CykoBlog

"Superstition Mountains & Saguaros"
© 2001 Eric Pickett

Nothing new today, other than I had a nice sleep last night. I feel good this morning. It is starting to cool down a lot here in Arizona. I checked the thermostat this morning and it was 72 degrees in the house when I got up. That is a bit cooler than I like it to be in the house unless it is in the middle of summer. So I fired up the heater, and got it back up to like 77 degrees or so and it felt much better. It is getting cold outside at night, cold enough to wear a jacket. I prefer the winters over the summers here because the summers are deadly hot and you can't always cool down outside. In winter, you can always pile on the extra clothes and jackets to bundle up and stay warm, much better in my eyes. So.... needless to say I am liking this cooler weather, I just wouldn't want to be waiting for a bus out in it at 5:30am (been there, done that). There isn't much of a fall here in Arizona either. Here, we have like 2 seasons - Summer and Winter, at least thats how it feels. Spring pops it's fresh head up for about a month or so then the summer comes along and scorches everything away, hehe. Oh, and it only rains like 4 or 5 times a year, mostly during the monsoon season near the end of summer when we get some really nice lightning too. This year we didn't have too much of a monsoon season, nothing to write home about. We are always praying for rain around here, it's no wonder the American Indians had rain dances.