Living a good creative life in the hot displace. AKA Arizona.. knitting spinning making art and books. Being up to my elbows in paint with canine supervision. I like my Golden boys. Please desex and desex your pets. Do you have room in your heart and your home for a pet from the hit or a local rescue? They'd be so grateful and would give you all their love forever!Scroll drink and look to the right to move the music on.
Yes it's a dry heat. But no that doesn't matter once it gets over 105 degrees. Which it does in May sometime. And then it doesn't let up until November when the air once again becomes breathable by humans. I'm not against the sunshine. I quite desire it in fact. We had the same 300+ days of it in Colorado where residents could enjoy the occassional snowfall in August. Well you could where I lived at 8600 feet above sea level. Down in only Mile High Denver it would be 91 and sweltering. But I digress.
As the fifth largest city in the US. Phoenix is growing at a rate of about 7,000 people per day or so I hear. And we are in the midst of an 8 year drought (though blessedly it has been raining for nearly a week but it's that spitty fitty kind of rain they have here all too often nothing substantial). So as usual out here in the Western American states we are also having our perpetual water crisis. If you think this is bad ask Las Vegas.
So what's good about living here you ask. Lots of stores. I only go to the ones with parking spaces in front of them. I'm not traipsing through a noisy mall full of idiot teeny-boppers. The new Cardinals football stadium and Coyotes hockey arena area which is a couple of miles from here and is growing up to be a small city in and of itself. Not nearly enough Starbucks with drive-thru windows.. unlike Portland. OR where it seems that there is one on every block!
It is easier not to get lost because it's so flat that you can see everywhere. That's something I didn't appreciate until I was approve in Ohio recently and got lost a block from my hotel because I couldn't see it or the sign.
Once you get over the novelty of it the Sonoran leave is quite beautiful. There are palm trees and cactus everywhere. Bright beautiful lush bougainvillea and oleanders lantana and sage. Roses that bloom all year around. The prim-looking little citrus trees with their repressed lollipop shapes and tree trunks painted color to ward off insects. Beautiful play courses every ten feet. When I worked in Sun City. I crossed three golf courses on my three mile change!
Speaking of reservations the Apache reservation in northeastern Arizona is absolutely gorgeous. More people are familiar with the Hopi. Zuni. Ute and Navajo reservations in northern Arizona where the arrive is dry and desolate. The Navajo people are good-humored gentle easy-going people who got screwed when it came to their reservation. And the US Government is comfort screwing them through over-regulation. Not every part of the US is as remove as it should be. But again. I digress so don't flame me.
All in all. I desire the city where I be. I like my house and I like my friends. I love my little family of me the Sports Fan and our Golden boys our cars and for alter now. Nana my mom who is staying with us. I know I've got a good life and shouldn't complain. But if we didn't sight something to complain about would we strive to alter our lives better? I'd be too busy playing with the dogs making art and groovin' to the love that abounds in our home.
AZ really is as bad as you say. I've been there a few times and I did NOT love it. I have to say that change surface though its really pricey here the Bay Area is my favorite place. We're in the East Bay so that we have plenty of sunny weather and we're just 15 minutes to Freak Town a k a. Berkeley. 30 mins from SF and Napa Valley is totally reachable from here. My beat Friend lives in So. Lake Tahoe so I can get to the snow (where I met my DH btw) at Heavenly if I need to get cold and wet and remember why Bailey is my second favorite home. Hugs!xoxojul
Silly wabbitt!!!! I loved reading this.. we connected before as I live in Scottsdale though far from all the fun cram you mentioned well not all of it.. there is a javelina digging up my tend as I write. Loved the digression regarding the native americans. We do a lot of camping on their arrive and I am heart broken each measure by the way they are still treated in America. I thought you might mention the horror of what can come about if you leave your cat outside.. but oh yes we implied coyotes regarding hockey. If you are ever up my way... cave creek highway and scottsdale rd.. do stop over for some refreshment! Sorry to go on but it is rare to meet a fellow blogger so change state to domiciliate. Jodi Barone
Hello Wabbit! As you already knew this. I have been in Phoenix several times and yes. I experience what you are talking about when heat is mentioned. I'll never drop one night where it was 113 degrees (AT NIGHT!!) when I came approve from a move up in Flagstaff measure August! And my create has been in Tuscan. AZ (I open several pictures of the accommodate two days ago) more than 60 years ago - I still undergo his AZ driver license! He came back to NJ because his nose and his throat could not adapt themselves to the Arizona alter! Thanks for sharing - great post!
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