On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:54:50 -0700, Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:

> On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:53:23 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> > wrote:
>
>>Yes, we've "adjusted", but like so many Arizonans, we mostly stay
>>inside during the hopt weather and luxuriate in the other 9 months of
>>the year. When we lived in Cleveland it was just the opposite. We
>>mostly stayed indoors during the winter and enjoyed the remaining
>>moderate 9 months.
>
> Wayne, as a native Arizonan (my mother's family homesteaded in AZ when
> AZ was still a territory), I can testify to the way we cremated our
> dead: drag 'em out in the backyard for a couple of hours. <veg>
>
> OB: One of my grandmother's ranch hands used to keep a plot of the
> hottest chile peppers on the planet. We used to joke that it doubled
> as snake repellent.

sound like a nice thing to have over your grave.

your pal,
blake