- We had a lot of rain last winter and the bank who bought our condo community graded the empty lot next door in hopes of selling it. In Arizona, dirt lots are the kiss of death to anyone w/ arachnophobia. They house every single creepy crawly critter you can imagine and when their dirt lot is stirred up, they migrate like a group of angry peasants directly to my house. Five scorpions showed up in the last month. The other day I received a notice from my HOA that there is a significant increase in black widow/scorpion sightings in my community. Thank you Wells Fargo. You rock.
- Lucky for me, the scorpions aren't the only despicable things out in force. During our last training walk, after trudging 3 miles through clouds of mosquitoes and gnats, high heat and sticky humidity, I had to crunch across a veritable carpet of dead bugs of unknown species to get to a public toilet. Definitely not one of the high points in my day.
- This morning as I got ready for work, the radio announcers bleated repeatedly that this weekend temperatures are going to hit 115 on both Saturday and Sunday. Just so happens I will be walking 10 miles on each day. Go me.
- Because this isn't our "first rodeo"and because it's so blasted hot, training walks are held every other weekend beginning at 5am and we walk longer distances than the training schedule calls for.
So that's the nutshell version of my whereabouts. Stand by for more as the walks get longer and the days get shorter....
