Winter fashions in Arizona

We do dress for winter out here, even if we don't need to.... notice the winter boots and that is a winter scarf around her neck.

There was a lady in Walgreen's a few weeks ago that I didn't think of taking her picture till we had left. She was dressed in a tank top with a sleeveless hooded vest with fur trim, short shorts and muckluck boots with fur lining.

Brrrrrrrrr !!!!!!!!

Dang, it's only the beginning of December and I had to turn the heat on to take the chill off. Last year I didn't have to turn it on till February and then it was only for a week! Sure hope this cold spell isn't a sign of things to come, I did not move out here for this! The only thing we are missing is snow, although Monday on my way to work my car dashboard had a snowflake next to the temperature reading.

Thanksgiving shopping

Stood outside Walgreen's this morning waiting for it to open, along with about 20 other people. Got 9 bottles of Arm & Hammer laundry detergent for $17.97 (a savings of $44,93), 4 tubes of crest toothpaste free (actually made 75cents on each), 6 packages of ponytail holders free, 6 packages of batteries for $7.98 (savings of $15.98) 2 razors for 99cents each (savings of $15.92) and 1 box of hair color for $1 (savings of 7.99).

 I wanted to put 2 potted christmas trees on the front porch so got buy 1 get 1 free pre-lighted trees. So almost ready to start decorating outside.

Was surprised to see that most of the people waiting to get in were actually there for the buy 1 get 1 free toy selection.

Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!

5 minutes and $400

Doctor looked at my wrist, had me try to bend it a particular way, then said you have De Quervain's Tendinitis. Gave me a shot and said it will be better in 3 days. I'm suppose to go back in 3 weeks for a follow up. I asked him if I could sit in the office for a little while to feel like I got my money's worth.

tempermental benz

Ok, so the mercedes wouldn't start for the last time and unlucky for it we just happened to be in the parking lot of a new car dealer....so.... say hi to my new car!!

it's a 2012 volkswagon jetta and it is  now parked in our garage.

I don't know if the mercedes started or not, I didn't hand over the key until we were ready to leave the dealership just in case. We told them we wanted a new car with nothing out of our pocket and we didn't want to spend over a set amount on payments and they made it work. In fact we have a check coming back to us from the buy out of the mercedes.

Started decorating for Halloween

I know 2 posts in the same day.... oh well, makes up for going a month with nothing at all. Getting ready for Halloween, my favorite holiday next to Christmas. My lantern was working but it blew its fuse, so going shopping Friday to see if I can find some. Also need a few pumpkins for the porch. Will take another picture Halloween night because I have some bags with witches on them to put candles in that I'm going to put up the driveway to light the way for trick-or-treaters.

the little skeleton guy is in the corner of the yard at the end of the driveway.I was going to put the headstone there but the rock was already there and it just seemed to work. If you look closely in the bottom picture of the 3 pictures you can just make out the dog sitting in the doorway. 

And here is a full picture of the front of our house. As you can see we have a tree directly in the front that needs to be trimmed back a little...soon, definitely before Christmas decorations go up.

Monsoon season is over....

at least that is what the weatherman said, but looking out our back patio I'm not so sure. It officially ended last  month. This is what it was like yesterday afternoon. The wind blew, the rain poured, and the temperature dropped 20 degrees inside of a few hours. It rained so hard you couldn't see the mountain in our backyard. I heard that further south they had it so bad that there was a 9 car pile up on the highway. Only they didn't have the rain, they had the sand.  It feels great to open the doors and windows and turn off the air conditioning. It's 8:30am right now and it's still off. We're suppose to be 80's today and then 70's for the rest of the week (60's at night).