okay well now i'm from Dallas
oh okay
well actually i'm living in Dallas i'm not from Dallas i uh was living in West Texas before this uh which is a very dry arid
uh-huh
okay
well obviously it's kind of a desert area
right getting uh close to Mexico or
um-hum real close New Mexico anyway
all right and no
and not the humidity i usually think of the South as being very humid
well he Dallas is and that's since i've moved up here now so i'm starting to get a little bit of this but
Dallas is
i'll tell you uh considering well okay i've uh mostly throughout my life i've lived in in the smaller parts of of Texas and so moving to Dallas i was a little worried about the traffic
uh-huh
um
the differences in terrain because uh you know Dallas is is a lot more hilly than it is where i i was living and i had just bought a new car and it had uh had standard standard on you know standard and i had never had a standard car before
i see
oh
oh you have to get used to hills
right so i mean i was real worried about you know having a lot of ice and things like that we just had a wonderful winter i mean there was one or two days of ice the entire winter
yeah
oh that's good
i mean we had cold weather we had a little bit of snow here and there but i mean i couldn't have asked for better first year of getting used to Dallas and my car at the same time i mean it just worked out great for me
oh that's good and what what is uh what is the temperature like down there now
oh well today it was probably in the eighties um well yeah we've had uh we've had several days in the eighties in fact i'll tell you what last night i came real close to turning on the air conditioning i didn't do it
oh that's pretty warm already
oh is that right
i didn't do it but i came close
actually last year uh um about a week ago at the same time last
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last year um we had hit the actually uh nineties for about four days which is very unusual for this area at this time of year um what we're having right now is a lot of overcast
i would imagine yes
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you know a lot of days with uh drizzle or uh actually we've had a thunderstorm But about this time of the year March blows a lot of winds here and it's a very windy month
right
um but right now we're in about the sixties which is is fairly comfortable
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well i heard the uh that um Washington DC has actually got the cherry blossoms blooming so
yes we do they peak on Friday so if you have a chance to be here Friday or somewhere somewhere around there that that's the best time to see them and they don't last too long you know
so that's
hum well yeah that's i heard that
yeah and uh then after after this month it'll quickly get get hot you know i mean March April May it has a lot of rain uh May has quite a bit of rain and uh
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by May we're hitting in the eighties sometimes even low low nineties uh but we don't really get the bad humidity here until July and August those are our worst months
um-hum well that's that's sort of what happens here except uh we may start a little earlier and end a little later but uh
yeah
right right so is everything in uh bloom down there now is it warm enough i guess all the trees are
yeah they've been they've actually been going at it for a good you know four weeks now i would think um
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you know in fact it's kind of funny uh you know you're watching the newscast i don't know about way up they are up there but the weather cast down here one of the things that they like to do is to tell you what's all in the air you know the fungus and the trees yeah well
yeah
oh right
air quality index yeah
but mostly it's you know allergy type index and it's been like like i said about four weeks now that uh they've had um
multiple pages of things and you know of of names of things in the air and uh you know so that's a real good sign that that the trees are in bloom and the flowers are in bloom and stuff like that
oh
right
is that like a pollen sort of a pollen count yeah yeah well we're just starting now like i said the cherry blossoms are out forsythias are out uh no tulips yet so we're probably a few weeks behind
pollen count yeah exactly
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uh you know down uh that area being that south you know and uh
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that lasts everything's in bloom you know everything's green here till about October and then we lose it all
yeah
but uh i always wondered about the South i figured that there couldn't be too many months that that trees were were bare because it's it's hot most of the time
well it's it's um it depends on what part of the south i think the farther east you go you know from from here on east uh you do have a a limited
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winter um now south of here uh like in Houston i did even though i said i lived mostly in the small towns i lived a short time in Houston it was winter
yeah
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and you know the coldest day we got down there was like in the sixties you know when it got down in the sixties you were cold down there
i see
oh okay here it's sixties and we're celebrating okay so there's that's the difference i remember being in Louisiana a few times and and it was uh
yeah
yeah that
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i think it was in December one time and it was probably in the fifties and rainy kind of weather but in the fifties and i was shocked
to see people all bundled up with scarves and hats as though it were you know in the twenties because here in the fifties people have sweaters so you know i guess it's what you become acclimated to yes
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oh yes it's a big difference i have a one of my friends is from Kansas City and uh he has lived down here for like eleven years but he refuses
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to get to to where everybody else is i mean he will not wear long sleeve shirts he will not wear you know jackets and things like that i mean he's the only person i know
right
that in thirty degree weather still has a short sleeve shirt on you know um but it you know it's still not cold cold here compared to what he's used to so
yeah
yeah yes
right right so uh yeah i i i like it better here i'm i'm uh formerly a Pennsylvanian and i have to say that i enjoy it
that much better here a lot more sunshine and a lot less cold you know but i don't know about ever going that far south to live you know i guess you after a while whatever you get used to what you enjoy that's right
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well i think that's true yeah
although there's you know there's you don't ever want to get
too much different to what i mean uh i grew up with a lot of trees around and then i lived out like i said in West Texas where it's desert and there's not a lot of trees and that's the main reason i moved up here was that i did not i mean i hated
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right
seeing you know no trees i mean it's just you could stand on a rooftop and see for miles and miles
yeah i can understand that sure yeah i mean no i wouldn't want to i wouldn't want to uh go to a desert type of area either you know you get once you're in greenery you get spoiled by that you know
well now that's that's not necessarily true there are people that are born out there that can't stand it here
no
oh is that right
they they feel claustrophobic around trees i thought that was hilarious when i first heard it but i mean i heard it from more than one person so it's got to be somewhat true i mean
ah that's interesting
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yeah yeah so i guess that once they're used to the wide open spaces huh that that yeah that that's interesting so
exactly
yeah i see i wouldn't have thought from the beginning but i've talked to so many people about it that it makes sense now i guess
yeah i think i'll take the area with trees huh yeah yeah
hum i agree i agree of course i wouldn't mind having an area with ocean but we won't get involved in that either
right why am i too nice yeah that is pretty good oh but anyway well i that's that's about all you know i have right here on on this area so
yeah yeah that sounds good
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okay well
okay well nice talking to you alright well bye bye
it was yeah nice talking to you too bye-bye
