Catalina Pueblo Chronicle April 2015

State of the Pueblo Jean Paine, President Please join me in sending out a cheer for our great Pueblo. In the last month five homes have Pools Chairman been sold quickly, some in just days, and, if my John Trang Intel is correct, at respectable prices. This only On behalf of the HOA Board and Pool enforces what we already know, CP is a very Committee, I am writing to say thanks to desirable neighborhood. Welcome our new everyone for continuing to take great care of our neighbors when they arrive and help them get to pools and also for letting us know when anything know the Pueblo. needs attention. We have seen many of you at the Adelita Pool during our beautifully warm As I walk about it is wonderful to see how great winter months this year. the area looks. Spring clean up of yards and walkways is well underway. Eleven owners have Since it is reaching into the 90s - we will plan resurfaced their driveways and they really change to begin using the solar heating system at the the way a property looks – grand indeed. Caballo Pool in early April and begin heating the Minera Pool by May 1st. When you see the “This It is party time in the old Pueblo. Take note of the pool is not heated at this time” signs removed invitation in the newsletter regarding the Tapas Inside This Issue: from these pools you will know that the heating Party. Stroll with your neighbors on April 18th systems have been activated. The Caballo Pool Page 2 to enjoy good company, good food, and good solar system will take several weeks of hot days Spring Party libations at three homes. We thought you might and lots of sun to begin to warm up, but the like to try something a bit different this spring Minera Pool heat pump usually warms the water Page 3 and at a time when most folks are in residence. I nicely within 3 to 5 days. Thanks, again, for your Garden Gallimaufry look forward to seeing you on the 18th. help taking care of these three wonderful HOA community assets ... ENJOY! ... Page 4 Our new Social Chair, Deborah Bowman, Garden Gallimaufry would appreciate a few volunteers to help with Weeds the Halloween Party October 24th at Adelita Page 5 Pool. Deb has some great ideas but needs some Weeds-continued manpower to make this a memorable event. If we want to continue having these events we need Page 6 your help. Please contact Deb [email protected] Pueblo Recipes or 520-795-7145.

Page 7 Pueblo Plodders Catalina Pueblo Association 's Page 8 authorized trash hauler: Tried & True Trades Trash only: Tuesday Page 9 Recycle &Trash: Friday February Financials Reliable Environmental Services Page 10 Robert: 520-300-9211 Photo by Committees Terry McLeod Board of Directors [email protected] April 2015 2 Catalina Pueblo Chronicle April 2015 Catalina Pueblo Chronicle 3 Garden Gallimaufry Mark Sammons

Mark J. Sammons Vegetables take an immense amount of room for cooler temperatures than most species, [email protected] limited production. In our little walled gardens and gives rise to varieties little known outside 615-6019 we can get a lot of bang for our buck with herbs , and eastern South and hot chili peppers. America, and most of its varieties are unknown to Arizonans. Hot spice is the commercial lure that took the Portuguese around , and drove Columbus Two others, , and Capsicum westward. Both sought to bypass the Venetians baccatum were domesticated in northern South and Ottomans to get to the source of black pepper America. The C. chinense – not Chinese in above all other spices. The Portuguese found the spite of its name – includes the varieties we call water route; Columbus encountered an alternative (same as ); and ’s spice, the American , Capsicum. . C. baccatum is mostly associated with , though varieties familiar True pepper (black, white and green are different to us are amarillo peppers and commercial phases of the same thing) comes from a vine, .® Piper nigrum, which requires the intense heat and humidity of its place of origin in tropical Don’t bother memorizing this! Peppers cross- southern India. American chilies proved more breed easily, giving rise to endless varieties. adaptable to varied climates and conditions. The Native Americans already had dozens of Further, the American chili flesh, ribs, as well as named varieties before contact with Europeans, seeds all give heat, and the seeds are easily saved and as the was traded around the world, for planting or trading. new varieties were developed everywhere. For example, the notoriously hot ghost peppers (900 American chilies were rapidly introduced around times hotter than tobasco), are a cross between the planet, became the poor man’s alternative to the American C. frutiscens and C. chinense, made costly black pepper. They were so quickly and in extreme northeastern India and Bangladesh. deeply ingrained in regional ethnic cuisines that today it is hard to grasp that Hungarian , A wild pepper, var. Spanish pimenton, Italian pepperoncini, Indian glabriusculum, is known in folk parlance as the ghost peppers, and Thai peppers are, in fact, all chiltepín, or ’tepin for short, sometime called American in origin. bird pepper for its tiny fruits, smaller than a pea. Southern Arizona is the northern limit of The fiery chili and the sweet are its natural range, so it is suited to our gardens, closely related. A single mutation of a specific either inside or outside the wall. Grown in bright gene shuts down production of the hot chemical dappled shade, the chiltepin forms a small-leaved , yielding a sweet pepper. From five airy shrub about three or four feet high and two naturally-occurring species, native New World feet wide. It produces numerous tiny fruits, each farmers selected for preferred characteristics. By carrying searing heat. Pluck individual peppers 5,000 BC, they had developed both hot and sweet peppers.

Three species, Capsicum annuum, Capsicum frutiscens and , were domesticated in Mexico. Human selected Photos & Text varieties of C.annuum include cayenne, by Mark Sammons jalapeños, various rainbow peppers, hot mild and For native plant sweet paprika peppers, and sweet bell peppers. recommendations, see: C. frutiscens is used in Tobasco sauce (there is no http://www. specific “tobasco” pepper), and varieties include catalinapueblo.com/ the Thai chili pepper, as well as several varieties suggested-plant-list. popular in and sub-Saharan Africa but html generally unknown to us. C. pubescens tolerates April 2015 4 Catalina Pueblo Chronicle

Garden Gallimaufry–continued Landscape & Architecture Mark Sammons Pat Wagner, Chair Article by: Mark Sammons for use as they ripen from Thanksgiving through New Years and, in mild winters, into February Weeds April Garden Chores and March. They are easily dried on a saucer : on the windowsill, to provide month’s worth of This winter’s heavy rains bracketed a season • When new leaf buds culinary piquancy. We crush two of these tiny of intermittent rains, to give us a bumper crop appear, prune frost- of weeds. Most of these fast-growing annuals damaged wood. things to give abundant fire to a batch of pasta • Evergreen trees sauce for two. have already gone to seed, ready to germinate shed old yellowed when a similar winter comes again. There is still leaves in spring; it’s I have grown several kinds of peppers – tepin, something to be done about them. normal! Thai, Fresno, Sandia, – in As weed dry, they become a fire hazard. • Now is the season When yours are browned off, pull them away to plant cactus, pots, and find they prefer a large pot, as the succulents, citrus, become a bit large and need both root with a rake and dispose of them. They will shed palms, bougainvillea, room and the weight to keep them upright in their seeds as you handle them. lantana, tomatoes, wind. The seeds may be difficult to germinate, If you want to prevent or reduce a peppers, melons, recurrence, you can do that in May or June by zinnias, portulaca, especially the wild tepin form, so buy small periwinkle, thyme, plants, available at this season at big-box and deep soaking the problem area and covering oregano, marjoram, hardware stores. Obscure types such as chiltepins it with sheets of clear plastic, weighted at the basil, rosemary. can be found at farmer’s markets, if you patiently edges so it doesn’t blow away. If you have • Wrap up planting of ask for them week after week. Peppers don’t watered deeply enough, the trapped moisture other things for the will eventually cause all the seeds beneath to year. like cold when young, which delays their being • By the end of brought to market. germinate. The heat trapped under the plastic will the month, potted kill the seedlings before they mature and produce plants (other than For planting, fill the hole or pot with bagged seeds. Or you may fold back the plastic and pull succulents) will them from the moist soil. This may take a while, need daily watering. cacti and palm soil. Chiltepins prefer dappled Bigger pots hold shade, but the other broader-leaved varieties but it is thorough. So thorough, it will kill the moisture longer. seem to endure more sun, even some violent good wildflowers and beneficial weeds as well as • Fertilize shrubs afternoon sun. Once established, they seem to the undesirable ones. But then you can sow what • Gradually increase accept as much water as given them, but be pleases you. irrigation quantity Additional to these annuals, a few weeds and/or frequency as mindful that the more water they get, the hotter temperatures rise. the fruits will be. are problematic perennials. African sumac can • Let wildflowers dry makes nice trees, but they are an invasive foreign and go to seed; If you find yourself with too many of the larger species that self sow and sprouts successfully in rake away dried the desert. Learn to identify them, and yank their remains sort to use or pawn off on friends, grill or broil • In tropical plants them till blackened, cool in a paper bag, slip off seedlings when they are a few inches tall. like citrus, iron the blackened skins, and puree the roasted flesh. Buffel grass is a dangerous invasive chlorosis causes Freeze this puree in ice cube trays, then store in a with perennial roots. Like all grasses, it is very yellow leaves with ziplock bag to use as needed. difficult to dig out, as even snippets of the plant bright green veins. left behind can root and grow anew. Buffel Treat affected plants with chelated iron. grass starves native plants for nutrients. Its roots • Wash aphids and survive fire. Its dry leaves spreads fire with spider mites from dangerous speed and fierce heat, permanently tender new groth killing all the native plants around it and with a heavy blast of water. Failing threatening buildings. There are miles of Sonoran that, use insecticidal Desert a little south of the border that are sterile soap, or move on of all native plants due to buffel grass to cautious spot-use Desert broom is a bright green native of houseplant spray. perennial shrub. Its very high and coarse pollen • If you see dry rot (black areas) on count makes for allergy misery. Yank them when prickly pear pads, small, or dig them out if they’ve become too remove and discard tough to pull. the plant. April 2015 Catalina Pueblo Chronicle 5 Weeds - continued Mark Sammons

If you wish to address weeds with an herbicidal Learn about the hazards and legal poison, there are several things to keep in mind. implications of secondary kill-off of wildlife at: • Herbicides are toxic to desirable plants http://www.sb.state.az.us/Assets/PDFDocuments/ around the weeds; application during wind or SecondaryPoisoningFlyerFinal.pdf even breezes will kill desirable neighboring You can find beginner information for plants. pre-emergent herbicides online at: • Herbicides are toxic and/or carcinogenic to http://www.moonvalleynurseries.com/blog/its- people, pets, beneficial insects, reptiles, birds time-for-pre-emergent-herbicides and other wildlife; Herbicides used on leaves should not be • When using, alert neighbors of date and time used right before rain or the effort will be wasted. you will use them, so they (and you) can For general information on use of these, see: close windows, protect pets, and plants; and http://npic.orst.edu/pest/weeds.html This is a tell them afterwords you have done it; California site with information suitable for a • Read the labels very carefully; misuse is climate similar to our own. illegal; Generally, neither type of weed killer • Never use near food plants including culinary is meant for use in small yards or domestic herbs. neighborhoods; most were developed for • If spraying, use a separate sprayer from what agricultural use. you use for fertilizer or insect control. Poisons are long-lived in the soil; once put into the ecosystem, they can’t be gotten out, There are two basic types of herbicide: “pre- and will be passed from host to host up the food emergent” that kills the seeds, and types meant chain. for application to leaves. The latter are carried by If using any type of weed killer wear the plant’s vascular system down to kill the roots. rubber gloves, a mask, goggles, and use a bottle Do not apply before rain, as it will be a wasted with a narrow spray pattern for spot selection of effort. individual weeds. Some kinds of weeds will be resistant If you want to try a less unnerving to a particular herbicide, and you may suffer an method, try spot spraying weeds with a mix of ½ invasion of these. cup salt, a gallon vinegar and ¼ cup liquid dish soap, to see if this folk recipe works.

Desert Broom

Photos: Pat Wagner April 2015 6 Catalina Pueblo Chronicle

This recipe accompanies Mark’s garden article this month, as it uses two different kind of peppers he discusses.

Traditionally, it calls for green bell peppers (but you can use red orange, or yellow, if you don’t like the green ones), and habañeros for some real heat! (If you want more heat, include the seeds and ribs.) We use Trader Joe’s light coconut milk, as the flavor and texture are great with many fewer calories. April 2015 Catalina Pueblo Chronicle 7

Pueblo Plodders

Photos by: Pat Weigand, Gail Reich, Karen Satterfield, Judy Mott April 2015 8 Catalina Pueblo Chronicle Landscaping/Gardeners Tammy Clark 336-0634 Recommended by John and Ann Berkman Tried & True Adobe Beautiful Spaces Adobe Specialists-Rudy Martinez 520-883-8883 Trades Jude DiMeglio Trang 360-4282 Recommended by Joe & Sandra Thompson Recommended by Aldine von Isser & Hal Grieve Adobe King - John Schimon 615-2110 Blue Agave Landscape & Lighting Design Recommended by Rob & Jeanie Girman Dean Alexander 325-4242 Armando Pacheco Recommended by David Scott Allen & Mark Sammons 520-302-0711 (cell) Margaret L. Joplin Recommended by Aldine von Isser & Hal Grieve 623-8068 or 271-6585(c) Design & Installation Auto Maintenance Recommended by Paul Maxon Kurt Tomson - Mechanic Francisco Enriquez 405-8527 940-7285 (works on all types of vehicles) Recommended by Jo Ann Marcus & Gisele Nelson Recommended by Joe & Sandra Thompson Pots: The Mexican Garden, Marta Avila Jim Davis - Alignment 2901 N. Oracle 624-4772 Double D Alignment - 632-4842 Recommended by Jo Ann Marcus Recommended by Joe & Sandra Thompson Locksmith Carpet Cleaning Gordon Remington - Key One Locksmith Boyds Chemdry 760-2244 Recommended by Bill & Lee Strang Recommended by Caryl Daugherty Manicure/Pedicure, Gels & Silks Custom Concrete Work Victoria at Mauricio Fregoso Salon 795-3384 Cherry Enterprises - David Cherry Recommended by Connie Church 343-0068 Massage Therapy Recommended by Jeff & Judy Mott Kristin Windoff, LMT, MSW, CYT Computer Repair 520-240-5870 Desert Sky Technology - 797-7479 Recommended by Deborah Bowman & Jay Baruch Recommended by Jeff & Judy Mott and Frank & Pamela Bangs Ginger Castle - 520-977-9938 Drywall & Painting Recommended by Gisele Nelson Ruben Duran 275-5532 Painting & Decorative Artist Recommended by Jeff & Judy Mott Mary Howard - 520-991-5336 Electrician Recommended by Jean Paine & Marianne Van Zyll Phil Clounch - 520-390-0471 Plumber Recommended by Jeff & Judy Mott Beyond Plumbing -Mike Moyer 409-2549 Frank Tentschert 577-4987 & 907-5990 Recommended by Jo Ann Marcus Recommended by Jo Ann Marcus Jerry Walker, Walkers Plumbing 888-7337 Exterminators Recommended by Russ Carden Northwest Exterminating 888-4308 Remodels & General Construction Recommended by Sherry Henderson H. J. Curtin–Howard Curtin 520-870-1380 Handiman Recommended by Jo Ann Marcus Dallas Davis 403-1356 Vasquez Construction–Mike Vasquez 419-1189 Recommended by Gisele Nelson Recommended by Rob & Jeanie Girman John Landers 609-2530 Jim & Bob Dennison Home Repairs 323-6843 Recommended by John & Pat Cain and John & Ann Berkman Recommended by Gisele Nelson Robert Cross 390-2623 Ted Vasquez 241-9799 Recommended by Marianne Van Zyll Recommended by Bill & Cassandra Ridlinghafer Shawn Henderson 745-2169 Ron Landis 743-4892 [email protected] Recommended by Nan Milburn Recommended by Nancy Milburn & Ellen Siever Cary McKeever 241-0810 Roofing Recommended by Lew & Caryl Daugherty Alan Bradley Roofing - 885-3571 House Cleaning Services Recommended by Jo Ann Marcus Erika Bradley 520-240-5870 Tile & Stone Mason Recommended by Deborah Bowman & Jay Baruch Tony Scott- 336-0634 Levinia 406-5630 & Pamela 282-9096 Recommended by John and Ann Berkman Recommended by Connie Church Window Cleaning Maria Josefina Leon 339-0646 Doug & Deb Lockett 584-8419 Recommended by Gisele Nelson & Sandra Nelson-Winkler Recommended by Caryl Daugherty April 2015 Catalina Pueblo Chronicle 9

Treasurer Report Doug Airulla, Treasurer

Catalina Pueblo Association Statements of Cash Flows and Budget Febuary 2015 2015 Annual Budget YTD 2015 YTD Actual Budget Remaining Income: Association Dues $ 78,625.00 $ 81,000.00 $ 2,375.00 Interest Income 1.45 10.00 8.55 2015 Title Transfer Fees 800.00

TOTAL INCOME $ 78,626.45 $ 81,810.00 $ 2,383.55

Expenses: Administrative: Postage/Printing $ 16.19 $ 1,500.00 $ 1,483.81 Property Tax/Licenses $ 10.00 $ 200.00 Professional Services $ 2,000.00 Insurance 2,000.00 2,000.00 Subtotal $ 26.19 $ 5,700.00 $ 3,483.81

Neighborhood Infrastructure: Monthly Maintenance $ 1,100.00 $ 6,600.00 $ 5,500.00 Maintenance $ 126.49 $ 2,000.00 Contingencies 3,000.00 3,000.00 Roads & Drainage 1,000.00 1,000.00 Security & Lightbulbs 400.00 400.00 Subtotal $ 1,226.49 $ 13,000.00 $ 9,900.00

Neighborhood Social Activites: $ 48.68 $ 1,800.00 $ 1,751.32 Less social expense reimbursement -­‐ Subtotal $ 48.68 $ 1,800.00 $ 1,751.32

Recreational -­‐ Pools: Routine Services/Chemicals $ 776.30 $ 8,000.00 $ 7,223.70 Pool Repairs 13,900.00 13,900.00 Southwest Gas 1,609.66 8,000.00 6,390.34 Tucson Electric 421.82 9,000.00 8,578.18 City of Tucson Water 238.59 2,000.00 1,761.41 Housekeeping 282.00 1,690.00 1,408.00 Other (permits/termites/furniture) 2,500.00 2,500.00 Subtotal $ 3,328.37 $ 45,090.00 $ 41,761.63

TOTAL EXPENSES $ 4,629.73 $ 65,590.00 60,960.27 Reserve Transfer $ 16,200.00 16,200.00

TOTAL EXPENDITURES AND TRANSFER $ 4,629.73 $ 81,790.00 REMAINING BUDGET $ 73,096.76

Net Cash Flow 73,996.72 Interest Income on Reserve (1.45) Net Cash Flow from Operations 73,995.27

2014 Checking and Reserve Funds Checking Reserve Total Balance less accruals 1/1/2015 4,375.90 29,694.19 34,070.09 2013/2014 Transfer (612.00) 612.00 Total Net Cash Flow 73,995.27 1.45 Balance 02/28/2015 $ 77,759.17 $ 30,307.64 April 2015 10 Catalina Pueblo Chronicle 2015 Board of Directors Committees: Jean Paine — President Social Comittee: Carol Sinclair — Vice President Deborah Bowman, Chair Need Volunteers! Connie Church — Secretary Lease Implementation Committee Doug Airulla — Treasurer Lee Strang David Holter Bill Strang — Member at Large Aldine von Isser John Trang Pat Wagner — Landscape & Architecture Carol Sinclair Dan Peters John Trang — Pools Connie Church Please contact the board via email: [email protected] Landscape/Architecture: Pat Wagner, Chair JoAnn Marcus Board Meeting Agenda Mark Sammons April 13, 2015 Jude Trang

5:30 @ Jean’s Javelina Express: Marti Greason Call to Order Marianne Van Zyll Cassandra Wry Ridlinghafer Approval of March minutes Approval of Special March 23 meeting minutes Lightbulbs: David Holter (March, April, May) Committee & Officer’s Reports Dick Segerdahl (March, April, May) Barbara Shulman (June - December) Old Business Carport Conversions Pools: John Trang, Chair Lease Implementation Committee Sherri Henderson New Business Marti Greason Terry Temple Adjournment Jeff Mott The agenda will be published each month in the Chronicle. Only items on the agenda will receive Directory: board action unless there is an emergency. By Jo Ann Marcus, Updates/Proofing publishing the agenda in advance, we seek member David Scott Allen, Cover & Photos comment on pending issues. Comment can be sent to Connie Church, Layout & Design our board email address, in writing to the secretary or you may choose to appear at the meeting, space Newsletter: available. To request items to be placed on the PuebloRecipes: agenda, use the same addresses. David Scott Allen The Board may at any time go into executive session Garden Gallimaufry: to consider legal or other permitted matters. Mark Sammons Spotlight on a Neighbor: Our website, www.catalinapueblo.com, has Pat Weieigand all our Catalina Pueblo information including Editor: Connie Church our CC&Rs, complete Rules, past minutes, past newsletters, plant lists, remodel forms, HOA Web site: www.catalinapueblo.com information and more. Connie Church