It’s been a long time since I’ve blogged! So much going on in my life. 2015 hit with a bang and is continuing to pass way too fast. Not that I’m complaining. All is well.
So what have I been up to? I’ve been writing, lots. (Got stuck right now, which is probably why I’m blogging). And of course, writing comes between my real job (the one that pays the bills) and my real job has been busy busy. I’ve also been working on and planning a minor house remodel. And I’ve been saving kittens! (More on that at a later date).
Right now, I’m at a research point in my writing. I’m so used to Texas law that during the flow of my writing, I sometimes forget that California law is different. First off, once you turn seventeen in Texas, you are considered an adult if you commit a crime. Any crime. Not so in California. Unless it’s a heinous crime, seventeen is still a minor. However, in Texas, you cannot visit a prisoner alone if you are not at least eighteen. This research came because a seventeen-year old male was heading to prison to visit his father, and I realized his mother must join him. But they are in California, so I had to make sure California law was the same (it is when it comes to prison visits and age).
The weather has been frightful! I’m missing the sunshine, but the rain has been vital to us in the Texas drought. And I know our weather has been minor in comparison to other states. I was thinking about sunshine the other day and looking up the annual amount of sunshine and found out my area has about 220 days of sunshine. That means 145 days of cloudy skies! Whew, that’s a lot, especially to someone who loves the sun. That averages out to over two weeks a month. And really, since some months aren’t really cloudy, it’s usually way more than two weeks. When it’s two weeks straight, that’s when I start to go a little bonkers.
So when I started looking up annual sunshine, I found that Colorado Springs, Colorado averages 247 days of sunshine. That’s only 27 more days than Texas, but when you really think of it, it’s almost an entire month! California’s annual sunshine, depending on where you are in California (Los Angeles Downtown vs. Los Angeles Airport was a difference of 30 days according to this website: http://www.currentresults.com/Weather/California/annual-days-of-sunshine.php) Anyway, Downtown Los Angeles was 292 days! That’s almost 2 extra months of sunshine than Texas.
If you look at this chart, http://www.currentresults.com/Weather/US/average-annual-state-sunshine.php, Nevada has the highest amount of sunshine, followed closely by Grand Junction, Colorado (where my sister moved, who keeps telling me it almost always shines there). The lowest is of course Alaska, followed closely by Syracuse, New York! The sunshine state of Florida averages 66%. That doesn’t seem accurate, LOL!
So that’s my sunshine research, probably because I’m missing it terribly right now. Hope everyone is staying warm and well, maybe I’ll blog again in the near future. Until then, I’ve got more writing to do!