Thank you ~ I love soup, and I eat it all year round and I live in AZ where the hottest days can be 117 degrees (it's a dry heat) ~ What I find as funny is some have said to me "it is so hot out and you're eating soup??!!!!! While they are holding a cup of hot steamy coffee, mind you I just love soup period, it's great and along time ago I got tired of canned soups so I started making my own and they are so much better ~ though I'll never ever knock canned or boxed soup because I ate them for years, still do, but HOME MADE that is just something else.

I have been to Sedona AZ before "Red Rock" mountains before we really liked it Beautiful place!! The people in AZ are really friendly. I know it's really hot there but it's a dry heat right? 117 wow that's HOT!! I bet you get used to it. I live in Chicago and it gets really cold and you just really have to dress for it. Winters can get really long.... It's defenently "soup" weather in the winter but I eat soup all year round to. I haven't made many home made soups, mostly chili, beef stew.

Thanks again for all the soup recipes.. they all sound so good! Cookie

I ABSOLUTELY love Sedona ~ It, to me, is one of the most beautiful and breath-taking places in the world. I'm originally from NJ and moved to AZ in 1981, I've adapted somewhat but I REALLY MISS THE SEASONS ESPECIALLY AUTUMN my favorite ~ I miss the crisp cool Autumn nights ~ you can smell the Autumn and it's beauty in the leaves colors. I am use to the hotter weather only because no humidity. I'd take NJ weather in a heartbeat of AZ but my family is here and so I stay.

I agree, but I have to admit, I'd rather clean the colorful leaves then still wear shorts in the fall and look at the majority of my view which is desert: brown, light brown, and tan, bits and pieces of white ~ Yes there are trees and greenery but, most people have rock front yards (mostly brown) and green belts are few and far between, once in a while I'd like to see a Red house or a Blue house with front porches: green grass lawns, unique looking houses instead of row houses that are brown or shades of brown ~ reminds me of the mud huts on Gilligan's Island ~ Definitely not saying all of Phoenix is brown but 78% of it is, I just want color in the desert. I WANT SEASONS ~ I'D LIKE A WHITE CHRISTMAS WITHOUT DRIVING TO FLAGSTAFF. I miss NJ