[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] okay and you want to talk about this weather wow I wanna talk about how mild it was at Christmas time
[speaker001:] yeah it's something else yeah how about that huh
[speaker002:] well that was uh totally unbelievable for the first time in a long time I left plants outside and they didn't freeze so that was pretty good um yeah
[speaker001:] yes yeah that's true uh the I think it was last year around this time it was when we had the really really hardened cold snap
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I had a pipe break on me so it flooded the house and everything
[speaker002:] oh you did oh that's terrible
[speaker001:] so I was trying to be prepared this time around
[speaker002:] well what'd you do to prepare for that
[speaker001:] uh well it was an outside pipe so now this time I made sure I wrapped them up real good um-hum
[speaker002:] I see oh you did oh good for you uh-huh
[speaker001:] I don't wanna go through that again
[speaker002:] no I um that happened to a friend of ours actually they have a condominium and um they they went out to the grocery store and were out for oh a couple of hours
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] and when they came home the the pipe had broken and their their ground floor was flooded so uh it it's it's a major horror when when that kind of thing occurs
[speaker001:] ah um-hum yeah well with us we were out of town over the Christmas holiday and our neighbor called us to say hey you guys did you leave the water running
[speaker002:] oh  oh oh no uh-huh
[speaker001:] yeah they saw the the water coming out from under the door
[speaker002:] oh my goodness isn't that terrible thing yeah
[speaker001:] yeah so we cut our vacation short but I guess it wasn't too bad uh we ended up getting all new carpet downstairs and part of the upstairs so
[speaker002:] oh um-hum yeah oh oh my goodness well
[speaker001:] it wasn't it wasn't a real pleasant but uh you know looking back it it was a good deal because we did need new carpet
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum well you know sometimes in a funny kind of way life treats us like that that something we wouldn't normally do when we're placed in the circumstance we go ahead and do it and then uh things are kind of better afterwards and it it ultimately gives you an uplift I I I guess you have to look at it like that anyway or you might get depressed and God forbid but anyway
[speaker001:] yeah exactly um-hum  that's true
[speaker002:] but uh we had visitors from New York I'm really not from this area you must detect that I'm really originally from the New York area and we had visitors uh both from New York and from California at Christmas time
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum oh
[speaker002:] and um usually it is uh somewhat cold I mean cold enough to put on a winter coat or at least heavy sweaters and it was so mild here that uh they had to of course
[speaker001:] sure sure
[speaker002:] poke several funny jokes at us down here with this funny weather and you know whatever uh but uh I think they were very uh pleasantly happy because one person has um
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] uh arthritis kind of stuff and um
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] when it gets very cold they all crink up you know and uh we didn't have any of that kind of problem this year so we were uh very grateful for that kind of thing
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum that's great yeah so you had the kind of weather that uh it was nice to go out at night on
[speaker002:] that's right um-hum yeah uh-huh of course in California they have such a steadily more moderate climate that the temperatures even in the areas around San Francisco we used to live
[speaker001:] yeah that's great um-hum
[speaker002:] down in that Bay area the temperatures never got excessively cold if it got down around thirty two just about
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] uh then the people would start panicking over the artichoke uh crops and uh avocados and of course down south the
[speaker001:] hum oh I see um-hum
[speaker002:] the orange groves and things like that you know the weather really does have a lot of effect upon so many things and um when they grow those oranges down in the southlands they have these
[speaker001:] right yeah
[speaker002:] braziers out in the field and they go around putting fires on if the temperatures gets down around thirty two or thirty and just levels off there so that
[speaker001:] um-hum hum wow
[speaker002:] they can regulate it by means of those like man made not too difficult um uh ways to to save the crops
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah
[speaker002:] but we all know what happens if those crops freeze uh we pay for it yeah
[speaker001:] right right that's right you know uh you you usually don't think of that uh you know being I guess being in a urban area if it gets cold you know
[speaker002:] yeah um-hum uh-huh
[speaker001:] you you well let's think about water freezing and pipes breaking but down there they got all those crops to worry about
[speaker002:] right of course uh-huh oh oh yes oh it's it's really well that happened here in Texas with the grapefruits that year a couple of years ago
[speaker001:] yeah yeah right I remember that
[speaker002:] and the grapefruit crop was very uh very scarce uh so uh you know all of these major things the poor farmers but um
[speaker001:] that's right right yeah
[speaker002:] anyway we'll just uh hope that uh we're not in for too many big freezes now but I know one big one will come and in it always does and uh I really don't mind those uh few uh snow flurries and those few days when there's a bit of snow
[speaker001:] it always happens huh  always happens huh sure I'd say there's pretty quite pretty