It's really not fair!  

Good friends of ours who live near our rental house in Arizona (which Jim built half a lifetime ago and we lived in for six years before coming out here to Cameroon) just sent us a spectacular picture of SNOW.  Snow on the cactus (it's high dessert there and snows once every handful of years); snow on the magnificent mountains which are across the valley from our front window; snow on neighbor's roofs.  

And here we sit on the other side of the Big Pond, knee deep in Harmattan dust and grit.  We're shoveling dirt, not snow!  Alas, once again we've arrived at the only nasty time of the year out here in the virtual Garden of Eden where we live, work, and play all the rest of the year.

I guess that sounds kind of whiny, doesn't it? To live in such a lush tropical rain forest complete with an unbelievable variety of birds, exotic vegetation, and wonderful fruit...and then to have the audacity to complain when Harmattan arrives?  What is wrong with us!!!