SNOW!!

OK, I may get tired of it, eventually, but I still get excited when we have some sort of out of the ordinary weather occurrence.  Cameron calls me the "Storm Goddess" due to the pure joy I got from a ride we were on, a few years ago, in which we were on a highway near the Grand Canyon that was right between 2 fantastic thunderstorms.  We got hailed on and pretty wet by the time we got to lodgings for the night, but I was ecstatic!

Well, this morning we awoke to snow on the ground.  Only around an inch, but it stuck to all the trees and bushes, blanketing our complex with pristine whiteness.

This is our dog's first snow and I wasn't sure how she would handle walking in it (she's a large chihuahua.)  I had to carry her down the stairs, but after that, she cruised through the fresh powder with no problems, wagging her tail the entire time.  She probably sensed my excitement, so joined in.  We appeared to be the first one's out in it, in our immediate vicinity, so there were no other dog prints around. (These are her's.)

This excitement aside, we are supposedly going to be able to move back to our actual apartment today.  We looked in on it yesterday and several things still needed attention, such as re-installation of the water heater, lighting fixtures, and, of course, cleaning up the mess from the drywall and painting.  I'm estimating this afternoon, but we'll see.  It all depends on how many people they put to the task.

Yesterday, we bundled up and took a short ride to a town called Pecos.  It's along the old Santa Fe Trail and we were curious.  There isn't much of a town to really look at.  The population is 6000+, but it looked like the inhabitants were scattered about the area and there isn't really a "downtown" that we noticed.  But, the countryside was pretty and the sky gorgeous, as usual.

We continued past Pecos to the Pecos National Historical Park, where we saw ruins from a mission built in the 1700's.  There are numerous other ruins dating back much farther, but we weren't dressed for the hike. We will save that for another time, now that we know it's there.

The sun is trying to peek out from the cloud cover and has melted much of the snow on the trees.  The ground is still covered, but, that too will probably be gone by noon.  It's nice that it happened on a day that neither one of us had to go to work, so we can just take it in and have a relaxing morning. Click Here, for a slide of our ride.