I LOVE Arizona!

[lugerholsterrepair]

When I was a young children, I lived in Tucson on Orange grove road. We had horses & pigs. It was very rural and just what it indicated, orange groves, 1963 or so..could shoot right off the back porch. Now it's all city & condo's.

The weather was very different too...I guess the world changes in a half century.

[rhuff]

Originally Posted by lugerholsterrepair

When I was a young children, I lived in Tucson on Orange grove road. We had horses & pigs. It was very rural and just what it indicated, orange groves, 1963 or so..could shoot right off the back porch.

I live about a 1/4 mi. North of Orange Grove Road. I came here in 1977, and Orange Grove Road and Ina road were little two lane roads with minimal traffic. Back then, I lived "out in the boonies", but not any more!!! I liked it a lot better back then.

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by lugerholsterrepair

The weather was very different too...I guess the world changes in a half century.

That has been my impression for several years. Back in the 50's, it used to rain all day long. I can recall dressing in my hip boots and rain slicker and floppy fisherman's rain hat and playing out at the curb where the downpour drained into the brand-new storm sewers. (The city had just paved the street - it was cinders before). I was maybe 5. Little pieces of scrap wood in the stream. Now, it only rains for a few minutes at a time. And last Winter, I did not use my snow blower at all. The year before that, I used it three times, when the snow was over 6 inches. I can remember snow drifts as tall as I was in the early 60's. Blizzards in the 70's.

Alarmists are heralding global warming but climatologists are predicting that we are entering a mini-Ice Age.

Whatever happens, I'll miss it.