The Heat's On!

WOW! These first few days of triple digit temperatures , as always, come as a surprise. How easy it is to forget all the beautiful mild weather during most of the year and start to complain about the heat! AND... we all know better...it happens every year, sometimes earlier, sometimes later.

If you watch the morning news on the San Diego channels, you will see that fog hovers over the coast, day after day...May gray, June gloom. We didn't appreciate that either, when we lived on the coast! We had weeks and weeks go by without a glimpse of sunlight. Life was viewed through a misty veil of moisture.

Here, in sunny Borrego, we view life through dark glasses, from under a wide brimmed hat with a bottle of water close at hand. Our daily life begins early and seeks refuge in shade or inside the house, usually before ten o'clock in the morning!

Such a contrast...and within such a short distance... but, we have certainly adapted to desert living. Unlike the early settlers, we find summer in Borrego not a challenge, but a blessing, thanks to the numerous items created to make life easier in "hot spots"... swamp coolers, central air conditioning, swimming pool sprinklers, UPS, Kindle, on-line shopping, air conditioned vehicles, drip irrigation and more.

The nights are still cool and will probably remain comfortable through June. The snow birds have left, stores are adopting new summer hours, blankets have been removed from the beds, water timers have been adjusted, the remaining vegetables are being harvested and we are settling in for a very restful summer!