[T Pat]

I just came in from walking the dog The sky's beautiful, yesterdays rain clouds have passed, replaced with puffy clouds with lots of red and pink highlights, the rain clouds will be back this afternoon to cool things off.
I live in a high desert valley ringed by mountains, the mountain range a quarter mile to the west of us is snow capped most of the winter then stays green all summer long. A huge wilderness area takes up most of the valley it's to the north of us.
The view to the North East is spectacular two high dessert plateaus (John McCain's ranch is behind the first plateau) then the red rocks of Sadona. The Verde River is about a half mile to the east of us.
My wifes Aunt spent two weeks exploring Northern Arizona before deciding on this town, she did good.
I collect rocks for a hobby and the wife and I have probably been to 99 percent of the towns in Northern Arizona looking for rocks in the last three years. We have also spent several days in the Kingman area looking for Arizona fire agate and banded onyx (we have not only seen the beware of wild mule signs we have seen the wild mules in the hills just west of Kingman.)
As much as I like Cottonwood if we were to stay in Arizona we would move up to Payson, the White Mountains are breathtaking.
If you had spent more time exploring Arizona I fucking guarantee Kingman would not be your first choice of towns to relocate to.