We're Back
We've just come from lunch at Sushi Hattori, where we met Jim and Rebecca and ordered the daily special of sesame chicken, miso soup, California roll, and salad--all for the low, low price of $6.50. Our table faced the snow-capped Taos Mountain, and we had lovely views of golden cottonwoods on the ranchland surrounding the restaurant. We arrived back at Las Mananitas on Wednesday night and will be here for a few more days before driving back to Denver and catching a flight back to St. Paul.
Yesterday we toured some of the new construction in our neighborhood, including Wolfgang's house next door and Maggie's home a few doors down. Both are a few months from completion, but now that the outer walls and windows are in, we can get a pretty good idea of what the finished product will look like. Wolfgang's home is very nicely sited, with three big windows facing east toward the Taos range, and two facing west toward Tres Orejas. His home may be quite warm when the summer sun hits the west side, but at least he'll have stunning sunset views.
It's wonderful to see our neighbors again--we are lucky to be in the midst of such a friendly community. After walking through Maggie's house with her, we all went to Karen's to meet the latest addition, little brown-eyed Elise. Her coat is mostly white with a some caramel coloring mixed in, and she loves to frisk around the corral with her playmate Buster Brown. Rebecca's horse, Spuds, has returned to his former home across from the alpaca herd (we're sure he was happy to get away from the hay-stealing Chagall), and now has a new companion named Bailey. Jim and Rebecca bought two-year-old Bailey from a Navajo couple who could no longer afford to keep him. Rebecca says that Bailey is "green broke", which means that he's worn a saddle a couple of times but has yet to be ridden. She hopes to break him in during the coming months so that he'll be ready for riding next summer--when she says we'll be able to go riding together! I'm not sure that I want to risk being thrown by a newly-minted cowgirl vehicle, so we'll just have to see...
Yesterday we toured some of the new construction in our neighborhood, including Wolfgang's house next door and Maggie's home a few doors down. Both are a few months from completion, but now that the outer walls and windows are in, we can get a pretty good idea of what the finished product will look like. Wolfgang's home is very nicely sited, with three big windows facing east toward the Taos range, and two facing west toward Tres Orejas. His home may be quite warm when the summer sun hits the west side, but at least he'll have stunning sunset views.
It's wonderful to see our neighbors again--we are lucky to be in the midst of such a friendly community. After walking through Maggie's house with her, we all went to Karen's to meet the latest addition, little brown-eyed Elise. Her coat is mostly white with a some caramel coloring mixed in, and she loves to frisk around the corral with her playmate Buster Brown. Rebecca's horse, Spuds, has returned to his former home across from the alpaca herd (we're sure he was happy to get away from the hay-stealing Chagall), and now has a new companion named Bailey. Jim and Rebecca bought two-year-old Bailey from a Navajo couple who could no longer afford to keep him. Rebecca says that Bailey is "green broke", which means that he's worn a saddle a couple of times but has yet to be ridden. She hopes to break him in during the coming months so that he'll be ready for riding next summer--when she says we'll be able to go riding together! I'm not sure that I want to risk being thrown by a newly-minted cowgirl vehicle, so we'll just have to see...
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