Desert Rats.....

Well, the "dawg dayz" of summer have already arrived here in the high desert. Hubby nicknamed us desert rats a while back seeing as that is how we are gonna be living for a while. Yesterday it was brought up that this is not an easy life....and it is NOT!!!!!! We aren't sure what the hell we were thinking lolol. 

The weather here changes quite abruptly! Granted you can count on the heat and the sun being hot!! The other day a sudden rain shower happened upon us and it felt good, mainly cuz the clouds covered up the sun. You can usually count on the winds, breezes coming thru here. At night after we have to kick off the generator which supplies our a/c, the breezes coming thru are awesome and they feel sooo good. During the day the winds can whip thru here and tear up an awning that you have out for shade....it seems every time we put ours out, the winds pick up and if we aren't very vigilant we could have a tore up awning!!  There was a big gust of wind yesterday and it knocked over our solar panel we had connected to the battery.....that was $100 shot to hell! So today we have to get another one, cuz we have to keep the battery charged when the generator isn't on. 

In preparing meals, I decided to walk up to the camp's kitchen and bake in their ovens from now on, heat up there vacant kitchen instead of my whole house! I get the dish in our ever faithful truck and something isn't right when I pull out....drove a little ways up to their kitchen, let it run, cuz I thought maybe the neat....ummm no.....got it back to the campsite and a friggin desert rat had crawled up in the engine, apparently got stuck and when I started the engine, it killed him....hubby pulled him out and he was friggin huge....tip to tail, maybe 12"!! 

Every 4 days or so we have to drain our gray & black water tanks and get fresh water. Now those of you who don't know, gray water is like from dishes, hand washing, etc. and blk. water is the poo & pee. When we first decided to do this, we thought it would be better to walk up and use their bathrooms in the morning, so we wouldn't have a whole lot of ick to drain lol. Then hubby goes and gets fresh water for us to drink and use, then we put it in our camper. After about an hour's worth of work we are set for about 4 more days. 

We go thru about a tank of gas daily now in the generator cuz of the heat and still have to shut the a/c down right after sunset and for about an hour or so, it is pretty damn warm in here and since we retire early...we get up about 5:15 am....it doesn't cool off until later! 

Then there are the biting, flying little friggin gnats...lil bastards...get right by your ear and buzz! And there are the snakes....have seen 2 now! The bees, wasps, hornets....but NO mosquitoes!! The jack rabbits, regular rabbits, butterflies, road runners, skenks, lizards, coyotes...are all fun to watch!! 

Yes, we have chosen it seems a tougher life than what we had back in Oklahoma....do we wanna go back to live?? No way jose....Arizona seems to be where our hearts are....heat and all!!