Gotta Love Arizona

[Dune]

Chollas are the most god-awful thing in Creation.  Damn I hate those things!  But, they don't jump  

They have barbed needles and they fall apart easily.  So, even if you brush them very gently, you quickly find yourself with a spine-covered ball of green hate attached to you.  Oh yeah, they're round so you can't grab them anywhere without being stuck:



Someday I'll tell ya'll about the kid I know that tried to play "leap-frog" with a cholla and lost.



A very painfull time was spent with a pair of pliars.

[Steve]

Not only do they have the nasty spines as you see, but they have millions of very thin, needles spines as well.  So when you brush up against one, you could end up w/ hundreds of these buggers in you. Oh, and here is a vicious  twist...the  little tiny needles are barbed.

[NUKE]

Originally posted by Creamo
Sure they do. But only if they get a running start? Man you hear it all on this bbs.

LOL, just wanted to see if anyone believed they could jump, but someone had to give it up almost immediatly

On another note, it was already 98* at 8 am this morning and will probably be 100 till 9 pm tonight.

Curval is correct, it's a dry heat but when the monsoon comes, we get it all..... heat plus humidity for bout 2 months, but I here it's good for the skin.

And yes, Cholla is about the worst thing you want burried into your skin. The needles are so thin, they instantly grab onto you and your clothes.

When we were kids, my brothers were playing hide and seek at night with this kid staying over the house. The kid ran full speed to hide behind some bushes.....well, cholla.... LOL.

He was screaming like mad, stuck from head to toe. Mom had him in a hot bath to clean him up and for weeks afterwards I was getting the damn needles stuck in me from the tub. They are horrible.

[Pooh21]

Every needle points in a different direction. I hate cholla

[Airhead]

No offense to anyone but it sounds like Arizona sucks. We should ship all the homeless people there and fence the entire State.

[NUKE]

Originally posted by Airhead
No offense to anyone but it sounds like Arizona sucks. We should ship all the homeless people there and fence the entire State.

Nah, Arizona is beautiful. Got it all here, except for the beach.

The good thing about Phoenix is that you can drive for just over an hour and be in the largest stand of Ponderosa pines in the world.

Heck, even Tucson has a ski lodge at Mt. Lemmon, which is a whole world unto itself.

[Steve]

We have more beach than any State in the nation, Nuke... we just need an ocean.

Arizona is about the best place in the world to live, imho, for 7 months out of the year. From June through much of October, it's a kiln.  I have a very large lake just 30 minutes from my house, can go outside with shorts on inthe Winter, then drive 90 minutes into the mountains and go skiing...it really does have much to offer...but  I mean BUT,  it gets derned hot.

[NUKE]

Originally posted by Steve
We have more beach than any State in the nation

Really Steve? I guess if you think about the lakes and rivers, come to think of it .

Where did you read that?

[NUKE]

Lake Powell in Arizona lakes offers more shoreline than the entire California coast.

Just looked that up.

Plus we have the Colorado river and some major lakes.

It is the second largest man-made lake in the United States and is 187 miles long with 96 major side canyons and a coast line of approximately 1960 miles--more than the west coast of the U.S. from Seattle to San Diego. The scenery is almost indescribable with towering rock formations rising majestically straight up out of the water.

[Steve]

Well, I sometimes call it a beach... others call it the desert.