Nail Trail-Pajarito Canyon Walk

Dropped off daughter's mail. Grandson was busy at the computer and hardly noticed me. I figured that computer time is at a premium. Twenty minutes after I left, grandson turns from the computer and says "Grandma?" Daughter told him I had left 20 minutes ago. I got a kick out of that story. He seemed to be feeling better. The doctor prescribed Zithromax antibiotic.

After MPL, I headed to the Nail Trail and went up it and down Pajarito Canyon Trail. I saw two nice looking does in the woods on the Nail Trail and two bicyclists that approached me from behind. I was happy that I could hear them coming.

As I was going along the Nail Trail that has the spectacular views of the Pajarito Mountain heights, I wondered how Boy Scout Meadow was doing and if the huge dead trees had finally fallen making the area safer. One day I'd like to go up Pajarito Mountain and explore the top of the Cerro Grande fire devastated Pajarito Canyon Trail. I was so happy to see all the lovely growth of aspens on the hillsides above Pajarito Canyon.

The prettiest wildflower I saw in Pajarito Canyon was the Solomon's/False Solomon's Seal. It looked robust and healthy as did all the canyon wildflowers in that well-watered location. I could hear climbers in the Narrows but couldn't see them. I enjoying walking in the sylvan canyon and hearing the running water.

I started sometime after 2:30pm and got back to the car a little past 4pm. It was a good walk.

Back to Morning Smoothies

I had to temporarily stop morning smoothies because I had made so much of teff with raisins. I ate that with fruit and peanut butter mixed in. My morning smoothie today was herb salad mix, 3 ounces, 3 small carrots, a granny smith apply, most of a pound of strawberries, a handful of almonds, tumeric, dulse powder, ginger powder, rosemary powder, cocoa powder, and rooibos-hibiscus-peppermint-green tea for the liquid. I find it hard to work in enough vegetables without having some in a breakfast smoothie.

I read today an article on Science Daily Health and Medicine news titled "Plant Foods for Preserving Muscle Mass". It talked a little about the issue of acid/alkaline forming foods. I have to find out more about that.

Tuesday Morning - Feels Like Monday

So far, I've watered the spruce and worked on the ditch around it that I'm creating to keep water from running into the street. I'm also trying to create a ditch from beneath the gutter so rainwater will water the tree without the effort of using a trash can as a rain barrel. I've got to finish brushing my teeth, take the load of laundry out of the dryer and make "Monday" morning phone calls.

Daughter and grandson got sick on their trip to Spokane. Grandson vomited and, per daughter, looks really pale and feels clammy so she's taking him into the doctor. Daughter has a frog in her throat. Son in law's not sick - yet. When I go out later to MPL and to exercise, I'll drop off their mail and the new sun hat I bought her to replace the one she lost as well as ask if son in law wants any of spouse's outgrown shirts.

Tonight I fix mushrooms and onions. It turns out that both spouse and I like them. I'll also fix corn and cut the watermelon.

I hate to call roofers and I still persist in the idea that I could do the repair. I did it in Ann Arbor, MI when the roof leaked around the masonry chimney, even after we got it reroofed. It was a two story roof so it would have been even scarier. I had to go up several time until I finally had pasted enough roofing cement on it to substantially diminish the leak.

Hikes and Explores List

Here's an incomplete list of hikes and explores I'd like to do one day, not in any particular order but rather just as I cooked them up:

Del Norte Road around to Alamo Boundary Trail then up Rabbit Mountain and down to Del Norte Road

TA-49 over to Burnt Mesa explore

Rabbit Mountain from Del Norte Road and NM4 intersection

abandoned road across from Las Conchas picnic area

Ponderosa Campground-Upper Crossing shortcut to Mesa del Rito meadows

La Senda-Pajarito Acres easement trails

Bayo Canyon Trail to Fireline Trail and back

Quemazon to Pajarito Mountain Ski Area via Pipeline Road

Dome Road toward Bandelier XC Ski Trails and/or Obsidian Ridge explore

Alamo Boundary Trail logging roads up Misty Meadow to Rabbit Ridge

South Mountain

Heavenly Valley

Valle Grande Trail to Cerro Grande

Polvadera Peak

San Antonio Mountain

West FR144 into San Antonio Canyon from bermed west rim road upstream from San Antonio Hot Springs

West FR144 explores of all roads into the various canyons, starting with Barley Canyon to Cebolla Canyon and then working north

Few More Notes About Yesterday

I got back home at 5:45pm. Walking the 1 1/2 miles back on the road wasn't as fun as walking on the San Antonio Canyon Rim as there's no shade on the road and we were walking very slowly. We didn't go down the road into San Antonio Canyon and now that I've seen it, I want to go down it one day.

Spouse fixed swordfish which I gladly ate even though it's a high mercury fish. He buys it from time to time.

I was really frustrated last night with him. He went through his closet, taking out shirts that no longer fit, and now he has hardly any short-sleeved shirts. I think that once you become an adult growing out of your clothes is not acceptable both for the expense of buying new clothing and the health dangers of having a big, fat belly. Then, right as he was going to bed, he opened the refrig and popped a few grapes in his month. The idea of sleeping with food rotting on my teeth is especially yucky to me! To me, it's hard to see past the wide-load belly and see the man I used to know. He looks so physically different. I still love him and feel compassion for him but I'm not happy with how he does with his health.