Spring is over – hello, Summer. The radar is now turned on for shade as the days get hotter and our closed cars start baking. And so it begins, the old Phoenician pastime of drivers crazily searching for the itty bitty strands of shade that might protect them and their cars from the onslaught of hotter and hotter days. This coming week we are forecast to approach the 90’s (32c) and just two weeks ago the heater was still on – there are some things you never get used to living in Phoenix, Arizona.

Suffer you mid-west dogs. While you try to deal with blizzards, white outs, monster snowdrifts – in other words, the dread of winter, we bask in the sun of perpetual perfection here on this beautiful spring day in Phoenix, Arizona. In three months I’ll be choking on a dust storm or two and sniffling with half of the local population suffering from allergies, but come on, look out there – NO, not the smog layer, the blue skies, and red rocks.

Gabino from Mi Pueblo, owner of a local Mexican restaurant I frequent all too often, handed me these two free passes for admission to the Renaissance Festival – NICE! Opening weekend of the festival is great as tickets are offered 2 for 1, but all other days as you can see from the tickets above cost $20 per person. Sometime before April 1st, the closing day of the festival, we will find our way back out to Apache Junction for an encore attendance of the 19th Annual Renaissance Festival – Huzzah!!!!