Snapshot Report post Posted September 30, 2008 Wishing Mr.Bill a big happy birthday with many returns. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
azpackhorse Report post Posted September 30, 2008 Happy birthday Mr. Quimby Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rembrant Report post Posted September 30, 2008 Happy birthday Bill, thanks for hanging out on this site! Mike Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CouesWhitetail Report post Posted September 30, 2008 Happy Birthday Bill!! Thanks for all your many contributions here! It's great having you around! Amanda Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Browning'sCustomMeat Report post Posted September 30, 2008 Happy Birthday Mr. Quimby, hope its a great one. Thanks for all the posts, I always enjoy reading them. -Jeremy- Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Red Rabbit Report post Posted September 30, 2008 Happy Birthday Bill! Hope the elk bugle a nice song for you this evening. Doug Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billrquimby Report post Posted September 30, 2008 Happy Birthday Bill! Hope the elk bugle a nice song for you this evening. Doug Thanks, everyone. Looks like listening to elk bugle from our cabin's back porch and watching them walk through our yard is a thing of the past. Someone bought the big meadow across the road from us and is cutting it up for homesites. A couple of weeks ago he brought in some heavy equipment and dug an 8-foot-deep trench (we were told it so he could drain the meadow) all around the area where our little herd was entering the meadow. I support his right to develop and sell his property, but I sure will miss our elk. The good thing is I don't have to go far to see other herds, though. Bill Quimby Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Red Rabbit Report post Posted September 30, 2008 Are homes/cabins going to be built around Badger tank? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
.270 Report post Posted September 30, 2008 i heard that when they lit all the candles on his cake that the forest circus called in a slurry drop because they figgerd it was a forest fire. Happy Birthday and many more. Lark. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CouesWhitetail Report post Posted September 30, 2008 i heard that when they lit all the candles on his cake that the forest circus called in a slurry drop because they figgerd it was a forest fire. Happy Birthday and many more. Lark. Bummer about losing your elk meadow Bill. Amanda Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
25-06 Report post Posted September 30, 2008 Bill, I hope you are having a wonderful Birthday. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tjhunt2 Report post Posted September 30, 2008 A BIG Happy Birthday to ya Bill. Hope you have a million more. TJ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BRYCE CANYON Report post Posted September 30, 2008 Happy Birthday Mr. Quimby! I hate to hear about the development next to your place. I bet you have seen a lot of that in Arizona during your lifetime. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chef Report post Posted October 1, 2008 Here's to a great one! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billrquimby Report post Posted October 1, 2008 Happy Birthday Mr. Quimby! I hate to hear about the development next to your place. I bet you have seen a lot of that in Arizona during your lifetime. My birth certificate says "born at home, three miles east of Tucson." My birth took place on a couch in the 350-sq. ft. house my father built on my grandparent's little ranch on Speedway about a half mile east of Alvernon. I remember hunting jackrabbits with a .22 there by just walking out the back door of my grandparent's home when we came over from Yuma to visit during the 1940s. Speedway wasn't paved east of Campbell Avenue (Tucson's eastern city limits then) within my memory. There were only a few houses along that road and one little "mom and pop" grocery store (it sold the best damned homemade donuts I've ever tasted), but mostly there was nothing but greasewood as far as we could see between Campbell and a big home "way out east" about where El Dorado Hospital is now. I watched them tear down a beautiful resort where the pavement on Broadway ended and build El Con Mall, and after graduating from the UA, I worked as advertising manager for Levy's and Jacome's department stores -- pioneer downtown Tucson merchants who no closed down when the chains moved into town in the early 1970s. Except for those along North Campbell, our present home on Agave Drive in Tucson was one of the first half-dozen built north of River Road and south of the Westward Look Resort immediately after they pushed North First Avenue from the river to Ina Road. Before the new road, I used to sight my deer rifles in the canyon where First Avenue ended a couple of hundred yards north of the river. I actually walked from my wife's family home at Park and Fort Lowell into the foothills in 1956 or so, and shot my first Coues deer just inside the forest service boundary where Ponatoc Road now ends. I have watched towns like Kearney, San Manuel, Catalina, Oro Valley, Page, Sun City, and Green Valley and others sprout from nothing but desert, and I've watched places like Twin Buttes, Kelvin, Ray and a couple of others disappear. So, yes, I've seen a lot of change and development, but we all can take heart in the fact that only slightly more than 16% of all of Arizona is in private ownership and can ever be developed. The vast majority of our state is in public ownership and should be safe if we can get more controls put on the sale of state trust lands. Bill Quimby Red Rabbit: No, Badger Pond is not affected. It's is on forest service land, about 500 yards up the canyon from my cabin. The meadow in question runs along the Little Colorado River from Osborne Road/Becker Lane almost to the Tin Star Trading Post. It has been subdivided into seventeen one-plus acre sites. In addition to forcing our little elk herd to move elsewhere, putting additional land up for sale has hurt the value of our property a bunch. There were two undeveloped one-acre cabin sites a short distance down our road that sold for $425,000 and $450,000 in 2007. This guy is offering adjacent (but out of the trees) sites for $200,000 each! (We bought our two acres more than 35 years ago for a fraction of that, or else we'd really be pissed!) Lark: The forest circus wasn't called. Bill and Shirley Mattausch hosted a birthday party for me last night at their home in Eagar and, fortunately for everyone (except the candle-making industry), there were no candles on my cake. As with all old farts, I tend to ramble on. Thanks for caring, everyone. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
