Snow in Texas
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Pat
Well I knew sooner or later it would snow down here. I thank desertstars was wanted to show us with snow was even though we only have three inches of snow but then here in Texas three inches of snow is like six feet of snow to us so desertstars thanks for all of one day of snow. Now we know summer will start in about 30 days and we can get back to the good hot weather that the Texans like. Maybe we can do you a favor and sand some of our heat back up your way.
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desertstars
Great Chat
Yeah, Pat. Like we got a lotta snow here in Phoenix and not enough heat.
Just for the hell of it, I actually took an Amtrack trip last September to see my kids in Florida just for the halibut.
Driving through Texas is almost like drinking from a spitoon. Neverending.
Taking Amtrack through Texas is like a stint in Purgatory. Union Pacific shovelled us over at every shunt in order to give freight trains priority which made the journey through Texas seem like the worst two thirds of my miserable existence.
During the two weeks it took to travel from border to border, I was served something called "Lone Star" beer that must have been concocted from the boiled residue of bean-eating retired cowboy saddles combined with a soupcon of rattlesnake sperm and aged mesquite crushings retrieved from the bottom of boots scraped from someone who just walked through a field of freshly layed coyote droppings.
After interminable miles of looking out the window of the train and viewing an endless array of cattle laying on their sides, gasping for non-ridden dusty breaths and wondering what their worth was other than sales to tourists looking for dehydrated skulls to mount on their trophy rooms, the train managed to creep and crawl out of the desert and back into civilization.
The return trip scenery was the same although the dead cows were different.
I think.
Hey, Pat. Texas is a great state to be "from".
I like your sense of humor, for sure. Don't take me too seriously. Driving through Texas is really adventurous and something that every American should include in their vacation agenda.
Not.
Just for the hell of it, I actually took an Amtrack trip last September to see my kids in Florida just for the halibut.
Driving through Texas is almost like drinking from a spitoon. Neverending.
Taking Amtrack through Texas is like a stint in Purgatory. Union Pacific shovelled us over at every shunt in order to give freight trains priority which made the journey through Texas seem like the worst two thirds of my miserable existence.
During the two weeks it took to travel from border to border, I was served something called "Lone Star" beer that must have been concocted from the boiled residue of bean-eating retired cowboy saddles combined with a soupcon of rattlesnake sperm and aged mesquite crushings retrieved from the bottom of boots scraped from someone who just walked through a field of freshly layed coyote droppings.
After interminable miles of looking out the window of the train and viewing an endless array of cattle laying on their sides, gasping for non-ridden dusty breaths and wondering what their worth was other than sales to tourists looking for dehydrated skulls to mount on their trophy rooms, the train managed to creep and crawl out of the desert and back into civilization.
The return trip scenery was the same although the dead cows were different.
I think.
Hey, Pat. Texas is a great state to be "from".
I like your sense of humor, for sure. Don't take me too seriously. Driving through Texas is really adventurous and something that every American should include in their vacation agenda.
Not.
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DaveC
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Repair1
OMG lets talk snow!!! 
I went for 23 %$#%$# days without ever seeing the sun it snowed every day for 23 days this has been a crappy winter here thats for sure. Still have 2 feet of the stuff on my front lawn been there since the day after christmas when I was without power for 2 days, and now another storm on Thursday OMG I'm getting pissed make it go away!! 
Happy Repairing
Brian
I went for 23 %$#%$# days without ever seeing the sun it snowed every day for 23 days
this has been a crappy winter here thats for sure. Still have 2 feet of the stuff on my front lawn been there since the day after christmas when I was without power for 2 days, and now another storm on Thursday OMG I'm getting pissed make it go away!! Happy Repairing
Brian
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Pat
Well I lived here all my life and I know what you are talking about it does get hot in Texas. Well I do not think I would of travel by train through Texas your bet away would have been a plane this way you would not have been in all the pain. desertstars I hope the train conductor did not make you get off and gather cow payee for fuel sow you could get through Texas. Well it will be 56 today.
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Pat
Being sloppy with resin
Sorry about sending the snow you're away may be able to have sunshine tomorrow.
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GRT
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desertstars
Hey, actually. I took the train to Florida as an adventure and met some interesting people along the way there and back.
And, I admit, some not so interesting on the way there and back.
A slice of life when it comes right down to it.
"Texas Pride"?
Never heard of it and I think you made it up, GRT.
Sounds like an oxymoron to me.
I remember when people used to dress to the nines for an airline trip.
Nowadays they look like something the cat dragged into the airport and dropped on the floor in front of the reservation desk.
Put me on the train anyday. I'm a bit leery of pilots with major airlines who start quoting the bible at 35,000 feet.
Talk about a captive audience.
And, I admit, some not so interesting on the way there and back.
A slice of life when it comes right down to it.
"Texas Pride"?
Never heard of it and I think you made it up, GRT.
Sounds like an oxymoron to me.
I remember when people used to dress to the nines for an airline trip.
Nowadays they look like something the cat dragged into the airport and dropped on the floor in front of the reservation desk.
Put me on the train anyday. I'm a bit leery of pilots with major airlines who start quoting the bible at 35,000 feet.
Talk about a captive audience.
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DaveC
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