Local weather for Apache Junction, for Thanksgiving today, is blue skies, more NE winds from 25-40 kph (15-25mph), with temperatures expected to reach low 20s C (low 70s F).
Once again we have resisted a "big" Thanksgiving gathering at the Rock Shadows hall, or any gathering at all; we've had two small Thanksgiving meals with our kids - one in Toronto with Tyson & Veronica on Oct. 9 and one with Janine, Colin, Zach & Magnus in Calgary on Nov 12, just before we left.
More about the scent of creosote after rain in the desert of the southwest - it's called petrichor (just learned this scientific term today from reading the local paper, Arizona Republic):
Petrichor is the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil. The word is constructed from Greek petra, "rock", or petros, "stone"; and īchōr, the fluid that flows in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology.
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