new to the forum from the upper midwest

[grizzbass]

I often thought of getting a great kilt but summer (which includes spring and fall here) are brutal but maybe some day..

[Kiltedjohn]

Welcome from a Scotsman living in the English Midlands.

[Mr Cooper]

Welcome from another new member here!

[jsrnephdoc]

I often thought of getting a great kilt but summer (which includes spring and fall here) are brutal but maybe some day..

I've just moved from Montana (your username suggests you may be acquainted with the local fauna) to Las Vegas. Now, THAT is hot. Paradoxically, when Las Vegans step out in the evening they're often overjoyed to escape the brutality of the indoor air conditioning. However, I imagine my kilting will diminish greatly between early June and mid September. I did purchase a nice tweed waistcoat from St. Kilda in Glasgow to hide my suspenders if I ATTEMPT encasing myself in a wool 8 yarder.

I've been to the local Celtic Society's website, but it appears comatose, and I fear the late spring highland games that used to be well attended here are no more. Perhaps I'll at LEAST be able to find a Burns Supper in January.

[CBH]

I've just moved from Montana (your username suggests you may be acquainted with the local fauna) to Las Vegas. N

I feel like you'd have a dedicated post for something this big. I thought you moved to MT fairly recently ? Gone so soon ? There's got to be a story here....

[jsrnephdoc]

I feel like you'd have a dedicated post for something this big. I thought you moved to MT fairly recently ? Gone so soon ? There's got to be a story here....

Pretty simple, actually. We left California because of medical and financial problems attendant to losing our house in the "Tubbs" wildfire in 2017, but arrived in Montana almost at the same time as the SARS-CoV2 pandemic. We never managed to rekindle the sort of relationships we'd enjoyed in California, for MANY, MANY reasons, and when we visited a daughter who's a realtor who's lived in Las Vegas for almost 2 decades in May, she took us to visit a 55 and older residential community where the residents were ecstatic about all the social interactions enabled by the amenities in the community—so here we are.

[CBH]

Las Vegas [...] 55 and older residential community where the residents were ecstatic about all the social interactions enabled by the amenities in the community—so here we are.

Sorry about your original house.

I hope things works out well. I bet LOTS of fellow ex-CA residents there with you. SoCal -> Vegas has been a big trend for quite a while hasn't it ?

Its hot here in Texas, but its REALLY hot in Vegas. Funny you mentioned the irony of freezing to death inside with all the AC. That's my recollection of visiting the Casinos too. So its not just casinos that freeze you ? We finally learned and brought jackets with us.

[jsrnephdoc]

Sorry about your original house.

I hope things works out well. I bet LOTS of fellow ex-CA residents there with you. SoCal -> Vegas has been a big trend for quite a while hasn't it ?

Its hot here in Texas, but its REALLY hot in Vegas. Funny you mentioned the irony of freezing to death inside with all the AC. That's my recollection of visiting the Casinos too. So it's not just casinos that freeze you ? We finally learned and brought jackets with us.

During my years in medical practice, I attended numerous medical conventions in Las Vegas, held there because of the huge cluster of hotels that could house attendees of gatherings small or enormous. Only ONE occurred in the summer, and I immediately concluded that Las Vegas was one place I could NEVER live. One oddity of that particular experience was an evening outdoor reception, held outside adjacent to an enormous swimming pool at one of those hotels famous for imitating some other iconic location (Paris, New York, Egypt, etc}. The heat was almost unbearable; to combat it, one could wander beneath grids of mist emitters, but the whole experience was akin to putting one's head in an oven, except there was no way to remove your head from the baking. The curious thing about that is that people who suffer in summer in Florida, New Orleans, and Texas are fond of declaring that their special vernal hell is because "it's not the heat—it's the HUMIDITY." Yet, in Las Vegas, what brings relief is WATER. We've been here less than a month, and we've endured one tsunami light, sound, and water show: arly morning sunrise, just as usual, temperature already 37°C, but by noon clouds appearing seemingly from nowhere, darkening the sky and whipping up prodigious winds, lightning bolts, and thunderclaps, announcing an unbelievable deluge that turns the Medusa head of Las Vegas freeways into rivers in just minutes. It lasts perhaps 30 minutes, but when it stops, the air is still SO dry that the only residual evidence that it's happened is that an hour later the outdoor temperatures are as much as 15°C cooler than they were before the show began.