New Year's resolutions for this blog:

To change these settings for this blog from Yes to No:  "Add your blog to our listings?"  "Let search engines find your blog?"  I want this to feel more like a private online journal.  People can still find it if they want but why encourage them?  It's not that I'll start writing personal secrets - ha, you were hoping!  Maybe this will help me to make it more informal and more about my thoughts and life, albeit less polished.

Not to title these blog posts.   Maybe that will avoid all the hits on my blog post titled "Excruciatingly Detailed Regurgitation" which is nothing but a deadly dull and boring recitation of a shopping trip to Santa Fe gone wrong.  I think the hits are from 5 year olds using computers without parental supervision!

Now let's see if I can read my notes made while walking on Camp May Road yesterday:

"snow takes away my freedom"  What I meant by this is that with all the trails snow-covered, I can't get out on them because of my bum right foot.  I want the snow so NM doesn't burn up again this year but I'd like to get out on terra firma again one day.

"FS legal dept."  This is because I'm worried that in the Spring when more trails get rehabilitated from the Las Conchas fire damage that the forest service will take their sweet time legally amending the closure order like they did this winter, costing the SW Nordic Club monies, in officially reopening the Nordic Trails.    It got hung up in the legal department and the opening was delayed even though the trail was made more than ready by the volunteers.

"snow stays"  Walking up Camp May Road and looking longingly at the Route which is still full of snow.

"no Xmas tree gathering signs"  These appear on all the side roads along Camp May Road.  Odd that if the side roads are still closed that the forest service would place these signs at each entrance.

"sore foot - snowshoeing less fun"  Not being able to break trail because of my bum foot makes snowshoeing less fun for me.  Snowshoeing on a well-tamped down, groomed trail is boring.

"hoping to get thru winter w/o -20"  So far, so good but the deep freeze didn't happen until February last year.