Heading north for a visit!

D-Day Thats right its driving day and its today! After I get some sleep that is! Right now its just after midnight! But I can wait no longer to come north for a visit! This is a short post just to let you know my plans! (those of you that it makes a difference to!) Because there are a lot of you that I would like to see when I get there! Give me a call starting Monday if you want a visit and I will be around for a few days! I love you guys! You know who you are! Jon (509)264-3065

Sweet Ground Chocolate!

Anyone that knows me knows that I am a chocoholic and coffee snob! And anyone reading this knows now! I ran out of Guittard's Sweet Ground Chocolate within two weeks of getting to Arizona! So the search was started just before then to find another source of the fine ambrosia for my home made mocha's! I found three places that even dealt with Guittards! And only one place sounded accommodating to my need to buy a supply of the perfect powder for my coffee! That place is Cerreta's Candy company in Glendale AZ! Tony,(pictured above) was and is my connection here in Arizona for the powder I have become addicted to! Chocolate addictions are not illegal in this state as far as I know! I could go on to tell you that this chocolate has to be kept at between 60 and 70 degrees for it to stay good! , and it takes a special truck to ship it from San Francisco to the Phoenix area in the summer, but that would be just too much to read! Oooops! Well a perfect mocha has its price and it is worth the effort to make one! My opinion! And as a bonus, they make wonderful chocolate candy in many of my favorite combinations there at Cerretas! So I bought five pounds of their creations to bring me out of the depression that sometimes plagues me down here! Thank you God for chocolate! And thanks Mom for eating so much chocolate when you were pregnant with me! I have never complained about being a fetal-chocoholic syndrome baby! I consider it a privilege! Bye! Jon

Monsoon season still on!

Arizona monsoon season is altogether spectacular at times! The clouds build all day into magnificent thunderheads that some evenings grow fangs and claws and they move closer to the ground and start flashing brilliant arcs of light through their dark lofty beings! Then the wind seems to pick up sometimes all at once in a massive dust cloud that looks like a moving wall! Then the wind gets moving and the thunder and lightning get closer and the show really begins!

At times the rain just isn't in all the monsoon where you are at, dry monsoon? But most of the time the rain will start in and dump in a torrent like the sky just flushed! Either way it lends for a spectacular show! Tonight it just ended in a beautiful sunset! Such beauty in life! Jon