[speaker001:] hi Debbie how are you
[speaker002:] oh just fine
[speaker001:] what do you think of this weather
[speaker002:] oh it's been beautiful here lately
[speaker001:] oh I love it
[speaker002:] yeah I was I was glad that Easter was nice because sounds like you have a child too
[speaker001:] yeah yes you can hear her huh
[speaker002:] yeah I've I've got a two year old and we hunted Easter eggs yesterday and the weather was really nice
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah I have a four year old and a one year old
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] so uh yeah I'm glad it was nice too I
[speaker002:] we had a
[speaker001:] got a chance to to go outside and
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] just have a nice day the um I remember last year wasn't it raining a lot this yeah all that flooding and everything
[speaker002:] it was raining last year we had uh-huh we
[speaker001:] I'm glad we don't have that this year so far
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] uh-huh we live just north of Trinity Mills and it floods there you know
[speaker002:] oh did it
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] oh really I did
[speaker001:] to go to Home Depot and that's a problem
[speaker002:] yeah oh gosh yes uh the a lot of people go there
[speaker001:] yes or Target for that matter now
[speaker002:] yeah I'm I'm we're not from Texas we're from further we're from Missouri so it's it's
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] the weather down here is a lot different than than it is uh uh at home yeah
[speaker001:] oh yeah yeah we're not from Texas either um we're I grew up in Pennsylvania so
[speaker002:] oh so you're really
[speaker001:] yeah it it's not like this in Pennsylvania
[speaker002:] no I like the winters but I don't like the summers down here it
[speaker001:] it's awfully hot
[speaker002:] it's terribly hot in the summer here I just
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] when we moved down here our we had a our vehicle didn't have an air conditioner
[speaker001:] oh you're kidding
[speaker002:] I'm not well we didn't well I we really really don't need it very much in Missouri where we're from
[speaker001:] sure
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] oh I'm sure I I think you would probably
[speaker002:] it would be terrible
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] um-hum oh
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] yeah it's
[speaker001:] it's almost a luxury
[speaker002:] oh it is you know uh
[speaker001:] we didn't have air conditioning in our house or anything
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] oh yes it does
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] no I don't think so either no
[speaker002:] because of the winters winters I kind of miss winter since it it didn't do anything down here this winter
[speaker001:] oh no we didn't even have any of the famous Dallas ice storms
[speaker002:] no we didn't no we didn't did we
[speaker001:] no isn't that surprising
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] uh-huh oh
[speaker002:] as we were coming into town and then it snowed a half a foot
[speaker001:] oh my gosh
[speaker002:] so we got our fill we went home at Christmas
[speaker001:] well you know we lived in Colorado for four years I guess
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] so and we you know we had a lot of snow and I I really don't miss that
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] I don't know
[speaker002:] I'd rather have the snow than the ice
[speaker001:] yeah oh definitely
[speaker002:] because in Missouri we have a we have a lot of ice
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] that's right
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] that at right after it snowed it would almost always be a bright sunny day
[speaker002:] that's a
[speaker001:] and all of the roads would be clear you'd still have the snow on the yard
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] that'd be nice did you all work at TI uh TI Colorado Springs
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] oh okay we got we had a lot of people from my husband's old group that moved out there
[speaker001:] really
[speaker002:] yeah and they're still they're still out there though uh
[speaker001:] that's good they scaled down quite a bit they have a lot of changes out there lately
[speaker002:] did oh they're they are everywhere they
[speaker001:] that's true certainly not localized there
[speaker002:] no
[speaker001:] but we I don't know I I don't really miss the snow I miss the change of seasons myself
[speaker002:] yes uh-huh
[speaker001:] the fall is what I really miss from Pennsylvania
[speaker002:] it just everything just kind of gives up and dies here
[speaker001:] yeah it just turns brown and makes a mess nothing pretty about it
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] just so I could see the trees and the fall and such a pretty time
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] uh-huh it really is and I think you don't
[speaker002:] this year
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] well yeah
[speaker001:] thing I
[speaker002:] yeah well the maple tree the maple maple trees have a lot to do with it maples make a lot of nice color
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] which there are none down here
[speaker001:] nope
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] yeah they they do
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] yeah I do too I'm ready to get outside and get the kids outside and
[speaker002:] yes uh yes
[speaker001:] and seems to just even my one year old it really changes her temperament she can be in here all grouchy and
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] put her outside and hey she's fine
[speaker002:] oh definitely oh my my my two year old she hates to be put in indoors anyway and just
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] well I think long winters would really mess up mess her up uh
[speaker001:] my my son born he was born in Colorado and when we first moved here um he was three I guess just turned three
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and for the first week we were here it was over a hundred every single day it was in July
[speaker002:] oh whew yeah
[speaker001:] and he was lethargic he really he wasn't used to the heat at all he
[speaker002:] yeah huh-uh
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] I know
[speaker001:] he certainly doesn't like the heat but he doesn't become lethargic anymore
[speaker002:] yeah well when we moved down here it was it was June and and it was just like a shock
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] it just I just couldn't it was just oppressive the heat down here
[speaker001:] that's a good word for it
[speaker002:] and I just couldn't um make my family understand this is hot uh
[speaker001:] really hot  so well it's been good talking to you
[speaker002:] well nice talking to you too
[speaker001:] hopefully we'll have some more good weather but
[speaker002:] oh yeah
[speaker001:] we'll see
[speaker002:] okay take it easy bye-bye
[speaker001:] all righty bye-bye