Hey, Ken, welcome back!
I am sure you will get to love the Arizona sun and warmth, and re-learn gardening. I know I did, when I moved from St. Louis to Denver and then to Houston. You'll get the hang of it.
We do have at least one other member in Aridzona, so hopefully s/he'll pop up and give some tips.
Isn't it funny how foods that we take for granted are NOT cross-country? When I lived in Denver, no one had a CLUE what okra was, and down here in the south, even with the Texas cattle industry, Rocky Mountain oysters are unheard of. I have to go back to Dego Hill in St. Lo to get good good Italian, and it's also St. Lo for White Castle hamburgers and gooey butter cake. One grocery chain here even had "St. Louis style gooey butter cake" a decaed or two ago, and it was pretty good, too. But it didn't last more than a year or two.