Maybe Snow In Las Vegas

We May Be Getting Snow for

The New Year 2015 and...

 A Conversation with My Husband.

It won't be the first time we get the white stuff here in the Las Vegas valley.  I will end this post with photos from the last time.

Last night before bed... realizing it is very cold out (36 degrees according to our porch thermometer) and that we had not wrapped the outside pipes, Chance goes looking for tape and rags.

Me: "Its supposed to be getting really cold this week. They say we may get snow New Years Eve."

Chance in another room: "What?!! You are making that up!"

Me: "It will be hitting freezing temps at night all week. No, I am not making it up -- says here -- snow, New Years Eve."

Chance: "Shit." He appears with rags and tape.

Me: "We will be toasting in the New Year on our porch with martinis and freezing while we are at it. Maybe watching it snow."

Chance: "You are a sadist. Stop saying that!" He goes outside to wrap the pipes.

Good thing, as it was 26 degrees at 6:30am. There would have been no water for anything today if he hadn't wrapped the pipes. Dear man. I love him so.

As said and shown in my very first post ~~~

2008 Record Snowfall in Las Vegas is just getting started here.

There is a Hotel you cannot see because of the whiteout. 

What looks like sky is snow.

This looks like a black and white photo - but notice the red fire hydrant.

I don't know if we will have snow for New Years, but we might.

  Living in the desert gives you the hottest and the coldest

 temps.  Hell really can freeze over here.

Happy New Year!

Moving To Las Vegas

A story.  Like so many.

The first time I lived here I moved because of my brother.  He was fighting a rare form of cancer and my life had fallen apart in California.  The move here seemed like a good one. It was.

Then I met my now husband. Long distance relationship is hard. I moved back to California, to live with him.  Life moved along, my brother beat his cancer and life was good.  Later we moved to Reno, Nevada.  That didn't work out, so we made our way south- to live in Las Vegas. We lived with my brother and his wife for 6 months.

We worked our backsides off and put enough money away to buy a little vintage mobile home in a really nice park. We have lived here for 9 years.

We have various interests and are long on curiosity and learning.  This is home.  We were fortunate to find one another and we are lucky to have this little corner to call our own.

Unexpected things happen here.  Like this:

Snow Day in Las Vegas, Nevada.  December 17, 2008.

That is our little home with a mesquite tree getting covered.  Eventually there was a white out on our end of the valley.  Lucky for me, I got home from work before the worst of it.

From time to time I will go for a ride with my camera and take some photos and write something about living here.  

Las Vegas gets trash talked by visitors and residents alike.  That is easy to do.  There are things and people here who make a difference- and most never hear about or see them.  This is my personal view of where I live.  No lover is perfect- and Las Vegas is not perfect.  Its flawed like all of us.  

Its my Wonder Land.

Cheers, PB Ray