Tucson (Where they have DRY Heat!)

I see that Sherri shared our Tucson Arizona thermometer with you when our cold spell hit us. That only shows 33 degrees. Our thermometer and at the airport official reporting sight actually got down to 20 degrees. This kind of freeze is so out of the ordinary that many of our neighbors lost plants such as oleanders, geraniums, bogenvias, some of the lemon and orange trees and even the palm trees are showing some freeze marks. We have orange and grapefruit trees here at our house, and the tops are dead looking. One of our rentals has 3 orange, 1 lemon and grapefruit trees - and they really show the freeze results. Another rental that we have has a young lemon tree, and it totally killed it.

The "snow day" that we had actually started out by rain turning to sleet then snow. So the roads were all covered with ice. All public and parochial school were closed. (and we only got a ground cover of snow)

This is kind of a joke to us from a place where you have to have 10 foot drifts to close the schools. But people here do not have a clue as to how to drive on ice. Dwight and I stayed home all day and it was a great day. I called Lisa (our oldest daughter) and told her she couldn't go anywhere. (She is 42 - and still obeys her mother) By the time I called Brenda - she was already gone to work at St. Mary's hospital about 5 blocks from her house.

Now then - today, it is 77 degrees and all the "snowbirds" are running around in their sleeveless shirts and shorts. This is the kind of weather they came to enjoy with us. And of course the golf course right behind us is loaded and you have to call ahead for a "tee" time.

Dwight and I are always anxious to get back up "home" in St. Francis to our little house, but we will wait until the first of May to do that, I think.

You-all come down and see us.

Leah (Gregory) Brewer and Dwight too