Here We Go----Again

It is not possible to enjoy the spring that has fallen on us without thinking about the hellish summer that is rolling down the highway to our living rooms and activating evap coolers and ceiling fans everywhere, bringing another summer of such statements as HOLY MOTHER OF THE LIVING GOD- MY SKIN IS ON FIRE! SWEET BABY JESUS, MAKE IT STOP!! Or, how about this for an evening of fun--walking the indoor mall, all under the idea of getting out and doing something-fun. You lose track of the outside world because you are in someone else's bought air.

By all reports, Arizona is going to have another above average summer with regard to temperatures. You know, I can't remember one summer where the forecast WASN'T that prediction. Swimsuits are on the mannequins along with towels, lawn furniture, seed, fertilizer, all the things that you need to go outside and enjoy the world are on sale at the stores. Put away the jackets Mildred, Spring is here!

I know, I know, I've never lived in Buffalo, New York in the winter where the sun disappears and so do the streets, trees, sidewalks, cars, or anyone drunk enough to stumble out their front door on New Year's Eve and fall off the front porch during a lake effect snow storm where the poor bastard is not found until "The Thaw". Then the summer bugs pick you up and carry you off. I know and I should be thankful that even the bugs out here don't survive the summer heat, except for cockroaches of course. They survive everything.

Its just that it would be nice to have a 'wet' summer, a 'snowy' summer, an 'anything' but a scorching six months of "You Got to Be Kidding Me" summer. Since we have all this global warming and weather change stuff, we could have a weather change here, just once. A summer where it rained, actually rained. Even a few floods, that wouldn't be bad. Floods in Arizona are always kind of fun. On the news, there is always someone who tries to cross a creek when it was traditionally dry and they get swept down stream. That just makes for good television. Rescue comes and saves them then charges them for the rescue. That seems fair.

Its the way God thins out the herd. Right now, we have temperature swings of thirty degrees in a week. I don't think it's too much to ask, just once, to look down range for a few months and not dread the knowledge that I will sweat like a Turkish border guard during the night, even with my Hunter ceiling fan on high. Sure, it could be hormones, but we all know, everyone here in the southwest knows.


Yep, here we go.