A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
The weather out here in the Mojave has been wonderful. Mild daytime and nighttime temperatures, blue skies, flowers and birds, no one got shot, no one was crushed in a building collapse, all those standing for election won or lost, no toddlers were buried alive in a dog crate, and the Pope had no plans to visit our slice of desert anytime soon. Or later. Whatever ... the Catholics around these parts mostly keep to themselves. This part of the Mojave is frequented by mormons, some polygamy mormons, and everyone just gets along fine. Yes it's almost like paradise except for when the summer desert heat cranks up and the snowbirds and those of a weaker disposition flee back north and all the squatters head north as well. The squatters mostly squat on the Arizona side of our tri-state lines and that seems to work just fine. The squatters will only hang around so long as the ambient air temperature remains in the human tolerance range and once the heat cranks u...