Nuestra Casa gets a facelift

Nuestra Casa, our home in Mesa, is in the middle of a vast desert.  In fact, the entire Phoenix metropolitan area was once a desert filled with scrub brush, creosote, tumbleweeds, rattlesnakes and scorpions.  Man has tamed the desert, but the desert is winning and having the last laugh, due to a decades-long drought.

For this reason, all of the Southwest, including Arizona, has needed to cut back on its water use. In fact, Arizona is using less water than it did 60 years ago, despite a massive population increase.

One way that Leisure World has decreased our water usage is to water only golf fairways, not the grass surrounding the fairways. This has affected us, since back of our home Nuestra Casa is a vast expanse of the golf course.  Hence, the grass behind our home has been slowly dying the last few years.

Eight years ago when we moved here we planted gardens….and now our beautiful cacti and blossoming gardens totally surround our home.  It has become a virtual Garden of Eden.  

This  Garden of Eden is now surrounded by dead grass!

But since we live in such a special community, the Leisure World amazing landscapers had a solution.  They installed four water bubblers on the edge of our property….

They spent a few weeks watering the area of dead grass, to let the nearby grass roots rejuvenate….

Then these hardworking men cut out the area of damaged grass, and yesterday they installed sod!

Doesn’t it look beautiful!

It’s simply wonderful to live in such a friendly, well-run community. We love it….and now we once again live in a Garden of Eden!