When we first arrived in Green Valley most of the "snowbirds" had migrated home, so we found the streets easy to manoeuvre, the grocery stores uncrowded, and if you wanted to eat out--piece of cake. We would sit out on our patio and watch the clouds from the monsoon roll in with not a car or walker (people in Green Valley don't jog) 
going by to disturb the quiet. Then the "birds" started to return; the streets are now crowded and at some intersections it seems you may be there for hours waiting to make a left hand turn; the grocery store--forget about just running in and out to pick up one item; and eating out, well we just don't do it much. They tell us (and we're not sure how accurate it is) that the summer population in Green Valley is about 35,000 and in the winter after the return of the flocks it's about 70,000.
But along with the bad comes the good. The friends we met here in April are all back now, and it is drinks or dinner at someone's house almost every other afternoon (here in Green Valley we start eating and drinking about 4 or 4:30 so we can be home by 7 at the latest). Most of the people we know have to be home to watch "Dancing with the Stars".
October was a busy month. First Jean Hanson and her husband from Twin Falls came down and spent the night with us. Then the next weekend my brother Kent and Lesley came down from Casa Grande. We went to dinner at Cliff and Shirley's and went shopping to Tubac. We had a great time.
Then two friends from high school, Nancy Marcum and Cheryl Furman, who now live in the Phoenix area came to see us. We talked and told stories and had a great time.
And finally October came to a close; on Halloween evening we had a dinner party with 11 people in attandance. We had a good evening of dinner and visiting. And best of all no jumping up and down to the door for trick-or-treaters.
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