{"id":15014,"date":"2011-08-31T18:32:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T01:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=15014"},"modified":"2011-08-31T20:54:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T03:54:28","slug":"its-hot-and-dry-and-gorgeous-in-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15014\/its-hot-and-dry-and-gorgeous-in-the-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s hot and dry and gorgeous in the desert."},"content":{"rendered":"

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The photo is from a house Cathy closed on today. That’s what they call a street, out in the sticks. You can measure how clean the air is by the definition of my shadow, maybe sixty feet away. On the way home, we saw a yearling coyote on Dear Valley Road.<\/p>\n

Our annual late summer “monsoon” is being pushed out of the valley by very hot, dry weather rolling in from the Mohave Desert. Within the next couple of weeks, we will shift back to the dry heat that makes Phoenix so perfect all winter long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The photo is from a house Cathy closed on today. That’s what they call a street, out in the sticks. You can measure how clean the air is by the definition of my shadow, maybe sixty feet away. On the way home, we saw a yearling coyote on Dear Valley Road. 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