Cotton Picking this or that

Hi! Just a cotton picking minute, I asked if my cotton picking cotton picker was trying to think of a topic that had not been used, I just now remembered the years I lived in Tempe Arizona where this term "cotton Picking this or that" was used so much. Seems there was quite a bit of cotton grown in Arizona at that time, this was long time ago. But I was wondering if that slang was ever used in other states? I know I have never heard it used here in Southern California. But one time when my hubby and I and our daughter, my son was at Grandma’s, were waiting in the lobby of a service station for our car to be repaired, I heard a man using that term cotton picking. He was yelling, "Damn did you get my cotton picking cotton picker repaired yet? I need it like yesterday."

We are having a heat wave

"We are having a heat wave, a tropical un not tropical heat wave?" Melting and dripping sweat, I am typing in an air conditioned room with a fan going full tilt. Day before yesterday I was saying how wonderful here in Garden Grove ca it was just a nice balmy 75. Yesterday it was in the nineties and I think its going for the hundred marks today. I went shopping this morning and the heat really hit me. Just wondering how all my friends are faring today temperature wise? I knew it was going to hit hard when it came and it sure did come. But my poor roomies is still cold and now she is in the throes of Alzheimer from what I can see. She had forgotten so much but she still knows me. Are you all nice and cool or sweating it too?