anticipation

Summer is coming.  

It is swelling up in the distance like the monsoon rains.

And I am SO excited to see it looming in the distance. 

The high today was around 100, which is going to start being a regular thing again, so I got Darcy a new pool.  Last summer I got her a kiddie pool, which she loved!  and then she chewed to bits once it got colder and she no longer needed it.  So I tried to circumvent such inefficiency and got her one of the black, plastic feed trough/water tanks that are used for livestock...which she almost is (?).  

Like this!

Only my backyard is a barren wasteland of dirt, with a few specks of weeds and wood (what's left of her once-doghouse).  The above photo is CLEARLY not Tucson...though I wish I could import the trees and puppies for a few days :)  But it's a good relative size to my dog.

And as of yet, she's not quite so sure of the thing yet.  She loved her pool, but she seemed rather scared to go into this - because it's bigger? black? smelled like horses? or something else? hmmm...

Anyways, all this to say playing with the dog in her new pool with the wind and the lovely evening lighting made me all the more excited for summer.  

6 DAYS.  School is OVER in 6 DAYS.  I love my students DEARLY.  I will miss seeing them 5 days a week.  But teachers NEED extended time off...and I can hardly wait for it to arrive, yet have hardly thought about it all at the same time.

Any suggestions for the summer?  What are you going to do?  Any Southern AZ ideas?