Sunday was a day that dawned (okay, poetic license there...after we got up about 8:30 am!) about as cold and windy as we've seen any morning yet. As we were having breakfast the snow started flying!
We went on errands and did a very cold hike. We went out to dinner at "Harry's RoadSide Diner"....to back up and let you know how this came about, we are at a Park about 8 miles outside of Santa Fe and pretty "national park-y" in that the sites are very large and filled with trees, dirt interior roads, and a long hiking trail around the perimeter. We're 5-6 miles from any commercial development to speak of, and not many houses out here. So, a place to eat close by is a good thing and we're willing to overlook "gourmet fauxpas"--fly in the soup, etc. ;-)
We got to Harry's and couldn't believe the # of cars there...we walked in and were pleasantly surprised to see three different rooms, each decorated differently and cute, plus the lounge area. Rather than wait 20 minutes for dining room seating, we nabbed a couple seats at the bar. The menu was not huge but do we want to see a large variety of fish on the menu, being from Seattle? No....we both were very happy with our dinner, and had conversations with several people near us, including the bartender, who was absolutely amazing in terms of memory of orders and super multi-tasking!
When we returned to our car, the snow had started again and was sticking...it got down to the low 20's overnight and even though we had removed the water hose from the moho, we placed it on the picnic table and found it frozen solid the next morning!
Today (after thawing out our water hose) we headed to the Pecos National Historical Park and took in the visitor's center and the very well done walking tour (self-guided) and Casey Noodle was able to go with us! We decided to have lunch before going out the next site, the Civil War battle of Glorieta Pass. We asked the park ranger for a recommendation and he sent us to the Shell gas station...okay, I'm willing to take a chance on "Harry's" (which turned out great) but a gas station??? He suggested the burrito. We were envisioning the burrito that you get from the cold case and nuke. Walking in we noticed the huge grill area/kitchen that took up 2/3 of the gas station interior! The "chef" was clad in a clean white apron with a hair net on short, neat hair and a huge walkin cooler just for his kitchen! Jeff did indeed have the burrito (there were a dozen choices of same) and I had the avocado sandwich--yummm! So, there you go, you can find good food in all kinds of funky places!
So, in looking at weatherunderground.com for travel tomorrow, we find that we are not in a Wind Advisory mode, so that's good, but now we're under a Freezing Advisory. I feel so sorry for the farmers around here. We just saw an apple farmer on the news talking about his complete crop loss due to the cold and snow. His orchard was covered with 8-10" of snow while the apple blossoms were still out. Having grown up on an apple orchard, I can really understand how he feels, let alone the monetary loss. He said this was more snow than they had all winter long!
Hello you two this is the first time we have had a chance to blog you back, it sounds and looks like you are having a great time. Sorry the weather is not good but it sounds like you have adjusted well. Now that we are caught up we will try and follow more often. One comment the wine could not have been that good if Jeff only bought one bottle.
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