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« Reply #150 on: March 10, 2011, 08:02:33 PM »

Here's where the water comes in -- it came through the pipes that come under the road from the water treatment plant across the street.



Then it comes out of the pipe here. It gets sprayed like this for some technical reason:


Then it goes through these holes to be piped out to the ponds:


Here is a pond:


Here are a male and female blue-winged teal swimming in a pond:


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« Reply #151 on: March 10, 2011, 08:07:10 PM »

The ponds are really nice
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« Reply #152 on: March 10, 2011, 08:09:10 PM »

Listening to a wonderful trio play some modern music by Elle Taaffe Zwilich and Arvo Part. I hope it gets my mind prepped to get back to my paper.
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« Reply #153 on: March 10, 2011, 08:09:26 PM »

The Monarch Scientist is hoping to create an overwintering habitat there.
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« Reply #154 on: March 10, 2011, 08:09:47 PM »

Nice ducks, Laura.
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« Reply #155 on: March 10, 2011, 08:10:42 PM »

The mountain laurel is in bloom here. That means the air smells like Grape Nehi. I love this time of year here.
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« Reply #156 on: March 10, 2011, 08:13:35 PM »

One more:

Then after it goes through all of the cleansing: the chemical treatment, the oxygenation, waterfalls, filtering down through the layers of sand, etc., it is piped out to the Gila River bed to create a natural riparian habitat.



The natural riverbed is down where the trees are.

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« Reply #157 on: March 10, 2011, 08:14:07 PM »

The mountain laurel is in bloom here. That means the air smells like Grape Nehi. I love this time of year here.

I have one of those in my yard, John. I am waiting for it to bloom for the first time. I love it.
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« Reply #158 on: March 10, 2011, 08:23:09 PM »

I would love to have your "ugly" tile....the previous owners of this house covered the walls of my kitchen  (well of course it was their kitchen then) with gradated brown tile - it is dreadful... and we have an very ugly yellow formica counter top which has been well used as a cutting board
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« Reply #159 on: March 10, 2011, 08:25:31 PM »

thank you for the pictures from your field trip Laura!
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« Reply #160 on: March 10, 2011, 08:25:33 PM »

Vixmom, I had a very ugly yellow formica counter that had been used as a cutting board too. Wonder if your former owners were related to my former owners
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« Reply #161 on: March 10, 2011, 08:26:02 PM »

I must admit of all the changes I've made to this house.  New countertops made me the happiest.   
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« Reply #162 on: March 10, 2011, 08:26:42 PM »

DR Laura, thank you for showing the photos.  It's really very cool the way they created a habitat.  I take any sarcasm back from my previous statement...you really do have an exciting life!
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« Reply #163 on: March 10, 2011, 08:28:20 PM »

LOL, Cillaliz!
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« Reply #164 on: March 10, 2011, 08:29:47 PM »

I have been wanting countertops for 30 years. I save all year and make one home-improvement.

Last year's project wasn't too expensive: I refinished the interior doors. Sometime before that, I refinished the kitchen cabinets.

The roof, pipes, and windows weren't exciting. The backyard makeover was fun. And the countertops will make such a difference in the appearance of my tiny kitchen.
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« Reply #165 on: March 10, 2011, 08:30:12 PM »

And, the more we spend on home-improvements, the more the value of the house goes down!
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« Reply #166 on: March 10, 2011, 08:31:05 PM »

The cats saved the day.
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« Reply #167 on: March 10, 2011, 08:31:34 PM »

Holy moley on rye - another 125 posts or so and I hit a rather magnificent new plateau.
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« Reply #168 on: March 10, 2011, 08:33:42 PM »

And, the more we spend on home-improvements, the more the value of the house goes down!

LOL!
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« Reply #169 on: March 10, 2011, 08:34:11 PM »

Holy moley on rye - another 125 posts or so and I hit a rather magnificent new plateau.

well start postin' boyo!!
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« Reply #170 on: March 10, 2011, 08:34:25 PM »

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« Reply #171 on: March 10, 2011, 08:38:35 PM »

Yuck!  They are doing a story on cyclic vomiting syndrome on the news.  Do I really need to hear this?
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« Reply #172 on: March 10, 2011, 08:39:37 PM »

They're talking on TV about using an ice bath to lose weight.
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« Reply #173 on: March 10, 2011, 08:40:26 PM »

The ice bath sounds better than vomiting while cycling.
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« Reply #174 on: March 10, 2011, 08:42:02 PM »

the southpark guys  are on Jon Stewart talking about their Book of Mormon


Did you go see this FJL?

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« Reply #175 on: March 10, 2011, 08:42:13 PM »

CYCLIC VOMITING ON THE GROUND - my slacker update of BREAKING AWAY
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« Reply #176 on: March 10, 2011, 08:42:57 PM »

vixmom - haven't seen it yet.
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« Reply #177 on: March 10, 2011, 08:46:13 PM »

The ice bath sounds better than vomiting while cycling.

They called it an abdominal migraine or intestinal migraine or something.  Chandra Wilson's daughter has it.  Did I really need to know this?
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« Reply #178 on: March 10, 2011, 08:49:37 PM »

I'm surprised someone hasn't done a comedy routine on all the goofy things the Wisconsin Senate could pass while the Democrats are in Illinois.  Not commenting on the real issue, butsince  they only need the supermajority on budget bills, they could make all kinds of goofy proclamations, laws etc and they'd pass.   
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« Reply #179 on: March 10, 2011, 08:49:51 PM »

Cillaliz, Now sounds like a good time to turn off the tv and go to hulu.com and watch an old Dick Van Dyke Show episode.
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