Where exactly are your inlaws from? This is a large state. Just curious. I didn't know you had anyone down here.
Yours, Luce
Question for Lori
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Both of my hubby's brothers live in TX. The one that was here lives in Victoria and the other was in Dallas for years but recently moved to McKinney.
I have only been to Texas once and we were in Dallas for just a few days.
It was beautiful but hot & sooooo humid. I was living in Arizona at the time, so that humidity was a killer!
Hugs!
Lori
I have only been to Texas once and we were in Dallas for just a few days.
It was beautiful but hot & sooooo humid. I was living in Arizona at the time, so that humidity was a killer!
Hugs!
Lori
"The manner of giving is worth more than the gift." ~ PIERRE CORNEILLE
I'm sure your bil in Victoria would tell you that it's lots more humid there, being so near the coast. I lived in Ft.Worth a couple of years, but even though it's not far in miles from Dallas, the terrain is more western looking, and probably a little dryer. I really think that Ft.Worth is really where the West begins. Did make it over to Dallas a little more frequently while living relatively close that two years for various reasons, but Ft. Worth really had everything one could want in a nice size city.
Neither place has as mild a climate as Houston, however. The first year I lived in FW, there was an extremely long, extremely cold winter, and an extremely long, extremely hot summer, but the second year, those were short, and the delightful spring and fall were much longer than the previous year, so really enjoyed that, especially since the humidity in FW isn't all that bad, although not as low as Arizona, for sure.
Dallas is known for their tremendous ice storms. When they hit, it tends to be milder in FW. I was there for one of those. Matter of fact, I was riding a ski bus that encountered ice all the way from Wichita Falls near the OKLA border to our destination in Colorado -- frozen alllll the way, and way extended our time on the road! Would you believe it was frozen all the way back, and I had to go back to Ft. Worth from Dallas where we left the bus (back track) in someone else's car to pick up my car in the mid-cities area and drive over these iced over overpasses. Fortunately, I was the only one on the highway, and I just had regular tires, but they were at least fairly new. I had no traction, and it took me forever to get to my home because I just crept along all the way as I knew I had NO traction what-so-ever. Whew!
There was a sargeant involved in training medical officers who used to tell the newbies in the winter when they had to get out and learn to march that the only thing between there and the North Pole was a barrrrbed wire fence! That's what it felt like to me! Perhaps some of you are familar with Shephard AF Base in Wichita Falls up near the OKLA. border?
McKinney, I believe is very near to Dallas, right?
Victoria is along I-59, sorta mid-way between Corpus Christi and Houston, roughly. How did you get there from Arizona? Did you drive or fly, and if you took a plane, where did you land?
Wish you could've visited Padre Island, but that would be a complete opposite climate there on the coast from what you were accustomed to there in Ariz.
One of the hardest things for me to get used to living in north central Texas was that I was used to everything staying green all winter in most every year. Also, I missed not being able to run down to Galveston and refresh my mind watching and listening to the splashing waves in Galveston.
Funny, but when I moved back here, I missed things about FW.
Yours, Luce
Neither place has as mild a climate as Houston, however. The first year I lived in FW, there was an extremely long, extremely cold winter, and an extremely long, extremely hot summer, but the second year, those were short, and the delightful spring and fall were much longer than the previous year, so really enjoyed that, especially since the humidity in FW isn't all that bad, although not as low as Arizona, for sure.
Dallas is known for their tremendous ice storms. When they hit, it tends to be milder in FW. I was there for one of those. Matter of fact, I was riding a ski bus that encountered ice all the way from Wichita Falls near the OKLA border to our destination in Colorado -- frozen alllll the way, and way extended our time on the road! Would you believe it was frozen all the way back, and I had to go back to Ft. Worth from Dallas where we left the bus (back track) in someone else's car to pick up my car in the mid-cities area and drive over these iced over overpasses. Fortunately, I was the only one on the highway, and I just had regular tires, but they were at least fairly new. I had no traction, and it took me forever to get to my home because I just crept along all the way as I knew I had NO traction what-so-ever. Whew!
There was a sargeant involved in training medical officers who used to tell the newbies in the winter when they had to get out and learn to march that the only thing between there and the North Pole was a barrrrbed wire fence! That's what it felt like to me! Perhaps some of you are familar with Shephard AF Base in Wichita Falls up near the OKLA. border?
McKinney, I believe is very near to Dallas, right?
Victoria is along I-59, sorta mid-way between Corpus Christi and Houston, roughly. How did you get there from Arizona? Did you drive or fly, and if you took a plane, where did you land?
Wish you could've visited Padre Island, but that would be a complete opposite climate there on the coast from what you were accustomed to there in Ariz.
One of the hardest things for me to get used to living in north central Texas was that I was used to everything staying green all winter in most every year. Also, I missed not being able to run down to Galveston and refresh my mind watching and listening to the splashing waves in Galveston.
Funny, but when I moved back here, I missed things about FW.
Yours, Luce