Snow!

In the category of only in Arizona....   This afternoon I was up at Fry's grocery in Old Apache Junction and they had the streets all blocked off for what was explained to me as a Walk A Thon....

But since its never cold enough here for snow, as part of the entertainment for the kids, they have dumped a big pile of snow in the middle of the street...  I didn't find out where they got the stuff, but it was melting rather quickly as it was mid 70s outside...

The big kid in black shorts has a snow ball and his buddy in the gray shirt is about to get it....!

Eww, that's cold...  Well ya. when your in a T shirt and shorts anyway....  If you look some of the other kids are down on their knees scooping up some of the very wet stuff for projectiles of their own....  Wonder if that was what the event planners had in mind.....  But really, these kids rarely see this stuff....

I had to ask what a walk a thon was, and was told that the kids walk several miles for a pledge for each mile from their sponsors....  The schools get the money for their activities funds.....  Works for me....

Saturday is kind of my day to hang low, as all the neighbors were out working on all their weekend projects...  We seem to have a new neighbor to the South as that house has been for rent since it was built...

They were over there moving furniture all day, so I just left the garage door down..  No sense distracting them from their work, we can meet later....  The truck was a rental so I am sure it had to be returned as quickly as possible...

In reading Al's blog a few minutes ago he recapped where they had been on December 1st for the last several years, which caused me to look in our blog for what we were doing on this same day in years back...

But it was interesting that last year we had just arrived for our stay at Valle Del Oro on this day...  We had spent the night before in some very cold temperatures well below freezing in the motorhome...  That would have been at Holbrook, Az...

Its hard to believe we have already been here a month this year, missing all of that cold nasty late fall weather.....  But we do plan to go back for Christmas this year so I had better not get all exuberant about missing the cold weather.....   Even though I am sitting here in Short Pants and a T shirt.....  LOL...

Retired Rod