Yes, again I have to give you all kinds of excuses for not blogging as much as I did on my blog in Colorado. This Spring and Summer have been like one of those big Spring thunderstorms that I love so much passing through full of intense energy, dropping tons of fresh water the plants use as energy, big bolts of lightning striking every now and then causing my adrenaline to rise and pulse to quicken, and refreshing everything as the storm passes. It seems that as soon as I get out of bed and the coffee kicks in I hit the ground running! And thank goodness someone was thinking when they brought the custom of a siesta to this area! When the heat in the afternoon reaches a peak I can't describe what it's like to retreat into the embrace of a cool adobe house, take a shower, and relax and catch my breath, and maybe nap a few minutes. It's a good time to revive!
We have been so very busy with a million projects. It seems that both me and Mark have this little problem keeping of priority list straight and the list just grows like the obnoxious Russian Thistles we are cursed with. You pull one and find ten more growing in it's shadow!
So much has happened and of course I'll say it again, I have a million photos to select from my collection to share .... and I haven't found or made time to do it. That relaxing work is pretty darned low on that list of priorities! LOL!
We have been so very busy with a million projects. It seems that both me and Mark have this little problem keeping of priority list straight and the list just grows like the obnoxious Russian Thistles we are cursed with. You pull one and find ten more growing in it's shadow!
So much has happened and of course I'll say it again, I have a million photos to select from my collection to share .... and I haven't found or made time to do it. That relaxing work is pretty darned low on that list of priorities! LOL!
The pullets where moved in with the older laying hens, some roosters where sent packing to our friend's farm in Abiquiu, and the turkeys are growing amazingly fast. We've taken time out for a couple special events in the community like feasts which have been a great addition to our learning experiences of the rich diversity of culture here. We've made a couple more friends and hopefully we'll be adding more. I am always excited to meet another craftsman or artist and they seem to be thick as fleas here!
Our two largest and most intense projects are grass growing and garden developement. Mark has been crazily obsessed with covering all the patches of dirt in the yard. When I came here there was more clay showing than grass. I have been helping him get our clay soils amended with huge amounts of manure, compost, and clay buster and then put in the bunches of wildflowers we grew from seed and the too many plants we got from the local nurseries. We are trying to use alll native plants but it sometime limits the color in a bed so we occassionally use non-native plants for that.
I was given a wonderful chance to be invlved in an Archaeological dig at Ghost Ranch. Our friend Gary Salazar who's a manager at the ranch told me of the class. He also pushed through a scholarship for me to take the class for free! The class is in two parts and the scholarship paid for both sessions! They would have cost me over $1,000.00 if I had to pay for them. I have finished week one and I am not sharing yet all that has happened. This is a tease but it's an exciting story so far! I am having a total blast! I am working in the story right now. Week two starts for me tomorrow, Tuesday, and goes through Saturday.
That's a very quick summer update. Hopefully more will be added to the blog soon!
I hope you all are having a great summer!
Barry
I was given a wonderful chance to be invlved in an Archaeological dig at Ghost Ranch. Our friend Gary Salazar who's a manager at the ranch told me of the class. He also pushed through a scholarship for me to take the class for free! The class is in two parts and the scholarship paid for both sessions! They would have cost me over $1,000.00 if I had to pay for them. I have finished week one and I am not sharing yet all that has happened. This is a tease but it's an exciting story so far! I am having a total blast! I am working in the story right now. Week two starts for me tomorrow, Tuesday, and goes through Saturday.
That's a very quick summer update. Hopefully more will be added to the blog soon!
I hope you all are having a great summer!
Barry
