Well the end of 2019…as we close in on the end…I was going to say the decade but is it really the end of the decade, I know when I start counting I always start at one…so how is 2020 the start of a new decade, 2020 seems more like the end of the decade to me.

It is the 29th of December, yesterday I watched the end of a great run by the Ohio State Buckeye football team, I also seen LSU dominate the other semi final of this years college football season. Yes there will be sadness in the Ward household today, but all is not lost, as it was a great football game until a receiver just didn’t finish running his route, just proving again how important teamwork is and even more importantly how every persons job is in forming the perfect team. Oh it is also the season for all the bests of shows for the last year and most likely of the decade on every form of broadcast known to mankind. We also have just watched the impeachment of a US president, in a country that has never been more divided…which really amazes most of the rest of the world, so to say it has been a wild and crazy year is again an true understatement.

I mean like seriously, we are living in a world where, entertainers and athletes are treated with so much respect, but in reality they are just overpaid performers, everyone seems to care what influencers say and do, hell it is just recently when I even realized they existed, and even today I could care even less what they think or do. But I do think that it is amazing how many people actually do, there is an endless stream of useless information that is being broadcast at us continually, and most people take it as gospel. I also find it amazing how politicians don’t seem to care what lie falls out of their mouth, now I have known for years that politicians lie, and they seem to have no remorse about doing it, one will lie and two others will swear it’s true, but it still doesn’t make it true or right. And I guess what really has me down is that there are so many people that take what they are being told as fact…like seriously just because it was on the internet, doesn’t mean it’s right! I mean any dam fool can put information on the internet…look at me I do it regularly…just saying

Ok already, enough with the rain, Arizona is turning green, and I’m just tired of it. We know the temperatures overnight drop off, at sunset the cold comes in, but I don’t know all this moisture, we have never seen the desert greener, oh we had heard about it, the green, the desert flowers, but we had never seen it. But we have noticed it this trip, almost every trip into the desert there is a layer of small green plants we have never seen before. The west coast has been hit by one storm after another, Southern California had road closures because of snow, and like we are day six of Winter!

Who would have guessed Goderich Ontario would have been the same temperature as Ajo Arizona this morning? Well not I! And as much as I see it is, I still don’t have to like it, I know it’s just a temporary thing, but it is a thing that I am about over with…just saying. And with only five more days in Why before we move, I have one more project that I need to tackle, I can handle the cooler temperatures but I need a little more warmth to tackle it, so maybe on the weekend as today is our last day of rain for about ten days, but we are moving on the first of January, so I’m starting to get a little squeezed for time.

So because it’s not going to be a productive day at the camp site today, so we are heading to the organ pipe Cactus national monument to see the effects of the rain on this area of the desert.

The desert is alive with plants springing to life every where…I’ve seen freshly seeded lawn that weren’t this green and lush, there is water falling down the sides of the mountains, there are little streams of water in many of the smaller washes, just to hear the sound of running water is the desert was an amazing thing. This is not the harshness that I remember from two years ago, we hiked into archway canyon, to find the green beauty that is the desert today, it is amazing how a little water makes everything thing come to life.

Yes as much as the weather has not totally cooperated today, it has made the national monument even more spectacular, by highlighting even more of its beauty, yes this was truly a day well wasted.