Fall feels like,..well, cold….
Posted by Pete | Posted in News | Posted on 23-09-2009
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Today is the first day of fall…It was 46 degrees at our place this morning. Pretty dog-gone chilly…. I postponed some weed pulling in the front flower bed until afternoon…It was warm by then and I was kind of thinking that with a light jacket, maybe morning work would have been better…You just don’t know, do you?…What one should do is wait until the dead of winter, then the dang weeds would be dead from frost bite and then I could tell the boss, “I’ll get’um come spring and warm weather.” Do you think that will work?….yeah, well, me neither…
This is the thing that I remember the most about Albuquerque. It never got cold there. It was so dang dry that I almost never saw any ice, and never saw any frost. 45 degrees!!! That is simply good walking weather, and even better bicycling weather. The beauty of it is that it was like this all year round. In the fall, it was 45. In the winter, it was maybe 35. In the summer, it was perhaps 95; but it all felt like a nice balmy 65 because there was no moisture. I never saw any frost. I only saw white stuff (snow) very high on top of the Sandias. It was nice tennis playing and bicycling weather the year round. This is what I remember most about Albuquerque.
When I left Albuquerque in 1969, I ended up at A. H. Robins in Richmond, Virginia. The first thing that those Virginians ask me was “how did I stand the heat in Albuquerque?” I answered, “What heat?” The weather in Albuquerque was always comfortable. And those “swamp coolers”! How strange they were? And they only worked on dry days! But that represented 360 out of 365 days of the year.
Yeah, most folks wonder about swamp coolers, but they work and they are cheap to operate. Normally, you can expect about a 20 degree cool from the ambient temperature, so on a 95 degree day your house should be around 75 degrees. But anyway, Errol, don’t tell anyone about our nice weather cause we cannot handle the influx of many more folks because of our water problems…I’m kidding of course, but it really is becoming a problem for us..Pete