Osprey
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Comfort Zone
Measure the Pleasure
If you let your mind drift back in time; 1,000, 5,000, 50,000 years, if you have the capacity to imagine only two things, who and where you are,
you’ll experience some discomfort from the local weather. You don’t really have to go back that far but I want to make sure the reader sees the grand
and terrifying difference between our current comfort zones and those we would endure by virtue of temporal and spatial happenstance.
I know it’s hard to imagine what it might have been like to endure sub zero weather for months with little opportunity to do anything but survive –
few readers will have run the Iditarod or spent a winter in the Rockies wearing nothing but a bear-skin cape. But we don’t all have to have been
professional survivalists to know how to measure the pleasure of the end of temperature pain and danger.
Who has not lingered under a steaming shower after a morning of shoveling snow and not conceived the feeling is unique because it was earned by the
equal discomfort of a blinding blizzard with you in the center? Maybe many of you enjoy so much more that swim in the lake, that coffee in front of
the hearth, the soothing cool that blows down upon you on your bed beneath the mini-split because your memory of the raw underside of conditions is
deep or fresh or special.
We don’t have a “Living Room” at my house in the tropics. We likewise don’t face caveman weather – days in the summer swing from 80s to mid 90s while
most winters swing from the 50s to the 70s. So I really don’t face much weather pain – hardly have a need to imagine a month that was a little click
rougher. I have to reach way back to days spent in the swamps of Florida, early morning hunting for chukar in the mountains of northern Nevada,
sleeping bag teeth chattering chill on the Mogollon Rim in Arizona.
I guess I’m a wuss, not nearly a caveman. My summertime ritual after a morning fishing near my home tells the tale; soon as the boat is on the beach,
I’m in the water and my fishing pals have to drag me out for the final drive up the hill to my place to clean the fish and share a Bloody Mary. Then I
get a chance at that long cold shower before my siesta.
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tiotomasbcs
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I love that morning shower after morning activitiess! Luego. Morning Siesta. Hobbitt nap. Especialy when it gets hot. Agree. Tio
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Udo
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I LOVE your Bloody Marys, buddy!
AND...I know where your living room is!
Your comfort zone is about as good as it gets!
Udo
Youth is wasted on the young!
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woody with a view
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i don't believe a word of it! in fact, i demand another re-telling of the man-eating-dolphin amusement park attraction. summer is coming and the
tourist beware.....
i need a good chuckle at someone's expense, Osprey!
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DavidE
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Mood: 'At home we demand facts and get them. In Mexico one subsists on rumor and never demands anything.' Charles Flandrau,
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The Biggest Chuckle Of All
| Quote: | Originally posted by woody with a view
i don't believe a word of it! in fact, i demand another re-telling of the man-eating-dolphin amusement park attraction. summer is coming and the
tourist beware.....
i need a good chuckle at someone's expense, Osprey! |
Political Bickering From The Fog In The USA
A Lot To See And A Lot To Do
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Osprey
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David, cornbread and bumper cars. What's your political take on that?
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vandenberg
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Osprey
Measure the Pleasure
Then I get a chance at that long cold shower before my siesta. |
Cold shower 
No cold showers to be had here in Loreto between roughly middle of June till the end of October.
Lukewarm at best.
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