This Valley weather is bloody outright disgusting!
This is my rant:
I am sick of not being able to enjoy the outdoors with lil boo. It has officially pissed me off!
How is one to play outside with an ever growing little lad when it is 114 bloody hell degrees outside?
I would like to cordially welcome you to the gates of burning madness - Arizona!
We are not just home to that team that could have won the SuperBowl, a hockey team that the NHL now owns, a Sheriff that makes his prisoners wear pink undershorts, an adjunct Governor that will not show up to her self called House/Senate meetings, the guy that started The Dirty, and home to some 5 Million additional “Snowbirds” that overpopulate and pollute our Valley during the Winter months.
Oh NO, we are the home of a burning HELL on earth! Walk outside. Really, do it…right now….can you feel the pain?! Third degree burns, sunburn that is. Mind you, please walk with caution, the asphalt is mooshy and sticky beneath your shoes as you feel the flames burning right through your soles. Good thing you are not wearing flip-flops dumb@ss (this was me today) OUCH!
I have pretty much grown up in Arizona….Northern that is…(along with the mrs.) where it is nice and cool, and during the month of June…it would get hot – as in 90 degree weather. We never had an air conditioner, it was not needed…those few hot days or two weeks you just opened up your windows and turned the fans on.
Now for the Valley…lil boo’s home…where he is presently growing up. Sure, infant land is cool, no worries for the outside weather conditions. Now, as he is growing up there is plenty of room to worry. Lil boo is a vibrant 3 year old that has more energy then that annoying pink bunny! He wants to play outside. Yes, we have a decent sized home, you can run around all you like….really that gets old – trust me. Our backyard is larger then most typical ‘life on the grid’ lots, we can play footie, hide n seek, baseball, football, you name it we have room (just not enough to have an official bocce court *sigh*)
Why my rant?
Yesterday afternoon, lil boo came running over to both the mrs. and I, crying.
He said, “The sun is looking at me.”
Well, alright, this is true it is looking at you, why did you look at it? We’ve had this issue before, driving in the car and the sun glaring in his eyes despite sun visors, tinted windows blah blah blah.
The sun hurts his little blue eyes, the heat turns our Casper looking (fair complexion) little boy lobster red instantly.
Is this what he is supposed to remember as he grows up? A burning wasteland of a desert? Blowing, pelting sandstorms in the summer with bouts of flash floods and uprooted trees from some ridiculous micro-burst. Environmental allergies that make him a runny druggy mess. The burning sensation of ultra hot concrete beneath his little feet! Asking to go ride his bike, when it is 114 blood sucking degrees outside? Talk about misery….why is the Valley the 5th largest city in the US?? That I will never understand.
For now this is home, you will hear me moan and groan – or just tune me out…it’s all good I will not be upset.
Changes are being made….they may take another year or two…unfortunately this is just ‘life on the grid’.
Enjoy!
Welcome to the YOB Years! Where all you need is a BIG Hug!
~daddy bookins
I get ya. Especially, with the young ones. My kids are now old enough to play a few games and build a few puzzles together before they fighting sets in. We go out in the mornings — come in when the heat gets up — and then go back out to run, ride, and play in the late afternoon to evenings when the temperature has dropped to a mid-grade fever.
I have this problem but with the rain. See I am from So Cali where the weather is beautiful, albeit a little humid, all year round. But now I live in the UK. If you add two letters to UK you get YUCK!! Seriously it rains every flippin day here. And when the sun is shining it is FREEZING!! Today, remember it is July, it rained all morning and then this evening when the sun came out it was only 57 degrees. Hello…. That is Winter Weather. My two kiddies are seriously getting Cabin Fever… Mother Nature is there no Happy medium? Can you not just give me a little of Peas heat and he can have a little of our cold? Good Luck with the rest of your summer!!