hi Debbie how are you
oh just fine
what do you think of this weather
oh it's been beautiful here lately
oh i love it
yeah i was i was glad that Easter was nice because sounds like you have a child too
yeah
yes you can hear her huh
yeah i've i've got a two year old and we hunted Easter eggs yesterday and the weather was really nice
uh-huh
yeah i have a four year old and a one year old
um-hum
so uh yeah i'm glad it was nice too i
we had a
got a chance to to go outside and
yeah
just have a nice day
the um i remember last year wasn't it raining a lot this yeah all that flooding and everything
it was raining last year we had
uh-huh we
i'm glad we don't have that this year so far
oh oh it was awfully rainy last year it was a it was a very very wet spring remember how they had all that flooding down uh
south of downtown all those people got flooded out
uh-huh
we live just north of Trinity Mills and it floods there you know
oh
did it
quite a lot um it's not it doesn't usually damage any businesses or anything but you can't get off of thirty five to um
oh really
i did
to go to Home Depot and that's a problem
yeah oh gosh yes uh the a lot of people go there
yes
or Target for that matter now
yeah
i'm i'm we're not from Texas we're from further we're from Missouri so it's it's
uh-huh
the weather down here is a lot different than than it is uh uh at home yeah
oh yeah
yeah we're not from Texas either um
we're i grew up in Pennsylvania so
oh so you're really
yeah it it's not like this in Pennsylvania
no i like the winters but i don't like the summers down here it
it's awfully hot
it's terribly hot in the summer here i just
yeah
when we moved down here our we had a our vehicle didn't have an air conditioner
oh you're kidding
i'm not well we didn't well i we really really don't need it very much in Missouri where we're from
sure
but um oh we suffered that first summer we traded that thing in as as soon as we could because it just it's indispensable down here to have air conditioning
oh i'm sure
i i think you would probably
it would be terrible
down here yeah i'd just i think it's a necessity
we um
we have
i guess we bought that my car in Colorado that's where we we moved from and uh
um-hum
oh
so we we had a feeling we'd be coming back this way and again there they don't sell all the cars with air conditioning it's you know it's really a not
yeah
it's
it's almost a luxury
oh it is you know uh
we didn't have air conditioning in our house or anything
oh yeah that would be nice oh i i get the the our electric bill in here July and August is just about kills me it's because it's so hot
oh
yes it does
because i don't think they build them as energy efficient down here as they do up in the north i just really don't
no i don't think so either no
because of the winters winters i kind of miss winter
since it it didn't do anything down here this winter
oh no we didn't even have any of the famous Dallas ice storms
no we didn't no we didn't did we
no isn't that surprising
that was that is surprising
and i i it was uh really odd
but we went home to Missouri at at at Christmas and i we had well we ran into town and in the ice
uh-huh
oh
as we were coming into town and then it snowed a half a foot
oh my gosh
so we got our fill we went home at Christmas
well you know we lived in Colorado for
four years i guess
um-hum
so and we you know we had a lot of snow and i i really don't miss that
yeah
my husband says he certainly doesn't mind
shoveling missing the shoveling i mean we had a big sidewalk and he didn't like that at all but
yeah
yeah
i don't know
i'd rather have the snow than the ice
yeah oh definitely
because in Missouri we have a we have a lot of ice
uh-huh
and snow but uh but the the ice is really bad
because it knocks out power lines and and you just you just absolutely at least when you've got snow just about everybody has four wheel drive vehicles
that's right
so the ice you know that's that's a whole
you don't you don't need a four wheel drive vehicle you sit and spin uh
it doesn't matter right
Colorado wasn't bad for that because um it so at least in Colorado Springs where we lived it was so sunny most of the time
uh-huh
that at right after it snowed it would almost always be a bright sunny day
that's a
and all of the roads would be clear you'd still have the snow on the yard
yeah
the kids could play in it but it'd be a bright sunny day and you know it would it would melt and you could drive around and it was really no big deal
that'd be nice
did you all work at TI uh
TI Colorado Springs
yeah yeah
oh okay we got we had a lot of people from my husband's old group that moved out there
really
yeah
and they're still they're still out there though uh
that's
good they scaled down quite a bit they have a lot of changes out there lately
did oh they're they are everywhere they
that's true certainly not localized there
no
but we i don't know i i don't really miss the snow i miss the change of seasons myself
yes uh-huh
the fall is what i really miss from Pennsylvania
it just everything just kind of gives up and dies here
yeah it just turns brown and makes a mess
nothing pretty about it
no it just the the trees just go to about the first of December and then just oh well it's time to die so it just it's just an ugly mess
um-hum
my folks don't live in uh Pennsylvania anymore but for a long time i would purposely go back and visit in October
yeah
just so i could see the trees and the fall and such a pretty time
yeah my grand
my grandparents took a tour of the oh of the northeast this past Fall and they really enjoyed it they said that the color was just fantastic
uh-huh
it really is and i think you don't
this year
i growing up there i just assumed that's how it was all over the country i never really realized it was such a local
well yeah
thing i
yeah
well the maple tree the maple maple trees have a lot to do with it maples make a lot of nice color
yeah
which there are none down here
nope
it's too hot for them
we have a lot of Maple trees in Missouri so we have a lot of nice color too but uh the northeast really has the
corner on that
yeah they they do
on the on the real nice color
but uh i i like spring i like i like the reason it's i like that spring comes
quickly here
yeah i do too i'm ready to
get outside and get the kids outside and
yes uh yes
and seems to just even my one year old it really changes her temperament she can be in here all grouchy and
oh
put her outside and hey she's fine
oh definitely
oh my my my two year old she hates to be put in indoors anyway and just
um-hum
well i think long winters would really mess up mess her up uh
my my son born he was born in Colorado and when we first moved here um
he was three i guess just turned three
um-hum
and for the first week we were here it was over a hundred every single day it was in July
oh whew
yeah
and he was lethargic he really he wasn't used to the heat at all he
yeah
huh-uh
would go outside and he'd turn into a zombie and walk around like he didn't know what was going on but he's used to it now i think he's i mean
i know
he certainly doesn't like the heat but he doesn't become lethargic anymore
yeah well when we moved down here it was it was June and and it was just like a shock
uh-huh
how oh being it's just so much different
i mean the heat when it gets hot in Missouri it it it'll get hot for a couple of days
in the in the in the mid to upper nineties and people think it's terrible and then it and it always just goes away
uh-huh
it just i just couldn't it was just oppressive the heat down here
that's a good word for it
and i just couldn't
um make my family understand this is hot
uh
really hot
so
well it's been good talking to you
well nice talking to you too
hopefully we'll have some more good weather but
oh yeah
we'll see
okay take it easy bye-bye
all righty bye-bye
