Website Est. July 17, 1997
Updated September 9, 2009
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 6 yr. old grandson) that was stationed at Nellis AFB. Now she's in England for 3 years. We miss them both a lot, luckily we get to talk a long time on the phone. She got the unlimited phone plan, except she can't talk over 60 minutes at a time. She can make as many phone calls as she wants but they have to be under 60 minutes each. Our youngest son now lives in Las Vegas, NV, and the other son with our 10 yr. old grand daughter lives here in town and so does our youngest daughter. She has our other two grand daughters who are five and one, 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. Our camping rule is we take the grand kids with us as they get older but they have to be potty trained, no diapers in the motor home
We also have my mom & aunt here in town, two of my sisters also live here and my third baby sister lives in AR. I recently lost my middle youngest sister and now I have custody of her daughter, Stephanie. She is 15 and is getting along very well here so far.
My husband and I have been amateur ponders for 18 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 our very large 2500 gallon back yard pond and will probably never have any more than the one now.
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 pond and gardens, with a bit of art and quilting on the side.
These links are to my web pages.
My kitties- left to right: #1-Trouble-he is part Maine Coon a found kitty in 2007, #2-Ginger left-she's orange tabby, Baby is Manx with a stubby tail-she's going on 14 now, & Calypso-no tail-he was Ginger's brother he has been gone for a couple of years now. #3-Yoda is my black brat, who came to us in 2006 about the same time that Calypso died. He was bottle fed with 2 others and was only 3 oz when I found him.
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RIP - Paula Ann Sixkiller 5-3-1971 to 8-18-2009
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