Those little babies - my pusher is Natural Grocers in Santa Fe - are addictive. I ground them up last night with a trail mix I buy from Natural Grocers - also addictive - that has goji berries, golden raisins, cocoa nibs, mulberries and cashews and also threw in vanilla extract and almond butter. I forget the name of the goji berry trail mix at Natural Grocers but it tastes delicious (it's the one that doesn't have the apricot pits in it).
I attribute cocoa nibs to why I couldn't fall asleep last night until almost 1am but don't know what got into me to wake up at 7am. Guess I thought I'd get an early start on the day but here I am, surfing in cyberspace instead of getting out there to finish my genealogy project at the Family History Center.
I plotted out on my calendar the Wednesdays that I hope to hike with the LL group but that depends on what the WI group has going on.
Here's a couple of hikes the WI extracurricular group may want to do: The car shuttle one that starts at Ponderosa Group Campground and wends it way along the Frijoles Canyon Rim, over to Burnt Mesa (with a possible side-trip into Frijoles Canyon down Al's Run). The Knife-Edge, which starts at the Pajarito Canyon TH and goes up a ridge to Pajarito Mountain, then down PM, to FR2998 to Nail Trail and back to start. Or, if they are really feeling frisky, try to go back down via the toasted Pajarito Canyon Trail from on top of PM.
Have to drive spouse's car today. I asked him to drive mine to check out the new noise since our replacement of the driver's side CV front axle boot last Friday. I have an appointment in SF Friday to check the noise out. It only happens when the wheels are moving, seems unrelated to the engine or brakes and sounds like something rattling somewhere in the car but I checked out all obvious possibilities and the noise doesn't stop. It's absent in the morning and present in the afternoon - weird.
Went to hawthornes in Frijoles Canyon yesterday (near Upper Crossing) but I have totally missed their blossoming. They are leafing out now. I'd like to go back one day to find them in fruit as well as see when they are fully leafed out. Saw Golden Banner to west of Trail to Upper Crossing. It seems to like moist drainages.