Andy and I get the New Yorker Day-by-Day Calendar every year. The other morning he laughed and said, “I actually understood this one.” The cartoon showed three people sitting at a restaurant. One was happily eating and the other two were taking pictures of their food. The server looked worried and asked the woman eating,
Is there something wrong with your food?
Do you eat in restaurants much? If so, do you take pictures of your food?
April 8, 2024
I laughed at the punch line, but the cartoon is incorrect. We lived in upstate NY (Ithaca) for 8 1/2 years. And yes, the winters were six months long and cold and gloomy. The sun came out about six days total during the winter. But we did get heat in the hot muggy summers…I thought they were worse than the winters. (I was happy there and have a lot of great memories, but it wasn’t because of the weather.)
Anyway, we didn’t complain yesterday when we had snow showers and wind here in “sunny New Mexico”. The high up on the land was about freezing, so Andy stayed down here working on a new electronics design. He’ll go up today to see what it’s like. No complaints here!
April 7, 2024
I started studying Spanish with Duolingo May 6, 2023. I’m still doing the minimum each day with Duo and have been watching Netflix programs with Spanish subtitles. Some of it seems to be sticking. Click on the photos for higher resolution.
I love learning new things and watching things grow, so this has been a great hobby… I hope I can continue with it. Bless Duolingo for getting me started.
April 6, 2024
Andy brought home some tomatoes Sunday afternoon:
Hurray for that greenhouse!
April 5, 2024
Sometime in the past month or so this backstop of the basketball court broke.
They replaced it Tuesday.
And two of the guys tried it out afterwards.
The management made the right choice in putting the court there.
April 4, 2024
thinks it’s Spring!
Andy had to plow the drift:
But then he could drive up in the Jeep.
He took this picture to show how the snow melts on the south-facing slopes first. We can tell which direction is North and which is South.
April 3, 2024
But around 5 the sun came out and it started to melt some.
Andy stayed down here, but he’ll try driving up to the mountains today.
April 2, 2024
Andy had to plow the drift first, but he managed to drive all the way to the house yesterday.
They are forecasting more snow for today and tomorrow. Click on the pictures for higher resolution.
One way or another it should be interesting.
April 1, 2024
Andy walked the last half mile in again yesterday because the snow is still drifting on our driveway by the greenhouse. (The plastic snow fence blew down in January). He has bought a wooden snow fence so he’ll try that next winter. He’ll stay down here today and maybe go up again tomorrow. Sooner or later the drifts will melt.
March 30, 2024
