@gt0163c@Kyeh I recommend Glacier National Park, and Yellowstone if you can afford it. Rocky Mountains is good, too, as is Bryce Canyon, and the North Rim of Grand Canyon. And if you like getting around on a bike, Zion Canyon. Northern New Mexico and much of western Colorado has great scenery in the mountains, and cooler temps at the higher altitudes. If you like puttering around on unpaved forest roads, there are a lot of good spots in Utah as well. Canyonlands’ Island In the Sky section is particularly not to be missed, along with its neighbor, Utah’s Dead Horse Point State Park.
@Kyeh@werehatrack I went to Spokane and then over to Glacier National Park last summer. It was amazing. I’ve been to Estes Park/Rocky Mountain NP multiple times and it’s one of my favorite places ever. Lots of amazing places to vacation in cooler weather/higher altitude. The issue is I can’t stay there all 6-8 months that the summer lasts here in North Texas. I have looked into long-term AirBnBs in Fairbanks but I’m not sure my cats would handle the long travel well.
Easy, I don’t spend time outside. Not only are the temperatures horrendous there are bugs. I refuse to spend much time outside until after the first hard freeze of the year.
@katbyter I was beginning to despair that hammock season would never get here in the PNW this year (weather has been unusually cool and wet through mid-June). However, the weather has finally improved, my hammock is strung and I have been making up for lost time!
The most time I usually spend outside is either doing fireworks or something for ham radio or disaster relief. I try not to combine the first one with the last.
@sjk3 We call it “The Blue Room”, and gripe about the uneven lighting, the leaky plumbing upstairs, the wildly variable temps, the near complete lack of pest control, the dirty floors, and the entirely unresponsive landlord.
@werehatrack I actually have a lot of pretty safe roads around me to ride I just prefer being out in the woods. Off road cycling is just more fun 95% of the time.
@detailer Why? It is not like they can smell each other.
i used to enjoy all those things, but now with a small child and being over 40, i only have energy to watch the dog and kid fight over sticks and balls in the back yard
@spacemart Pushing 70, no dog, no kid at home, I still don’t get out as often as I ought. But the bike stable is in refurb at the moment, and the goal is to put them to use a lot more.
At the gun range trying to keep them in the 10 ring. Well, trying to get one or two close to the center of the target and all in some kind of general group.
I’m with tweezak.Shoot by day reload by night.Lucky enough to live out of town,so no gun range fees.More money for powder,primers,brass,etc.Ample room to bury trespassers is also a plus.
@detailer Just remember, it’s six feet if you have clay soils and you tamp it back in place really well, or 8 feet and use lots of smelly overfill if you’re on sandy or high-organic soil, or else the corpse-sniffing dogs will still find 'em should the local constabulary get interested. Best approach is to put a feral hog a couple of feet above, so that the diggers have a really good reason to stop there. It’s not like the supply of feral hogs is short…
@werehatrack Yes,but the tracking,killing and handling of said hogs is messy and time consuming.I stocked up on lime at HD’s big lawn and garden sale.Happy 4th!!
“by the pool”?!?!?! No. IN the pool. Or whatever clean body of water is available!
@Zeusandhera we use to swim in Lake Erie. It doesn’t have to be clean.
/giphy ice cream
In the pool, with Fenris!
WORKER BEES! HERCULES! TURKEY GREASE! AWESOME!
@PooltoyWolf
wow… do you have your own mediocrebot trigger??
@chienfou I wish!! Apparently the bot can also detect the word in image descriptions
@chienfou @PooltoyWolf As others have noted, it only looks when the post is first saved; edits do not cause it to pop up when the trigger is added.
Moving from airconditioned room to airconditioned room.
Ideally, exploring a scenic travel destination, something I haven’t done for far too long.
/image scenic travel
Ooo, I’ll take that…
@Kyeh Yes! Ideally somewhere with cooler summer weather than North Texas.
@gt0163c @Kyeh I recommend Glacier National Park, and Yellowstone if you can afford it. Rocky Mountains is good, too, as is Bryce Canyon, and the North Rim of Grand Canyon. And if you like getting around on a bike, Zion Canyon. Northern New Mexico and much of western Colorado has great scenery in the mountains, and cooler temps at the higher altitudes. If you like puttering around on unpaved forest roads, there are a lot of good spots in Utah as well. Canyonlands’ Island In the Sky section is particularly not to be missed, along with its neighbor, Utah’s Dead Horse Point State Park.
@Kyeh @werehatrack I went to Spokane and then over to Glacier National Park last summer. It was amazing. I’ve been to Estes Park/Rocky Mountain NP multiple times and it’s one of my favorite places ever. Lots of amazing places to vacation in cooler weather/higher altitude. The issue is I can’t stay there all 6-8 months that the summer lasts here in North Texas. I have looked into long-term AirBnBs in Fairbanks but I’m not sure my cats would handle the long travel well.
@gt0163c @Kyeh Vancouver, either of them. Heck, even Yakima is better than DFW on the temps.
@Kyeh Oh hello! ARR passenger SD70MACs!
@PooltoyWolf
Is that Alaska? I was thinking a train trip across Canada and Alaska would be pretty great.
I figured you’d know what that was!
@Kyeh Yep, the Alaska Railroad! They use the only six-axle dedicated passenger locomotives in the US. (The SD70MACs in yonder picture)
@PooltoyWolf
I see. Have you ridden them?
@Kyeh On the bucket list, but no. Maybe one day.
Watching videos of other people doing stuff outside, close enough.
Easy, I don’t spend time outside. Not only are the temperatures horrendous there are bugs. I refuse to spend much time outside until after the first hard freeze of the year.
@kjady Exactly. Summer is my least favorite season by far.
Hammock
@katbyter this
@katbyter I was beginning to despair that hammock season would never get here in the PNW this year (weather has been unusually cool and wet through mid-June). However, the weather has finally improved, my hammock is strung and I have been making up for lost time!
The most time I usually spend outside is either doing fireworks or something for ham radio or disaster relief. I try not to combine the first one with the last.
@jsfs Good call on trying not to combine those hobbies.
Outside? You mean that place where the heat, humidity, thunderstorms, and a multitude of bugs are?
@sjk3 I agree. Where I live you have to hydrate to go out and get the mail. Why people voluntarily spend time outside in this weather is beyond me.
@sjk3 We call it “The Blue Room”, and gripe about the uneven lighting, the leaky plumbing upstairs, the wildly variable temps, the near complete lack of pest control, the dirty floors, and the entirely unresponsive landlord.
@sjk3 But the resolution and frame rate are awesome.
KRULL! A SKULL! BRETT HULL! AWESOME!
Bicycling. Preferably off road riding.
@yakkoTDI Off-road is safer, particularly in a land full of cell-phone users.
@yakkoTDI I thought you were going to say “hang extra air fresheners in my trunk”.
@werehatrack I actually have a lot of pretty safe roads around me to ride I just prefer being out in the woods. Off road cycling is just more fun 95% of the time.
@detailer Why? It is not like they can smell each other.
Barefoot on lovely soft grass, in the shade.
i used to enjoy all those things, but now with a small child and being over 40, i only have energy to watch the dog and kid fight over sticks and balls in the back yard
@spacemart Pushing 70, no dog, no kid at home, I still don’t get out as often as I ought. But the bike stable is in refurb at the moment, and the goal is to put them to use a lot more.
@werehatrack One of the guys I ride with is 69 and can still put up a good fight against me on the trails.
At the gun range trying to keep them in the 10 ring. Well, trying to get one or two close to the center of the target and all in some kind of general group.
On the lake
BBQ on the Patio…
Disc golf.
Gardening or walking the dog.
Harvesting and eating fruit and drinking ice water in the shade, with an air-conditioned siesta during the hottest part of the day.
Motorcycle!
/giphy checkin out the ladies
@somf69 /giphy’s version of Tinder… Swipe right, gents!
Summers are for the lake! Skiing or lounging, as long as the lake is involved.
Yoyo or tennis…
@sicc574 Or one-player paddleball, combining the two.
@sicc574 @werehatrack
Golf. With a big fan on the cart, and parking in the shade. And early in the day, before it gets into the 90’s.
I’m with tweezak.Shoot by day reload by night.Lucky enough to live out of town,so no gun range fees.More money for powder,primers,brass,etc.Ample room to bury trespassers is also a plus.
@detailer Just remember, it’s six feet if you have clay soils and you tamp it back in place really well, or 8 feet and use lots of smelly overfill if you’re on sandy or high-organic soil, or else the corpse-sniffing dogs will still find 'em should the local constabulary get interested. Best approach is to put a feral hog a couple of feet above, so that the diggers have a really good reason to stop there. It’s not like the supply of feral hogs is short…
@werehatrack Yes,but the tracking,killing and handling of said hogs is messy and time consuming.I stocked up on lime at HD’s big lawn and garden sale.Happy 4th!!
Hanging out at a nudist camp hanging out?