I hiked with the White Rock Senior Center group today. I met them at the Alamo Boundary trailhead on Dome Road. There were 12 people - unusually large for this group. There was a couple I had never seen on the hike before who brought a guest visiting them from Palmdale, CA. She seemed to really like the area. I talked with her toward the end of the hike and really enjoyed the conversation. She had heard of the book by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight. She told me that Jill's website has clips of when Jill was on Oprah. I want to look at those one day. I'm really enjoying the book. Her stroke made her completely right brained for a while. She's healed now but doesn't want to lose the positive aspects of right brainness and wants to teach people both stroke awareness and awareness of the personality of our right and left brains. She has a really easy to understand section on brain anatomy with reference to her stroke.
I didn't get the California woman's name but I mentioned to her in our conversation, in the context of Julia Cameron's book The Artist's Way that she had mentioned, that I had been listening to an Eagles song on the car drive and began crying because I realized that I had always wanted to be a singer and move people's emotions and then I thought that perhaps I didn't want to pursue singing now but I could write poetry that would move people. (Of course, my procrastination talents being so highly developed, don't expect a book of poetry any time soon! : ) Then she told me that when she was 62, she decided she would be a singer/songwriter and made some music. She was a ballerina at one time in New York City. What an interesting person!!
We walked 3.56 miles per my GPS, going a little onto the Coyote Call Trail. We enjoyed the caldera views but couldn't see any elk or cows. One hiker said the cows are in there already.
Susi, a hiker from the LL group who I hadn't seen for a long time, came on the hike. She's all healed up from her knee replacements and broken toe.
After the group left, I walked in a little on the logging road toward Misty Meadow for a total of 5.26 miles. At the parking lot, looking up at Scooter Peak and Rabbit Ridge, I didn't want to leave all that lovely peace!
After the hike, I went to the Jemez House Thrift Shop and bought a Glenn Miller Christmas cassette, a Bing Crosby White Christmas cassette, a Nat King Cole cassette, and a paperback by Dr. James Duke, The Green Pharmacy. First I went to MPL and picked up some magazines for daughter from the non-return box. After the thrift shop, I went to Smith's and bought strawberries, shredded cabbage, baby carrots, spring mix with herbs, and 6 packages of the $4.99 a pound wild sockeye salmon. I'm poaching one of the packages tonight. I liked that I could buy them frozen and just pop them in the freezer for later use.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Bayo Canyon and Fireline Trails
Today I started on my hikes and explores list by doing the Bayo Canyon and Fireline Trails. I threw in going up the Kwage Mesa connector trail too so I'll cross that off the list as well. There are actually two Kwage Mesa connector trails off the Bayo Canyon Trail. The first one is a short, narrow, incised-in-tuff one and the second one you come upon, going east, is the longer one that ends up near the Brewer Arena. Together, round-trip, they accounted for no more than 1/2 mile.
The Fireline Trail starts from where the North Bayo Bench Trail passes by a vertical, green utility box - make a sharp left there. At first it looks like an old road but once you sort it out in all the deadfall, it turns into a trail that goes over to and intersects the Bayo Canyon Trail, only marked by the vandalized remains of a cast cement trail marker. It rolls in and out of drainages on the hillside below Kwage or North Mesa. I counted 8 massive ponderosas that had fallen across the trail. Spouse would have hated it as it was extra work to go in and out of all the shallow drainages. The hillside was green with oak.
The predominant flowers were perky sue and purple penstemon. The purple penstemon were especially lush in the number of blooms on a spike. I saw New Mexico locust and yucca in bloom. The Sangres had billowy clouds that had a pinkish tinge. I was protected from the wind until on the way back when I took the North Bayo Bench Trail back and was blasted by the wind.
The trial of the Asics Gel Nimbus is inconclusive. They started out very comfortable but ended up not so comfortable. I feel like Cinderella trying on the different slippers but instead they are honking huge size 14 men's athletic shoes!!
I started walking around noon and got back around 3pm. I only saw 2 people, both joggers. I found a child's lovey (beloved stuffed animal) on the trail and carried it back to prop it up on the trail sign.
I was so famished when I got home - did about 7.5 miles - that I threw down everything and had a can of tuna fish with diced raw onions and tomato paste plus grapes and dried mango. It tasted so good!!
Right now I have to go tend to my 4th load of laundry this week and start my cabbage and beans dish.
Tomorrow I meet the White Rock Senior Center (WRSC) group at the Alamo Boundary Trail and possibly go back to White Rock to the library, Jemez House Thrift Shop, and Smith's.
Saturday we watch grandson. Daughter has a sinus infection and will be getting new tires that day - hers are bald.
Sunday I go with spouse to Albuquerque where he'll catch a flight and I'll visit REI before heading home. Monday is a hike with Dorothy, a 77 year old friend who is writing a report on proposed trails around the whole Valles Caldera rim.
For now I'm not calling the roofers. June 7 there is a Home and Garden Show and maybe I can get some roofer ideas there. I'd like to go up Rabbit Mountain after the Home and Garden Show and see if I can catch up with the Sierra Club hikers. Maybe I could just head up the old logging roads directly to Rabbit Mountain - I came down that way once - and skip the Rabbit Ridge Road so I'll have a better chance of catching up with them. We'll see.
The Fireline Trail starts from where the North Bayo Bench Trail passes by a vertical, green utility box - make a sharp left there. At first it looks like an old road but once you sort it out in all the deadfall, it turns into a trail that goes over to and intersects the Bayo Canyon Trail, only marked by the vandalized remains of a cast cement trail marker. It rolls in and out of drainages on the hillside below Kwage or North Mesa. I counted 8 massive ponderosas that had fallen across the trail. Spouse would have hated it as it was extra work to go in and out of all the shallow drainages. The hillside was green with oak.
The predominant flowers were perky sue and purple penstemon. The purple penstemon were especially lush in the number of blooms on a spike. I saw New Mexico locust and yucca in bloom. The Sangres had billowy clouds that had a pinkish tinge. I was protected from the wind until on the way back when I took the North Bayo Bench Trail back and was blasted by the wind.
The trial of the Asics Gel Nimbus is inconclusive. They started out very comfortable but ended up not so comfortable. I feel like Cinderella trying on the different slippers but instead they are honking huge size 14 men's athletic shoes!!
I started walking around noon and got back around 3pm. I only saw 2 people, both joggers. I found a child's lovey (beloved stuffed animal) on the trail and carried it back to prop it up on the trail sign.
I was so famished when I got home - did about 7.5 miles - that I threw down everything and had a can of tuna fish with diced raw onions and tomato paste plus grapes and dried mango. It tasted so good!!
Right now I have to go tend to my 4th load of laundry this week and start my cabbage and beans dish.
Tomorrow I meet the White Rock Senior Center (WRSC) group at the Alamo Boundary Trail and possibly go back to White Rock to the library, Jemez House Thrift Shop, and Smith's.
Saturday we watch grandson. Daughter has a sinus infection and will be getting new tires that day - hers are bald.
Sunday I go with spouse to Albuquerque where he'll catch a flight and I'll visit REI before heading home. Monday is a hike with Dorothy, a 77 year old friend who is writing a report on proposed trails around the whole Valles Caldera rim.
For now I'm not calling the roofers. June 7 there is a Home and Garden Show and maybe I can get some roofer ideas there. I'd like to go up Rabbit Mountain after the Home and Garden Show and see if I can catch up with the Sierra Club hikers. Maybe I could just head up the old logging roads directly to Rabbit Mountain - I came down that way once - and skip the Rabbit Ridge Road so I'll have a better chance of catching up with them. We'll see.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Another Day, Another Load of Laundry
It's cloudy today. I'm in the midst of making my breakfast/lunch smoothie. I had planned to wake up at 7am and get on the phones early but going to bed at midnight wasn't conducive to that plan so I woke up without alarm a little before 8am. Now, seeing as thunderstorms and hail are in the forecast, I hope to go out to exercise right after breakfast/lunch and make roofer phone calls this afternoon. It appears I'll do anything to delay contacting the roofers about the leak.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Monday, May 26, 2008
Glorious, Beautiful Day
Tired - went to bed around midnight got up at 6:30am. In middle of night was having stomach pains so curled up in fetal ball until they went away.
Drove in on west FR144 about 7.7 miles in from NM126 and started walking south along rim of Valle San Antonio/San Antonio Canyon for about 3.52 miles. Returned to Dorothy's Honda CRV via road. Total hike was 4.96 - let's call it five. Saw some people sitting in lawn chairs at edge of San Antonio Canyon, just taking in the view like they were at the beach. People were camping along and near FR144 yet we never felt like we were in a crowd like the Bandelier experience yesterday. We got almost to where we would have been on the canyon rim directly across from the San Antonio Hot Springs but I couldn't see the actual hot springs with my binocs. We made a cairn where we turned around and Dorothy waypointed it and that's where we'll pick up 3 weeks from now. The cairn is about 5.6 miles in from NM26.
The next two weeks will be north rim explores where we meet Ed down at the WR Y. Dorothy says that she may have some future assignments for explores volunteers can do while carrying a copy of her permission letter.
Oh, Dorothy's close focusing binocs are Celestron Rangers from Eagle Optics. She said they cost $300 when she bought them a few years back but now a lot more brands are available because close focusing binoculars became so popular. Hers are such excellent quality that she can focus on a piece of grass in her hand.
I had so many ideas of hikes I'd like to do in the Jemez but tomorrow I'll have to spend some time in the morning calling roofers and then go out in the afternoon for something close by.
Dorothy and I went up to look at the flower on the in the woods off Camp May Road and she took a photo and a specimen for the PEEC herbarium.
Drove in on west FR144 about 7.7 miles in from NM126 and started walking south along rim of Valle San Antonio/San Antonio Canyon for about 3.52 miles. Returned to Dorothy's Honda CRV via road. Total hike was 4.96 - let's call it five. Saw some people sitting in lawn chairs at edge of San Antonio Canyon, just taking in the view like they were at the beach. People were camping along and near FR144 yet we never felt like we were in a crowd like the Bandelier experience yesterday. We got almost to where we would have been on the canyon rim directly across from the San Antonio Hot Springs but I couldn't see the actual hot springs with my binocs. We made a cairn where we turned around and Dorothy waypointed it and that's where we'll pick up 3 weeks from now. The cairn is about 5.6 miles in from NM26.
The next two weeks will be north rim explores where we meet Ed down at the WR Y. Dorothy says that she may have some future assignments for explores volunteers can do while carrying a copy of her permission letter.
Oh, Dorothy's close focusing binocs are Celestron Rangers from Eagle Optics. She said they cost $300 when she bought them a few years back but now a lot more brands are available because close focusing binoculars became so popular. Hers are such excellent quality that she can focus on a piece of grass in her hand.
I had so many ideas of hikes I'd like to do in the Jemez but tomorrow I'll have to spend some time in the morning calling roofers and then go out in the afternoon for something close by.
Dorothy and I went up to look at the flower on the in the woods off Camp May Road and she took a photo and a specimen for the PEEC herbarium.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Don't Go to Bandelier on a Holiday Weekend!!
Today we went to Bandelier to hike up the Frijolito and down the Long Trail. I had suggested that we go to Cañada Bonita and thought about suggesting Apache Springs but spouse really, really wanted to go to Bandelier. It didn't even enter my mind to protest that it would be too crowded because of Memorial Day weekend!! We got to the entrance gate around noon and there wasn't a long line yet. Spouse asked if there was a wait for parking and the ranger said the parking lot was full so we went to Juniper Campground to hike the Frey Trail down into the canyon rather than wait in line to park.
When we got to the bottom, spouse had an emergency bathroom run so we walked to the stone bathroom in the picnic area. The hike down hadn't been hugely crowded ,although we saw more people than usual on the trail, but the canyon bottom was overflowing with cars and people. Rangers were stationed in the picnic area and backcountry parking directing cars to empty spots as they opened up. I walked to the backcountry lot while spouse used the bathroom and asked a ranger about the best time to go to Bandelier on a weekend and he said before lunch and they open at 8am.
I need to get up early for our weekend hikes - 7am at least. An earlier start will work out better when it's thunderstorm season! I slept in until 9am this morning because I didn't go to bed until after midnight. I didn't get back from my evening constitutional until around 9:30pm and then had to put my week's worth of supplements in containers and try to make the Solumbra mask fit better by sewing on velcro extender tabs because it fits too tightly otherwise. Then, of course, I had to do my stretching regimen.
Anyway, after spouse's bathroom stop - turned out the stone one was flooded so he had to go to the Visitor Center bathroom - and his streamside snack, we started back up the Frey Trail. I saw a skinny guy with a T shirt and cowboy hat coming down fast and when he was passing me, he stopped short and stood on the trail laughing at my mask. I asked him if he often stood on the trail and laughed at people. It almost sounded like he started speaking French but then he spoke English and said he was laughing because I looked like an alien. This made me mad so I asked him if he had looked in a mirror lately. He said he looked good compared to me!! As he finally started on his way, still laughing like the jackass he is, I called out to his departing back that he looked asinine. Don't know if he heard me since it was windy at that point. When I told spouse about the incident, I kiddingly said I should have told him he looked like the Brokeback Cowboy and insulted his manhood!! He was wearing one of those ridiculous, skinny cowboy hats that has the brim curled up on the sides. He didn't see it but he looked ridiculous too. He was the only one that insulted me to my face. I don't worry about the ones who may look quizzically but politely pass on by. It's OK if they laugh behind my back but the ones who stop and laugh in my face are irritating. I also commented to spouse as we continued up that I guess in France it's OK to pick on women and old ladies!! : )
After the hike we went to the library and Smith's. I needed some frozen green veggies and we bought red grapes, strawberries, mushrooms, corn, and a watermelon as well. Spouse bought himself a bottle of wine and a bottle of port as well as picked up his prescription for hydrochlorthiazide. His pvcs were still present on this hike but maybe were milder because he only drank tea not coffee for breakfast. He went out to see the 4pm Indiana Jones show. I liked the original but had no desire to see the plethora of special effects in the new one.
Yesterday was only an ordinary Santa Fe shopping trip with stops at Walmart, the Mall, where spouse ordered reading glasses from Pearle Vision and ate lunch, and Vitamin Cottage.
When we got to the bottom, spouse had an emergency bathroom run so we walked to the stone bathroom in the picnic area. The hike down hadn't been hugely crowded ,although we saw more people than usual on the trail, but the canyon bottom was overflowing with cars and people. Rangers were stationed in the picnic area and backcountry parking directing cars to empty spots as they opened up. I walked to the backcountry lot while spouse used the bathroom and asked a ranger about the best time to go to Bandelier on a weekend and he said before lunch and they open at 8am.
I need to get up early for our weekend hikes - 7am at least. An earlier start will work out better when it's thunderstorm season! I slept in until 9am this morning because I didn't go to bed until after midnight. I didn't get back from my evening constitutional until around 9:30pm and then had to put my week's worth of supplements in containers and try to make the Solumbra mask fit better by sewing on velcro extender tabs because it fits too tightly otherwise. Then, of course, I had to do my stretching regimen.
Anyway, after spouse's bathroom stop - turned out the stone one was flooded so he had to go to the Visitor Center bathroom - and his streamside snack, we started back up the Frey Trail. I saw a skinny guy with a T shirt and cowboy hat coming down fast and when he was passing me, he stopped short and stood on the trail laughing at my mask. I asked him if he often stood on the trail and laughed at people. It almost sounded like he started speaking French but then he spoke English and said he was laughing because I looked like an alien. This made me mad so I asked him if he had looked in a mirror lately. He said he looked good compared to me!! As he finally started on his way, still laughing like the jackass he is, I called out to his departing back that he looked asinine. Don't know if he heard me since it was windy at that point. When I told spouse about the incident, I kiddingly said I should have told him he looked like the Brokeback Cowboy and insulted his manhood!! He was wearing one of those ridiculous, skinny cowboy hats that has the brim curled up on the sides. He didn't see it but he looked ridiculous too. He was the only one that insulted me to my face. I don't worry about the ones who may look quizzically but politely pass on by. It's OK if they laugh behind my back but the ones who stop and laugh in my face are irritating. I also commented to spouse as we continued up that I guess in France it's OK to pick on women and old ladies!! : )
After the hike we went to the library and Smith's. I needed some frozen green veggies and we bought red grapes, strawberries, mushrooms, corn, and a watermelon as well. Spouse bought himself a bottle of wine and a bottle of port as well as picked up his prescription for hydrochlorthiazide. His pvcs were still present on this hike but maybe were milder because he only drank tea not coffee for breakfast. He went out to see the 4pm Indiana Jones show. I liked the original but had no desire to see the plethora of special effects in the new one.
Yesterday was only an ordinary Santa Fe shopping trip with stops at Walmart, the Mall, where spouse ordered reading glasses from Pearle Vision and ate lunch, and Vitamin Cottage.
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