I want some coffee!

... and the surprising thing is the local temps seem to be following the calendar! Our location is in SKP Saguaro Co-op in Benson, Arizona. Nothing special other than a great view and a very unique river that originates in Mexico to the South then flows North thru our San Pedro River valley. There are only 2 rivers which flow North out of Mexico into the US and our San Pedro River is one of them. SKP Saguaro is in Benson and is located about 1/3 of the way South between Pomerene and St. David. And that's the famous Tombstone tamed by Wyatt Earp in the late 1800s about 16 miles South of St, David. San Pedro Valley was originally settled by the Indians and then Spanish explorers before the US Army created a presence here with Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista. According to the Wikipedia link, Ft. Huachuca was home from 1910 to 1933 to the Buffalo Soldiers- black American cavalry soldiers . There is mining activity all over Arizona, but the first permanent white settlers who engaged in fa...

We (mmm... I!  ) drifted thru the whole summer and didn't give much thought to it ending. Hard to realize summer is officially over in about 10 days when we are still hitting temps in the 100s! But there it is.  Cruising-friends-turned-RVers who publish conchscooter.blogspot.com are in the Southern hemisphere dealing with van renovations. That's about as close as we get to being on the road. Well- not counting driving to appointments in Tucson. Appointments in Benson don't count as the engine hardly gets warmed up before we arrive!  -----------------------  And today, as I type this post, is the 25th anniversary of 9-11 . The Admiral and I were in the Herrington Harbor Marina in Maryland on that infamous day. We were prepping Goosebumps so we could leave for points South. We needed haircuts and made our way across the street to the shop where we went for haircuts mid-week. We stepped inside and were greeted by some very somber faces. The staff had the TV on and we s...

Summer has been (at least to this point!), mmm... tolerable. So far (as singer Lenny Kravitz said "it ain't over till it's over!") we've stayed out of the over-110° range down here about 60 miles North of the US/Mexico border. Definitely a 'kind' summer for us.  And during that time we've seen better rainfall (called monsoons in these parts) than most of us feared. Our handy-dandy Davis Weather station says we've had 8.25" of rain since 1 July. That's about 3/4" less than I had expected... about 3" of rain per month in July, August and September. And that should be (predictably!) about what I post here every year near this time! And just to add to to the atmosphere (!) of this post, here is an almost-rainy shot off to the SSE of the park. In fact you can still see the wet streak down the middle of our road from the T-storm that passed thru earllier.   Spotted just about sunset off to the Southeast of the park All good here at SKP...