In the early 1900s one of my relatives made it her life's work to track everything down and publish it in a book. She made it all the way back to the 16th century. The book is 500+ pages. And she did all that before DNA tests and before computers!
Please do! This is the stuff no one tells you before you move here.
My northern European genes are particularly ill-suited to the desert but even if your ancestors came from an arid climate, the desert will still destroy everything you own - or you will pay a fortune trying to keep maintain and it.
I've seen it go down to 1%. I just had another nose bleed this morning. It happens a lot. My back is constantly itchy, drives me nuts. I keep back scratchers all over the house wherever I sit down and one in the car.
What most people don't know is how expensive it is to live in the desert. When...
Their tip of their range just pokes up here from Mexico so we see them from time to time. People have seen them as far north as New Brunswick, though (!). I think he's a noble looking fellow, too.
4:00 PM
98F
5% humidity
clear
Reason #92 we don't free range our chickens. This is a crested caracara (standing on a crested cactus, heh). They're also known as the Mexican eagle although it's actually a member of the falcon family. It's an opportunistic raptor that mainly feeds on carcasses...
3:30 PM
101F <--- called it yesterday 😐
4% humidity
sunny
This is about a week earlier than we typically hit triple digits. We're moving into a La Niña weather cycle which means a particularly brutal, hot, dry summer for us.
Right now we're in first summer. Second summer begins around July...
5:00 PM
99F
6% humidity
sunny
I think we'll hit triple digits tomorrow. 😒 I agree with this gila monster's assessment: "Bleh!"
A gila (heel-uh) monster is a 12" venomous lizard native to the southwestern U.S. Its venom is described as "hot lava coursing through your veins." It is regarded as...