07-01-2015, 06:32 AM
Congratulations Reinhard, now the fun begins..... 
Good morning all, I'm sure some places in the Valley got hammered last night, but it appears that the monsoon storms missed us. Today it appears as if we have a cooling trend, the next few days will be around 107, but the humidity and dew points are up to the point that they are giving us those, "feels like____" reports. Anyone still using a swamp cooler should just turn it off, it does no good around what we now call the, "monsoon season".... Us old school folks still call them "dust storms", and the season was always, "summer".
Just to change the subject, for any of you that have spent time visiting or even living in the Phoenix area, you will notice that we are slowly drifting away from our old "cowboy" ways. A lot of men are walking around in three-piece suits, no longer sporting jeans and boots. Two long time cowboy-themed restaurants are now closed. The last of, and original, Bill Johnson's Big Apple closed a few weeks ago. All the waitresses there wore pistols on their hips with western attire. Today they are auctioning off all the memorabilia from there. Also closed is the Pinnacle Peak Steak House. If you wore a tie when you went there, they'd cut it off and tack it onto the rafters. Cowboys did your steaks in outdoor grills. They had thousands of ties hanging there. The Big Apple is now going to be a parking lot, and the Pinnacle Peak gives way to a housing development. Both have been around the Phoenix area since the mid-1950's, and us old folk will miss their presence. We are slowly loosing our identity.
Good morning all, I'm sure some places in the Valley got hammered last night, but it appears that the monsoon storms missed us. Today it appears as if we have a cooling trend, the next few days will be around 107, but the humidity and dew points are up to the point that they are giving us those, "feels like____" reports. Anyone still using a swamp cooler should just turn it off, it does no good around what we now call the, "monsoon season".... Us old school folks still call them "dust storms", and the season was always, "summer".
Just to change the subject, for any of you that have spent time visiting or even living in the Phoenix area, you will notice that we are slowly drifting away from our old "cowboy" ways. A lot of men are walking around in three-piece suits, no longer sporting jeans and boots. Two long time cowboy-themed restaurants are now closed. The last of, and original, Bill Johnson's Big Apple closed a few weeks ago. All the waitresses there wore pistols on their hips with western attire. Today they are auctioning off all the memorabilia from there. Also closed is the Pinnacle Peak Steak House. If you wore a tie when you went there, they'd cut it off and tack it onto the rafters. Cowboys did your steaks in outdoor grills. They had thousands of ties hanging there. The Big Apple is now going to be a parking lot, and the Pinnacle Peak gives way to a housing development. Both have been around the Phoenix area since the mid-1950's, and us old folk will miss their presence. We are slowly loosing our identity.
Don (ezdays) Day
Board administrator and
founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD
Board administrator and
founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD