Kinda a funny story to relate. Back in post #727 I was detailing what I was wearing due to the cold. Ya know most folks think of California as palm trees and bikinis. Well....not this part. I had a friend that after five years here in Tehachapi moved back to Grand Junction CO cause she could never get warm here. I've cowboyed with several different guys at different times here that were from Montana and all of them said the coldest they ever were was here in Tehachapi. My daughter in law is from Burns Oregon and that's cold country. She and my son are there on a ranch outside of Burns right now. I remember one of the first times we met her we were going out to dinner here locally. It was 37 degrees. She and my son Logan were riding in the back seat of the truck. She asked if we could turn the heater up. I was kind of puzzled and asked her if Burns wasn't cold country. She said she'd run around town In a T-shirt and a hoodie when it was single digits and be comfortable. She said I'm freezing back here. I turned the heater up. I talked to my son two days ago, it was -22 with a felt temp of -33. Fine time to be cowboyin'. Anyhoo all that to say it gets COLD up here. The thermometer might not read super cold but it is. A few years back my daughter was in a holding pattern. She'd been applying to this nursing school but hadn't been accepted yet. It was a great school and so the program was impacted and they would award some slots by lottery. Sh'ed missed out the first couple three times she applied but she was determined and it was gonna and did happen. All she could do was wait and apply again next semester. Meanwhile she was working as an ER Tech in one of the largest hospitals in Bakersfield. Sometimes she wouldn't get all the hours she needed to make rent, so she'd come up here and work for me to make the extra $$ she needed. One of the things that I would have her do was cut out blades on the bandsaw and she was really good at that. Her favorite job though, was profiling the blades prior to heat treat on the grinders. So she was set to come up one day and work. She drove up and it was COLD. So cold that when she went in the house mom is doing all the mom things. You don't have to work baby it's too cold we'll give you the money. It's too cold out there yada yada yada, you don't have to work today. Here's the money but what did Alyssa our daughter say? And I quote: "I ain't no bitch!" She bundled up and we went outside. I found these pics from that day. She's profiling knives for me.
She toughed it out for a couple of hours. Tell the truth I was bout done too. I don't care how tough you are you can only hold on to freezing cold steel for so long! What brought this to mind? She flew into North Dakota to visit a friend yesterday. Mom had just made her one of our duffel bags. They're sized for airline overhead carry and so are just right for a trip like she was going on.
Now they all come with a shoulder strap but Alyssa decided to leave it home. She called us last night just to check in and said she should have brought the shoulder strap. Holding onto the bag while standing in line was hard on her hands. She said she's getting "bitch" hands living in the city! When it was a lil warmer:
She's pretty handy with the twine.
