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Category Archives: The Arroyo
Trees & Flowers & Desert Rain
by Doranna The fire season is coming on early, dry, and hard, so I’ve been working as I can on the arroyo fire clearing project (which is much bigger than I am any way you look at it). Last fall … Continue reading
Property Lines are Your Friends
by Doranna Or, how I spent my summer vacation. Or, since I didn’t have a summer vacation, how I spent my weekend. We live in a rugged area of the Sandia Mountain foothills, in a bowl that’s surrounded by a … Continue reading
Nothing to Do But Shriek
There are certain ingrained important reactions in life. When you look at a baby or a puppy, you go awwwww. When you look at plumber butt-crack, you go ewwww. When there’s a bat swooping frantically through your hallway over your … Continue reading
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Tagged adventures, land, New Mexico
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Barking Irony
Dear New Neighbor: I bet when you saw Beagles in my back yard, you thought, “Oh, good! She’s used to barking dogs and she won’t mind mine.” Wrong. And wrong. Contrary to common belief, a happy and fulfilled Beagle is … Continue reading
Watching the Grass Grow. More than a Cliche.
…Monday Or not, as it might happen. It is the Spring of Waiting. The first spring. The one when I don’t really know what’s going to happen, when. Like…when do the hummingbirds find us? We have three feeders now, ready … Continue reading
And Your Little Hatchet, too!
posted on Wednesday Yup. Got me my cactus fork. Got me my little hatchet. And today, the juniper nursery and I gave each other a nervous hairy eyeball and faced off. I like my little hatchet. Buh-bye, little trees! Of course, … Continue reading
Cactus Forking
posted on Monday Not a word combination that comes often to mind. But the agility area is rife with a low-lying prickly pear and hoo boy, it’s gotta go. It starts with the hoe: lift the flat pads of the … Continue reading
Snowgility
posted on Friday What’re you gonna do. The dogs are clamoring for training, and the road is pure muck, and the agility yard is hovering somewhere between knee-deep in snow and melted into sludge. Not to mention the next trial … Continue reading
Just. Not. Right.
Posted on Monday Snowmageddon, New Mexico style! I guess I’d better get used to it: Although to judge by the reaction of folks who have lived here for a while, the weekly and bi-weekly succession of storms this winter is … Continue reading