Is the drought over?
It’s New Mexico: From the awesome Fuck Yeah NM Roadrunner
Archive of posts filed under the family category.
Sadie: 1997-2011
We are sad, and also concerned that without Sadie to bark faithfully, the mailman will simply remain on the front porch.
What I did on my spring vacation
What I did on my spring vacation: Lissa and I got the backyard train running (track needed a bit of post-winter sprucing up) We rode the big people train to Santa Fe I got new glasses We got far more work done to the car than I expected Slept in some, but got up early …
What I learned today: vegetarian soy sauce
While cruising today with Nora at 99 Bahn, the Asian market on Albuquerque’s far south side, I learned there are a lot of different kinds of vegetarian soy sauce. This particular one is House Wife brand:
Endangered species grow pals – the climate change connection
While shopping recently at the Dollar Store, Nora and I came across the new frontier in climate change communication – inexpensive toys. The Endangered Species Grow Pal, Penguin Edition, is apparently collectible, and was a bargain at just $1. (It’s the Dollar Store.) Its package includes this helpful background: Penguin populations have decreased by nearly …
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It’s Albuquerque. We do balloons.
There’s something endearingly goofy about hot air balloons. Which is what makes the Dark Lord, sort of puffed up and laying on his side in at dawn in an Albuquerque park, so charmingly counter-intuitive. It is the season of our city’s annual hot air ballon fiesta, nine days of a gobzillions (OK, hundreds, but literally …
California Über Alles
I had breakfast this morning with a bunch of California expats. It’s a weird label. We don’t normally think of ourselves that way. But I’ve been feeling nostalgic about the land of my birth lately. Not sure why, but it probably has something to do with seeing palm trees, citrus groves and bougainvillea last month …
If I May Brag
In which my daughter makes an appearance in this morning’s newspaper (sub/ad req): Nora Heineman-Fleck, social networking liaison for the University of New Mexico and a frequent user of online networks, has learned to tailor her personal networks like Facebook to make them more useful. “I very rarely actually ‘unfriend’ people,” she says. “I usually …
January Bird List: the Bewick’s Wren
I think of our backyard as a little ecosystem, but like most such ecosystems in our 21st century world, it’s impossible to think about them without understanding the effects of human interventions, both accidental and intentional. We’ve got a pond, a metal stock tank Lissa gave me for my 40th birthday. Cattails found their way …
The Winter of ’68-69
I grew up in Upland, in the suburbs east of Los Angeles, in the foothills beneath Cucamonga Peak. Southern California’s storms this week have been a pleasant reminder of my childhood. A little cross referencing of family memory and old weather records pinned it down to January of 1969. It was my sister Lisa’s 12th …