{"id":245,"date":"2018-01-14T07:51:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T14:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/scorpions-in-january\/"},"modified":"2018-01-14T07:53:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T14:53:36","slug":"scorpions-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/scorpions-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Scorpions in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The great thing about living in Arizona is that while most other areas of the country are complaining about the cold, snow and spending $500 a week on propane to heat the house for someone who really can&#8217;t even ever get warm, we don&#8217;t have those particular complaints.<\/p>\n<p>But as they say &#8220;there must be balance in the Force&#8221;. I bet nobody in Boston killed a scorpion before breakfast this morning.<\/p>\n<p>My wife found this little guy taking a nice nap on the floor in front of our door. I personally didn&#8217;t know scorpions were back sleepers.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"243\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/scorpions-in-january\/img_4497\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_4497.jpg?fit=1964%2C1124&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1964,1124\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_4497\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_4497.jpg?fit=525%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_4497.jpg?resize=525%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-243\" height=\"300\" width=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_4497.jpg?w=1964&amp;ssl=1 1964w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_4497.jpg?resize=300%2C172&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_4497.jpg?resize=768%2C440&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_4497.jpg?resize=1024%2C586&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_4497.jpg?w=1575&amp;ssl=1 1575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I woke him gently with the bottom of my wife&#8217;s fuzzy lined pink Croc&#8217;s I just happened to be sporting and escorted him outside.<\/p>\n<p>So we have 75 degrees while y&#8217;all have snow. But we have scorpions in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great thing about living in Arizona is that while most other areas of the country are complaining about the cold, snow and spending $500 a week on propane to heat the house for someone who really can&#8217;t even ever get warm, we don&#8217;t have those particular complaints. But as they say &#8220;there must be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/scorpions-in-january\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scorpions in January&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-desert-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_4497-1.jpg?fit=1964%2C1124&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8MROt-3X","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14,"url":"https:\/\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/scorpions-are-a-way-of-life\/","url_meta":{"origin":245,"position":0},"title":"Scorpions are a way of life&#8230;","author":"bradschauf","date":"May 30, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"We chose to live in the desert and therefore we choose to live with the consequences. 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