(Lyn's note: Please feel free to send us any pictures you'd like included.  If your photos are for sale, let us know and we will put them under that category.  We have a special section for that purpose.  If anyone would like to buy a print of any of Herbert's photos, all profits will be donated to one of the local non-profit organizations.   Here is the link to this week's Pictures of the Week. Enjoy!)

http://carefreeazbusinesses.com/pictures-of-week-2816.html

 

Photo by Herbert Hitchon

 

 

 

 

 

The 2016 Carefree Desert Garden calendars are now available at Carefree Town Hall, 8 Sundial Circle, Carefree, and they are gorgeous! If you like to take pictures, visit the Gardens.  Our entry period for the Carefree Desert Gardens Photo Contest is January.  Your picture could be in the 2017 calendar.

 

 

 

Desert Foothills Chronicle link:

http://www.desertfoothillschronicle.org/

CITYSunTimes link:

http://news.citysuntimes.com/

 

 

 

Our Team Captain, Debbie Campbell, sent this yesterday and I wanted to make certain that you all saw it.  Thank you so much for your love and support!  We take each day as it comes and cherish each day.  Knowing that we have you in our lives makes all the difference to us.  Keep the love, prayers, and positive energy coming our way!  We so very much appreciate and love YOU!

With love and a HUGE hug,

Binka and David

 

 

 

David Schwan's Humanitarian of the Year Award from FCC

https://vimeo.com/152936548?utm_source=email&utm_medium=vimeo-cliptranscode-201504&utm_campaign=29220

 

 

 

Found them! Thank you again for stepping up! I'm so relieved!!

Stacey Bridge-Denzak

(Lyn's note: Stacey's missing dogs)

 

 

 

Reminds me of the friends we used to stay with in PV.  Their two hunting dogs were a German wire-haired pointer and an English water spaniel, or some such (VERY well bred).  When workers didn't close the yard gate properly the dogs would escape.  More than once she'd get a call from the PV cops that her dogs were in jail and she'd have to come and get them out.  (Yes, PV even gives personal attention to wandering dogs.)  The Westie seemed to know he couldn't keep up with the other two, so he stayed home.

Kathy Riemer 

 

 

 

I think I own the inconvenience title!  I didn't tell Susan about your broken toe and tons of stairs.....she was too traumatized.  But some day I'll tell her the hell you went thru to put out her alert, then undo it!!!

She had workers bring a wheelbarrow into her yard, it spooked the new puppy who got out and hid between a storage shed and a wall. Teeny tiny, just a few pounds and very quiet.  I told her she was probably scared and hiding.  Her friend spotted her, same color as the dirt!

Jakki Brooks

(Lyn's note: This one is about the tiny puppy I sent out the email alert about that was lost and then found immediately.)

 

 

 

(Lyn's note: Here is a neat product for people with escape artist pets. This came from a rescue from which we get several of our furkids.  Check out the website if you are interested.  It works using GPS.  Stacey is considering it for her dogs.  Also be sure to get your dogs chipped so they can get safely back to you if found and scanned.)

Katie Wootten

Customer Marketing Manager, Whistle

916-205-0419 // katie@whistle.com

 

 

 

 

(Rattlesnake removal)  Well....old school thinking was to call Rural Metro.  But herpetologists say removing a rattler from its territory is cruel and they frequently starve to death.  So it's suggested you have them move on, on their own, by using a push broom to make short Chish Chish Chish noises.  Don't get too close, just enough that they pick up on that vibration and slither away on their own.  Lee will remove rattlers from interior yard walls, but just release them back out where they belong.  No snakes other than rattlers should be relocated, as they're beneficial (well except the elusive coral, but who ever really sees those?).  Lee has also removed Gila monsters from yards, both those and rattlers are dangerous to dogs for sure, and humans.

Jakki Brooks

 

(Lyn's note: I saw my first rattlesnake of the season today sunbathing on Little Hope Place as I was pulling up to my house.  They are not usually out this soon, but the warm weather brought them out of hibernation early, so be careful when doing yard work around your property and when walking your dogs.)

 

 

What are those two small looking gates along side of each column? That was not in the original design? So two little gateways to remind people that the two columns and arch are a gateway???   That's tacky and implies that the public is not very bright. It would have been better to have a step down low wall extending out from the columns so people could sit. 

Still think that some empty conduits should be into the columns for future speakers on top or for any future use of new technology.

Joe DeVito