Today's Visitor

Mr. Roadrunner came by to say hello today.

For Alice

We now have two of the patio tables each with four chairs (apologize for the arrangement of the chairs). One set we are using in our breakfast nook as a dining table for the moment but eventually it will go on the front patio where we can sit in the mornings for breakfast and watch the city lights at night.

Since it does get cold here in the desert we also bought a propane heater to keep us warm and toasty and boy does it put out the heat!

Alice, the chairs are still at my sisters in Phoenix/Avondale but when they come I will post pictures of them just for you!

Still need beds, sofa, dining table, etc. and we are searching but haven't found much that excites us yet - we will eventually!

The process and discoveries

When we started to clean (myself and a couple of great guys we hired to help me) you could not see this rockery or the plants unless you really looked hard.

We transplanted atleast a dozen agaves of which this is an example.

More of the uncovered rockery.

The last two pictures are of a work in process. When we started you could not walk through this area but it was apparent that there were many lovely cacti. My goal is not to landscape this area but to leave it 'desert like' and open enough to walk through. We discovered many small cacti growing here along with some pretty good sized prickly pear and barrel cactus and will encourage them to continue to grow - with the help of spraying once in a while to keep down the grass and other weeds.

In Order of appearance:

A portion of the rockery that surrounds one end of the home that we didn't even realize was there until I was really looking one day. It still needs some more cleaning but it will be lovely when it is finished.

Three barrel cacti in the garden by the guest bedroom.

Purple Prickly Pear - we have a LOT of prickly pear!

The rockery on the street side of our home here.

What could have been called the outback before is now cleaned up and when the monsoons come there will be a raging stream on the right side of the photo.

A few of our garden residents

Fresh Rosemary, Succulents, Our entire crop of Clementines (as least that is what we think they are at this point) and a quite large barrel cactus that we didn't even know was here due to the weed growth around it.