Hi ho, MMMLOGerinos!

Ugh. It raineth and raineth here in Seattle. It's dark, cold and wet. I want to go home to the desert and see the sun.

I'm remembering past sun-filled Januaries I spent in Las Vegas on my sailboat slipped at Las Vegas Marina on Lake Mead, or out at Valley of Fire spread out on a warm rock and sunbaking like lizard. The only drawback to January in the desert I can think of is the strong wind blowing dust around and anything else not nailed down. When I was teaching junior high in Vegas we used to observe that the kids acted especially squirrelly on windy days. So that meant most of the time.

If you can get by the wind, the day to night temperature extremes, winter in the desert Southwest is heavenly. I would conjecture that most people taking winter vacations in Phoenix or Vegas decide they must live in heaven all year. BUT they probably arrive months later when its hellishly hot and windy, of course. Then they think what have we done??? The DH and I moved out of Vegas one scorching, sun-bleached June to green, wet and very cool Seattle. We thought we'd moved to heaven until November rolled around and the annual rain festival turned us wet and pale like big slugs.

Before you conclude that I wouldn't be weather happy anywhere, let me say not true. I think the ideal would be a summer home in the Pacific Northwest and winter home in the desert or in Australia or New Zealand. Yeah, that'd be great to follow the good weather.

Ciao, ciao, MMMMMMMMmmmelinda