We went grocery shopping today. I bought Asian lilies for the vase on my desk and yellow roses for the vase on the sofa table in the great room. I took one of the roses and put it in a bud vase in the guest bathroom. I love the variegated edges on the petals. Click on the image to enlarge.
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I took this image going through the bottom of a wash just north of US 60 in Wickenburg, AZ. The desert town has lots of washes that eventually flow toward the Hassayampa River.
This APS pole has a flood depth gauge painted on it scaled in feet. At the top of the hill before you drive into the wash there is a warning sign posted by the town that says:
“WHEN FLOODED TURN AROUND - DON’T DROWN.”
Image - Flash Flood Gauge. Click on the image to enlarge.
We have yet to see a gully-washer since we moved here last year. It would be interesting to see this wash during a flash flood but we’ll curb our curiosity and try to stay home when the monsoons come around.
Not much time to put something up, so I’ll just post this funny sign we saw on Saturday at the Sportsmen’s Club. Click to enlarge.
After visiting the Wickenburg Sportsmen’s Club on Saturday, we drove down a road along the east bank of the Hassayampa River. This view shows Vulture Peak in the distance and the river in the foreground. The town is in between the two landmarks. Click on the image to enlarge.
Watching the stock market indices could make you seasick these days. So much for stimulus jobs and economic recovery. It’s more like shipwreckovery. Ramirez nails it again . . .
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Well, not in Washington, D.C. but in Congress, Arizona. We took a drive up SR89 to have a look around the back roads in Congress. This saguaro-covered hillside is about a half mile off the paved roads near the town cemetery. Click on the image to enlarge.
Here’s my simple message to all the mindless freaks “occupying” out there . . .
This is Beethoven (whom we call “Bay Bay”) atop the spa cover. He likes to jump up there to watch the desert critters in the wash next to our house. He sees quail, cottontails, squirrels and jackrabbits. He barks at them and acts like he wants to jump through the screen enclosure to run after them.
Jumping up on the roughly three foot high spa cover is no problem for him. He uses the steps to get up but I’m sure that he could jump on top without them. Our bed is about the same height and he has no problem jumping up there with us when we retire for the evening.
Earlier this week we used the spa and were out drying off when we let the little dogs come out on the patio. Bay Bay decided he would jump up to see what critters were out there and did a splashdown right in the middle of the spa. I quickly fetched him out and had him in a towel within a few seconds. Poor little guy.
I thought that he would be reluctant to jump on the spa cover after the water incident, but he was back at his usual lookout post later the same day. We will now wait until the cover is on before letting him out on the patio from now on. 
Here is a comparison of the appearance of our retirement home one year ago versus today. It is very gratifying to look back at where we were one year ago and compare it to Damsel’s dream retirement home of today. Click on each image to enlarge.
