Voyager

It's 2024, so it actually is a week in the 20s... . . . . . . . . No need to show me the door. I'll just see myself out...

Yup.

If all goes according to plan, I should be back in PA on May 28th. You all better get that cold weather out of there before my arrival...lol

lol...no pic. I bet he took serious online shit and took it down.

All this cold rain talk is making me want to stay in Arizona...lol

Add Tamaqua to the 89 club. I guess my wife brought some of the Arizona heat back with her...

Caught this horizontal, across the sky lightning bolt last night in front of my house after surprise storms hit the northern and western parts of the Phoenix metro area.

Yeah, open areas and high elevations had problems. Tamaqua, however, sits in a protected, upside down, V shaped valley. From my house, I could hear the non-stop roar of the wind on the hilltops surrounding the borough. Yet, even though there was widespread damage and power failures all around us, we came through virtually unscathed. There was very little damage in the borough proper, and while the power flickered a few times, the lights stayed on during the entire event. Even standing outside, there were few wind gusts, let alone sustained high velocity wind. It was more like a normal, breezy, post FROPA day/night, as opposed to a post tropical hurricane.

If she's gonna drink, you should make the day double interesting and let HER drive the golf cart...

How to do spring in Pennsylvania...

If there's one thing I lack, it's good judgment...

Came close to 100 yesterday here in the desert. The wife and I went shopping yesterday afternoon, and when she got out of the Jeep she goes, "it's suckin' hot out here"...lol

That happened to us at an Iron Pigs game a few years back. It was a hot upper 80s day. About the 3rd inning a cold front with a hell of a storm blew through. After they resumed play, the temps were in the low 60s with a good wind from the NW that blew from left field.

It sure is.

I would be lying if I said I didn't think of this scenario a few times. I some ways, I'm somewhat hoping she has a miraculous change of heart and wants to move here. It pains me a bit to have to sell my parents' home that they lived in and loved these past 25 years. It really is a nice house, and one filled with quite a few memories for me of them enjoying the lifestyle of the southwest desert. But, at some point most of us end up faced with this dilemma.

It's going to be one here, too. High of 95 today and 98 tomorrow. My wife comes in today, so she's in for a weather shock when she comes out of the airport...lol.

I'm hoping May or June. I have to put my mom's will through probate, and then sell the house and a couple of higher value items, donate clothing and furniture, and then probably trash things I'm not taking and no one else wants. I have a full house back in PA, so I can't bring a large amount of stuff back with me. There's simply no room for it all. I may be able to transfer with my company to an account we have in Hazleton. We'll see, though.

Good. Get those BN temp out of there and over with before I come home...

I was just perusing Accuweather's (don't shoot me) future radar, and at the of the run it looks like a secondary line of storms forms along I-80.

I guess it's time to tell you guys. This past Tuesday, I lost my mom. She passed peacefully late afternoon. She couldn't overcome the digestive system infection (c diff) that she contracted while in rehab for a broken hip. I sat with her, holding her hand as she slipped away to the other side, reiterating that I loved her, but that I was ok, and that I wanted her to be pain free, to see again, and be with my dad and brother again. We had some differences of opinion while I was here, but I hope my being here in Arizona was a comforting factor over the past year and a half that I spent with her.

Seems to happen most years.

Seeing all these rainfall numbers being posted, I wish the gauge in my backyard station was working. When I get back home I'll have to see what the problem is.

The 5/9/20 event is remembered well, strangely because it was the day I finished off my partially torn rotator cuff trying to remove an old kitchen faucet. Had to call my nephew to finish the job. It was the first time I'd ever seen snow in May.

35 to 81 for Tamaqua. Fairly impressive temperature spread today.

79.3 in Tamaqua. I was caught by surprise that it was that warm.