{"id":54,"date":"2016-05-24T03:33:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T03:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brainimplosion.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2016-05-24T03:48:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T03:48:04","slug":"welcome-aboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brainimplosion.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/24\/welcome-aboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Aboard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally my first post.\u00a0 So first of all let me welcome you to Quantum Planet.<\/p>\n

Desert Life for Me<\/strong><\/p>\n

Living in the desert is a humbling experience.\u00a0 So much open space, it’s like entering a new planet all on it’s own.\u00a0 We first moved here in 2006.\u00a0 We are surrounded by a 360 degree view of mountains.\u00a0 The desert is a place that will take your breath away.\u00a0 Most people who have not lived in this desert might picture it as a land barren of life and nothing but sand to see for miles and miles.\u00a0 This is so far from true.\u00a0 There is so much life in the desert.\u00a0 Flora and Fauna that is\u00a0my desert.<\/p>\n

We have lots of plant life here and if you come in the spring the wildflowers are just waiting to be\u00a0admired.\u00a0 Trees, fl\"IMG_4805\"owers, cactus are plentiful and come in so many varieties it would take me a whole book just to name all the varieties that can be found.\u00a0\u00a0 My yard is collection of so many different cactus, each and everyone beautiful but at the\u00a0same time dangerous.\u00a0 If you have ever mistakenly touched a cactus you know what I mean by dangerous.\u00a0 My wife Denise, had the misfortune of finding this out the hard way.\u00a0 She was weeding the yard out front and was gathering up the debris, in the debris\u00a0there was a Cholla cactus that had fallen off the main plant.\u00a0 We had to use pliers to remove the cactus and barbs from her hand.\u00a0 Some cactus\u00a0flower every year, while some do not flower for ten years.\u00a0\u00a0It’s always fun in the spring seeing which\u00a0ones will blossom.<\/p>\n

The deserts Fauna is another unique experience.\u00a0 Right in my own yard I get to see a huge variety.\u00a0 We have five different species of hummingbirds year round and sometimes we get some migrating varieties.\u00a0 Because we live in a migrating path the birds that come to our yard are always fascinating.\u00a0 We have house finches, mockingbirds, wrens, orioles, mourning doves, black phoebe\u00a0and roadrunners, and that’s only the one’s I can think of at the moment.\u00a0 Trust me when I say there are many more then even I can remember.\u00a0 I will be adding some of the pictures I have taken into my gallery.<\/p>\n

Besides birds we also have a good variety of lizards and this year we have had the pleasure of having a male and female blue spiny lizard gracing our back wall.\u00a0 A number of different animals have ended up in our house, compliments of our cats.\u00a0 Don’t worry our cats love bringing them in alive so they can watch us run around the house trying to catch the critters.\u00a0 Kangaroo rats are one of there favorites to bring in.\u00a0 We have seen coyotes, jack rabbits, big horn sheep, just to name a few.\u00a0 There are also rattlesnakes, desert tortoise and many more that would also take a book to name.\u00a0 We even have a place called The Living Desert that house’s many of these animals and many more that come from Africa since our climate is very much like the deserts there.<\/p>\n

Another reason we love this area is the concerts.\u00a0 We have many casino’s and with them comes a lot of great entertainment.\u00a0 There is nothing better then a concert outdoors with the mountains as a backdrop.\u00a0 There are also, as of this year, three major concert events.\u00a0 First, two weekends of Coachella Fest, followed by Stagecoach and new this year in October, Desert Trip which will be two weekends with classic rock legends.\u00a0 Oh anyone reading this that have tickets they would like to give away, I am free those weekends.\u00a0 Though that was worth a mention since the tickets for both weekends sold out as fast as they went on sale.<\/p>\n

Well I hope you found my first post a little informative, it just gives you an idea of what is like to live in the desert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finally my first post.\u00a0 So first of all let me welcome you to Quantum Planet. Desert Life for Me Living in the desert is a humbling experience.\u00a0 So much open space, it’s like entering a new planet all on it’s own.\u00a0 We first moved here in 2006.\u00a0 We are surrounded by a 360 degree view […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7zFf6-S","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainimplosion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainimplosion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainimplosion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainimplosion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainimplosion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brainimplosion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/brainimplosion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainimplosion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainimplosion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainimplosion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}