Duffey has been riding his bicycle like we did in Sanibel only with this dry air he does not sweat.  I haven’t been riding because my leg is still hurting. Hopefully another week of rest and I will be able to ride my bicycle for a distance and maybe even return to golf. Yesterday after  riding he came home all excited and told me to get in the Jeep and we traveled on his desert ride where on one side of the road was a dead coyote and across from him was the remains of a deer leg. We imagined all sorts of things that must have happened prior to the coyote getting hit by a car. He passed away full that is for sure!

I met a lady and she was telling me the history of Phoenix and all the people. Fifty years ago when Phoenix became mildly popular and people started moving here because they felt the dry air was good for their health they ruined Phoenix. The area was good for them partly because of the dry air but mainly because of the lack of pollen in the air.  The people came and brought with them pollutants such as shingles, Phoenix had been a place of clay roofs and now the shingles were polluting the air. They also brought with them non desert succulent plants or  plants with pollen. This valley was known for gravel lawns but the new residents needed grass lawns and fertilizer and water to keep their lawns green. Combined these items made the air here worse than the air in most places because this is a valley that rarely has rain or wind so the polluted air doesn’t move out of the valley. Today there are subdivisions going up everywhere, the desert is beginning to disappear.