Monthly Archives: January 2023

The Valles Caldera webcam posts a new picture every minute, and Sunday I looked from time to time to see what was happening. Here’s the sunrise. Here are pictures of cross country skiers. And here are two pictures of the … Continue reading →

One thing we wanted to do when we went up to the land Friday was to see where the snow had accumulated, and where it hadn’t. If we can figure out why we’ll try to build a snow fence so … Continue reading →

One thing I wanted to do when we went to the land Friday was to get a picture of the steep bank Orlando drove the bulldozer up: Here’s where he came back out to the road: We’re still impressed that … Continue reading →

It was a gorgeous day yesterday. I took a potful of snapshots and put them, unorganized, in this Flickr album. The high was slightly above freezing, and as you can see from the sunrise and sunset pictures from the Valles … Continue reading →

We’re planning to go up to the land today to see what the guys have done. It’s going to be cold, a low during the night of 2°F, a daytime high of 34°F. With the wind chill it could feel … Continue reading →

Andy and I don’t get bored, but we do appreciate uneventful days. At the end of our Christmas letter last year Andy wrote, Hope your year was even less eventful than ours! Anyway the roadwork is done for a while. … Continue reading →

They’re not quite done yet, but almost. The plow slipped off the road and needed to be rescued with the dozer: They did a great job making the road wide in case we get more snow: And the Jeep came … Continue reading →

It went well yesterday. They pulled the plow back on the road: Then they drove the dozer up the bank and around the plow and our truck so they could pull our truck backwards out of the drift…after carefully checking … Continue reading →

about 4 pm. That was not good news. They had brought up a snow plow and backhoe, the idea being the backhoe would dig our truck out of the snow drift. Unfortunately it didn’t have chains so it couldn’t help. … Continue reading →

Andy phoned Orlando yesterday afternoon and Orlando says he’ll have some equipment (plow plus backhoe?) this morning. The gates are locked so they’ll phone Andy when they’re ready to leave so he can meet them up there. I’ll write tomorrow … Continue reading →