By the Mexican border

A little update with some pics of
my dad & Jean's new house they recently finished building.




















Very spacious!

Just like the surrounding land here in Southern Arizona!

Yes, this is living I must say.































I'm staying here for a week with Roxi their new property monitor. She's quite capable of spanning the perimeter for unwanted coyotes who have been so inclined to leave half eaten deer laying around. The fence around the property has been to the coyotes advantage in cornering, or perhaps confusing the deer.

This is a view of the outside of the house. The front entrance and the garage.

I'm standing in the back yard far enough back to get the whole house in the photo. It's quite a bit larger then it appears in this picture!

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Deviant Art

Apartment Kitchenette

This is a shot of the downstairs apartment kitchenette.















You may remember the infamous bathroom sink located in the kitchen.
You can see out the window now! :)









Add a stove and a fridge and this could very well be a nice area to cook,
eat, and blow dry your hair before work! ha

Hallway & Faux Job

The outlined cupboards here are a sort of tie in from the living room.
The wall color is the same, except I lightened it a bit.














It was hard to get a good shot of the whole bathroom
because it's pretty small. But there's no denying that is as bubblegum pink as I've ever
seen!








The inside of the shower is just the base color. The window in the shower is pink.



I decided to make the colors kind of girlie girl. Thanks to my friend Tina who told me when she bought her own home that she was going to decorate her bathroom as girlie as she wanted because in the past she was always trying to consider the present boyfriend at the time and would make it more manly. Well that sounded too familiar.

Cave Living

This living room presented a new challenge. The room reminded me of A cave before I started.
The ceiling and walls were (are) rounded. Back in the day they plastered on hard wire mesh. So no wood frame, no corners.






The focal wall in the living room. Now when I walk in I know right away there's a fireplace!












This window would make a great window seat! The edge I added on the ceiling makes the room look less round. It opened it up a lot.




I also like the mantle accentuated by two different colors. It seems more regal. This is why the keeper of the castle is above it on the mantle!

The Last Empire: China's Pollution Goes Global

The Link below is an article I came across while on StumbleUpon.com I have felt for some time that we the United States were creating a monster so to speak with our consumerism and insistence on affordability. I am as guilty of this as anyone. Perhaps my posting of this article will in a small way contribute to your awareness of a very real, urgent, immediate situation looming across the Globe. Our Globe.



http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/01/the-last-empire.html