My birthday here at the Fortress of Platitudes would have been incomplete without pinto beans and party animals. Notes: — All party animal photos by Izzy and Molly owner Lori.
Cowboy 2, center, with neighbor pals Molly and Izzy on the lookout. Placitas horses minding their own business below. Also at the neighbors: Cowboy2 after the season’s first thunder rumble; Izzy and Molly just normal. .
Cowboy and a pal drag me into the hills, where we find beauty, quiet and ATV tracks. Click to enlarge and enable slideshow.
Well scare turned out to be just a bad pump. Some hope for snow in the forecast later this week. Most of the rest of the news not good but we took a day off.
This morning’s wildfire smoke started me thinking about our last big snow. It was December 2006 and it was a big one for the upper Middle Rio Grande valley. A record-setting 11.3 inches landed on the airport in Albuquerque. We got close to a couple of feet up here in Placitas. That is my late …
Happy birthday, Cowboy. March means you are three. The start of Daylight Savings Time seems like a good day to call yours. You are easy to associate with a lost hour of sleep. But I’m glad you are on my case. Your were a sick pup when you came. I’d say you’re plenty healthy now. …
At Cowboy and John’s, the new year resolutions are: 1. More lopin’, less mopin’. 2. More lit, less twit. 3. More César Millán, less carryin’ on.
This ship of state — this self-obsessed, rusting hulk of retired newspaperman — steadied the moment I felt the stillness of the coming autumn air. No pain this morning, only a sense of the gentle season ahead. I put out fresh water for scrub jays, finches, titmouses and Texas antelope squirrels, grateful that the rattlesnakes …
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