We watched grandson this morning while ex-son-in-law, and his fianceé went to a friend's wedding. We took him to Tsankawi and he had fun searching for the lost temple a la Indiana Jones style. We did the whole loop - only 1.63 miles as clocked by my GPS. It was hot - he kept taking off his hat because, as he said, his hair felt like it had gel in it. It was really funny to see him on the mesa top ruin, overturning a few of the jumble of shaped building blocks in search of a lizard he had seen hide within. He enjoyed checking out the caves on the shelf trail beneath the ruin. It turns out that he's an excellent reader - he was able to read all the signs at Tsankawi to us. Boy Scouts were doing a service project repainting a lot of the signs but he could easily and fluidly read the signs that were up, sounding out perfectly the unfamiliar words like "research".
This afternoon I finished my four miles by parking on West Jemez Road near the water tanks and taking the Perimeter Trail over to Water Canyon and up canyon to Sawmill Meadow and back. Just as I got ready to go up out of Water Canyon onto the Perimeter Trail, a woman and her two dogs came down the trail. Both dogs were off leash although she was holding leashes and may have been trying to corral them but they got away and came charging and barking at me. I kept my hands raised at chest level because I've had dogs nip my dangling hands. She caught up to them and said "They won't hurt you, " and, though doubting her veracity, I said "OK" and continued on my way.