School starts again today for the kids.  In the desert it is still summer and if you went to one of these old local schools you remember how miserable it was.  It was hot and there as no AC or very poor AC systems.  The response from the teachers was that others had it worse before us.  A lot of new nice schools were built during the building boom so fortunately a lot of kids will be going to nice schools.  I remember going to school past the date palm groves and I remember the date palms on campus and most of all I remember the damn mosquitoes.  There were a lot of mosquitoes and in fact there is a special government entity that is responsible for mosquito control.  Judging by the looks of the date palms, the schools were very old, the date palms were still producing dates, but they were very tall.  The date palms were probably around 50-70 years old.  The school was probably the same age.  I resented the date palms, because the date palm is not as broad as a nice shade trees, so there was not a whole lot of shade.

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