The highway signs in Arizona on the day before Thanksgiving read, “I like my potatoes mashed and my drivers sober.” And I’m thinking, shouldn’t that actually say “smashed”?
Or does “mashed” also mean “drunk” nowadays and I’m just dating myself by not staying current with the slang? Do people nowadays go out and get mashed? Or did the bureaucrats not want to actually use the word “smashed” on an electric billboard, it somehow being too risqué, and figured we’d know what they meant by “mashed”?
Of course I get that potatoes are more likely to be mashed than smashed, but still, I think smashed would have made the whole sign much clearer. The word “smashed” would really work in two different ways, because not only can it mean drunk, it is also what happens to you and your car when you drive drunk – you smash into things. I guess mashed means that as well, but which are you more likely to say, “My car got totally mashed up”, or “my car got totally smashed up”?
Do you ever get so you just want to fix the dang sign? Lol. Here’s to mashing but not smashing this holiday season.
When we first arrived, the pool was quite cold. Here’s John being a goof in a wetsuit. Don’t ask me why, because I don’t know why. It’s very like him though.
Our first project was to install a pool heater. The pool is our priority because the pool was the reason we bought this house. We’re postponing the kitchen remodel and the painting and all the other things we’d like to do, and we’re focusing on the pool.
In order to install the heater, we had to drain the pool. The water needed drained anyway, because it had gotten too hard over time. In year-round pools, like in Tucson, the water should be drained every 3 years or so. In our case, who knows how long it had been. The calcium build-up can damage the pool filtering and chlorinating equipment.
Here’s where it drains out. It was very pretty watching it run across the stones, although I felt guilty releasing all that water. It made me want to construct a recirculating pond someday, like we had in California (I always get these ideas, don’t I?)
Here we are refilling the pool after the heater was installed. I’m standing there for no reason – just because John asked me to for the picture. Maybe he’s trying to get back at me for the wetsuit picture, lol. The theme being: weird ways to be in a pool.
After the pool heater was installed, we went back to Albuquerque to get our furniture. On the day we moved our furniture to Tucson, we had a major windstorm. All that nice, new, clean water was a mess of dirt and leaves.
The pool came with an old pool vacuum, but it wasn’t really working. It would go for a foot or two and then stop.
Our pool guy suggested a new version of the same type of vacuum, but I was dubious. The one he suggested was expensive and I didn’t like all that ugly hose, and it’s not easy to take in and out. There had to be a better solution.
We got the worst of it out manually, with a skimmer (a net on the end of a handle). Then I did a little research and found this little guy! Isn’t he the cutest thing ever? (Not the bald guy, the little underwater robot vacuum – although the bald guy is pretty cute too, now that I mention it.)
The pool robot was cheaper than the regular hose-intensive vacuum, and it works great! (Hopefully it keeps working for awhile).
It zips along underwater, and drags a floating handle for easy removal when it’s done.
It even goes a little ways up the sides.
It doesn’t skim the top, but that’s fast and easy to do ourselves with the manual skimmer.
Next we installed a solar cover. This will help reduce dirt and leaves and it will also help keep the water warm in the shoulder seasons. In the summer we will store the cover because it would make the water too hot.
The solar cover is like heavy-duty bubble wrap, floating on the water.
Here’s John cutting it to size.
We also bought a reel so we could get it on and off easily.
The cover is clipped to the reel with straps.
It rolls right up!
It’s easy to roll up, and we just pull on it to unroll it. It’s not a nuisance at all.
The next step was to get the water heated up. In the summer the heater isn’t needed. In the middle of the winter it would be prohibitively expensive to heat the pool (although some people in Tucson do heat their pools all winter). We’re having an unseasonably warm November, and we wanted to see how the pool heater worked, so we went ahead and turned it on.
We’re not sure how expensive it will turn out to be. The heater is 400,000 BTU. In comparison, a furnace for a mid-sized house is about 100,000 BTU. So I’m estimated that hour-to-hour it costs about 4 times as much to run the pool heater as a furnace. I’ve never paid any attention to how long a furnace runs in middle of the winter, but a total of 8 hours in 24 hours doesn’t seem like too much. I’m guessing that might be equivalent to 2 hours of the pool heater.
At the moment, with temperatures still quite high (80’s) and dropping to around 50 at night, it’s taking between half hour to an hour to bring the pool heat from the low 80’s to the mid-80’s. That seems reasonable to me, but I expect we’re at the end of the season. Next week the temperatures are supposed to drop a fair amount. And before we know it, we’ll be into December.
We’re really, really enjoying the pool. I’ve used it every day since we got here except one day where I was just really busy unpacking. But I nearly always make time to take a break and get into the pool. I’m not a strong swimmer and have zero form, but I alternate between my front and my back to keep from getting too tired. I do several laps and it seems to be very restorative for me.
John enjoys the pool too.
A cold front is coming in and we probably won’t be using the pool regularly from now through mid-winter. Still, I can’t believe it’s been this warm in November. Tucson is amazing.
For years Laura’s blue willow dishes had been missing. I was sure they had been stored at her dad’s house since her childhood, but he insisted he didn’t have them. Turns out he did, and he came across them recently. The long-lost dishes are finally reunited with Laura.
Here’s an end-of-summer patio dinner in Laura’s backyard with Alex and her dad and stepmom (and Zane, the dog).
Zane and his buddy Bucky:
In addition to Zane, Laura and Alex have another new pet, Caden the cat. He’s shy, and spent his first few days hiding in the closet, so they put his bed in there for him. He’s slowly getting braver with his new surroundings.
A really cute picture of two of Emily’s girls:
Here’s all three of them, Daphne, Thea and Phoebe:
A few days too late for Halloween, here’s a funny picture John took of me dressed in disposable painter’s coveralls when I was painting kitchen drawers and cabinets. Lol, I didn’t really paint with the hood up, I just did that for the photo. But if I had been painting overhead, it would have come in handy.
If Laura was able to spend 5 years in damp & humid Japan with no clothes dryer, surely I can manage in Tucson, one of the most arid places in the US, right? The climate in the region where Laura lived in Japan was like Seattle in the winter and Miami in the summer. How she got anything dry, I don’t know.
Not that I originally planned to be without a dryer. The minute I knew we were going to be under contract for the new house in Tucson, I ordered a washer & dryer. I ordered right away because I knew there were delays due to covid. Sure enough, the delivery date was pushed way out.
We had no washer and dryer when we arrived, but I had a delivery date of mid-November. It hadn’t changed for a month, so I was tempted to believe it. Two days before delivery, they pushed it out by another month.
I had already been without a washer and dryer for nearly two weeks. I was not going to be able to go another month without figuring in a trip or two to the laundromat. Noooo! That would not be my favorite outing in the best of times. Definitely not what I want to do during covid.
The delivery dates didn’t really seem to mean anything. I wondered if they had no idea when the washer and dryer would be in stock and were just stringing me along, a month at a time. I called to ask, and the customer service agent was vague and evasive. She reluctantly admitted that yes, she had seen delivery dates change repeatedly, maybe going on for months. Meanwhile, they had my money.
Should I cancel the order? Was there some sort of queue and I was slowly getting toward the front and if I canceled I’d be in the back of the line again? Or was this washer and dryer simply never going to happen?
I started googling the models, looking to see whether they were in stock anywhere, at any store, and to check what the other stores were saying about availability. What I found was surprising. The washer was in stock at several stores in the region (if I was willing to settle for white rather than a designer color, fine, I don’t care.)
The issue was the dryer. Most stores were showing it unavailable, not even to backorder. One store was selling it, but warned it was out of stock until late February. February! Then I knew it was the dryer holding my order up, not the washer. I realized I wasn’t going to get either my washer or my dryer until February, because they were intending to deliver them together, even though the washer is currently available.
I canceled my order. I didn’t want a washer and dryer in February. I wanted a washer now. I reordered the washer only, from a different store, and got my new white washer within two days. Yay! Wash machine!
I figured I could pick up a used dryer cheap on craigslist. I figured wrong. There appears to be a supply and demand problem. People are charging nearly-new prices for twenty-year-old dryers! No thanks.
Plus, for some reason the dryers are retailing for more than the wash machines. That just seems backwards to me. And both are so expensive right now! So instead of a brand new, gazillion-dollar dryer, for less than 50 bucks I bought the fanciest clothes drying rack I could find on Amazon.
This bad boy holds a lot of clothes, on hangers so I don’t have to mess with clothespins and then transfer the clothes to hangers. It also provides nice wide, stiff rods for draping rugs over.
It easily collapses and telescopes down for storage. It’s lightweight, easy to move around, and suitable for indoor or outdoor use. The reviews say it doesn’t blow over in the wind – we’ll have to see about that. At least we’re not in Albuquerque-level winds anymore.
Meanwhile, John had strung a clothesline. Now that’s a sentence I never thought I’d write. Every time we move (and John and I move a lot), I always want a clothesline. And every time he objects, on aesthetic grounds. I’ve accused him of being an elitist snob, but that doesn’t convince him. He hated clotheslines. Every time I washed bulky bedding and rugs, I would have to drape them over the patio furniture because I never had a clothesline. (Not exactly an aesthetically pleasing alternative, by the way.)
But now we didn’t have a dryer, with no solution in sight. In these extenuating circumstances, I finally got a clothesline! John was amazed how well the clothesline worked. It’s Tucson! The clothes dried as fast on the line as they would have in a dryer. John said it was like magic! Lol. I didn’t have a clothesline for 15 years and now I have a magic clothesline.
I suppose I’ll buy a dryer someday. Some cold rainy day in February I’ll decide I really ought to get a dryer. But right now I’m not even bothering to try to find one. In Tucson a dryer doesn’t seem all that necessary. Saves us a bunch of money, not to mention lowering our energy footprint.
We have no idea what this is. An alien, apparently. I thought New Mexico had a monopoly on aliens, but here’s one in Tucson too. Maybe it’s a desert thing.
It lives a couple of blocks away; we often pass it on our morning walk. Of course we had to pose with it.
After covid, come visit me and you too can get your picture taken with an alien in my neighbor’s yard.
Remember in a recent post I bragged about how well New Mexico was doing with covid? For weeks we had about 100 new cases a day. That was 100 too many, but it wasn’t an alarming amount compared to our neighboring states of Arizona and Texas, which were way out of control. But suddenly, last week, our numbers started rising. Instead of around 100 new cases each day, it was 200 and then 300 and then 400, and every day was worse and worse. Wednesday was 577 new cases and yesterday was 672! I have no idea what’s going on.
I don’t know what happened to make the cases start rising like that. It doesn’t seem like it could have been the weather. In early and mid October it was still hot in Albuquerque. (That was before the sudden rapid drop in temperature resulting in snow late in the month). Did New Mexicans get tired of wearing their masks? For months, New Mexico was probably the most masked state in the US. Even stricter than California, New Mexicans have been wearing their masks outdoors and well as indoors, including while exercising. For months. So what happened?
Along with a lot of the rest of the country, it has gotten so much worse since I wrote that post a month ago. Daily new cases rose and rose. It was 1,000, then it was 1,500…every new milestone was shocking. Yesterday new cases in New Mexico exceeded 2,000. That might not sound like much to those of you in populous states, but the entire population of New Mexico is only about 2 million people. That’s smaller than a lot of cities.
Since we’re in Arizona now, here’s the Arizona statistics – approximately 4,000 new cases yesterday, out of a population of over 7 million. So Arizona is actually doing better than New Mexico by percent of population.
I’m also having trouble believing the rate increases are due to the winter season. That’s a plausible theory in the north, but Albuquerque temperatures were in the 80’s and 90’s when rates started climbing there early last month. And it’s still hot in Tucson. It was 91 degrees today. That’s not winter weather.
There’s so much unknown. In addition to the rapidly rising numbers, it’s very concerning what we’re hearing about long term effects. People are exhausted and foggy-brained and have other vague but debilitating symptoms months later. It’s just hard not to worry.
Update: in New Mexico, over 2,000 new cases the day before yesterday, nearly 3,000 yesterday. A couple of months ago it was just 100 a day. What is going on?
I want to mention that I have a new facebook account. I’m having a lot of trouble finding people, so maybe you can look me up and send me a friend request if you want. I’m not quite sure how it works, but maybe this link will get you there, https://www.facebook.com/kristina.sullivan.731. Email me if you can’t find it and we’ll figure it out.
I have two accounts – if you find the old one instead, you’ll know it because I haven’t posted there for a long time, and if you friend-request the old one I’ll ignore you because I won’t see it. The new one I just set up yesterday. Not quite sure why I started a new account, just felt like starting over I guess.
I probably won’t post on it much, I prefer this blog. I mainly just wanted to be able to keep up with local activities (which at the moment are confined to zoom, but someday…) and I would like to read your posts, since most of you don’t blog.
BTW, if I have any readers who blog, let me know! I would totally read your blog!
If I were a professional painter, my business card would read, “Neither good nor fast”. Some people are one but not the other. A few are both. I’m just not a painter.
I know, you’re all saying, “But Kristina, you said only a couple of weeks ago that you’re not going to do the painting yourself!” You said, “No, no, no, nope, not happening!”
Uh, yeah. I still plan to hire painters to do the majority of the painting. One of these days, after I’ve tamed the chaos to some extent. Meanwhile, I just need to get my kitchen good enough to at least temporarily unpack!
Here’s what happened. I have ancient (1960’s) kitchen cabinets complete with dorky “tropical” themed faux bamboo hashmarks. They’re, like, amazing (not). At least someone painted them white and they’re no longer mustard (they once were mustard, I can see it in the corners).
They remind me of a 1960’s pool party (not that I was ever at one. I’m not that old.)
I bought the house knowing full well the kitchen needed remodeled, and I am willing to overlook the cosmetic issues like faux bamboo marks. But the contact paper had to go. I tried to clean it. There’s no cleaning ancient contact paper. Contact paper is evil, it’s right up there with wallpaper. I ended up tearing it out. Problem is, it left sticky goo behind. One of the 3 different types of contact paper was foam-backed, and that one left bits of glued-on foam as well as sticky goo.
I tried to wash the drawers and shelves with wallpaper remover, but that didn’t work. We eventually gave up and realized we had a project on our hands. The shelves and drawers were going to need sanded and painted.
I really need my kitchen in working order asap, and am not ready to try to collect painting bids from contractors and wait until someone is available sometime maybe next month if we’re lucky. Plus, the pandemic is nuts right now and I don’t want anyone in my house.
Which is why we spent most of our weekend on an unplanned remodel project, and we’re still not done. John did the sanding and taping and I’m doing two coats of white paint – primer and an enamel. I’ve finished the drawers and the removable shelves, but am still working on the interior of the cabinets.
It’s annoying putting this much work into cabinets that I want to replace soon, but who knows when I’ll actually be able to fully remodel the kitchen. Meanwhile at least I’ll be rid of the contact paper mess and able to put stuff away!
John had wisely arranged to pick up the U-haul the evening before the morning we were scheduled to load. As we were about to leave to pick it up he got a text saying that the truck he had reserved would be in Rio Rancho instead of Albuquerque. He called to find out what that was about and after some careful questioning, he realized that there wasn’t a truck at all.
No U-haul truck in Albuquerque, and the replacement in Rio Rancho that they were going to give him wasn’t actually there yet either. The Rio Rancho truck they assigned us was already a day late coming in, and they had no idea, and no control, over when or whether it would show up. They were just hoping it would be in soon. There were no actual U-haul trucks available in Albuquerque or Rio Rancho. So much for having reserved a truck.
What were we going to do without a moving truck? We had movers lined up for the next morning! So John called Penske and it cost us nearly twice as much, and we had to wait an hour at the Penske shop while they cleaned it, but we got a truck. Whew!
The next morning our movers showed up on time and they were excellent. We’ve used them before for unloading, but we didn’t know how good they were at loading. A good loading job takes skill, and it makes all the difference in the world. You can get twice as much in a truck if it’s loaded tight, and your stuff is less likely to get damaged because it doesn’t shift around.
We had a huge truck, but we also had a ton of stuff. I told the movers to load the couches I got from Craigslist last, because they took up a lot of space and I hadn’t paid very much for them. I planned to abandon them if we ran out of space. Luckily, our movers got it all in, even my lumpy second-hand couches.
For my Albuquerque readers, if you every need movers in Albuquerque, use these guys, https://affmove.com/. They also deliver furniture and can get oversized items from the hardware store, etc. We discovered them when Jackalope (a furniture store in Albuquerque), recommended them a couple of years ago when I bought a heavy sideboard and needed it delivered.
Ignore the U-haul trailer in the picture, that wasn’t ours. The enormous truck was big enough, lol. The movers had the trailer with them for another job later in the day. They were smart to have picked it up early!
They spent several hours carefully loading our truck on Friday morning. We were glad they took the time to do such a good job, but it was mid-afternoon before we could get on the road. Luckily we planned to stop partway anyway. We were driving two vehicles, John driving the enormous Penske, and me following behind with the camper van.
I’m not up to driving huge vehicles late at night. My goal was to get off the freeway before dark. We didn’t quite make the goal. Nightfall found us driving down a twisty road toward a mysteriously missing state park campground. We had accidentally passed our turnoff and found ourselves at a dead end, in middle of nowhere, in the pitch black. The road just stopped. Getting both the truck and the van turned around at the end of the road in the dark was a challenge! John couldn’t see behind him at all, so I had to tell him what to do and he just had to trust me. Once we got turned around and headed the right way again, we didn’t have to backtrack very far. We found the campground and (eventually) found the site we had reserved. Whew. Glad to be done for the day.
The next morning we still had almost 5 hours of driving ahead of us. We had unloaders coming at 2:00, so we left the campground promptly at 8:00 AM, expecting to arrive in Tucson by 1:00. But what a headwind! We had alternating crosswinds and headwinds the entire drive. It was miserable.
The 26′ Penske truck has a huge profile, of course, and the van is the “tall” version, so we were both being blown around. And the truck didn’t have as much power as we would have liked. John spent most of the time with the accelerator pressed to the floor as we slowly chugged along, struggling against the wind.
We finally got to our new house, with 15 minutes to spare before the movers were due to arrive to help us unload.
One of the movers actually beat us to our house and was waiting when we arrived. But that’s the only good thing I can say about the couple of guys who unloaded for us in Tucson. They were lousy. The whole process was miserable. The winds were still gale force, rain was threatening, and I just wanted those guys out of my house and away from my stuff.
I try not to blame movers for breakage, because I figure it’s all in the packing (and I packed). But I watched this happen, and the guy was simply being sloppy and boneheaded. The container was balanced precariously on top of a bunch of other things, dropped way too far, rolled, and came open spilling its contents.
Finally, the truck was empty and the guys were off to help their next unfortunate customers.
I took solace from this welcoming flower in my new front yard. Blooming red cactus!
This other member of our welcoming committee was equally brilliantly red, but not as welcome.
The reason I was able to get a clear shot of the red hourglass on her belly is because she was hanging upside down on a wall. Yes, she was alive when I took the picture. (No, she’s not still alive.)
I shouldn’t post that picture because now you’ll never come visit me! I’ll make sure we’re spider free, don’t worry. We had black widows on the back patio when we first moved into our house in California and in Albuquerque too. It’s just part of moving to a new house in the southwest. That kind of spider doesn’t like people and won’t hang around in the yard once the house is occupied. And the pest guys can take care of them anyway.
At least our house is fairly centrally located in town, so we’re unlikely to get rattlesnakes in the yard. Last year our vacation rental in a rural area just outside Tucson had a rattlesnake in the dog run one morning. Not good!
Here’s our new home sweet home (not looking its best yet, that’s for sure)
Meanwhile, the house back in Albuquerque looks great, now that it’s not jammed full with an entire second house’s worth of stuff!
Last month we went to Taos for a few days. Has it only been a month? A lot has happened since then, but I thought you’d like to hear about the trip. We got some nice pictures. Our goal was to get into the mountains to see the fall color – in this case, yellow aspen. We do have some red maple in one or two forests in New Mexico, but for the most part our fall color is aspen in the mountains, as well as cottonwoods along the river.
We were lucky we got out to the mountains to see the aspen this year, because the fall color never got good along the river. That’s because shortly after our trip to the mountains, Albuquerque had an early hard freeze and a snowstorm only a week into October. A lot of the leaves down in the valley just went directly from green to dead.
We loved our vacation rental in Arroyo Seco, just north of Taos. The casita was walking distance from central Arroyo Seco (all block or two of it), yet still out in the country.
It was just a 1-bedroom cottage, but it was very spacious. It had a wonderful patio and lots of New Mexican charm.
Here’s the patio, very quiet and peaceful, nothing nearby.
Lots of wood and adobe details in the casita.
This quaint church was near our casita, along our walk into town.
On one of the days we drove into Taos. Here are photos from a very large Mexican furniture store we briefly went into, but we were reluctant to linger or go into any smaller shops because of covid. This was shortly before New Mexico’s covid rates started to skyrocket. After the rates got so bad, I stopped going into stores altogether. But as you can see, it wasn’t crowded (except crowded with stuff, lol).
That was a fun place to wander around in, but if you actually want to buy furniture in Taos, I recommend Antigua de Mexico Imports instead. We’ve purchased from them before, and have gotten to be friends with the owners, Gonzalo and Blanca. They import some of their furniture, but they also make a lot of their own furniture themselves and will make to your custom measurements if you want. They also have much better prices than that other store we checked out.
I was too busy buying stuff to take very many photos at Antigua. Just this chair – we bought 6 of them and Gonzalo made us a table to match.
He managed to get the table done just in time to take to Tucson with us. Everything we’ve purchased from Gonzalo we’ve taken down to Tucson.
Here’s a little side road in Taos we walked while waiting for our take-out food to be ready.
Unfortunately, the food was terrible. We didn’t even eat it, it was that bad! After that day, we decided we’d seen enough of Taos and stayed in Arroyo Seco for the rest of the weekend. Arroyo Seco has a few small galleries and a great cafe, https://solfoodnm.com/sol-food-cafe/, all within walking distance of our casita. I could eat at Sol Food every day and never get tired of them!
Here’s a Greek salad with hummus and dolmas. It would be even prettier if it wasn’t in a take-out box, lol.
Here’s a sweet little place to sit among the cosmos and hollyhocks, and a statue of the Greek God Pan, in “downtown” Arroyo Seco:
Right near there I bought earrings directly from the artist who made them. She said they represented “strength.”
I figured we could all use a little strength nowadays.
The hiking trails are closer to Arroyo Seco than Taos – just a short drive from the casita. Because I’m still low in energy, we only hiked a mile or so on the most level trail we could find, but it was still steep, and a challenge for me. We went on the same trail two different times, because I didn’t want to try anything steeper. Luckily it was beautiful both times!
It wasn’t crowded but there were enough people that we wore our masks (mandatory in New Mexico anyway). Mine is in my hand, just off for the photo. And don’t worry, John usually wears his mask right. That “fake beard” look was just for the photo, so we could see how happy he was 🙂
We went up there to see the trees and wow, we got trees!
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