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I LOVE fishing but it has been a long, long, long time. I don't even mind if my pole has/had to sit in some contraption while I sit there and enjoy being by the water while waiting for a catch. But other things in my life have taken precedence over that.
Further, try fishing in the desert! LOL. Actually, we have some nice lakes to be able to do just that about 90 minutes north of us but we have not been able to do that either.
Right now, it is too hot to be out there anyway. We do not have the big old trees HERE that offer a nice canopy while fishing.
Actually, Tucson, Arizona has been having the coolest July in the last six summers that we have been here. I can't imagine how you live with the Florida heat and oppressive humidity ... but we all adapt!
My power wheelchair battery charger went on the blink and we have been waiting for a week for the parts to come in. I was pretty much housebound in fear that my wheelchair batteries would lose all of their charge and I would be stuck in bed. I really didn't have anywhere to go anyway so I just went from room to room keeping busy with our summer projects.
But several days ago my "engineer" husband rigged up a system that will give the battery a charge. Therefore, I finally got out to get some shopping done today that I have been waiting three months to do. It has always been one thing after another from day to day or week to week.
We have also been joining some great monsoons in the northern area of Tucson that I live in. Our area has literally gone without rain for three years! But July has made up for that! The lightning bolts and the clouds over the mountains offer a spectacular view almost every evening. Our part of town stays pretty safe in that other parts of Tucson has had very high winds that have taken down trees and on other damage.
We just get all the noise and anywhere from 10 seconds to five minutes of pouring rain. But we noticed today when we drove just 5 miles south of us that there was still water alongside the roads and one road is still closed so they must have gotten a lot of rain there last night. Usually it dries up within a minute after raining with it being so dry here in the Sonoran Desert.
We just got a call last night that the parts came in for the charger and my husband is going to take my chair down to the vendor early Monday morning. I will stay in bed and relax until he returns.
Back to working on my personal history work and program...
Lori
C4/5 complete, 26 years post
Tucson, Arizona
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Date: 8/11/2006 3:14:39 PM
Subject: [QUAD-L] Where Is Everyone??
How's Everyone doing?It sure is hot here in Tampa.My a/c burned up a few days ago.I'm surprise my caregiver hasn't found me melted on the floor melted with my eyes buging out.lolTommrow I'l get the new one at the cost of $3000.Thank the Lord for plastic money.I must admitt this one lasted me 20 yrs.got my pennys worth.The old one cost the same as the old one so now I have to live another 20yrs to get the penny out of this one.lolEven my cats looked at me saying I was about to cut my fur off.lol
Does anyone of U live in Tampa of close by??I live on a small canal and the fish R almost jumping up into my lap.I LOVE 2 fish but no one to fish with me.I had a cane pole set up so I could fish.Everyone ask how will I bring them in?Hey my chair will back up out to the street if need be. Any fishing floks out there?
Coveleskie
yborcityborn
C5/6 Quad incomplet
NEVER GIVE UP
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