• Archive for February, 2022

    Afternoon Outing: Ojita Wilderness

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    I’ve been dealing with some physical issues this week, and so this morning, after a very slow start to the day, I decided I needed to get out for the afternoon. For some reason, my mind jumped immediately to revisiting the Hoodoo Trail in the Ojita Wilderness. Several years ago, I parked at the...

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    Seven Things: Table Pile Edition

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    I have a large table that sits off my entry way in the sort-of dining area. It is a hostage to multiple piles of things. Here are seven of the piles. 1. Weekly circulars that need to go in the trash. 2. Receipts that need to go into a file cabinet file. 3. Books...

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    Sanction Through Service

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    When 2022 started, I decided to set a few goals for myself. One of them, you see here- a commitment to writing something on this blog every day. Another goal I set was to read through the New Testament during the year by taking it one chapter at a time, reading just 5 chapters...

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    Difficult

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    When my first adopted cat, Ishqa, died at age 2 from FIP some 14 years ago, I “licked my wounds” and after a little while, thought I would try again. I went to the pound that I had gotten Ishqa from, and, not holding the facility responsible for his death because its head vet...

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    My F-Word

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    One of my favorite scenes in the nostalgic holiday film “A Christmas Story” comes on the heels of Old Man Parker sneakily pulling some turkey meat off from the birds his wife has pulled out of the oven on Christmas morning. In an off-guard moment, Mr. Parker has his back turned, and a door...

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    Twelve Days to Dirtbags

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    I was reminded today that on February 18th, the UNM Lobo baseball team will start their 2022 season- and I have a pretty good feeling COVID won’t decimate the season this year. Annually, when college baseball games start, summer always begins earlier for me than for most people, because for me, baseball is synonymous...

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    Disruption

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    It’s all fine and good just a normal day with the sun out and the neighborhood quiet nobody working nobody driving nobody yelling comfy under the blanket until you do wha you’ve done a million times and there’s a crack and then a leak oh no it’s a gusher and you don’t know any...

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    Seven NBA Teams My Mom Has Liked

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    After work this evening, I went over to my folks’ house and joined them to watch a few NBA games. My parents are religious fans of the San Antonio Spurs, and my mom adopted that team as her favorite team years and tears ago. It took a visit several years ago to AT&T Center...

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    From A Snow Day

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    Last night, we got our big snow, and this morning, the skies over Albuquerque were clear, and by noon, snow everywhere was melting. But still, we got our snow day. I got up and went out for a walk before work to enjoy the clean light and clean appearance of everything under the white....

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    Snow

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    The last two days, there was some buildup online and on local TV about a big storm that was coming though today. I got up as usual and worked from home in an overcast day. Around ten, a light flurry arrived and tiny snow swirled out my back door. At 1:40, when I needed...

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    Overcast

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    We’re supposed to feel some of a massive cold front moving through the west starting tonight. I kind of watched for any signs of it all day, and as the sun was falling in the west late afternoon, I went out back and saw the sun behind the clouds behind the tree. After work,...

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