Merry Christmas
Looking back, 2018 was quite an eventful and costly year for us. It started off with Marco’s triple hernia surgery in February! A little later my mom, Francine, spent 3 weeks with us. Marco took…
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This time of the year
It’s fall, even here in the desert, and we hear from different sources that now is the time to see some fall colors. For us this means that we have to drive to higher elevations…
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Globe – Young Hwy, Apache Trail
We are off to an early start today, leaving the house at 5:30am. Sunrise is at 6:15am and we want to be up in Miami, AZ at dawn. Our friend Randy who grew up in…
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Monsoon Season – Flooding
Monsoon season in southern Arizona starts mid-June and lasts until the end of September. This is when the humidity can raise drastically and one gets to feel how it must be to live in Florida.…
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Mogollon Rim – Woods Canyon Lake, AZ
Marco recently got a tip about Woods Canyon Lake up at the Mogollon Rim. He was told that some Ospreys and Bald Eagles were seen fishing at the lake. And, he also learned that we…
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Arizona Bobcat
We knew that there are bobcats at the Salt River, we have heard from people who saw them and not too long ago Marco met some people who had seen one "just a few minutes…
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Great Horned Owls
On my numerous visits to the Salt River I recently got a hint from Dick and Rick, two snowbirds currently residing at an RV/Mobile Home Park in Mesa, that there is a "Great Horned Owl"…
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Arizona River Otters
On December 8, 2017 we saw our first Arizona river otter at the Salt River (Coon Bluff) - a rare sighting as I can tell. This week I was following a hint from a friend…
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Wonderful morning
As most weekends this winter I went with Marco to the Salt River at Goldfield Rd. When heading towards the sand cliffs to look for javelina and maybe bighorn sheep we came a cross a…
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