Thanks for the helpful responses. aileen679-Very funny! But you can't scare me away. I'm so looking forward to this trip. We leave tomorrow. The current 98 degrees that we have in NJ is just easing me into what's in store!

I've read that leaving a digital camera
in a hot car/trunk can ruin it - I've had ink pens left on dashboards that could be twisted around your finger...
But my final comment is, and I'm definitely sticking to it (no pun intended!) - "It still beats -40 & snow up to your ???!!!"

Eileen your post was hillarious!!!! RE-read it in January while you are in your shorts and it will be even funnier. I think you adapt to the heat just like people in Seattle adapt to the rain. Just think it will only really last for another 2 - 2 1/2 months ;)

You know you are in Arizona when:
1. You think 6 tons of crushed rock makes a beautiful yard.
2. You notice your car overheats before you drive it.
3. You know a swamp cooler is not a happy hour drink.
4. Vehicles with open windows have the right of way.
5. You think someone driving, wearing oven mitts, is clever.
6. You can make sun tea instantly.
7. People with black cars or upholstery are from out of town.
8. The water from the hot and cold tap are the same temperature.
9. You run your a/c in the middle of the day so you can show off your fireplace.
10. You discover that you CAN drive using just 2 fingers.
11. People show up wearing sweaters when the temperature drops to 70.
12. You Realize the best parking place is determined by shade, not distance.
13.You see people in malls, markets, even funerals..wearing swimsuits.

I guess I should have said that my post didn't happen to me. A friend sent it to me when I was complaining (as usual) about the heat here in the South East. I've since seen it in other places. The Good Jokes get around, don't they!!!
Aileen

I love winter, even if the commute can get dicey.

I'm going NORTH when/if I retire.

So glad you all like being fried so much, but believe me, it is not everybody.

It's still only July and I'm SICK of oven breathe atmosphere already. My favorite season, even at the lake, is Fall.

Ok... more more AZ haha from my friend in AZ....

Ah, Arizona!

The devil wanted a place on earth
Sort of a summer home
A place to spend his vacation
Whenever he wanted to roam.

So he picked out Arizona
A place both wretched and rough
Where the climate was to his liking
And the cowboys hardened and tough.

He dried up the streams in the canyons
And ordered no rain to fall
He dried up the lakes in the valleys
Then baked and scorched it all.

Then over his barren country
He transplanted shrubs from hell.
The cactus, thistle and prickly pear
The climate suited them well.
Now the home was much to his liking
But animal life, he had none.
So he created crawling creatures
That all mankind would shun

First he made the rattlesnake
With it's forked poisonous tongue.
Taught it to strike and rattle
And how to swallow it's young.

Then he made scorpions and lizards
And the ugly old horned toad.
He placed spiders of every description
Under rocks by the side of the road.

Then he ordered the sun to shine hotter,
Hotter and hotter still.
Until even the cactus wilted
And the old horned lizard took ill.

Then he gazed on his earthly kingdom
As any creator would
He chuckled a little up his sleeve
And admitted that it was good.

Twas summer now and Satan lay
By a prickly pear to rest.
The sweat rolled off his swarthy brow
So he took off his coat and vest.

"By Golly, " he finally panted,
"I did my job too well,
I'm going back to where I came from,
Arizona is hotter than Hell. "

That should have read "one" more...