Monday, December 29, 2008

Christmas In The Sonoran Desert

I must apologise to my loyal friends who follow this blog, for being so long between posts! Honestly I have a very good excuse...really, I do! It is all Glenis' fault. She decided that she wanted to try her hand at blogging....now as you know, Glenis is flipping brilliant in a lot of areas, but her knowledge of computer software makes me look like a genius. Anyway, to add to that learning curve and the stresses it brought into our lives, our bandwidth will only comfortably support one user at a time..hence if she's online, I am not. The result is worth the pain and the delay though. I highly recommend that you read what she has posted.

The weather leading up to Christmas was spectacular as you can see by this picture, taken on December 21st. Our sympathies were with our friends and family that were in the middle of a very snowy and cold weather system. Particularly with Stephie & Scott and the babies, as they ventured across the Coquihalla to spend Christmas with Ashley in Victoria...nobody should have to go out in that.

The weather here turned on Christmas day and the rain and wind came in...blew our brand new windsock right off of the pole! We experienced our first snow here at Boyce Thompson, on December 26th, and that night our water hose froze in the 27F temps. My dear friend, Lynne, who is wintering in Indio this year thought that was amusing and suggested that we should visit them in Palm Springs. She was not laughing quite as much when I skyped them the next night to tell them that I had noted on wunderground.com that they too had a forecasted temperature for that night of 27 F. In a sick kind of a way, I enjoyed that!

The brilliant blue Arizona skies and warm temperatures have now returned. The Christmas turkey leftovers have become something to dread and we turn our faces to a new year. We will be ushering in 2009 with our dear friend Nicki from Vancouver...BC snow not withstanding. Our fingers are crossed that all airports are open and running smoothly on Tuesday.
Happy New Year everyone!
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  1. Glenis HolmesDecember 29, 2008 at 3:32 PM

    That sure made me laugh, great writing Pam

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  2. Theresa and GaryDecember 29, 2008 at 8:00 PM

    We do envy the little bit of snow that you got on the 26th as we still have quite a few inches of the about 18 inches that we got. Still snowing today and we're missing you two and wishing you were here to throw snowballs at. Can't wait to see you in the spring. Tell Nicki hello for us.

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