Summer is not "officially" over, but it is September, time for temperatures to decline, leaves (if we had any) to change and that wonderful pre winter joy to take over the world. Fall....ah yes....fall where have you gone?
Here in the land of the dry and dusty we don't tend to get "fall". We get Summer for 9 months a year and "fall/winter/spring" for about 3 months.
School starts early - at least it seems early to me - in August. For almost the first month and change my children average 3 out of 5 days where they have recess in their class rooms. Now, I remember rainy day/snowy day schedules where we couldn't go outside because of inclement weather, but it still cracks me up, that here in the desert we don't have those type of days (well not many rainy ones and NEVER snow days) but we do have "Heat Advisory Days". Yes my east/west coast friends, family and followers we have "Heat Advisory Days". That means that it is so hot and oppressive here in the "Valley of the Sun" that our children MUST not go outside to play for fear of them melting to death. - an attempt at humor take it for what you will.
So, here we are in the valley of oppressive heat. We've come to September and once again after our long hot spell (which has yet again tricked us into thinking it might be over only to have climbed right back into triple digits today) and I'm asking myself the same two questions I ask every year:
1. when will this heat END!
2. why do I CHOOSE to live here?
Not to worry though, because before we know it December will be upon us and I will remember why I live here as I think fondly of all my east coast family and friends shoveling snow and bundling up in many layers in order to keep out the chill. I of course will be sipping my latte outside in the sun in jeans and a tee shirt soaking up what I can of the "cold" weather.
That's all.
