Arizona highway rest stop -
More of the view on highway 10, between Blythe and Phoenix..
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1st Saguaro sighting...
Highway 66 - Central Avenue, in Albuquerque, going west toward downtown..
More of Central Avenue -
Buildings in Old Town, Albuquerque (1)
More (2)
The trim on these windows is blue, doesn't show here very well... (3)
Good little restaurant here, Anita's, and nice shop for Diane and Osso.. (4)
Pacco the resolute but futile humper and Sally the very patient Sweetie...
Ooooohhhhhhh...... lovely, just lovely. Thanks Osso. (silly Pacco!)
Osso, have you ever explained to Pacco that the nose is a highly ineffective method of achieving satisfaction?
(Discounting culinary devices.)
He's too chubby to hoist his pecker up there.
Too funny.
heehee... and Osso was worried that Pacco would be aggressive....
Maybe if someone locked that white dog into a stationary position Pacco could have his way.
I really like the old part of town, osso! Lovely!
Thanks for those nice pictures (looks even better than in my two New Mexico travel guide books :wink: )!
(I have an old photo somewhere of Pacco trying to hump Derby the Dobie's neck. My poor lamb... he is ill equipped to carry through any intentions of this sort even if he improves in accuracy.)
One of the neat aspects of living in Albuquerque is that good views of the mesas and the Sandia mountains abound as you go about your errand-running day - and a lot of the city looks good to me, re the buildings, the landscape... I have some film to develop that may have some more photos I can post. Plus, I want to photo in a couple of the nicer residential sections. I was zeroed in photo-ing a great residential area just after I got here, and my batteries pooped out; haven't been back to that particular street when I've had the camera since then.
Update on the books..
after the local main post office held the books for me until escrow closed, I went by, as nicely advised, to tell them when I'd pick them up. I showed up the day before escrow closed and said I'd be by the next week. They remembered me well and said thank you for checking in.
Diane and I took Dys' truck over there on Tuesday - well, his truck and my newly purchased handcart. There was a little flurry as the woman-who'd-had-a-heart-attack didn't recognize me, and didn't have her cohort nearby. Ah, but he just got back from lunch. Soon the manager came out. Instead of instill fear in the postal customer, he helped us figure where to park, and loaded the eighteen boxes himself. We tried to help but he shoo'ed us off, no doubt for liability reasons, but more, I think, because he was not only much faster at this, he liked the exercise. 40 lbs, light toss, 40 lbs, light toss... and so on.
I went back today and got the remaining six in my car..
Hmm. That's 24. I paid for 24 to be sent, but one was to my friend in central California. Hmm, I bet that never arrived there..
Well, it'll be a mystery if my pal there got the books.
In the meantime, I am thinking of getting a nice big box of pastries for them from the incredibly-wonderful-albuquerque-Whole-Foods. What a good crew of people.
I think the local postmaster sets the tone for the local post office.
In my experience the country is full of good postmasters.
A quick note: Jo has become a part of our family. She has been here since shortly after Christmas. It has been so much fun. Unbelievable! I'm not that sociable and can't think of another friend with whom I could spend this much time without beginning to talk to them through clenched teeth. Not Jo--she is the easiest person to live with I've ever known. I really can't think of any of my very dearest friends that I would or could live with for this long. With Jo, it's been easy. Besides, she's fun to shop with--we both like thrift stores and funky places with strange, gaudy jewelry. Like squirrels, both of us--anything that is bright and shiny draws us to it like a magnet.
Diane that's pretty cool!
Un huh. Osso is one of the easiest people I've met to feel comfortable with. It's almost as though she has nothing to prove, and expects nothing to be proven to her.
So as far as not being especially sociable, Diane indeed takes the cake. With the possible exceptions of littlek and ehBeth, she's probably met more people from a2k than anyone.
roger wrote:So as far as not being especially sociable, Diane indeed takes the cake. With the possible exceptions of littlek and ehBeth, she's probably met more people from a2k than anyone.
yeah! that's because she's not social! Right!
She was very kind to me when we were discussing my planned (but aborted) European trip last year! Wasn't social, though! Don't you even think it!
Ha, ha, ha. Ya got me, Roger and Margo. Yes, I am very sociable when in small groups--most of my best and most interesting friends are on a2k and I'm always up for meeting with them. Just not in large groups (like Chicago).
When it comes to staying with me for so long though, I really can't think of anyone but Jo being here for so long without my developing ulcers and dying for some privacy.
Roger, you're spot on. She has nothing to prove, she is absolutely as she appears. What you see is what you get--and that's pretty great.
But did yall know that Diane tried to poison johnboy? There was a discussion on A2K about some kind of pepper that is plentiful in NM but not available in VA. She kindly offered to send me some. They arrived; looked a bit strange; but usable in a chili I was preparing.
Then I got an urgent email from her, repenting: "Don't eat the peppers."
I, like Diane, am a bit of a shy person. I will be flying out to Portland OR again next week, this time for the memorial service for my older brother. I will be reading a bunch of scripture at the Mass. No problem. I was an actor for awhile and have no issue with stage fright. What I dread is the reception afterwards. Making small talk with people I don't know. One of my customers who attends lots of functions as part of her job where she doesn't know people has been a big help. "Get the people talking about themselves." Then be an active listener, saying "I see" a lot.
I just read this - big smiles to Diane and Roger, both easy to talk with. Dys is no slouch either. They all listen well and are comfortable with quiet.
I am dearly hoping to get my ass outta D and D's way within the next ten days, once some logistics are worked out re my garage and a uHaul. It'll be an adjustment - we've gotten used to fairly lethargic but long term conversation.
On the house and its possibility of being habitable, I'll post some pictures - (A) once I take them, (B) once the DSL is installed, and (C) once I find my computer. It's in one of the blue boxes...
