Yes, we had Rain in the Ranch

The number I have is 1.15 inches at our dairy just to the east of Power Road, from Saturday until it stopped raining. So you can certainly turn off those yard sprinklers for a week.

I have another number - 79

As in, the Salt and Verde Lake system is at 79% of capacity. That is up 8% is a couple of days and up from 61% as of last year at this time. So water for the valley is in good shape for now. More than that, I was in the Rim country this last weekend, and there is enough snow there that I am convinced we are going to go to 100% and they will be letting water down the Salt River through town for a while.

So what does a person do with a river that has water in it?

Rain in the Ranch

I am just sure someone out there is as intrigued with the weather as I am. To that person, I apologize for not getting out the rain readings from last weekend until now. The storm total was .59 inches, most of it on Monday. The mountains got a good amount of snow as well, so I am hopeful that the lakes will be completely full by the end of spring runoff. We will all wait and see.

Big League Dreams Grand Opening

Several people heard about the grand opening. Do you think they read about it on the blog?


Yes, they had teams playing games for the grand opening.

Three kids playing around on the grounds.


As I said, several people heard about the event. This picture does not begin to do justice to how many cars were in the parking lot.

You probably know this but...

Most Christmas trees are gone now, but if you held on to Jan 6th and this weekend is the time, but you don't drive up Higley Road, then you might want to know that the Town of Gilbert provides a dropoff point for Christmas Trees just north of Morrison Ranch on the west side of Higley Road, just south of the Walgreens.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Grand Opening of Big League Dreams

There will be a public grand opening of Big League Dreams on Saturday from 12 noon to 3pm.

Get the details here

By the way, that is Highland Groves in the back left, and Highland High School straight back.

Something is a little fishy around here

Comments from The Water Expert:

We will need additional visits throughout the weeks when the cold weather is here just to clean up the dead fish. This will be only for Town Center North lake. We did not stock any Tilapia at Highland Groves.

The problem is Tilapia can’t take cold water. So when the water temperature stays below 55 degrees the fish die. Then the birds peck at them and bring them up on shore for food. The upside is Tilapia have a preference for eating duckweed and filamentous alga, they also consume mosquito larvae. So I am willing to tolerate this dieoff a couple of times a year for what they contribute. Plus the dead ones that sink to the bottom are great food for our catfish that are bottom feeders. It’s a nice little system.

Any questions please ask.

So, when you see some dead fish at Town Center Lake, you will understand. We will keep things as cleaned up as possible.

Happy New Year!

We had a great, if quiet, New Year around here. We want blessings for all our readers in 2008.