh
exactly
clear across town but uh
clear across town
well when we lived in Albuquerque there was such a elevation difference there that there was a weather difference between the valley and the heights
right
you know it would be snowing up in our area and then the sun would be shining and it would be hot down in the
downtown but uh that's not the way Plano works
