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Life in the desert
By Kathleen Fulgham
I live in the upper desert in Southern California. The desert is peaceful, harsh, very dusty and full of bugs and slithering snakes. The first year I was in our house in Rosamond we had crickets. I mean crickets, they were all over the outside of the house. At night when we would get up for what ever reason we would step on hundreds of crickets.
Year two was over ran with black widows. They came out from every where. They were under the ledges of the house, in the closets, in the shower, no matter where you were there was a black widow.
Year three we had carpenter ants cover the entire house. We would find them coming out of the fire place, up from the floors, dropping off the roof by the thousands.
Year four was the year for the scorpions, they are called blonde scorpions, not poisonist but none the less scary. To us scorpions are scorpions no matter what color they are.
Year five was the year for the snakes. One day we opened the garage and there was a baby rattler. We couldn't get to it before one of our very small dogs got bit in the face by the rattler. Her face swelled three times its size and you only have 20 minutes to get the dog to the vets and the anti venem into them.
She recovered from the bite, but was never the same after that, she acted real bizzare. The second year after the bit we had to put her down because of the bizzare behavior.
The next year we were back to the crickets again.
The wind blows most of the time, of course we live in what they call wind gulch. All the trees lean to the east because the wind blows from the west.
You don't dust the house because with the wind blowing all the time the dust just returns. You can open the windows and the wind will dust your house for you. The nice thing about the wind is in the middle of summer when it is 115 out there the wind helps it feel not so hot.
The desert goes from one extreme to the other. Its very hot in the summer and extremely cold in the winter. Summer is usually from 100 to 115 continuously, weeks at a time. The winters range from 40 to a low of 8. I still have not figured out which one is the harshest, summer or winter. I can tell you for the wild life and the stray dog population we have up here, they both are real difficult to get through.
That is the knowledge I have of the desert. As rough as it is weather wise I love the desert. It is beautiful and calming.
In the spring time the poppies cover the hill sides and they look like they are on fire. Some years we don't get the poppies because they need just the right amount of rain at the right time. But the years we do get them it is breath taking to see the hill sides covered with them.
Ah the wild, unpreditable,awsome desert. |
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Wow that sounds like an "interesting place" to live. How many people live in your area?
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