OT: Home again, home again, jiggety-jig! :D

Welcome home Sandy.........bet your glad to be home ay? VBG DS was in LV a week and a half ago and he said it was very hot there.....too hot for him.....so I hope you are staying cool

Thanks, Ann. :) Yup -- I'm *really* glad. LOL! As for the heat, it's not muggy (you've heard of our famous "dry heat", right?), so it's more bearable. We go from our homes (with AC) to our cars (with AC) to our stores/businesses/etc. (with AC) -- so it's not as bad as it seems to the visitor. :) And we don't shovel snow!

*Usually* it is a dry heat..... the monsoon has arrived in Arizona..... Dew point is about 70° right now. So it is hot and muggy. sigh. but we are getting some rain around. I know that the southern part of the state has been getting some. And the east and north side of Phoenix....we are getting just enough to make mud on the windshields of the cars. And making me feel miserable.....sigh.

And it is far too hot/muggy to think about food..........

Pati, > >

Glad you are home safe Sandy. That is my favorite part of a trip.

I also tend to do outside chores in the morning or evening. The cool evenings are what make life in my part of the desert bearable. An inch of snow shuts everything down completely here. Happens once or twice a year. That is plenty! Taria

Sandy Foster wrote:

Welcome Home Sandy! Isn't it nice to be back in your "own" space. I love going away, but there's no place like home. I have a "road trip" coming up with my parents in August, and it's about 600 miles one way. They want to try and make it in one day....... and it's just like a road trip with them when I was a kid...... what music to play, wind the windows down (up), stop and stretch (mom), keep on going (dad), and both of my QI's have to stay home :-( And not only that, we're going to see family that I haven't seen since I was a youngster!!!

Patti in Seattle

Glad to see you safely home (in both senses), Sandy. . In message , Sandy Foster writes

My friend is selling her house...you mentioned Dexter in a car....well Regina has to take her dog Rudi out everytime they show the house or have an Open House...Rudi gets car sick. Any suggestions?? Pami

Ahhhh monsoon season. I remember that time of year very well. After one of those dust storms and 10 drop rains....it was hard to believe the pool could ever be clean again. However I do remember some torrential downpours that came in under the front door and took every pool towel in the house to sop up the water. Feast or famine. Feenix weather! KJ

None from this end, Pami. Thank heavens Dexter travels well -- he just didn't quite understand that an 8-hour+ car trip in each direction was going to feel so *long*! Of course, he's also 11.5 years old now, so he's a bit more lethargic than a younger pup might be.

Thanks, Pat! It's so good to be back! :)

Absolutely! I love going away most of the time (though I hadn't really wanted to go this time), but home is the best. :)

Ack! That sounds worse than the one I just finished! :( At least it was with DH -- though he also doesn't like to stop. No kids, no grandkids, just Dexter and us. Whew!

Thanks, Taria! It's my favorite, too. :) I don't have too many outside chores (DH does most of that part), but I like to do my inside chores early for the same reason. It doesn't really cool down much at night here, but at least it's cooler than in the daytime. :) An inch of snow here would shut down everything, too -- it might happen once or twice in a century. ;)

I noticed that, Pati! It was like that in Douglas, too, and as we drove home yesterday. No rain here -- which is bad -- but no humidity, either

-- which is good.

When it's that hot/muggy, salads and outdoor cooking (done by DH!) are all I can contemplate.