Autumn is here! and other news

Autumn is in the air! It’s a nice, sunny day, but cool. The crisp is definitely here in the morning and evening. Even the newscasters are wearing turtlenecks. I must find—no, MAKE—time for winter shopping. It will be a major endeavor as basically I have NO winter clothing whatsoever and I will need MAJOR winter clothing. One day it was summer, three days later it is autumn, in two weeks it’s fall, and I’d better have long johns and down vest by October!

Went into towns today, both Taos, to drop off a few more paintings for prints before the High Road Tour, and then down to Santa Fe for supplies, etc. Yes we prefer Taos, but it is small (one reason why we like it) but when hardware store, art store, grocery does not carry our standards, oh well. Another 65 or a hundred miles is nothing out here. If you can make it there and back in a day, that is. We logged 160 miles, not counting driving around in towns and that translates into about 4-1/2 to 5 hours driving time plus about 7 stores shopping trips (and I don't even want to think how many hundred dollars)--and that's all in the average of our week to ten-days to two-weeks trip into town.

Picked up the new trim color for the house. Leonardo loves this one but I am completely not convinced. It looked like it was heading toward a domestic dispute so I stood down. Well, we’ll just paint it on and we’ll see. There’s far more to worry about than that. In any case, I agree with him on the point that it is better than the orange that we both agreed on and then both agreed it would not work. This is a sage-y green. I’m totally OK with that, but this is SO subdued. I wanted something with a bit more zing. The same basic color, just a tad bit brighter is all. Or purple. Purple would so rock.

Our gate is finally arriving tomorrow. Two ten-foot gates, to be exact, as our driveway is 20 feet wide. And we’ll have to get a roll or two of horse fence because the cattle wander over from the neighbor’s unfenced place. The goal is to keep the horses and cattle out (who are free-ranging by land-grant law) off our property so that we can grow roses and garden and anything else without them all trampling and eating and spontaneously fertilizing said flora. We thought we were good with the gate until I was up on the tall ladder painting the house when I saw over the roof--six of them just amble through where the back fence had been.

Yeah. Not only the joys of home-ownership, but the joys of home-owner-fixer-upper-ship. You just have no idea the full extent of your task until you fix one thing and discover five other, related disasters. Hey! I’m a quick learner! We’re still happy we did this! And I’m hella handy with the WonderBar (a mini-crowbar with a nice flat edge that gets under just about anything, and a hook on the other end that puts hammers to shame whilst pulling out the smallest nail, even one with the head shaved off.)

I’ve got a bunch of pictures of the house in progress (so far) and I’ve got a notebook, finally, to paste in receipts, pictures, blogs, etc, I just don’t have any time to put it all together. I’ll get y’all another photo phriday up on Trishtown when I can but don’t hold your breath for another several days to a week or so. Things are nuts around here with all this stuff going on.

Oh yeah--anyone know how to scare up a survey from 1982? Don't surveys get recorded someplace? County Courthouse? I need to find one, don't want to pay for a new one.

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Hardcore_Pyro (2007-09-14)
I'm so looking forward to fall temperatures. The summer heat here in central California has been exhausting to say the least. We finally have cooled down to the mid 80's which is a blessing. Home improvement seems to always go hand in hand with tension and anxiety. A rule of thumb that I try to follow is; sometimes you have to give a little in order to get a little. It's a beautiful thing.

Buddy Ter (2007-09-13)
Any idea who did the '82 survey? The surveyor's company would have records.

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