Another cloudless morning and a beautiful start to the day. So far this visit to Arizona has been very nice. Not at all like Florida from a weather perspective. The nights get cooler than Florida for sure and are great for sleeping with temperatures close to or in the high single digits. Day time temperatures are not as high as Florida either, but there is no humidity and fairly light breezes all day so all in all very pleasant.
One other thing we noticed early on is there are hardly any bugs or insects at all. In Florida there are all kinds of insects and noseeums, and you are generally always aware of something buzzing around. Here there are hardly any at all. Most people in this park have their doors open in to the living space so I expect this is a regular thing with little to no bugs. Not sure if the bird population is higher than in summer and therefore more bugs are being eaten, but there are not a lot around.
There are all kinds of birds though, and I suspect like the Canada Geese earlier in the week, a lot of them are overwintering from places up north. I have been using an app called Merlin for the last five years and it is a very good app for identifying birds and giving some background and history of each species. So far, I have picked up two more species in the Life List that I had not heard before. We will see how the winter progresses with more sightings.
Pat is certainly enjoying her time in the pool and hot tub and was there for three hours this day.
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| View from the hot tub |
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