My house in Glendale, Arizona

This is the house where I lived out my 10 years in Arizona. The two front top windows are bedrooms, and the bottom large window is the living room. The two front trees were fondly named by Joey when he was 5 yrs. old...Steven & Alice. This house had many good memories and many guests came to visit. It was a home of fun, and welcome to everyone. When it rained, everyone would gather outside and dance as if we'd never seen rain before. During dust storms we'd walk outside and hear the power poles burst their lines and pop like firecrackers. In January we had our autumn season, and the front yard would be covered with brown and mustard yellow leaves. Sometimes on rare occasions we'd get hail storms, and when done it's as close to snow as we get, because the ground is piled with tiny hail balls. For Christmas, we'd sit outside in shorts & t-shirts, calling family who were literally in a blizzard. In the summer it would get so hot, the cool water of the swimming pool was like heaven on earth. We'd swim until pruned, and step into the 120* heat, then want to get back in the water to cool off. We did BBQ pretty much every day, especially in summer when it was too hot to cook in the house. The area was built on an old pecan orchard, and a few original trees still existed, and in February we'd collect enough fallen pecans to make cookies throughout the rest of the year. And my favorite part of living in the Arizona desert is the smell of rain on the desert...a smell so its own. You have to enhale it to know what I mean, and the smell of rain on the hot pavement is also heavenly.