My local area has a pronounced wet season and dry season. I put on the fenders around the first of November and take them off sometime in April. It's easy to install the fenders, but I wouldn't want to take them on and off every time it rains.
During tours I use fenders nearly all the time. The only other recent tour to not use fenders was the Columbia Coulee Chelan Circuit tour which was in deserts in the middle of the dry season.

Do you take your fenders on/off, typically? Ours stay on year round. Spoon takes his off though . . . I think fenders are fiddly and difficult to get just right. Mine stay put!

Plus, seeing someone with fenders pretty much identifies them as a tourist. To me. It's like seeing a kindred spirit, even if they don't have panniers.

Just an observation, in case you weren’t aware. If you respond using the Reply option, it will be emailed back to the person you’re replying to; but if you add it as just a new comment, it will not. Your reply to the Grampies is another example.

All county roads in Imperial County have awful pavement. It's an impoverished county.

We weren’t that far away from you on this horrible day! We were in a bar in Silver City, stunned as the election results rolled in, at the end of a tour that began in Tucson - the same tour where we stayed at Dreamcatcher B&B that you’re of course familiar with. https://www.cycleblaze.com/journals/tucson16/to-silver-city/

Good enough. Nice!

This is such an awful road alright. We rode it going the other direction some years back.

Thanks for the kind words. I'm 15 pounds (7 kg) lighter now.

Dodie says she thinks you look just fine. Nice bike too.

Thanks for your expertise!

Brittlebush can flower almost any time there is a little rain. Notice they are only close to the pavement. Water runs off the pavement and soaks into the ground instead of just evaporating off the surface like the surroundings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encelia_farinosa

Datura. A native.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura_wrightii