What a Happening Today on Pajarito Mountain!

Today was Summerfest on Pajarito Mountain - microbrewery beer, a
band, the Aspen lift running and the Pajarito Mountain Café open.
Tons of people were up there enjoying the day and the townsite seemed
downright dead and boring when we drove back home. The ski hill was
the place to be today!

Our daughter gave me a real treat! My daughter had asked me what I
wanted for my birthday and I told her "Hike with me!" I already got
to enjoy doing that on a special trail with her and her son
recently. Today I got the rest of my gift - she walked up Pajarito
Mountain with me instead of taking the lift! Spouse has sore ribs
from falling on a hike yesterday so he waited for us down below along
with son-in-law who didn't care to hike up the mountain.

Daughter is a very good, strong hiker. Instead of going down the
same way we went up, I took her down the Rim Run - very steep but
with fabulous views into the Valles Caldera National Preserve. She
has already posted the photo on Facebook that I took of her with the
Valles in the background! After Rim Run, we took a combination of
ski runs and bike trails to get down to the road back to the ski
lodge. She was very happy to finally get a burger and beer for
lunch! We stayed a while longer and I was the designated driver to
take everyone back home.

The Ryan McGarvey band that played was really good. I thought to
myself as we approached the Lodge that it sounded like we were at
Woodstock!

Obviously, Mamas Don't Let Their Sons Grow Up to Be Handymen!

Yesterday, under duress (namely that I need to get it done before the
house painter repaints on June 14) I repaired the damaged concrete
finish below the laundry room door.

I don't know how it got damaged but I have my suspicions that it
happened this winter when the washing machine drain flooded due to a
clog. When we swept the water out the back door, there was a crack
in the threshold and it must have let water get into the coating on
the cement block foundation. The coating then bulged out and was
loose. (I'm using concrete and cement interchangeably here which
shows I probably don't know the difference.)

Anyway, I bought a tube of concrete crack and sealant material at
Lowe's and smeared it in the crack and on the holes and also used it
to glue several pieces of cracked slip coat back on. I can see that
I really wasn't able to completely fill in the deepest defects so I
might top it off with more later. It doesn't look perfect and I
certainly didn't try to duplicate the finish but it's at least sealed
shut now.

Funny thing is that Dad's should really be teaching their girls
handyman skills because often boys are completely clueless. Spouse's
contribution was to nearly step on the newly repaired and still
sticky threshold (and me!) when he stepped on to the back porch to
admire my handy work!