Hot Morning - Cool Evening

It was 6am, but it was summer daylight time and my wristwatch had not yet been adjusted. The change always happening while we are sleeping. In the morning you look at your phone and the "What-the-heck-how-come-it-is-that-late" moment hits you.

And then you remember.

Could this be a UFO looking to abduct us into space?

Ok, no drama. We are not going to work and besides.....it is Sunday. 

Your phone weather app tells you it is 16C (60.8F) and the sun hasn't even risen yet.

16C is not so hot, but it is still darn early and what's gonna happen is, that we will reach into the eighties - and no cooling breeze today!

We are having our breakfast early and are ready to hit the dog-walking trail at 8:30 (which really is only 7:30) Walking Dixie must be done before the sun gets too high. Dixie is the absolutely laziest dog we have have ever had. Hot weather makes her hide somewhere in the bushes, under the trailer or at least in the shade of the rig. Walking is not what Anatolian Shepherds enjoy, nor ar they bred for it. Stupid dog-walks have to be avoided. That is- unless we have some cool weather. It is under such conditions that her tail then can be seen wildly rotating or swinging back and forth. But today was not one of those days.

We barely made it home today before the tail went down again. 

And then it got hot. Before we could say "SWEAT" the temp had reached 29C (84.2F).

We set out a gallon of water for Dixie and hid in the trailer for most of the day. See, it is not only the rising temps which bother us, but also the accompanying military-style invasion of bugs, as there are common flies, mosquitos and gnats to reckon with.

With the late afternoon arriving, (the trailer had turned into a hothouse) we got ourselves out into the open, sitting behind the rig in the shade, well weaponized with bug spray against the onslaught of the enemy.

It wasn't until around supper time that a slight nor-western breeze had sprung up bringing some coolness along.

After the sun had disappeared behind the western horizon, we ventured out for dog-walk #2.

And just how great was that? The breeze, now a bit stronger, was sooo lovely. Dixie's tail was back in action as well, a true proof of her wellbeing.

Now, I know this can sound like complaining about something we always know will happen down here, but it really is not. During earlier winters spent here, we had hot days already before the middle of February, and even Christmas used to be hot down here. But this year, the hot days are at least 3 weeks late. The unusual cool winter was not what people down here came for. But now the change came all too sudden, almost with no warning, giving us little time to adjust.

When the bugs are getting that bothersome we are not the only ones having to deal with it. Dixie has already had a taste of gnats crawling and biting into her ears. So we need to take action. That's why we have decided to leave the Hot Springs LTVA on Thursday heading a tad north. We will check out the Cibola Wildlife Refuge at Palo Verde and if that should not work out, we will move on to Quartzsite, to find cooler temperatures.