Tuesday, November 28, 2017

I've been lax on writing in our blog, but life has been a bit quiet for us lately.  We had a big sports weekend, some good and some not so good, but we haven't minded staying inside.  It's either been windy, with the dust blowing around, or yesterday it was 92 degrees, and the weather person said Tucson was the hottest spot in the nation.  Why are we here?  The high temps are to break tomorrow, so we will be biking and geo-caching on the many trails they have in the city.  It has given me time to get a good share of our Christmas cards and letters written, as we will get busy once we get into Apache Junction.  The news yesterday was interesting, in the fact that, due to the warmer than usual weather they are having in Phoenix, there are more calls to remove rattlesnakes.  They usually have one call a week, but they have been having 3 and 4 calls a day.  People store their Christmas decorations in their garages, and snakes crawl in there to stay cool.  It is quite a surprise to see a diamondback rattler,. when they start unpacking!  We have done a lot of hiking or caching in the desert, and we are surprised that we haven't come upon one. So, that's our news to date.