Amber, that wonderful smell is proubly creosote.. After a rain the desert comes alive with the smell. Maybe it'll grow on you if you stay long enough, but then again, maybe not.. it's a love it or hate it thing.. Most desert rats love it.. I've lived in the desert most of my life.. Believe me, you live in the Cadillac of American deserts.. Not to hot, not to cold.. Just right. It even rains regularly in the summer.. You are blessed..
The last twenty years I've lived about 50 miles from a little place called Death Valley.. Talk about a place you can really fall in love with... Every 10 years, or so, it rains enough to fill the whole place with color...
I was downtown in my little town the other day when it was 129*f in the shade in Death Valley.. There were bus loads of European tourists on their way to see what hot really means... It's hard not to laugh, but sometimes I do.
ps Amber I have that condensed Scottyballs grow pdf that was uploaded to his thread, then lost. I tried to upload it in a post, but it's too big.. I wonder if I could put in a PM? I've emailed it to several friends, it's your's if you want it..