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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: NUKE on May 28, 2003, 10:51:25 PM
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It's 8:50 pm and 104 degrees in Phoenix.
Today I almost got caught by some "jumping cactus/cacti", or cholla. These things will jump on you from up to 15 feet away, and they are more active this time of year.
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High today was 85*, light breeze. Got a great nap in the hammock under the shade tree this afternoon.:cool:
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97 today in Sacramento. I went out to Camp Far West Lake and skiied on glass until I was too tired to hang onto the tow rope (about three minutes- I'm old). Now it's 9 PM and it's 85 degrees. Bout another hour and I'll hit the swimming pool. I love summertime.:)
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76 and sunny... with a light breeze.
MiniD
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You guys are lucky :)
And you don't want to deal with jumping cactus, they will leap onto you and wreck your day.
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they jump..?
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Originally posted by Animal
they jump..?
Only if you have been eating the peyote.
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Originally posted by Animal
they jump..?
No, the cactus don't jump- Nuke staggers.
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Rode a horse thru osme jumping cactus once, she promptly returned the favor by trying to buck the cactus spines off her haunch, nicely depositing me into a saguaro. We were both so happy with each other's company on the long walk back to the horse ranch.
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Originally posted by Pei
Only if you have been eating the peyote.
lol!
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Come on Nuke...its a DRY heat, not 95% humidity heat. Suck it up ya wussie.;)
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Only been to Arizona once - Phoenix and Tucsan, but I loved every minute of it. Fantastic weather (and so many HOT latin girls!!!)
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108 today.
Yeesh.
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57 and RAINING this morning... hah, beat THAT!
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Originally posted by NUKE
Today I almost got caught by some "jumping cactus/cacti", or cholla. These things will jump on you from up to 15 feet away, and they are more active this time of year.
Sure they do. But only if they get a running start? Man you hear it all on this bbs.
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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:
(http://www.azuswebworks.com/jpeg/tbcholla.jpg)
Someday I'll tell ya'll about the kid I know that tried to play "leap-frog" with a cholla and lost.
:eek:
A very painfull time was spent with a pair of pliars.
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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.
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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.
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Every needle points in a different direction. I hate cholla
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No offense to anyone but it sounds like Arizona sucks. We should ship all the homeless people there and fence the entire State.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Well, I sometimes call it a beach... others call it the desert.