Part 3 to present

Most recent hike.  "Hiking through residency" hike #2 - apparently these are quarterly hikes!  I need to go much more often.  There are sooooooo many places to go, just not enough time.

Hiking pals - Penny and Buster.

Honeybee Canyon - it's a flat hike that is supposed to be good for taking children and doggies (or at least little doggies like mine)

If you look closely you can see snow on the mountains!  

Maybe you can see it now?!  It does snow here and get cold, brrrr...

Nice wide trail, helps to keep the doggies out of the cacti.  

90% of the walk I had one hand out in front holding Buster back and the other hand behind me dragging Penny along.  Walking 2 dogs is harder than it looks!

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Now I know it's sunny in those pictures and I will admit that it was warmer that day than I expected.  Wearing my ski socks and a sweatshirt made me a bit over dressed and a little sweaty by the end of the hike.  

But I swear it does get cold here.  About a week ago, I woke up to get ready for work - walked in and went to the bathroom, I flushed the toilet and as I was standing at the sink, thought to myself that sounds funny.... Hmm... I turned on the faucet and had my answer.  A trickle of water came through the tap.  Uh oh.  That's when I realized that our pipes had froze!  Didn't expect that in Arizona now did you?  Well neither did we.  I was on call the whole day, but Sief wrapped our pipes and thankfully we got home all had been fixed.  He also left a faucet downstairs dripping to release pressure in the pipes ( i know not eco-friendly, but better than busted pipes).  Apparently relieving pressure is what prevents the pipes from bursting.  

Golden weekend this weekend - both Saturday & Sunday off!  Yippee!  What shall I do???