For those who enjoyed the Public Broadcasting experiments of The 1900 House
(set in Victorian England), the Frontier House and Colonial House, now comes
Texas Ranch House! Premieres on May 1st (check local listings) on a PBS
station near you. Locally (west TN) it will be showing from 8:00-10:00 PM
for four days starting on May 1. Welcome to Texas in 1867! Can you cut it?
Know how to break a horse? Herd cattle?

I wonder if they will be making chili? And what, if anything, they make of
the whole beans vs. no beans in chili debate? Can't wait to see this latest
project.

Jill

On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 05:14:26 -0500, jmcquown wrote:

For those who enjoyed the Public Broadcasting experiments of The 1900 House
(set in Victorian England), the Frontier House and Colonial House, now comes
Texas Ranch House!

This is BIGa lika TEXAS! Do you have TV reception in TN? lol


BTW did they mention anything about cowGIRL riding ? heheshe

"jmcquown" wrote in message
...
For those who enjoyed the Public Broadcasting experiments of The 1900
House
(set in Victorian England), the Frontier House and Colonial House, now
comes
Texas Ranch House! Premieres on May 1st (check local listings) on a PBS
station near you. Locally (west TN) it will be showing from 8:00-10:00 PM
for four days starting on May 1. Welcome to Texas in 1867! Can you cut
it?
Know how to break a horse? Herd cattle?

I wonder if they will be making chili? And what, if anything, they make
of
the whole beans vs. no beans in chili debate? Can't wait to see this
latest
project.

Jill



Jill,

Thanks for posting... as a Texan I'm sure I couldn't cut it since my idea
of roughing it is a Holiday Inn without room service! It should be
interesting to watch.

Chris in Pearland, TX

For those who enjoyed the Public Broadcasting experiments of The 1900
House
(set in Victorian England), the Frontier House and Colonial House, now
comes
Texas Ranch House! Premieres on May 1st (check local listings) on a PBS
station near you. Locally (west TN) it will be showing from 8:00-10:00 PM
for four days starting on May 1. Welcome to Texas in 1867! Can you cut
it?
Know how to break a horse? Herd cattle?

I wonder if they will be making chili? And what, if anything, they make
of
the whole beans vs. no beans in chili debate? Can't wait to see this
latest
project.

Jill

If this is summer time deal, then all one has to consider is 100+ degrees
for consecutive months and no A/C. I live in, and love such weather as long
as I can get out if it and into some nice cool air. But one day a few years
ago when our AC went out for about 12 hours, I was ready to head north.

Larry T

LT wrote:
For those who enjoyed the Public Broadcasting experiments of The
1900 House (set in Victorian England), the Frontier House and
Colonial House, now comes Texas Ranch House! Premieres on May 1st
(check local listings) on a PBS station near you. Locally (west TN)
it will be showing from 8:00-10:00 PM for four days starting on May
1. Welcome to Texas in 1867! Can you cut it? Know how to break a
horse? Herd cattle?

I wonder if they will be making chili? And what, if anything, they
make of the whole beans vs. no beans in chili debate? Can't wait to
see this latest project.

Jill

If this is summer time deal, then all one has to consider is 100+
degrees for consecutive months and no A/C. I live in, and love such
weather as long as I can get out if it and into some nice cool air.
But one day a few years ago when our AC went out for about 12 hours,
I was ready to head north.

Larry T

I'm not sure what months it was taped. Guess I'll find out when the show
starts on May 1!

Jill

LT wrote:
For those who enjoyed the Public Broadcasting experiments of The 1900
House
(set in Victorian England), the Frontier House and Colonial House, now
comes
Texas Ranch House! Premieres on May 1st (check local listings) on a PBS
station near you. Locally (west TN) it will be showing from 8:00-10:00 PM
for four days starting on May 1. Welcome to Texas in 1867! Can you cut
it?
Know how to break a horse? Herd cattle?

I wonder if they will be making chili? And what, if anything, they make
of
the whole beans vs. no beans in chili debate? Can't wait to see this
latest
project.

Jill

If this is summer time deal, then all one has to consider is 100+ degrees
for consecutive months and no A/C. I live in, and love such weather as long
as I can get out if it and into some nice cool air. But one day a few years
ago when our AC went out for about 12 hours, I was ready to head north.

Larry T

I couldn't cut it but the SigOther probably could. He's from pioneer
stock: his great uncle walked the Oregon Trail at the age of 8 from
Missouri to what is now Beaverton, OR in 1870. SO grew up on a dairy
farm, has worked horses and cattle, was a varmint bounty hunter by the
age of 12 (culling down the coyote population), can raise a kitchen
garden, knows how to preserve food, can cook,


SD

"LT" wrote in message
.net...

If this is summer time deal, then all one has to consider is 100+ degrees
for consecutive months and no A/C. I live in, and love such weather as
long
as I can get out if it and into some nice cool air. But one day a few
years
ago when our AC went out for about 12 hours, I was ready to head north.

Our A/C went out in June several years ago, and it took two days to get it
fixed. Hubby and I stayed in a motel until it was working again.

Living in the Houston area for the last 15 years has really softened me up.
Yeah, it gets very hot and humid here, but there's also A/C everywhere, so
you always have relief from it. Whenever we visit my family in PA in the
summer (none of them have A/C), we're the only ones complaining about the
heat.

Mary

MareCat wrote:
"LT" wrote in message
.net...

If this is summer time deal, then all one has to consider is 100+ degrees
for consecutive months and no A/C. I live in, and love such weather as
long
as I can get out if it and into some nice cool air. But one day a few
years
ago when our AC went out for about 12 hours, I was ready to head north.

Our A/C went out in June several years ago, and it took two days to get it
fixed. Hubby and I stayed in a motel until it was working again.

Living in the Houston area for the last 15 years has really softened me up.
Yeah, it gets very hot and humid here, but there's also A/C everywhere, so
you always have relief from it. Whenever we visit my family in PA in the
summer (none of them have A/C), we're the only ones complaining about the
heat.


I could live without the A/C. I wouldn't be very happy but I could do
it. Very few places here in Honduras have A/C - upscale hotels, some
stores and restaurants, some areas of the mall. Most private homes
don't have A/C. What I can't live without is hot showers with
pressurized water. I enjoy going on weekend shopping trips just so I
can stay in a hotel for the showers! We have gravity fed in-house
plumbing and an in-line water heater for each showerhead. We live in
the highlands and it can get cool in the winter months - December,
January and February, April through October can be brutally hot.

SD

MareCat wrote:

"LT" wrote in message
.net...

If this is summer time deal, then all one has to consider is 100+
degrees for consecutive months and no A/C. I live in, and love
such weather as long as I can get out if it and into some nice
cool air. But one day a few years ago when our AC went out for
about 12 hours, I was ready to head north.

Our A/C went out in June several years ago, and it took two days to
get it fixed. Hubby and I stayed in a motel until it was working
again.

As a kid, I lived in Oklahoma. At the time, very few people even had
air-conditioning. We never did, we didn't even have it for the first
few years we lived in St. Louis. You just deal with it.




Brian
--
If televison's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who
won't shut up.
-- Dorothy Gambrell (http://catandgirl.com)

If this is summer time deal, then all one has to consider is 100+
degrees
for consecutive months and no A/C. I live in, and love such weather
as
long
as I can get out if it and into some nice cool air. But one day a few
years
ago when our AC went out for about 12 hours, I was ready to head
north.

Our A/C went out in June several years ago, and it took two days to get
it
fixed. Hubby and I stayed in a motel until it was working again.

Living in the Houston area for the last 15 years has really softened me
up.
Yeah, it gets very hot and humid here, but there's also A/C everywhere,
so
you always have relief from it. Whenever we visit my family in PA in the
summer (none of them have A/C), we're the only ones complaining about
the
heat.


I could live without the A/C. I wouldn't be very happy but I could do
it. Very few places here in Honduras have A/C - upscale hotels, some
stores and restaurants, some areas of the mall. Most private homes
don't have A/C. What I can't live without is hot showers with
pressurized water. I enjoy going on weekend shopping trips just so I
can stay in a hotel for the showers! We have gravity fed in-house
plumbing and an in-line water heater for each showerhead. We live in
the highlands and it can get cool in the winter months - December,
January and February, April through October can be brutally hot.

SD

If there was no AC of course people would adapt. They obviously did in the
pre-A/C days. But I would guess less was expected in the way of hygiene in
those days. People must have really smelled bad, but then everyone did so
you wouldn't notice... Watching the HBO show Deadwood, I've often wondered
what the smells were in those days... Yikes!

Larry T

In article ,
says...
MareCat wrote:

"LT" wrote in message
.net...

If this is summer time deal, then all one has to consider is 100+
degrees for consecutive months and no A/C. I live in, and love
such weather as long as I can get out if it and into some nice
cool air. But one day a few years ago when our AC went out for
about 12 hours, I was ready to head north.

Our A/C went out in June several years ago, and it took two days to
get it fixed. Hubby and I stayed in a motel until it was working
again.

As a kid, I lived in Oklahoma. At the time, very few people even had
air-conditioning. We never did, we didn't even have it for the first
few years we lived in St. Louis. You just deal with it.

Sorry but I've lived 41 years in the northeast and hate the cold with a
passion. And to make it worse, twice this winter my landlord has done
something stupid and resulted in me not having heat for a week in
November, and a week in February. Give me days where it's 90F+ and I'm
im my glory.

Add to that astronomical natural gas bills and the fact the highest
electric bill I ever received was for $340 and that was running two
space heaters and a waterbed heater. Normally it's around $150 or so -
that runs hot water, and critical networking gear. It's critical because
the phone connection rides over it.

I'm really thinking of moving down south. Friend of mine keeps begging
me to come to Atlanta. So this May I'm planning on going for a visit.

LT wrote:


If there was no AC of course people would adapt. They obviously did
in the pre-A/C days. But I would guess less was expected in the way
of hygiene in those days. People must have really smelled bad, but
then everyone did so you wouldn't notice... Watching the HBO show
Deadwood, I've often wondered what the smells were in those days...


We're not talking pioneer days. Widespread home air-conditioning is
relatively recent. As I said elsethread, when I was kid in Oklahoma, we
didn't have A/C, nor did most of the people we knew. We, of course,
practiced normal hygiene. In fact, tended to bathe and wash more
frequently, as that's a way to cool off.




Brian
--
If televison's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who
won't shut up.
-- Dorothy Gambrell (http://catandgirl.com)

On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 19:47:26 GMT, LT wrote:

People must have really smelled bad, but then everyone did so
you wouldn't notice... Watching the HBO show Deadwood, I've often wondered
what the smells were in those days... Yikes!

That's why perfume was invented!


--

Ham and eggs.
A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig.

On 23 Apr 2006 21:26:47 GMT, Default User wrote:

In fact, tended to bathe and wash more
frequently, as that's a way to cool off.

I'm a hater of heat.... I melt when the temp is over 80 (no air
conditioning here). As a result, I become the cleanest person on the
block because I take two showers a day - more if I'm at home.
--

Ham and eggs.
A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig.

On 23 Apr 2006 19:21:44 GMT, Default User wrote:

As a kid, I lived in Oklahoma. At the time, very few people even had
air-conditioning. We never did, we didn't even have it for the first
few years we lived in St. Louis. You just deal with it.

I remember hot summer nights spent sleeping on the wood floor as a
kid... SWEATING and unable to sleep. Blah. I'm glad those days are
over.
--

Ham and eggs.
A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig.