This is a world of extremes.
Here it is sun or rain - - seldom much in between. Fortunately Hot without the cold.
Things grow or they don't - especially the things you are trying to grow - the scrawny sage and rosemary is struggling not be join the previous 4 attempts in plant heaven. Meanwhile the little hot pepper plant we grew from seeds - it is taking over the herb garden and turning into a tree.
The peppers are REALLY HOT and we are overrun with them - time to start a hot sauce business.
Then there are the mundane things - electricity - you have it or you don't - like the water!
Or the printer - - it prints wonderfully, but the scanner has decided it is on strike - the microwave works, but the exhaust fan is exhausted.
Lisle is busily painting the exterior lights that were once black and are now white - bleached by the sun/salt.
Fortunately no surprises that we can't handle.