Life of confusion.

Honest Omar weighed in and straightened Kadizzle out on the lapse rate. Omar has an extensive knowledge in aviation, and is the go to man on aircraft questions. Omar solved a debate the other day and he may win a Kadizzle T shirt at the end of the year. Bake to the " lapse rate", of course Omar would have to use some technical word, but that is the rate it gets colder as you go up. The correct lapse rate per thousand feet if Kadizzle has it right this time is 3.5 degrees per thousand. Anyway it is colder in general at Payson than at Cottonwood. That is why we will live there. Instead of adjusting the thermostat we will drive up and down the mountain until it is comfortable.  Since most people pretty much stay at one altitude they do not realize the effect. However, since the Kadizzles are constantly changing altitude all sorts of things happen. The potato chip bags swell as you go up the hill, the bottles pop, the ears pop, and so on.  Until you have lived in the mountains you do not realize water boils at a lower temperature. This means cooking takes longer. 

We are in the process of loading stuff to go to the new home. With luck we will at least be moved to Tonto Basin in a week or two. That will put us much closer to the house. What a hassle. If you are old, don't build a new home, repeat don't do it. The stress is just too much for old farts. Winky has about lost her mind picking out colors, light fixtures, door handles, carpet, tile, flooring.  On it goes. When you build a house you do not know what you are getting. You have to accept the final product. Of course there is the contractor routine. The house could have been done in June in my estimation, but, but, no. Of course there is the virus. 

Winky just called me on the phone. She is out in a field looking for a piece of old wood to make the mantel. Whoops, whoops, she just called again, bring a tape measure. Kadizzle has to hop on the ebike and run down the road to check out an old piece of wood. We were trying to move some things today, but now the whole game just changed we have to salvage old wood. Such is life