Front Yard Update

Our front yard was looking a little bare compared to all our neighbors. It just didn't have that desert feel! When we were building the house, we asked about the desert landscape upgrade and our sales rep told us it was a few more rocks. We didn't know that meant a dry river bed, more plants, etc... so we said, no thanks.

We wanted oor yard to reflect the desert so we called the company who created our backyard, Kokopelli Landscaping, and they created a beautiful front yard for us. You can see the dry river bed, some beautiful red rock boulders, a huge blue agave, and a rather large Joshua tree (really a type of yucca. They incorporated this around the large tree (don't know what it is) out front. We love the results.

Our First Golf Outing

We finally have golf clubs. Neil was able to get a good deal on a set that was in stock at the local golf shop, Ready Golf, and Mike at the shop ordered mine and gave me a better price than anything we found online. We used them for the first time last night when we went up to the local recreation area, about 1.5 miles from our house, to the driving range. This isn't just amy driving range. It is the place they built specifically for the Remax Long Drive Championship Finals. The finals will be held next month, watch it on ESPN on Christmas Day, so currently, the park is opened as a driving range on Tuesday and Thursday evenings.

The box for my clubs reads: Combines modern technologies with inspired designs for maximum playability to heklp women play a better game. Well, last night that wasn't true. Using my driver and 7 wood it looked more like I was playing croquet than golf. Neil was hitting great. See the big light polls in the photo? He was even able to hit one!

The park is beautiful and the scenery is absolutely gorgeous. There is a small 5 hole, flat course in town; it was a nine hole but four of the holes got washed out. That is where we will play out first real golf course, golf.

I have included pics of our clubs. I really like mine and they are very pretty!

55th Birthday

We had a very busy weekend celebrating my birthday. On Friday, we went to St. George, Utah for the Dixie Round Up Rodeo. It was Tough Enough to Wear Pink night and almost the whole outdoor arena was in pink. The picture you see is one of the acts between rodeo events, the Texas Thunder. These beautiful horses weigh 2000 lbs. each.

We went to a local farm, Bundy Farm in Riverside, to get some fresh melons. I will write more about this after our next visit when the Cassaba Melons are ripe. We took the river road home, and if you look across the river you will see a few of the many cows that are on the farm. I included this picture because the farm is about 9 miles from our house and I wanted you all to see that there is green and water in the desert.


Neil bought me a cake and picked out the candles. I am glad he remembered how old I am! If you look closely, you can see the "Awesome Aunt" sticker that Aydan sent to me, Thanks, Aydan. We had cake at home before we went out to dinner at our favorite restaurant, Katherine's at the Casablanca Casino. Mona Lisa, in DaVinci Diamonds, gave me a great birthday gift!

Our Neighborhood

We live in the Saddle Horn neighborhood located within the Sun City Mesquite community. When we drive home, these waterfalls are the first thing we see in our community.

Every day when we drive south down our street, we get this beautiful view of the Virgin Mountains. Currently, we are sitting out on the patio, it is about 92, a very light breeze, and the sun is just setting. Life is good!

We Have Arrived

Well, we have been here for two weeks. The house if finally starting to take shape as all of our boxes are unpacked. Let me see if I can capture what has happened during the two weeks.

Sheila and Linda come with us on the plane so all three cats could fly in the cabin. The Saturday night flight was very uneventful for the cats however, Sheila has a tale to tell. Ask her next time you see her. When we landed, Sheila and Linda took a cab to the MGM Grand and Neil, I, and Jerome, Flagstaff, and Sedona took a limo to Mesquite. When I ordered the limo, I was assuming it was a van; much to our surprise, it was a stretch limo. We got inside, with the cats, and drove off from McCarren Airport to Mesquite. Of course, I had to push all of the buttons on our control panel. We noticed one of the lights went out on one of them...long story short, I had kept pressing the button which operated the screen between the driver and passengers. I guess I irritated our driver as he locked the button so I would stop pushing it!! Now wait, it gets better.

Neil and I realized that we would not have a vehicle until later on Sunday, so we needed to make a stop at the store for some essentials. Well, in Worcester we would have our choice of several stores; Mesquite is small town USA so we had 1 option, you guessed it, Walmart. I only wish I had a picture to accompany this part---- we had the driver pull into the Walmart parking lot. Do you think he could have parked a little bit away from the door? Nope. He drove right up to the front door and jumped out to open my door. Yup, we had arrived in Mesquite!!

On Sunday, around 5, we received a call that our vehicles were about 5 miles away. After 5 days, they made it here safely. Kudos to Ginger from Moonlite Transport who found John our driver.

Sheila and Linda, after a bout with food poisoning, took the shuttle to Mesquite. I met them at the Casablanca hotel Monday morning. Of course we had to play the machines for a little bit, I borrowed a 20. from Linda and turned it into a quick 75. Thanks,. Linda. Later that night I won another 210. Linda's luck at the casino rubbed off. When are you coming back??

We all went to Zion National Park with Neil and had lunch at Oscar's in Springdale. It was beautiful. We even helped out an elderly couple who were trying to find their way to the shuttle!

The next day, when we drove Sheila and Linda back to Vegas, was sad. I know I will see them again, but it was finally real to me that I would no longer be a part of the Worcester Public Schools. I will write more about this on October 1.

The next ten days were a whirlwind of getting the house in order. All of the "stuff" contained in the three relo-cubes was delivered on Friday, August 28. It is finally all unpacked.

We have done more to our backyard, see the fountain, including purchasing our new patio set, 2 large beautiful pots, and gas grill. The desk to set up the office is coming on Tuesday.

Thanks for reading, and I will provide more frequent updates.