When you live in Arizona there are certain concessions I guess you have to make.  Dealing with the heat would be a major one.  However, living with scorpions is not one I am willing to make.  I know they are around but I have never really had to deal with them at all.  I lived in Tucson for over 5 years and never saw one.  I did find one in my last house here in Phoenix that I lived in nearly 2 years, but it was dead and I have found it in my washer (ewww).  I try not to think about how I may have picked it up live in my dirty clothes and transported it to the washer myself.  My parents lived in their last house for two years and never encountered one.  Well now they are in another house and my sister found on tonight.  Needless to say she freaked out.  It was one of those light colored ones, almost clear color and on a beige floor.  We are lucky she saw it at all.  She found it in the kitchen.  We had just finished dinner.  We all had been walking around barefoot or in stocking feet all day/evening.  Where the hell did it come from and how long has it been here before we found it??  There are like seven dogs (I’ve lost count) and two cats in this house.  A lot of good they did us huh?  There are just some things I don’t want to deal with and scorpions are one of them.  Ok, tarantulas are worse but in all my time in AZ I have never seen one of those, except in a cage.  I still have the willies.  Thank heaven my bed is way up off the floor.  I do not want to find his friends in my bed.