You Know Arizona is Home When...

We had discussions with friends the other week about how Arizona always calls people home. You leave, but somehow it always calls you back. Here are a few other ways a person might tell that Arizona is home:

• You notice when humidity doubles...from 7 to 14%.
• Eighty degrees inside feels cool....it's at least 35 degrees warmer outside.
• You travel and think trees without leaves are dead. Trees are few in Arizona, and those there are are evergreen.
• You know to drink before you are thirsty. Dry heat doesn't necessarily make you feel dry.
• Your joints talk to you when the monsoons come. Weather changes don't happen on a very regular basis.
• You know people who have never seen snow.
• You're accustomed to seeing sunsets.
• Daylight savings time is a foreign, and confusing concept.
• On that note, you have to use Google or your phone to figure out what time it is in other places, because the time difference is never standard.
• You're used to nosebleeds and you stock nasal saline to deal with them.
• Frying an egg on the sidewalk doesn't sound like an outlandish idea.

I could probably go on, but you get the picture. Arizona is unique. Arizonans are unique. You like the state and you stand the people, or you move elsewhere, and that's okay. As for me, Arizona is home!