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I’ve seen a few monarch butterflies here recently. 🦋🩷

Why throw away gently used books and building blocks when you can just donate them?

Mesa City Council is scheduled to vote in July on another new data center that could determine whether another GIGANTIC facility moves forward. This is not just a Mesa issue. Our cities share the same aquifers, the same drought conditions, and the same long‑term risks. What happens in Mesa directly affects Chandler.

According to reporting from the Mesa Tribune (via the Arizona Technology Council), Mesa already has 15 data centers built, approved, or proposed—far more than most U.S. cities of similar size. Source: Mesa Council to vote on data center controls - Arizona Technology Council

Nationally recognized reporting underscores why this matters. NPR’s Mountain West News Bureau found that a typical data center uses 2 million liters of water per day, and experts warn these facilities behave like “permanent crops,” requiring constant water even during shortages. Source: AI-driven data centers are growing in the drought-stricken Mountain West, analysis finds

Major outlets like The Guardian and Mother Jones have documented how tech companies continue building water‑intensive data centers in regions already facing severe water scarcity—Arizona included. Source: Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas | Water | The Guardian

And even when facilities use air‑cooling, the indirect water demand from the power generation required to run them is enormous. Reporting estimates this could reach 14.5 billion gallons annually in Arizona.

Source: $64 billion of data center projects have been blocked or delayed amid local opposition — Data Center Watch

Chandler has already shown that cities can take a principled stand on this issue. Please publicly support Mesa as they consider their July vote.

A united regional stance matters. It strengthens both cities’ ability to protect shared water resources and ensures that no single community is left carrying a disproportionate burden.

A few years ago, I took my Girl Scout troop for a pioneer day at Tumbleweed Ranch, where they learned how to do laundry like they did back in the day and tour a house the way it would’ve looked 100 years ago.

Today I walked by it and it looks to be in complete disrepair. Does anyone know who is responsible for managing tumbleweed Ranch? I have some questions for them.

If the ranch isn’t gonna be kept up to conserve a part of Chandler’s history, it should be repurposed into additional park or a community garden or even a dog park. Right now it’s just uncared for land and equipment that’s attracting pests and dust.

I saw a bee having the time of his life in this beautiful bloom this morning. I’m trying to get better at identifying cacti. Is this a Hildmann’s Cereus?

Please tell me this is not a newly installed flock camera at Home Depot. I drive by this area often and never noticed it before until this morning.

Trying to spend and consume less to create a simpler life.

Sharing that 1 cup of water + 1 cup of white vinegar creates a simple all purpose cleaner.

Safe for counters, sinks, tubs, tile, laminate, vinyl floors, stainless steel, glass, mirrors.

Not safe for granite, marble, quartz, stone, or screens.

Tried this on my sink today and it worked!