This evening after the Lobos basketball team knocked off Utah State to widen their lead atop of the Mountain West standings, I needed to go load up on victuals for the next few weeks. I left 208 dollars at the store for my provisions.
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This morning, the city began the day under a blanket of clouds and cold. The blanket rent and healed into the afternoon, and by mid-day, the rumbling of thunder led me to open the front door and realize it was raining. In a short time, the rain turned into snow pellets that rattled onto...
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On my lunchtime walk today, I again came across the Say’s Phoebe that lives in the little park area on the far side of my trail. It likes to flit up and down along the ground looking for bugs, and then takes to a bush when I pass so we can look at each...
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By 5:15 today, I had forgotten to get a picture of anything, so with the sun setting behind us, I sent the drone up for a Sandia shot before the light was gone. Had I waited another 10 minutes, the front edges of the clouds would have been painted rose- but so it goes.
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In lieu of watching the Super Bowl today, I opted to take advantage of near 70-degree spring-like weather, and I headed down past Socorro to Bosque del Apache to visit whatever critters might be there. And it was a nice and quiet, gentle-sun-on-my-face slow-rollin’ kind of afternoon. I drove the south loop and then...
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I sent later afternoon at my sister’s to watch the UNM men’s hoops team play Air Force in Colorado Springs. After a 35-point beatdown of the honorable cadets, I made my way to get to my vehicle to head home. The eyes of my sister’s family’s dachshund, Peanut, were the last I was to...
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I took a different path on my walk this evening, and on my jaunt around the Academy Loop, I passed the entrance to the Albuquerque Academy. Listening to the din of cars passing and turning in and turning out was this little dog I happened upon sitting on a wall. Which surprised me when...
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Despite the remarkable beauty that surrounds us in nature, there is always the reminder that within it itself is cruelty, and misfortune. This afternoon I was enjoying the sparrows that frequent the bird feeder in my backyard, and this one fluttered in for a meal. From the looks of it (and judging by its...
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At lunch today, I took another walk along my usual route- half a mile out and half a mile back to the east on the arroyo trail. Today, it felt nothing like winter, though- the sky, criss-crossed by vapor trails, was a deep blue, and the sun was warm. As I approached the park...
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With an Albuquerque BioPark pass in my possession and a sunny 70-degree afternoon before me, I spent several hours at the city zoo today. I was ambivalent about going at first because of my old mental tendency to think “I’ve been there before- what will be different this time?” Well, this time, the gorillas...
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After a slow start this morning, I headed over to Walmart about noon to pick up some scrubbing items- so the I could try to remove the white paint that was spattered in the wheel wells and on the flaps on the left side of my truck two nights ago when I drove through...
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