Archive for October, 2009

could i be sensative to the paranormal?

Posted by admin on Oct 31, 2009 under Arizona Desert Landscaping


I’m a newbie and apologize in advance if this is too long. I believe I’ve had someone or thing following me for years now. I don’t know if it’s more than one but never felt scared of it. Sometimes it seems as if something else is around me, but scary. As of early last year I have seen "things" and can’t explain the "animal" my ex and I hit in Vail, Arizona about two years ago.
He worked for the newspaper.We just left a gas station heading for the next stop.It was raining that night and I was paying attention to the road,I noticed a car in the distance coming towards us in the opposite lane.Something caught my attention and I looked to the left of us and noticed a huge "animal" walking into the road.I thought it was a dog. (The houses are few and far in between and there’s nothing but desert landscape and bushes and new housing developments.)The car I saw was coming closer and I told my ex that the "animal" was going to get hit and to be careful. The car missed it and the "animal" made it to the middle of the road. It was walking non Galant like no one or nothing was around. As it crossed over into our lane I braced myself because we were going to hit it. Right before we hit the "animal" it looked right into my eyes.I felt to scared and uncomfortable.The hair on its body was like that of a wet dog but sticking straight up all over, wet, and kind of thick and wiry. It stood taller than the hood of my exes truck. (At that time he had a 2000 Dodge Dakota.)From the time it crossed in front of us and till my ex stopped it was like slow motion.We ended up pulling over to check ourselves, the truck, and the "animal".My ex got out his road flash light and went to see if the "animal" was ok.He came back checked out the truck and said we should go "now". When we got to our next stop I asked him what was wrong.He said the grill had hair and blood on it and the front and bottom of the bumper, and that the "animal’ was gone when he went to check.He couldn’t find a blood trail leading down the small ditch into the desert. To this day we still don’t know what it was that we hit.We hit it with such force that we ended up breaking down because the radiator was cracked.I don’t think it could walk away without leaving a trail of some kind.From that day on when we were on the route we would see coyotes everywhere and they always seemed to stare at us.That is also when we learned I was pregnant with our first child and we’ve had problems with our relationship ever since. If you have an idea or thought on this please get back to me…I’d appreciate it and Thank You

It helps if you make paragraphs in a long post…. Right now, it’s such a massive block of text most people can’t even get through it ! (sorry, I just couldn’t) Break it up and post again, you might get more answers.

az landscaping

Posted by admin on Oct 29, 2009 under Arizona Landscape Companies


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Phoenix Arizona Home For Sale, AZ Real Estate Video Tour

Posted by admin on Oct 29, 2009 under Phoenix Pool landscaping


Contact Ronda Van Arsdale with Sunbelt Realty at 602-451-2346 for more information. Charming Arcadia remodel.11,000+ square foot corner lot.Office w/ built-in shelves.A tiled bonus room leads to the newly designed backyard.Home boasts an eat-in gourmet kitchen with Corian counter tops, formal living & dining room.Open floor plan perfect for family living.Upgrades: hardwood flooring,Tuxtex Designer carpeting,Pella doors to backyard,Italian tile and travertine in the bathrooms & plantation shutters.Master bed features 2 walk-in closets w/ built-in shelves.Laundry room includes large shelved pantry and extra storage space.Sparkling 25,000 gallon fenced Pebble Tec diving pool w/waterfall & Baja step highlights a landscaped backyard.Scottsdale Schools.

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Arizona landscaper builds desert ponds

Posted by admin on Oct 29, 2009 under Arizona Desert Landscaping

Arizona landscaper talks about desert ponds and how they work. Beautiful pons in the video.

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Jordan’s Landscaping-Landscape Design in Sedona AZ

Posted by admin on Oct 29, 2009 under Arizona Landscape Design

For gorgeous Landscape Design in Sedona AZ, check out Jordan’s Landscaping. We offer Stone Work, Yard Maintenance, and more. So call for quality you can trust. PH:928-451-9834

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Part 10 Swimming Pool Design ( CLOSING )

Posted by admin on Oct 29, 2009 under Unique Landscape And Pool Design

A small series of videos to help the average person take on the task of having a custom designed swimming pool built. Weighing the pros and cons of hiring a company verses sub contraction the work themselves.

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How dangerous is our southern border and who is coming across?

Posted by admin on Oct 29, 2009 under Arizona Desert Landscaping

With so many other nations coming across the southern border, how do we know who is exactly coming in?

Are these other nations posing a threat to our country?

What should be done about these other nations and mexico sneaking them into the U.S.?
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nation and world
Border patrol sees sharp rise in number of Chinese caught in desert
At least 261 have been caught trying to cross from Mexico into the U.S., officials say.
By Sebastian Rotella
Los Angeles Times
Posted: 10/06/2009 01:00:00 AM MDT

NOGALES, Ariz. — Amid an overall drop in arrests of illegal immigrants crossing the U.S-Mexico border, an intriguing anomaly has cast a new light on human smuggling: Authorities report an almost tenfold spike in the number of Chinese people caught in the Arizona desert, the busiest smuggling corridor on the international line.

The Border Patrol in the Tucson sector has arrested at least 261 Chinese border-crossers this year, compared with an annual average of 32 during the last four years, officials said.

"They are the main (non-Mexicans) we catch," said field operations supervisor Juventino Pacheco of the patrol’s international liaison unit in Nogales. "Lately we have been catching more Chinese than Central Americans."

When agents find Chinese migrants — hiding in gulches, perhaps, or huddled in smugglers’ vehicles — they often request help from Dean Delap, the sector’s only Mandarin-speaking agent. He taught and studied in China, but had not expected that to prove valuable in Nogales.

"Some are cooperative," Delap said. "Some are scared. They’ve just been arrested, they are in a new place. I put them at ease."

Chinese remain a small fraction of the overall number processed at the Nogales station — which guards 31 miles abutting Nogales, Mexico.

The Tucson sector, where the Nogales station is located, recorded about 226,000 apprehensions this year. That is a 24 percent decline from the last fiscal year — reflecting the impact of the U.S. economic crisis and tougher border enforcement, officials said.

The great majority of those arrested were Mexicans. Chinese belong to a category known in the Border Patrol as OTMs: other than Mexicans.

And they are big business for smuggling gangs that increasingly have overlapped with Mexico’s violent drug mafias.

Mexicans typically pay smugglers about $1,500 for help crossing the sun-seared landscape, which is as dangerous as it is majestic. The fees for Central Americans and South Americans often reach $6,000. A group of Haitians, intercepted a few years ago in Tucson after three nights spent hiking in circles in a canyon, had coughed up $10,000; another $10,000 was to have been paid upon arrival in the Chicago area.

The Chinese — nearly all of them from Fujian province — pay the most. They often have to work off debts of $30,000 to $70,000 over several years as indentured servants in the sweatshops and kitchens of New York and other cities.

Sophisticated Asian mafias organize intricate journeys to the U.S.

A typical route leads from Beijing to Rome to Caracas, Venezuela, to Mexico City to the border, according to Matthew Allen, chief agent of the Phoenix office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

"It’s much more elaborate" than smuggling Latin Americans, Allen said. "Waiting in hotel rooms, calls on cellphones, code words. … The trend (in increased arrests) stands out as apprehensions are going down overall."

But the uptick in arrests of Chinese does not necessarily reflect a major influx from that country, officials said. Statistical barometers are imperfect.

High-priced smugglers are better at dodging defenses, so it’s hard to assess the correlation between arrests, crossing rates and the number who succeed in illegally immigrating.

Asian smugglers favor air routes, exploiting visa policies for Chinese travelers in Ecuador, Honduras and Venezuela, which are hubs for their travel to Mexico, officials said.
http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_13494389#

226,000 border arrests this year!?.. and only on one stretch of the border,..SHOCKING!!..makes you wonder who & how many GOT THROUGH..?..( feel sorry for the poor Chinese for going through such trouble & getting ripped off by dumber Mexican smugglers.) Those smugglers should be hanged on border fence posts, as examples to others…..With so many undesirables, undocumented pouring into U.S. who gets in?-Every kind of lowlife, criminal, and leech..from Muhamad the bomb maker, to Manuel the pedophile, to 100 year old abuela Juanita with sick kidneys to welsh off of U.S. health care system, and get free hospital care…Appalling, never before in history has there been done corruption & betrayal of a country & its people, by any government, as is being done now by U.S. politicians to U.S. citizens.

swimming pools arizona

Posted by admin on Oct 27, 2009 under Arizona Landscape Companies

http://www.creativeenvironments.com – swimming pools arizona. Get the outdoor environment youve always dreamed of having with Arizona landscape design services from Creative Environments, one of Arizona’s largest and most respected landscape design companies. We have spent over fifty years refining a streamlined process that delivers the very best in award winning design, quality construction and unparalleled customer service. We specialize in unique custom landscaping, fireplaces, fire pits, custom barbecues, outdoor kitchens, spectacular waterfalls and water features, fountains, ambient and walkway lighting, specialty rocks and boulders, decorative retaining walls and fences, natural flagstone, no-maintenance irrigation and more. Whatever it is you’re dreaming about – we can do it!

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Beautiful 4BR/2BA Cave Creek Home by Phoenix Homes Team

Posted by admin on Oct 27, 2009 under Phoenix Pool landscaping

Upgraded throughout and MOVE IN READY! Walk up to a flagstone courtyard and enter a home of designer upgrades. This home has it all. A desired floor plan with natural light throughout. Cherry cabinets encompass the kitchen with GE appliances and granite counter tops. The home has tile in all the right places with decor pillars, a two way fireplace, bay windows, plant shelves and vaulted ceilings. Other highlights include Decor light fixtures & ceiling fans, surround sound throughout, 2” wood faux blinds, Plantation Shutters and much more. French doors open you to a back yard oasis with professional landscaping, a B/I BBQ, Kiva gas fireplace, putting green and inviting pebbletec play pool with waterfall. Truly an entertainers delight. Your buyers won’t be disappointed. Welcome home.

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Obama’s Inauguration…driving through Arizona.

Posted by admin on Oct 27, 2009 under Arizona Desert Landscaping

Driving from Kingman, AZ to Flagstaff, AZ on January 20, 2009. This is the scenery along the way. (The opening shots are from Fountain Hills, AZ.)

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