Hark the Herald, SG's sing....

[Princess Susi]

That there, Wallaby is EXACTLY why we want to move to Florida! I am so sick here so often! Hot and cold, hot and cold...it can't make up it's mind what it wants to be here in Denver. And we have these really weird micro climates all over town. It could be snowing on one side of Denver and sunny on the other. The air pressure changes so often here from a low front to a high front or vice versa, I cannot get to feeling *well* for any length of time. Heat and humidity will save my sinuses and my back! Sea level air pressure will take the strain out of my back. Gotta move.... and soon...I want to move NOW! And of clourse that will put me in driving distance to one of my favorite things on earth...the ocean!!!! :) Love the ocean! No ocean here, just big tall granite mountains and beautiful terrain, but if you are disabled as we are, there is not much skiing, rock climbing, snowboarding, mountain climbing or hiking to be done with our feeble bodies. I like the idea of walking on a beach! ahhhhhhh.... :p:

And it is the little kidlets that get me sick, with their runny noses and snot...I hugged a bunch of em on Halloween cause everyone loves Pooh and in my costume (see Halloween thread for a pic of me as Pooh) I got hugged by everyone all night. It will be interesting to see what develops in the petri dish that is my body over the next couple days. Oh well, I'd rather catch the germies NOW, than wait til Christmas and have a nightmare Christmas trip from Hell again at Disneyland like last year! Better to get sick now, than at the holidays!!!
susi*beachcomber*slicker

[Big Wallaby]

I used to have some serious ear problems, and one of the things I loved about coming to Florida was that as soon as I had been here about two hours, it all cleared up. I'd return to Oregon and I'd be so dizzy I couldn't stand up for about a week.

Come to find out, what was so awful in my childhood is one of the best things ever in my adult life. Internal ear deformities have turned out to be extremely helpful. I can do just about anything without balance problems.

I am the future of human evolution.

[Princess Susi]

Man, I GOTTA see you, I want to set eyes on the future of human evolution!
WOW! Here on our very own SGT! the future of humanity! ;)
Cool, Wallaby

[BRWombat]

That there, Wallaby is EXACTLY why we want to move to Florida! I am so sick here so often! Hot and cold, hot and cold...it can't make up it's mind what it wants to be here in Denver. And we have these really weird micro climates all over town. It could be snowing on one side of Denver and sunny on the other. The air pressure changes so often here from a low front to a high front or vice versa, I cannot get to feeling *well* for any length of time. Heat and humidity will save my sinuses and my back!

That is so true about Denver weather, but personally I loved it. People just about everywhere like to claim odd weather -- like here in Texas, "If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes." (Ha! That's a laugh. Yes, it occasionally changes suddenly, but you can see it coming two days ahead of time.)

Denver's weather, on the other hand, really is unpredictable. I'll never forget the time driving from my house to a friend's one August day. When I left the sky was absolutely clear and sunny. Two miles later, it was black with driving rain and hail -- I had to pull into his garage to protect my car. Ten tornados touched down in the metro Denver area from that storm!

Then there was the Christmas Eve blizzard of '82. Three inches of snow were predicted. Instead, the city got three feet -- and it all fell in a little over 24 hours! It absolutely shut everything down. I've still got a photo souvenir book put out by the Rocky Mountain News.

I've always thought the dryer air was better for sinuses/allergies... Texas humidity certainly isn't helping mine!!

[Princess Susi]

Yeah Denver has that same expression, If you don't like the weather, "wait a minute." LOL! It amazed me when we first moved here, because on the weekend before Memorial Day 2000, I was out in the yard and it was 70. I was wearing shorts, a tank top and no shoes. By 3PM it had gone down to 35 and was snowing like crazy! They were pulling people off of Cherry Creek Reservoir with hypothermia because they had not dressed for snow! It blew me away. Then last year, of course you heard about our 8 weeks of blizzards and the airport shut down for 2and a half days. It was a nightmare here. We had 6 ft snowdrifts in front of our door, here in Westminster (!) and had to dig out. Ralphie and I were furiously shovelling literally at 2AM, so the snow did not get too deep before we had to shovel again. It took months for the crap to melt off. I hope we do not have a repeat of that this year. We had to fly out on the Friday before Christmas last year to get to Disneyland and the airport was still shut down. A friend with a 4 wheel drive got us to the airport and it finally opened at noon. Too bad our flight was at 9AM. We were on standby until we got out at 6:30PM. What a mess that was. They actually have prepared plans now in case anything like that happens again. The snow was 3 and 4 ft deep on the runways and they could not plow fast enough. The planes were icing up and it just shut down the whole operation...
I just want to go where the sun shines and I can feel a cool ocean breeze and have moisture in the air. I don't have allergies here, it is just that I grew up on the coast and my nose cannot take the dry air. I have nosebleeds constantly and have had 3 surgeries to remove scar tissue from the damage the dry air is doing to my poor tender nose holes! I did have some allergies in California, due to so many different plants everywhere. I lived near the Luther Burbank house in Santa Rosa and he was responsible for bringing in and creating many hybrid plants. Berkeley was a fount of thousands of different flowering little buggers and I sneezed there. The dry air DOES help that, but has it's own nefarious effect on tender mucus membranes! :p: I alwys liked the sound of those two words together! Mucus Membranes! Weird...
I want humidity and heat! No more shovelling the frozen white crap from the driveway, although I guess I could do like Hobie says they do in Malibu when it snows, Get a blade and a straw! LOLOLOLOL! Not a chance!
susi*sungoddess*slicker :p:

[hobie16]

I want humidity and heat!

Hawaii brah! Of course, the cost of living is a killer.

[Big Wallaby]

...the cost of living is a killer.

I actually knew a guy who had rent rates at $125 a month. Of course, he tells me he almost had to pick up his house and put it back together every once in a while, but it was a nice shack on the countryside.

But you have a catamaran, so I'll be out that way sometime soon.

[BRWombat]

Then last year, of course you heard about our 8 weeks of blizzards and the airport shut down for 2and a half days. It was a nightmare here. We had 6 ft snowdrifts in front of our door, here in Westminster (!) and had to dig out. Ralphie and I were furiously shovelling literally at 2AM, so the snow did not get too deep before we had to shovel again. It took months for the crap to melt off.

I do remember that. When I was there in March, I stayed with friends in Golden. They still had their Christmas lights up because the ones in the bushes were still covered in drifts! (Some of my Texas neighbors also don't take theirs down until March, but I can't say it's for the same reason. Maybe in solidarity with their frozen relatives in the North??? :rolleyes :)

[hobie16]

I actually knew a guy who had rent rates at $125 a month. Of course, he tells me he almost had to pick up his house and put it back together every once in a while, but it was a nice shack on the countryside.

It must have been a condemned chicken coop.