A thousand diamonds strewn across the blue blanket...

More back porch blogging.... it's only 95 according to the weather thingy in Firefox. This is the first time in a while when I've been outside and it's not been stiffeling or something like that.

July in Phoenix... it's a wonder people live here this time of year. It's only 110+ during the day in the shade. When the wind blows it feels like a blast furance and lets not forget the generous amount of particulate matter that make the overall feeling of a sand blaster.

Now on the "cooler" days, you know the ones where it doesn't feel like a oven or blast furnace, it's got to be some cruel joke by the people responsible for the weather. The "cooler" days in summer are like a messed up sauna. Puts out alot of heat a just a bit of humidity enough to drive you up the wall but not enough to truly do anything.

The heat is sometimes maddening... but you know what makes it all worth it? Come December/January/Feburary you can't swing a broken laptop with out hitting a damned snowbird. In other words it's great weather just alot more people are around.

The big difference between right now on the back porch and earlier musings of a back porch is the ambient noise. I normally can hear Dobson and Guadalupe roads. Tonight all I hear are crickets, and I can't remember the last time I heard crickets. Now the lack of traffic might also be chalked up to the 7 A/C units that are within earshot and going full boar. I'm going to say it's because there is no one out tonight.