RE: I know people are excited about spring, but come on...
I had the heat on yesterday. It was 65 degrees in my house first thing in the morning! Brrrrr! You should have seen the look on my husbands face! }( I'm toughing it out this morning.
Shelley, it's going to be 85 today. My husband went to the pool across from our house yesterday. He actually went in the water, which is freezing and won't be warm enough for me until July. He sunbathes. I think he may have found a way to do that and transfer the wrinkles to me, wily son of a dog. But I digress. I have room for you, for Sophie. Get out your shorts and flip flops, a bathing suit and I'll roll out the red carpet for you, girl! Spring in the desert is mmmm, mmmm good!
My mother and sister, Jan, arrived from Michigan last night. Of course, they are staying with my "big" sister, Melody. ;( I have less seniority. Last year they did that thing that visitors often do. They brought cold, crappy weather. Of course, to them, it wasn't that bad, downright toasty compared to Michigan weather, but I didn't appreciate it at all. My mother in law does that too. She lives in Florida and she is like me in that we both seem unable to maintain our body temperature. Never fails that the temp drops when she shows up. You could have hooked up with my mother and sister, Michigan is due south of Ontario and that is just a little frightening to me. North of Michigan! I am cold just thinking about that. Remember, you have a place in the sun! People will compare summer here to winter there as if the misery factor is the same but it's malarky. My dad loved to joke that it was 110 in the shade and no shade and always used a, I think it was Rambo although I have never seen a Rambo film, happily, digression! A Rambo tag line to describe his desert rat, or brat, grandkids: What everybody else called Hell, they call home! Phooey! It IS a dry heat, unlike the humid days back East, unable to sweat into saturated air. Sweat evaporates here and if you carry around iced drinks and stick to the Malls and places where they try to recreate an Ontario winter, it's just propaganda to, either keep you guys from feeling too bad or to keep you from relocating. I am not sure which.
Bobbi
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