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Category Archive for 'Life in Tucson'

Playing Hookey

I probably shouldn’t have done it - I have a mountain of stuff to do this week that’s roughly the height of K2. But Monday was just one of those gorgeous, perfect days that occasionally comes ’round to Tucson: clear skies, temps in the 70s, light breeze, and it was just too nice to be [...]

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Beep Beep

Okay, this is just too cool.
On my way home for the grocery store this afternoon I got to see (for only the second time since I moved to Tucson) a roadrunner crossing the road. Man, those little critters are fast.
Alas, there was no coyote tearing after it, but still way cool.

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Tucson Rivers, Part 2

As I expected, one week after the Rillito was running at or above capacity, it was once again dry:

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The monsoon returned to southern Arizona with a vengance this weekend. I drove to school for the last day of the intro class I was assistant for on Saturday in a steady downpour and I encountered a couple of minor flooding issues in the streets on the way there. Many, many University buildings had flooded [...]

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I think I may have to stop badmouthing the Tucson climate (at least temporarily), for it appears that we are actually going to have a Monsoon season this year (there was an official announcement that the season had started on the radio today). I think I’ve seen more rain here in the past week or [...]

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For the first time that I’ve seen since March, it’s raining in Tucson.
And that’s a very good thing.

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