November in Arizona

Our weather is getting more bearable and I'm welcoming this wonderful
Arizona Autumn.
It will be in the mid 80's this weekend.

On a side note. Jake does not like getting dressed as of lately. But I think he will always love shoes.
At least he picked out shoes that belonged to him and not his big sister's Sunday Shoes.

His appreciation of shoes will be a great attribute as a husband. Maybe one day he will make his mother proud and tell his wife: "you can have as many pair of shoes as you want, you're a girl." Just like his Daddy told his Mommy one day at last chance when she chose yet another pair of black maryjanes for herself.

More on Arizona Fall

Remember when I was complaining that Arizona never got the message that it was in fact Fall? And I complained about the hot weather?
Well... today I went to buy produce at the Ranch Market. And unfortunately they had a lot of these
bad boys.
For $.50
So I had to buy 16 lbs of strawberries on this the 4th day of
November
My children don't seem to mind.

More on Arizona Fall

In Arizona you can swim well into October. I think my mom even invited kids over to swim after Thanksgiving dinner last year. Kids are more likely to swim in cold water than I am. In the hottest part of the year my in laws pool will be over 95 degrees and you don't really get a refreshing swim. My parent's pool has a deep end and tends to stay cooler in the hot part of the year. Now that our evenings are cooling down into the 80's the pool has been a bit cooler. Nate said it probably feels like summer pools in other parts of the country - where in the summer it actually drops back into double digits after dark.

Personally I'm done with swimming- but my kids still want to go. I'll see how many more months they will spend in the pool. I do know that people start swimming lessons in April here though. (it is still too cold for me- but my kids don't really mind).

Arizona Fall-more complaints...sorry.

Just a few days ago Fall officially Fell- but Arizona did not get the message. It was 108 yesterday. I really appreciate Arizona when my sister tells me about the Hurricane warnings in SC. And that time the tornado hit my parents town when they lived in Oklahoma and I was in college - it was nice to live in this state. I also don't mind that I no longer have to scrape ice off my windshield in the mornings or ice skate with my car through intersections thankful that a car was not coming the other way... But I really wish it were cool enough to merit wearing my new green long sleeve. I put it on today and had to bump the ac down a few degrees so i was not too uncomfortable. i'll probably take it off soon.

On a positive note- jake has decided to take up the very MANLY activity of playing with trucks and cars.