[speaker001:] Okay [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] Well, considering you moved here from California, I guess, [inhaling] the rain for the past few weeks has been different than what you have down there.
[speaker002:] Yeah, we have, uh, in California, I'm in c-, I lived in central California. We have rain couple times a year and other than that, you know, it would be maybe October and then in the spring and then other than that there wouldn't be any rain.
[speaker001:] Especially
[speaker002:] So,
[speaker001:] the last few years.
[speaker002:] Yeah, yeah.
[speaker001:] It's kind of, it's kind of been a drought out there hasn't it, uh,
[speaker002:] Yeah, there has. So here, I know that, uh, last year there was some ice storms while I was out of the state and I'm glad to see there haven't been any this year.
[speaker001:] Yet [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Yeah, yet [LAUGHTER]. Still could come, huh.
[speaker001:] Generally if we're going to get them, it's not going to happen, uh, prior to January one.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] You may get a cold snap or two or some rain or something like we've been getting in December, but
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] usually the bitterest weather, if we're going to have any, comes in January and February.
[speaker002:] Um.
[speaker001:] Then by March things are getting warm again, so we really don't have, as long a cold season, I guess as people up north.
[speaker002:] Yeah, yeah it's so hard to predict here.
[speaker001:] It's been eighty degrees on Christmas day here before.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER] Lots of times.
[speaker002:] Well, today it's not bad out there.
[speaker001:] No, it's nice. I just came in from outside
[speaker002:] Uh-huh [faint].
[speaker001:] and it's, it's really pretty. It's kind of nice to have it dry all the ground out
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] before it rains again.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] I'm a, I'm a scoutmaster and so I wind up going out camping with, uh, a bunch of boys at one time and so, it's
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] better for us if it hasn't been this totally wet before we go [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Yeah. So you do that even in January, huh?
[speaker001:] Oh, yeah.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] Yeah, we camp year round.
[speaker002:] Yeah, oh, that's
[speaker001:] But, uh,
[speaker002:] interesting.
[speaker001:] It's, uh, [inhaling] it's definitely different.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh [faint].
[speaker001:] And then, I guess you've been through a couple of summers here, too, right?
[speaker002:] Yeah, I have and they're not too pleasant [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] It gets so humid. To me it's humid here. People that I know that
[speaker001:] Oh, it is.
[speaker002:] come from, uh, like Georgia or
[speaker001:] It's not as
[speaker002:] North Carolina,
[speaker001:] humid.
[speaker002:] Yeah, they say, it's,
[speaker001:] As Houston, say, or Atlanta, but it,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] But
[speaker002:] But I find it,
[speaker001:] more humid than Arizona and California for the most part.
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] Were you northern California?
[speaker002:] I was central California.
[speaker001:] Central.
[speaker002:] Central valley.
[speaker001:] So that was,
[speaker002:] It's very dry there.
[speaker001:] Dry, but pretty even climate, wasn't it?
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] Year round, fairly,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] Not wide fluctuations.
[speaker002:] Well, it's pretty hot in the summer. It's in the usually, you know, for a good three, four weeks we have over a hundred degrees.
[speaker001:] But it's a drier,
[speaker002:] But it's a dry heat, yeah.
[speaker001:] Hundred [LAUGHTER], when you have a hundred here, everybody's dying [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Uh-huh, yeah, I know. Well, I lived in Africa for a couple years in
[speaker001:] Oh.
[speaker002:] Cameroon and that's a tropical climate and it really feels similar to this
[speaker001:] What types of,
[speaker002:] during the summer.
[speaker001:] What type, what type of business takes you to those climates or was that just vacation or something?
[speaker002:] No, I was, uh, working with, uh, I still work with Wycliff Bible Translators.
[speaker001:] Oh.
[speaker002:] It's an organization where we are looking to translate the BIBLE into languages of the world that aren't yet written.
[speaker001:] Not so much still trying to translate old texts as just trying to translate modern versions into other languages.
[speaker002:] Right, languages that don't have anything written yet. So this is like the first thing that's written down or
[speaker001:] Oh.
[speaker002:] you know, first an alphabet is developed and then, uh,
[speaker001:] That's interesting.
[speaker002:] So,
[speaker001:] You don't think about that as a career, a normal career, uh, when
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] you're thinking of things that people might be doing.
[speaker002:] Yeah, well, it's based here, uh, the international headquarters for Wycliff Bible Translators is right here in, in Dallas.
[speaker001:] So you're, you're with the home office now [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Yeah, right now I am. That's what brought me here, yeah.
[speaker001:] Well, the, uh, I think, uh, all in all there are a lot worse climates than Dallas, uh, the weather
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] you know, does change fast and things do happen severely a few times a year, but there's an awful lot of good weather, too, in
[speaker002:] Yeah
[speaker001:] between.
[speaker002:] I agree, I agree. I, I thought the fall was really nice.
[speaker001:] Yeah, and usually a lot of the spring months are really nice, too.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] After the last freeze and, and when it begins to be in the sixties and seventies most of the time, uh, I
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] like that.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] Particularly if I'm going to be outdoors
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and doing, uh, outdoor activity, hiking and things. And that's
[speaker002:] Yeah, you probably do a lot of that with
[speaker001:] nicer.
[speaker002:] scout
[speaker001:] Yeah, I
[speaker002:] scouting.
[speaker001:] do quite a bit of that [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] Think we're going in just a couple of weeks out to the, east Texas, and it is a little more humid out there than it is here, so
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] I guess we'll, [inhaling] the only thing you have to watch out in this part of the country is during the change type seasons is the really severe storms that occasionally
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] come through out here on the plains. There's not much between us and the North Pole [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] And then when you get one of those tornado type
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] systems through or severe hail or thunderstorms and then,