Thank you so much! I swear, after reading this thread and having to read the other one, I should have some kind of a degree in something!
You have a lovely place...look at all the trees! (Unless you’ve lived in the desert you wouldn’t understand my excitement about trees!) We’ve lived all over and when my husband retired we moved back here. Yeah, tell me about the heat! That’s why we’ve been leaving during the summer.
Snow is what I miss the most. Not the shoveling, etc. but just watching it fall.
Thanks again!
I lived in Phoenix for 20 years, but never had a home out in the desert proper. We owned an acre of land in Sun Valley but never lived there; we sold it a couple of years ago.
A friend of mine lived in Cave Creek on a five acre parcel. The house was designed by a student of Frank Lloyd Wright. Someone had come into possession of a couple of boxcars, and they were buried into the hillside, wired and plumbed, and were used as a second residence. They were pretty snug, if rustic. Her husband’s name was Dennis and they boarded horses.
Naturally they named their place the D-Railed Ranch.
This snow today was pretty handy. It fell, made the place look pretty, then it melted off the roads. Now it’s up on the hills where it belongs and won’t bother anyone, hopefully it will seep into the aquifer and let the farmers make peaches out of it next summer.
The pictures are of our mobile which is in a mobile home park. The house is pretty old but hey it’s paid for. So we enjoy it a lot. It’s just 30 miles from Fresno, California.