The Smell of...Fall Break
S went on a walk with Terence this morning, and when she came home, her whole face was alight with excitement. "It smells like October!" What does October smell like in the desert? Campfire smoke. Or at least it's one of the smells. See, people around here don't have campfires or hang out around a fire pit during the summer. It's too dang HOT to do that. But as soon as the nights or mornings cool down into the 80's, suddenly our street becomes fire pit utopia. It's lovely, other than the mosquitos. Apparently the mosquitos are rejoicing in our weather as well, possibly because we got more rain last week than the entire rest of our supposed monsoon season put together. Eh. I can't complain too much. We barely saw any all summer, one of the few blessings of being dry as the Sahara for months. We needed the rain, desperately. Some of our reservoirs completely ran out of the water our farmers depend on. When the rain came, it was with a fury. Globe got hi...
