We just took the dogs out for their last evening walk. The sky was very colorful but I did not have my camera. Bob had his little pocket Canon A1400 and managed to get a pretty good shot of this nice summer sunset. Click on the image to enlarge.
August 2013
Cabela’s Fifth Birthday
Cabela is officially five years old today. She is a royal blue miniature Pinscher. She was born on August 4, 2008 and weighs fifteen pounds. We adopted her from the Wickenburg Humane Society where she lived for a couple of weeks after being rescued while running around at the rodeo grounds.
Cabela loves to eat, play and sleep. She has been with our household for three years now, and seems to be happy and healthy. Sometimes she gets a little feisty, but that is her way of playing. She loves to chase her squeaky toys when the we throw them for her. She likes to play keep away with her toys. She will run around the coffee table and jump up on the sofa and love seat to keep the toys away from us if we chase her.
We lost our big girl, Bear, several weeks ago, but we still enjoy having Cabela and Beethoven as our household pets. They are both very smart, very demanding and always entertaining companions.
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Red Bird of Paradise
The Red Bird of Paradise shrubs in my courtyard are all fully producing my favorite desert flower. Also known as The Pride of Barbados, these shrubs are common in most urban and semi urban desert areas in California and Arizona.
The shrubs in my courtyard seem to produce the flowers later in the season as compared to the Phoenix Metro area, so I am always glad when they start coming out. This is one of about twenty flower stalks currently in bloom here. Click on the image to enlarge.
Asian Lilies
The vase on the sofa table has these beautiful Asian lilies this weekend. I borrowed a couple of them and took them over to Mom at the ranch to brighten up her room. Click on the image to enlarge.
Irrigation Glitch
As if it weren’t already a busy-ass week for us, the landscape irrigation system controller decided to go belly-up on us. I called out the landscape guys who showed up and removed the defective controller. They are supposed to bring back a replacement tomorrow.
Meanwhile, if we want our landscape to be watered, manual irrigation is in order. The guys from the landscape contractor showed me a couple of controls in the box with the electrical valves where I could manually open the water lines to the irrigation system.
I waited until the sun is low in the western sky to start the flow so the sun won’t evaporate the water before it has a chance to sink in. We had the controller set up to water twice a day, once before sunup and once after sundown. I’m just going to run the water for a couple of hours and turn it off for the rest of the evening. I hope the guys show up in the morning and restore things back to normal. Click on the image to enlarge.