nice...

although it is the first day of fall, the outside temp. is 86 degrees. yeah, i love fall and the cooler temps, but i could easily live in a place that had 70-85 degree highs for eight months of the year; only then could i handle two months of rain and two more of snow.

we are lucky though. sure, Colorado gets its share of weird weather - sometimes even opposite of the norm - but it doesn't stay around long. could you imagine living in some of the more extreme climatological zones?

remember my posting on Dallol, Ethiopia? the place that averaged 94 degrees for SIX years? hell no! or make that HELL yes because that's what it must have been...

or what about you rain lovers? do you think you could handle the annual rainfall of Lloro, Colombia? in one 29-year stretch, it averaged 524 inches of rain...every year. i wonder if people invest in submarines there... heck, we cry about averaging 60 inches of snow and a total of 15.4 total inches of precipitation in Denver (when we're not in the middle of a drought). Monte Vista and the valley gets half that...

'course, we know nothing about droughts either. sure, much of Colorado is on a semi-desert plain. and we Coloradans cry about not being able to maintain a 'pretty' lawn due to water restrictions. well, to put it in Denny-ese, 'wahwah...boohoo...cry me a freakin' river.' ever hear of Arica? it's the northernmost city in Chile...and it averages three-hundreths of an inch in precipitation yearly! the Peruvian town that i worked in, Bella Union, gets a tenth of an inch. there are even some places in the Atacama Desert that haven't seen rain in 400 years! Phoenix, Albuquerque, Reno, and Alamosa do NOT know the meaning of arid...

really though, i'm thankful to live here...with our occasionally wild temp. fluctuations. i know that i got it good. Lois spent a year of college in Bogotá, Colombia, where (at an altitude of 8400') the temps are between 40-70 degrees year-round and it always seems humid and cold. did i mention that the house she lived in, only had cold showers? sheeyit. that's one thing i cannot stand. no way. i'd be out there choppin' trees down just to have firewood for boiling a couple cups o' water... tepid showers even make me shudder...argh.

so our freaky weather gives us small talk opportunities and the dry air keeps the lotion industry intact. it also supplies me with lame blog material...heh. go figure...or go read a worthwhile blog ;) scram!