My post yesterday had an unexpected result yesterday. Tom III wrote and told me that he was cancelling his subscription to my blog because he was tired of hearing about temperatures which were 100 degrees higher than he was experiencing in Vermont! So for the time being, I'll refrain from any talk about high temperatures and low gas prices. Besides, we're back in California and the gas prices are going back up, surely but not slowly.
Perhaps I was a little harsh about my description of El Centro yesterday. After all, the Imperial Valley is the vegetable capital of the West Coast (and perhaps further east than that). The farm fields are a great testament to the value of irrigation water from Northern California and also the Colorado River. Without that water, this all would be desert.
Some of you may know that Fallon, NV is known as the Oasis of the Desert. On the gate at El Centro Naval Air Facility is the term "Pearl of the Desert". Guess you have to make the best of a bad situation (oops, there I go again, denigrating El Centro area. My bad!).
Enough for now.
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