My goodness, this weather is unsettled. Two inches or so of snow on the ground yesterday morning had mostly melted by this morning. But now we're getting another coating. This area is going to sink into the mud come spring.
We had a nice dinner last night at one of the two real restaurants in town. About the tenderest steak I remember in a long time. A lady at the table next to us was reading a Kindle, and I had never seen one in person. Following the lead of the server, who also asked about it, I asked if she would mind my looking at it. What followed was a very pleasant and interesting conversation with her. She is also in the area on a temporary job, for the hospital. We are definitely in the wrong business...she mentioned doing some weekend side work as a PA that paid $500 a day plus travel and lodging. Nice! Maybe we'll see more of her before we go.
Our new friend told us about one of the horses that I've mentioned before running loose. I guess one of them is a genius horse, that actually stops and waits for the light to cross the highway. Eddie mentioned seeing it actually herding the rest of them back away from the highway as an eighteen wheeler approached. I'm going to take my camera every time I go to 'town' to try and catch some photos of them. We haven't noticed a particularly smart palomino among them, but I'll be watching.
My daughter Laurie, who is serving as our mail drop and forwarding clerk, tells me my book about the Navajo of Canyon de Chelly is on its way. Can't wait! Speaking of de Chelly, I've been wondering about the origin of that name. The Navajo call this place Tsegi or Tseye. Those are both attempts to phonetically spell the Navajo word, and I don't know how to include all the accent marks they use, so those are missing. I guess the Spanish heard it as Chelly, using the Spanish sound for the double l, kind of a y sound, too, making a double yeh yeh sound at the end of the word. Now everyone pronounces it Shay. Still don't know what it actually means, lol.
Our duplex neighbor, Tess, dropped by yesterday. We asked each other if we made too much noise for the other, and then she asked me if I heard the mouse in the wall. NO!!! Didn't hear it, and don't want to see it, either. Actually, it wouldn't bother me that much to see it as long as it keeps its distance. And leaves our food alone. And doesn't go poo anywhere. Come to think of it, I don't want to see it. Hope Tess's trap is effective. People think of country life as being peaceful. It's true you don't hear or have to endure traffic or much other kind of noise, but the potential for wildlife of any kind in the house is not what I call peaceful.
There are noises being made about extending Budd's time here by six weeks to six months. The former, ok. I'm not so sure about the latter, but we'll see.
Today is laundry day again, and I'm not looking forward to a laundry day with snow added. Parking is not close, so by the time I get back to my car with folded laundry, it probably won't still be dry. Maybe I can take a garbage bag for laundry umbrella. Heaven help me if I tip over the cart and dump it on the ground like I did the first week.
How 'bout those Jazz???!!! Sweeping San Antonio for the first time since '92-'93 season. SWEET! It's great to see players like Kirilinko getting back close to their former ability, and the newer ones doing well too. So glad we got the TV going and can watch our team again. I guess I'm a little sorry Tim Duncan fouled out and missed his 20,000th point by one, it would have been nice to see a milestone like that. But not at all sorry the Jazz won! Maybe that would have taken the shine off that point for Duncan anyway. I wish him well in the next game.
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