Summer Monsoons 2013

On my last post there was snow in Tucson.  Not now!!  We had over a month of 100 plus degree weather and to cool it off just a little--the monsoon season started.  The grand-kids here have been going to Karate classes a lot along with their parents.  (No, I am a little too stiff and sore to be doing that!)  The kids also spend a lot of time at the YMCA activities.  Keeps them out of trouble.  I don't know what kept me out of trouble when I was that age.  I never spent many daytime hours at home during the summers.  That was in Young, Arizona where there were a lot of options of what to do but none of them included electronics.  I used to go out hiking a lot, sometimes with my brothers and sometimes alone.  I always liked to find out what was "over the hill".  I had to drink water out of mud tanks that were designed for livestock to drink from.  This was only occasionally but I don't ever remember getting sick from it.  I have hiked up to, on and over most of the small mountains surrounding Young (Pleasant Valley) Arizona.  I would guess it is about 6 to 10 miles across Pleasant Valley, from one end to the other.  I walked that a number of times back and forth from my home to visit friends who lived on the other end of the valley.