Our car now matches the motorhome!
Website Est. July 17, 1997
Updated September 2008
INTRO:
Welcome to Kingman, Arizona, we are in the Northwest corner, Zone 7. We do have some great sunsets and sunrises. The purpose of this web page is to introduce you to ponds and gardening; one led to the other. We have quite warm temperatures in the 100's in the summer (but it is a dry heat!) and cool way down for the winter, we actually get snow. Kingman is actually a great place to live. Laughlin, NV, is only 30 miles away to go and gamble at the casino's or just play in the river. We have our own Hualapai Mountains; we go up there and camp during the summer or just spend the day for a picnic. They also just opened a new bike trail that takes you around the back side of the mountains and it is really beautiful back there. It is usually 10-15 degrees cooler up there. California is only 60 miles away if you want to hang out in hot Needles, and Las Vegas is 100 miles away. We go there to shop periodically for fun and we used to go and visit our Air Force daughter (and 5 yr. old grandson) that was stationed at Nellis AFB but right now she is in Korea for a year and our grandson is living with his baby sitter in Las Vegas. We still get him for a few days at a time and visit when we are up there. One son lives in CA and the other son with our 9 yr. old grand daughter lives here in town and so does our other daughter. She has our other two grand daughters who are 4 years and 2 mo. live here in town so easy to visit our grand kids. Our favorite camping is in Williams in the forest and there is also fishing in several lakes. Flagstaff is about 60 miles farther east past Williams and we like to go there also to have dinner and shop if we're in Williams.
My husband and I have been amateur ponders for 17 years. He does all the plumbing and filter building for me. Our first pond was an old horse trough that holds 170 gallons, we still have it and use it for a holding tank when we clean the ponds. We have always talked about building a bigger in-ground pond. We've had many ponds and have taken down and rebuilt several times. I guess we are finally done, I'm really happy with the new one in the back yard and the one in the front is positioned under our bedroom window and it drowns out all night noise. But, who knows? Things always change!
So, sit a spell and cruise through my site. I have ideas for recycling, building filters to flower beds and lots of pictures of my ponds and gardens, with a bit of art and quilting on the side.
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My kitties- left to right: Ginger-long tail, Baby-stubby tail, & Calypso-no tail. Ginger & Calypso were sister & brother. They would have been 3 this year. Baby is 14 this year. This photo is dedicated to Calypso who ingested antifreeze 7/05 and died. Yoda is my black brat, who came to us in 2006 about the same time that Calypso died.
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