cstocks
Platinum Member
I have been reading about the snow and seeing the snow pictures all winter long. Kinda made me envious because I rarely see snow in the Houston area. Well, I know some of you folks are sick of snow by now and ready for spring. I feel your pain. Now you can feel my pain. Today I spent four hours on my tractor leveling four dump truck loads of crushed concrete on my driveway where I will be building soon. The sky was clear and the sun was shining brightly. That is a blessing in itself, given all the rainy days we have had here in the past two months. Around 12:30 pm my wife showed up with a shrimp and oyster poorboy so I climbed off my tractor and sat in the car with her while we ate lunch. I wore shorts today and since the temp. was only supposed to be in the lower 70's I did not give much thought to my exposed legs. After all it is still officially winter and I do have a canopy on my tractor. While I was eating I noticed that my legs were glowing. I looked at them and saw a pair of the reddest legs I have seen since my last trip to Galveston beach in the middle of summer! Since it was cool and very windy I did not notice that my legs were not protected by my canopy and got quite fried by the late winter sun. My legs began to burn once I noticed their red condition. I could not wait to finish up so I could go home and hide from the sun for the rest of the day. At least I got in some quality seat time today. I have been trying for a month between rain showers to get my driveway leveled enough to get the dump trucks over to dump a few loads of crushed concrete and I surely enjoyed getting a few hours in on my tractor on my three acres out in the country.
I know that my sunburned legs may not be of much interest to most folks but I am here to tell you folks in the midwest and northeast to hang in there because winter will soon be gone and the dog days of summer will be back with us all. Enjoy the "cool" weather while you can 'cause its gonna be hot soon enough!
I know that my sunburned legs may not be of much interest to most folks but I am here to tell you folks in the midwest and northeast to hang in there because winter will soon be gone and the dog days of summer will be back with us all. Enjoy the "cool" weather while you can 'cause its gonna be hot soon enough!
