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#1401 Postby wx247 » Tue Jul 08, 2003 9:15 am

Morning everyone --

Sounds like you have a lot of stories to tell Dennis. ;) And I agree about the heat. Once it hits about 90 here and stays there for weeks on end, I get so disgusted with the weather. :)

Sounds like you had a great weekend Shannon. Sorry to hear about your car though.

Well, I am off to the dentist office in an hour or so. I have to go twice in one week. :o Yeesh!

TTYL,
Garrett :multi:
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#1402 Postby pojo » Tue Jul 08, 2003 9:31 am

Garrett, don't worry about it....I was waiting for that day! Believe me, I've been hoping it would come. I hated driving that beast. If you have seen my car, you'll realize that it was time for a new one! Thankfully, my grandma doesn't need her car, so I'm driving that. My grandpa was like...it shakes at 65mph (its because my grandma barely drives it) To tell you the truth, I can barely feel it shaking! It is extremely minor compared to what I felt when driving my car! My car was a hazard to drive on the road.
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#1403 Postby David » Tue Jul 08, 2003 1:02 pm

Hello Front Porch!

Had a long night last night, had Yahoo webspiders searching WxChat, thought they were hackers... but it boosted out user record up to 62! :lol:

I hope everyone is enjoying their day, and has a good week. :)

David
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#1404 Postby isobar » Tue Jul 08, 2003 3:39 pm

Hello Porch Fans!! Good to see you!

Working on catching up on the S2K happenings. Just got back this weekend from vacation in Colorado. Now I know why my husband wants to live there. Driving thru the Rocky Mtn Natl Forest at 12K ft was phenomenal, and walking thru patches of snow in July was way cool 8-) ! Got in trouble by a Ranger for bagging a few rocks. Oops, can't take me anywhere! (one of my weird things, I collect rocks or shells from places I visit)

Have a great day!
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#1405 Postby azsnowman » Wed Jul 09, 2003 7:09 am

Good Morning!

"WHEW!" Can you say "HOT?" This is by far, the most intense heat wave ol snowman has ever seen up here in the mountains! Forecast heat warnings for most of the state today thru Saturday, NWS is askin everyone to stay inside!

Shannon, sorry to hear about your wheels, as the Ugly Duckling commercial says, "Life sucks without a car!"

Isobar, no.......I don't think that's weird picking up stuff, I too, pick up things from trips, rocks etc. Now that you've been to Colorado, you've seen what Pinetop and the White Mountains looks like!

Garrett, I would rather take a beating with a BIG STICK than to visit the dentist! I "HATE" the dentist, aside from heights, my biggest fear are dentists! I was born with a calcium problem, the lack of..........I was going to the dentist since I was 3 years old, NOW........I've got *falsies* at 43 yrs old!

Well, off for another cuppa then out the door before the furnace kicks in, make it a great day would ya's?

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#1406 Postby furluvcats » Wed Jul 09, 2003 12:04 pm

Good Morning porchers, sounds like we need some cool spring water for our western friends to cool off in... That reminds me of a story from my summer visit to Florida this year...I loaded my kids, my mom, Brian and his son, and took them to Juniper Springs State Park in Ocala FL, where there is a beautiful canoe run...Brian had never been in spring water, and neither had his son ever done anything remotely close to what we were doing...The canoe run consists of countless twists and turns, constant ducking to get uder a log, and actually sometimes getting out of youe canoe to drag your boat over a log....its alot of work, but the beauty of the wild of Florida is full blown there....anyway, it was alligator mating season, and we were immersed in the wilds...first ones of the day on the run....a little scary, with your mom, 3 white knuckled kids, and a hubby that had been canoeing only once, (and with me) since he was a boyscout! I didn't do well, when off to the right bank, there was a very scary 15 ft gator....(we learned his exact size later from the park ranger, and the young couple who saw him later, as he swam in front of their canoe! Can you imagine?! Anyway...that FREAKED me out, a had canoed this run dozens of times my whole adulthood...but what was worse than the gators, was when the boys canoe pushedd me into a hollow log, and inside , right next to me, was the largest brown spider I had ever seen!!!!There was no where for me to go, the boys canoe kept shoving me into it, and my moms end of our canoe was stuck in the rear! I screamed, and I mean continously screamed, fkailed, and was inches from this nasty, childs hand sized spider! ( I just knew it was going to eat me alive! Well, in all mt flailing, I was tipping our boat, making the kids cry, and making my mother cuss (this doesn't happen but once a decade!!!!) I ended up bailing out of my boat, straight into Brian's sons lap, in the next canoe!!!!! He was FREAKING!!!! Heres some 130 pound crazy woman ON his child lap! Meanwhile, my mom and Chloe unwedge their canoe, and start paddling away, only to discover the chicken butted woman (me) took my paddle with me! (Talk about paddling upstream with only 1 paddle!!!) Anyway, my mom was pissed, Brian had all but pee
d jis pants laughing at me, and I eventually, swapped back into my rightful, (or undeserved) place in the girls canoe...

My motto, don't sweat the little things in life...run like hell!!!!! :)

Boy, did I go off on a tangent...lol!

We're going camping this evening...this is me doing my motherly duty....because I think, who in their right mind, would want to leave a comfy airconditioned house, for ants, heat, and more heat and mosquito's????

Have a great day everyone! :)
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#1407 Postby GulfBreezer » Wed Jul 09, 2003 12:12 pm

Hello Friends!
Donna, welcome home you rock-picker-upper you!! :lol:

Dennis.....praise God! I am sorry you had to endure the heat and discomfort but you had a calling and you went!! Bless you and Michelle!

Shannon.......good luck on the car hunting! I don't envy you that task. I have a 94' Isuzu pick-up truck with a camper shell for sell, not sure how I would get it to you but............. :D

Us GOMers are seriously watching the tropics right now........timing is going to be everything!! Claudette could do just about anything at this point until we know what that frontal boundary is going to do.

Take Care everyone! BTW, Steve, I agree with Dennis, that was a great pic!!

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#1408 Postby isobar » Wed Jul 09, 2003 12:37 pm

Hope you don't find any spiders in your tent tonight, Furry (for your family's sake). lol

Dennis - So you're living in "Heaven on Earth", you lucky snowman! :angel:

Garrett - Hope your dentist visit went well. Unfortunately my generation (growing up before the age of flouride) has practically lived in the dentist chair. :puppydogeyes: I think between me and my husband, we put his kids thru college! $cha-ching$

Sandi - We'll all be keeping a watchful eye on Claudette hoping you and our other Gulf Coast friends aren't affected. Stock up on supplies now, if you haven't yet. :)

I'll get some ice for the lemonade and turn up the fans out here on the porch for ya'll. Keep cool! 8-)
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#1409 Postby furluvcats » Wed Jul 09, 2003 2:27 pm

Donna...lol...we have a camper, but still...anything can crawl into one! I'm in the proccess of disauding B and the kids of camping tonight....such threatening ominous storms in the forecast.....lol
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#1410 Postby wx247 » Wed Jul 09, 2003 3:34 pm

Afternoon everyone --

Donna, thanks for the lemonade. It hit the spot. I think I may be single-handedly paying for his practice. :roll: I switched dentists about 1 year ago because I didn't like my old dentist but had to use him until the insurance changed. When I went to my new dentist he told me that I had several cavities and asked how long it had been since I had seen a dentist. I told him 6 months and he was shocked. :o Apparently he said that some of these cavities could not have just come up in the past 6 months so I had had them for a long time and the old dentist hadn't done anything about it. :grr:

So... I have been to the dentist far TOO many times in the past year.

TTYL... I gotta go win the Powerball jackpot! :multi: ;)

Garrett
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#1411 Postby isobar » Wed Jul 09, 2003 4:16 pm

Go Garrett!! Just don't forget all us little people when you become rich and famous. :wink: :D
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#1412 Postby Colin » Wed Jul 09, 2003 4:33 pm

I don't think so, Garrett...that 250 million is MINE! :lol:
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#1413 Postby Stephanie » Wed Jul 09, 2003 8:16 pm

Good Evening Friends!

Isobar - sounds like you had a great trip! Those mountains are something else huh? I bet when you were driving through Rocky Mountain National Park at 12,000 feet, you needed at least a sweatshirt huh? There's nothing like the views. Did you see any elk or moose or mountain goats?

Fortunately, with all of this heat here, we've been receiving some kind of thundershower or shower almost every evening. Just enough to keep the plants and flowers from wilting!

My four day weekend went fast...yesterday was my first day back and boy I was feeling it by 2:00 pm!

I hope everyone is doing well! Have a great night! :D
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#1414 Postby ColdFront77 » Wed Jul 09, 2003 8:23 pm

Welcome back Donna. :) I was wondering where you were and remembered you went on vacation. Glad to have you back here with us.
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#1415 Postby azskyman » Wed Jul 09, 2003 11:43 pm

I love Colorado. Kathy's parents lived at 9,500 feet outside of Kremmling CO for about 8 years. Our boys loved to fish and hike and spend time there.

Our move to Arizona has surprised many of our friends, but my love and appreciation of mountains is filled here. While most Midwesterner friends of ours picture Arizona as flat, flat, flat, with cattle carcasses and tarantulas ruling the roost, all of them have found the mountains here to be a wonderful treat...

Not so majestic as the Front Range of Colorado, though. I still love that sight from 60 miles away along I-70.
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#1416 Postby azsnowman » Thu Jul 10, 2003 7:03 am

Good Morning!

"BRRR!" turn up the heat "LOL!" It's a *chilly* 55° at the moment, 0500 MST......wish I could bottle up this cool air and save it for this afternoon sheeesh! "HOT!"......boy was it ever hot here, I know, my 98° here at the house and the 103° just 2 miles away is pale in comparison to azskymans 113° BUT.........it has only hit 100° once, maybe twice that I can remember in 38 years. The nonsoons are dang sure living up to their name, dang.........it's drier than it was last year at this time, it's down right heart breaking seeing the Ponderosa Pines dying right before our eyes because of this record breaking drought, may the Good Lord have Mercy on us and bring some rain SOON!

Yes.....we've got some pretty high mountains but like Steve said, nuthin' like the front range of the Rockies....as the song *Rocky Mountain High* fades in "LOL!" Ya know.......I really miss John Denver sometimes, man he was good!

Well, off for another cuppa Joe, read the paper and out the door before the furnace kicks in! Make it a great day would ya's, stay safe, stay COOL!

Dennis
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#1417 Postby wx247 » Thu Jul 10, 2003 8:36 am

Didn't you guys here the news this morning. Someone from Missouri and Pennsylvania won the Powerball jackpot!! :multi: Colin and I are the two luckiest people in the world. ;)

Hope everyone is having a great morning! We had a big boomer last night, but it wasn't severe so it was great sleeping weather.

I liked John Denver's music as well Dennis. There was something pure and real about it. That is hard to find today!

Enjoy today everyone and keep on watching the tropics...

Garrett :multi:
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#1418 Postby azskyman » Thu Jul 10, 2003 9:35 pm

We attended a John Denver concert years ago where he performed in "the round." Best concert we have ever attended, bar none. I'm sure he is yet today flowing through the trees and canyons and ridges of the Rockies...as free as the songs he used to share with us.

What...no Powerball winner in Arizona? I saw a line out of the Circle K last night that should have produced a winner.

Guess we have to work for a living for at least another week.
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#1419 Postby Colin » Thu Jul 10, 2003 9:52 pm

My golly, it was my friend who won...YEAH RIGHT... :( I think the Pennsylvania person should have enough to spread around... :lol:
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#1420 Postby raine » Thu Jul 10, 2003 10:02 pm

You know winning the powerball might seem like a blessing and I am sure that coming into all that money would be great.But my goodness so much money in one lump sum,well I have to think that with that money comes some headaches as well.It's a huge amount one I find I have a hard time wrapping my mind around.Still it would be nice to give and give and give and not ever worry about the well going dry.


What would you guys do with 146 million dollars?

We visited D's doctor in philly yesterday, came home with a clean bill of health, I can tell you folks that such a thing as that is priceless!! He's back to his old self again, the child eats constantly, he just popped into my room a few minutes ago with a huge piece of cake!

Well it's been a long but blessed day, time to hit the hay.
Have a wonderful day my friends, enjoy the day that the Lord has made!!

Blessings, Raine
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