Living in the desert...

Las Cruces, NM, is a wonderful place to live. After time, though, you find some differences between living in dry country versus wet.

Elastic dries out and crumples into pieces with time. Rubber gives up, too.

The heat will bake out your tires.

Cheese and cracker snacks have cheese that resembles fondue down here - it was hard and solid up north.

You need to carry water with you everywhere to stay hydrated.

Blistex and other medicines develop some very odd colors after storage for a time. Up north things lasted forever - here the heat works on it.

Using GooGone or other cleaners for your books means you better have some good quality hand moisturizer - or your hands will crack!

You need some salt in your diet or your body complains.

Fresh fruits and vegetables sit better than heavy food.

And the longer you're here, the hotter it has to be before you put on shorts...

My Friday...

Got up this morning, ran to the PO, then I came home and read my emails and hubby took another pickup load of donations down to Good Start.

Then he came home and offered to take me out to lunch. We went to Applebee's and I had their Oriental Chicken Salad (1/2) and he had the Shrimp Spinach Salad (1/2). Tasty stuff!

Then we went to the western store and shopped for a straw cowboy hat to keep our heads cool when we're in the sun.

I tried on one hat, checked another size, and kept the first hat I tried. He was like an old woman, he had to try on every hat in the store! He kept going back to one hat he liked, but he was hesitant to buy it because of the price. I told him, you like it, buy it. It's not like we'll be buying three or four - just one. So get the best one!

Mine is variegated colors, stone and white, in straw with air holes so your head can breath, and it looks pretty cool on me. It's a Tony Lama hat.

He picked a big white one with air holes, and it looks pretty impressive on him.

So we have cowboy hats we bought here now. $123 later...

But I love my hat!!!