The monsoon season

While the "monsoon season" in the Four Corners  ... the time from late June through August when "afternoon thundershowers" are part of every day's weather forecast ... keeps the hay farmers scrambling to cut their hay and get it baled before it gets rained on, it is also makes it a very comfortable season. It may get hot in the afternoon, but it cools down at night and, as Sandy has already noted, the play of sunlight on clouds and landscape in the morning and evening is dramatic and ever-changing.

I did my first session of physical therapy yesterday ... ouch!!!! Gotta schedule my pain meds better! It's actually another delight of living in this community ... my therapist, Annette Mullikin, PT, is an experienced professional who is truly a neighbor (lives about a quarter of a mile away) and who can provide all the services I need ...  only four miles from home. 

The latest issue of "Time" has a story that I hope we see more of in the future ... what the positive aspects of the energy crisis could turn out to be. Things like slowing urban sprawl, reinvigorating local communities, changing workweeks in directions that cut commute time ... and increase family time. Perhaps the lemonade we will be forced to make will be very tasty! tv