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For setting, I like a WIDE brimmed straw hat... like the ones from Big Bend Saddlery.
For working..... it's an old black Resistol.
I don't know why it works, but it does. Might be the dead air space providing insulation to the top of our heads. When my late friend A U Stanley was breaking horses for Pershing in Mexico, he wore a steeple-crown sombrero with a water-soaked sponge in the crown.
"Good enough" isn't.
Always take your responsibilities seriously but never yourself.
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I hope he ain't in a melted puddle in the desert!
I can't believe the temps I'm reading about. The numbers on my screen have me breaking a sweat. Yeah, but it's a dry heat.  Currently 107 with 111 forecast fot Tucson.  All time record high is 117. Paul B.
Our forefathers did not politely protest the British.They did not vote them out of office, nor did they impeach the king,march on the capitol or ask permission for their rights. ----------------They just shot them.
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Cotton is for keeping you cool, and wool is for keeping you warm.
Cotton summer shirts are for men � synthetics and blends are for wives (they wear longer, their colors don't bleed, and they don't fray like cotton).
When you soak a cotton shirt, you're wearing your personal equivalent of a water bag or a swamp cooler � using whatever evaporation there may be to ameliorate some of the heat.
The hottest summer shirts that I've ever worn were synthetics and blends � light, yeah, but tropically torrid!
"Good enough" isn't.
Always take your responsibilities seriously but never yourself.
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I hope he ain't in a melted puddle in the desert!
I can't believe the temps I'm reading about. The numbers on my screen have me breaking a sweat. Yeah, but it's a dry heat. Currently 107 with 111 forecast fot Tucson. All time record high is 117. Paul B. I cringe when people say that; as if being microwaved is so much more plesant than being boiled.
Be Polite , Be Professional , but have a plan to kill everybody you meet
-General James Mattis United States Marine Corps
Nothing is darker than a mau mau's moo moo.
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-54*F in the interior is a dry cold too. 
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
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-54*F in the interior is a dry cold too. Can you even tell it's cold at those temps? For me anything below -30 is irrelevant.
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My days in the Arctic / Sub-Arctic we called anything below -40*, "Stupid Cold".
Cloud covers lookin' thin at the moment, but we're still only 104*, and I reckon it's WAY worse off North and West.
GTC
Member, Clan of the Border Rats
-- “Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”- Mark Twain
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When I lived in Fbks (18 long damn years, thank you!  ) I heard that so much that I believed it for a while. My very first (is that redundant?) winter, the coldest it got was -32 and that wasn't until March. When I experienced real cold, I started to disbelieve that saying. Running from the house to the truck, or running from the truck to work, it's all *about* the same. For me at least, and as a musher perhaps for you too, I found out that it's not so much what it "feels" like, but how long one can stay out in it, how many layers it requires, how fast one has to stay moving, and lastly, how far from heat one can go. It's a real life lesson in Thermodynamics!
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
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--ironbender
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Change a water pump on your truck at -28, messing with fluids at that temp, laying on the snow in one's driveway, in the dark...approaches chilly!
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
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--ironbender
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-54*F in the interior is a dry cold too. Can you even tell it's cold at those temps? For me anything below -30 is irrelevant. Once it gets down to minus 50, a man has to back up while taking a pee. John
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Bring a stick to break off the um, icicle. Peecicle?
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
--ironbender
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Bring a stick to break off the um, icicle. Peecicle? No, no -- around here, somebody would make a comment about "beating off" or the like. John
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 Tough crowd!
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
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--ironbender
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Need viagra to not wet one's thermals.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
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--ironbender
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Need viagra to not wet one's thermals. Great idea! It turns out that Viagra has additional uses all year round... A doctor friend of mine says he used Viagra to treat a man who fell asleep at the beach totally nude and was horribly sunburned over his entire body. Very painful. Well, to be honest the Viagra didn't cure the sunburn as such, but it did keep the sheets off the guy... John
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Currently 105 in the shade in my corner of the Mojave Desert. ![[Linked Image]](http://i.imwx.com//images/maps/current/sw_curtemp_440x297.jpg)
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58 here right now. Can't imagine how you guys deal with those temps on a daily basis. Come on down to North Louisiana! We'll teach you how to survive!! 105F to 114F is real common in July/August!! You can see the water....in the air!! No thank you sir. Heat is one thing...heat with humidity 
Liberalism is a mental disorder that leads to social disease.
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just returned from Huntington beach all week, where it was in the 70s. Driving through Phoenix it was 118 at 1:18... my wife said, only you'd notice that.
Hottest I've poured concrete in was 126, Bullhead city on the Colorado river... that was a sumbitch.
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You might not be the only one. The other day I thought it odd that the clock in my truck was telling me my radio station.... 93.3 at 9:33
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
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85 degrees here at 1 a.m. this morning supposidly with an expected low of 77 (don't believe it), but it's back to over 100 now.
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