Boondockers are nothing if not adaptable.
My Internet is pretty slow out here at the old rodeo grounds. I'm three or four miles from town, and maybe that's the problem, but whatever it is, it's taking a long time to get my pictures to load, so I'm going to limit the number of pictures I show until my Internet improves or I move to a new location.
It's pretty hot today. The temperature crept up to about 100°, which made it pretty hot in the camper, even with all the windows open and both fans going. But it was amazingly comfortable sitting outside in the shade.
I know many people turn on the air conditioner when it gets in the high 70s; therefore, they end up totally dependent on it running anytime things start warming up. But being a boondocker and never wanting to own a generator, I have to do things the old-fashioned way, which is to acclimatize myself.
I've been living with temperatures in the 70s and 80s for the last few months without air conditioning, so when it hits 100° for two or three days, I'm mostly used to it, and it’s more of an annoyance than a misery. Also, since it's the desert, and the humidity is almost nonexistent, that hundred degrees is only for a couple of hours in the afternoon; the biggest part of the day is much lower. And with nighttime in the 60s, even though that's a little warmer than I prefer, I find it plenty comfortable.
Theboondork
Nobody saw me taking a picture this time.
The old rodeo grounds in Ajo at sunset.
This girl is shooting a "compound bow," and she's also wearing a hat that, from the front, looks like a googly-eyed frog and matches the color of her bow. But that's not important, so forget all that.
If you don't know what a compound bow is, you will in just a minute. It's easy to spot a compound bow because it has wheels on both ends of the bow, and these wheels, which are called cams, do a miraculous thing to the bow, something that seems almost impossible.
Let's say a bow has a 45-pound pull. A regular bow is easy to pull, but the farther you pull the string, the harder it gets. When the bow is fully drawn, it takes 45 pounds to hold it there, meaning that you must aim pretty quickly because 45 pounds is a lot of weight to hold back.
Then along came the compound bow, which turned everything around for us old archers. When you pull a 45 pound compound bow you start pulling that 45 pounds pretty quick during your draw but just before you complete your draw that 45 pounds suddenly drops to five or ten pounds and stays at that weight as long as you want to hold the string back, which gives you a chance to aim as long as you want. It revolutionized the archery hobby, especially hunting, and now I would say 90% of archers shoot a compound.