Life in Rural Cochise County, Survival and Beauty, A Personal Perspective

Posted on Jun 01 in Blogby JoannePrint

It is hard to comment on unrest at the border. I do not feel or experience the unrest. There are others who obsess their every moment over worry that someone is going to cross the line.  At College peak in particular there is occasional evidence of footprints in the sand. I would live on this property. It is high on the mountain, yet only about a mile of dirt road from highway 80.

Wild life is one of the things that makes it really cool to live here.  It is rather wild here, it took a bit of an adjustment from my living in New England.  Not because I was afraid but more because sometimes the environment is in charge rather than your schedule.  Yes, you need to pay attention for rattlers in the summer, cats can control that to some degree.  The snakes come for mice, cats get rid of mice.  Killer bees come in swarms and they are loud, they travel fast. Usually we duck cause you can hear them coming.  I’ve been stung a couple times while driving because i drove through a swarm and one got in.  I didn’t die.  I found that the most difficult thing to get used to was the wind.  Wind, especially in the spring, can kick up dust and some years the dust storms have looked like something out of an Indiana Jones movie.