Of course our central heating chose the coldest day of the year – the coldest few days in several years – to crap out. I mean, when else would it quit? Right?
I know you’re all like, Kristina, you’re in Tucson, how bad can it be? Well…I am grateful I’m in Tucson. But we’re getting hard freezes at night, and this house isn’t insulated. At all. I think I’ve mentioned that, but my apologies, it’s quite relevant so I’m going to say it again. We’re not insulated. Our exterior walls are solid adobe brick coated on the inside by a thin layer of lath and plaster. There’s no empty wall between studs where the insulation could go. And our ceiling/roof is one solid unit of 5″ thick wood timbers. No crawl space, no gap whatsoever for insulation, it’s just wood between us and the sky (yes, rainstorms are loud).
So like I said, I’m freezing. Luckily, what is saving me is the mini-split in our family room. It was originally an Arizona room (a 3-walled space open to the backyard, used for sleeping before air conditioning). When the previous owners added the fourth wall to create an interior space, they added a mini-split since the central heating didn’t extend into this room. Thank goodness for the mini-split. It is admirably keeping the family room, kitchen and dining area reasonably warm.
Also I’m wearing two sweaters and sitting on an electric blanket. Also I’m having a hot flash, but that’s an entirely different subject. OMG, I get them so bad. Even when my house is 61º. It’s ridiculous. But I still love Tucson and I still can’t wait for summer, because I’m just not a winter kind of gal.
Here’s pictures of the frost on top of our cars at 8:00 yesterday morning when I was on my way to volunteer at the botanical garden. Our task at the botanical garden yesterday was to collect and toss into the compost hundreds of potted poinsettias that were lining the pathways and had frozen. It was sad!
This next one is disorienting, looking up into the sky, but it’s the top front of our van, lit by the rising sun behind me. The other cars were too low to yet be in the sun.
That is the top of the Mini Cooper, and I wasn’t tall enough to see what exactly I was taking. I just reached up, angled my phone down, and hit the photo button a few times. I thought the pictures turned out pretty well for blind shots.
We had been planning to go to Mexico for Christmas. But at the last minute, we dug our snowshoes out of our storage unit, and our hats, coats, gloves, scarves and boots out of the very back of our closets, and went to Albuquerque instead.
Christmas morning we went snowshoeing in the Sandia Mountains. We went early to beat the sledding crowds, who were all still home opening presents. At first it was very cold.
But the sun was strong and the cold breeze died down as we progressed along the trail.
I was reluctant to take off my gloves to take pictures, but I did manage to get a good picture of John.
John took tons of pictures of me. We were both very happy that I’ve gotten strong enough to snowshoe at high elevation.
I have old pictures of me snowshoeing to the top of Mt. Taylor, on December 27, 2009. Same snowshoes, same gloves, same blue striped hat, same haircut, (same husband, lol), but still a very different me. The picture above is from a week and a half ago, and the picture below is from 14 years ago.
If you zoom in to this next one, you can see a little point-and-shoot camera hanging from a loop at my side. Times have changed so fast.
That hike, 14 years ago, was very hard. I don’t imagine I could do it nowadays.
Here’s John from that same hike in 2009.
It was a beautiful Christmas morning, snowshoeing in the mountains east of Albuquerque.
We have John to thank and complement for all these photos of lights, including the ones in the previous two posts. John handles the exposure settings on an iPhone much better than I do.
The “River of Lights” show is held every year at the Albuquerque Biopark. We don’t go every year, but we have have gone many times. I’ve posted about this show before, in previous years. The show has gotten better over the years – as have our cameras.
It can get crowded. Best to go later in the evening rather than earlier, mid-week, and not too close to Christmas. Early December on a Wednesday at 7:30 PM is perfect. It was more crowded for us this time because we were only in Albuquerque for four days, right at Christmas.
On Christmas Eve we went out to see a neighborhood Christmas lights display. The most famous part of Albuquerque for viewing residential Christmas lights is the Country Club neighborhood near Old Town, but that can get extremely crowded. Instead, we went to the Glenwood Hills neighborhood in the northeast heights, just east of Tramway and south of Bear canyon around Manitoba St. There is a good view of the city from there also.
Many of the displays were very impressive.
In Albuquerque there is a strong tradition of putting up luminarias (also called farolitos. Luminaria means light, farolito means little lantern, and both are correct). The authentic ones are paper bags with candles inside, weighted down with sand.
Here’s a photo of a house with real ones. It’s hard to tell in the photo that they’re real, but in person it’s easy to tell even from a distance, because they are much dimmer than the electric ones and the real candle flames flicker slightly.
Here’s what they look like in the daylight the next morning:
The real ones are only displayed on Christmas Eve, and they’re a mess if it’s a rainy or snowy night. This year it rained in Albuquerque the night before Christmas Eve, but Christmas Eve was dry.
Electric plastic luminarias can be left up the whole season. Here’s a couple of photos of my house with electric luminarias along the walkway:
In Tucson luminarias are somewhat less common than in Albuquerque, but you still see a lot of them.
If you decide to buy some electric ones, I recommend the company Lumabase. They have sturdy plastic inserts you can fill with sand or water (we use water) to keep them from tipping over or blowing away. The ones from RC Company are a big nuisance to snap together, the anchors don’t work in the hard ground, they tip over in the slightest breeze, and even if you do manage to get them anchored, the plastic sheafs will come off and blow clear away. In fact, I have a bunch of those to give away if anyone wants them, lol. Now that I’ve so totally sold you on them.
I love lights! I love city lights, holiday lights, backyard lights, lamp lights, everything except flashing lights!
The first light show we attended in December was at the Tucson Botanical Garden.
I have not seen luminarias hanging in trees before! These are the plastic, electric ones of course, not the original paper bags and live candles. That would be a fire hazard in trees!
Originally we had planned to go to Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, Mexico for Christmas. Also called Rocky Point (mostly by Arizonans), it’s our closest beach. It’s only 3 hours away and it’s an easy drive. Rocky Point is a small town, and isn’t much different than many of the little half-Spanish towns in southern Arizona, except it has a beach. It only has a little airstrip with no commercial flights, so the only tourists are mostly from Phoenix and Tucson and other smaller towns in the region.
In early December they closed the Lukeville border crossing. Lukeville was a good crossing – easy and fast. Our other options were much further away, and add about 4 hours of driving to a three hour trip. Ugh. But we still planned to go, because our second nearest beach, San Diego, is 6 hours away and a lot more expensive. And we already had our lodging reserved in Rocky Point. And I thought they would reopen Lukeville any day.
But then the crossing times at the alternative routes got slower and slower. Not only were the other crossing points absorbing the Lukeville traffic, but some of the officers from the other crossings had been sent to Lukeville to deal with the unexpected influx of migrants. So our alternatives, San Luis and Nogales, are understaffed and over utilized.
Depending on the time of day, wait times are ranging from one hour to 4 hours, with 2 and 3 hours being common mid-day. We added the estimated few hours waiting in line at the border to 7 hours of driving, and we were looking at 9-10 hours on the road. Factor in the fact that the solstice was a couple of days ago, we would end up driving through Mexico after dark. Which isn’t really that smart. Even if it were perfectly safe, which it’s not, there’s often road hazards – flooding, drifting sand, wandering cattle. None of which you want to hit in the dark.
John has a friend at work whose brother-in-law owns one of the big restaurants in Rocky Point, so he texted him. The restaurant owner told us that there were no tourists so he closed his restaurant! He plans to stay closed until the Lukeville border crossing opens back up. He said that all the tourist restaurants were closed, and only a few markets for the locals were still open. The lure of empty beaches was definitely dampened by the prospect of having to bring our own food. Not that we couldn’t. We could go down in our camper van and be completely self-sufficient. But it didn’t sound very Christmassy.
John and I started talking about whether we wanted to stay home, or if not, where else would we go? We were scheduled to leave in a couple of days and it felt very last-minute to be planning a vacation. We made a long list of options but we were nowhere close to deciding by bedtime that night.
The next morning on a whim, John looked up our favorite Airbnb in Albuquerque. They always book up way ahead, and as expected, they were completely booked up – except – wait, look – there’s an open gap that exactly matches our dates! Someone had cancelled at the last minute, and our hosts, Mark and Steve, were happy to have us. And that is how we came to be spending Christmas in Albuquerque.
You’re all like, Albuquerque? Yes, we moved out of Albuquerque because the winters are cold and we’re not into cold winters. But 4 days is just enough to appreciate Tucson when we get home!
Also Albuquerque is easy and familiar and doesn’t take any planning ahead. We already know a bunch of fun things to do. Albuquerque is actually beautiful at Christmas with all the luminarias. I admit, I was surprised that John was happy to drive that route again after all that commuting he did for 3 years! John’s driven that route so many times he could do it in his sleep. But it’s been 6 months and he’s no longer sick of it. So as John said, New Mexico instead of Old Mexico for Christmas this year!
I’ll be sorry to miss all my great friends in Albuquerque, but we’re just going to do a quick little vacation together without trying to visit everyone. You all know how that is. Sometimes all the socializing during the holidays can get to be a bit much. We’ll be back again soon and catch you next time.
When I wrote a few days ago that I’ve been in an introverted mode lately, I mainly meant that I haven’t been taking a lot of social initiative. I haven’t been sending the emails and texts, and calling, and setting up get togethers. But that doesn’t mean I’ve been a complete hermit. In fact, I have a couple of new activities which I am thoroughly enjoying.
It was a few months ago when I was talking to a friend about how it’s been quite a challenge to figure out what to do with my life. When I quit my job in Santa Fe in 2019 it was because we were going to move. And I planned to get another job as soon as we got resettled. And then I got cancer and then there was a pandemic, and then, and then…and now it’s been four years! I have been doing a little bit of life coaching, but I’m fairly burnt out with that.
Helping professions are hard because it’s nearly impossible to look back on a job well done with the satisfaction of being completely done with the problem fixed. Because first of all, it’s not my job to fix my client’s lives. It’s their job. I’m just helping a little bit. Secondly, our lives are never really “fixed”, right? It’s a hard world and then we die. (Great quote for a life coach, omg.)
Anyway, I didn’t want to do 8-5 anymore. And I don’t want very many clients; they are draining. I want an easier life. But also still want to be somewhat useful in my community and not just wrapped up in my own personal concerns.
Anyway, I jokingly said to my friend that it’s ridiculous how hard it has been for me to figure out what to do with my life. And I said, “When John retires he’ll probably just go volunteer at the Tucson Botanical Garden and ta-da, he’s all set.” The reason I picked the botanical garden for my example is because many years ago, when he first moved to Albuquerque before I met him, he volunteered at the Albuquerque botanical garden.
Then I got to thinking how fun it would be to volunteer together at the Tucson Botanical Garden once he’s retired. Then I realized I could start now and get a bit of a head start learning all the names of the plants and everything. John remembers data much better than me, so I figure he’ll soon be ahead of me no matter how much head start I get.
So I signed up! At first I assumed I would be gardening, because, of course, it’s a botanical garden. But during orientation I learned that they didn’t need any more gardeners, they needed greeters. Ugh! I went ahead and took the training class for becoming a greeter, and even did one shift as a greeter. But I do not like being a greeter. Thank goodness I mentioned that I was hoping to do gardening, because soon they had an opening on one of the gardening teams on Monday mornings at 8:00.
Did I really want to get up and be somewhere by 8:00 on Monday mornings after 25 years of working too hard? I decided to try it. If I’m having a bad day and don’t feel like going, I don’t have to! But so far I’ve gone every Monday since starting at the end of October.
Turns out I love it. It’s great. We’re just a small group of retired women and a staff member, Robin, who oversees our work. Robin is about my age and the other volunteers are mostly a tad older than me. There’s about 8 of us on the team, but usually only 4-5 show up on any given Monday. And I get along with every single one of them really well, and it’s just a lot of fun.
We all seem to have a lot of common interests. In addition to gardening, we talk about things like hiking, and travel plans, and solar panels, and coyotes walking through our yards. We all have in common an outdoor orientation to our hobbies.
This volunteer position has some of the benefits of having a job, but by 10 AM on Monday, I’m done for the week! Woo-hoo!
I’m learning a lot about gardening in this climate. And also a lot of other good info from my new friends – everything from good hiking trails to names of potential handymen. Three of us were huddled together around our phones at quitting time yesterday, and a fourth walked up and asked, “Are we making brunch plans, are we going for brunch?” And we laughed and said, no, even better, we’re exchanging handyman numbers. She gladly got right in on that action and had another handyman number to contribute.
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned, but my remodel has basically come to a stand-still because I can’t find anyone to do any work. Thank goodness the big stuff is done. Everything else can be done in small dribbles and drabs, as I’m able to find someone willing to do it.
Anyway, back to the botanical garden – I’m really enjoying my Monday morning gardening crew. Turns out I like the combination of social interaction plus teamwork coordinated with a fair amount of structure. I’ve never been much for standing around at parties with a drink in my hand. This is much more my speed.
Here’s pictures of a hawk in the botanical garden. It had just killed a dove. My friend took the one of it sitting in the tree, and I took the one of it in flight.
While we’re talking about hawks, here’s one in my own front yard, also with a dove for breakfast. I took that photo about 3 weeks ago.
It’s all done except for pictures on the wall! We want to buy a picture by a local artist for behind the toilet. Maybe we’ll do that as our Christmas gift to each other this year.
When I last mentioned the bathroom remodel, we were having trouble with the pencil tile, (the edging tile on the wall). I left off saying, “We’ll find out next week!”. That was towards the end of September and it is now December. So you didn’t find out the next week. But rest assured, the pencil tile issue was solved – by me going to several tile stores until I could find something vaguely off-white, at a store with enough in stock right there on hand, no hopes or promises, just me walking out the door with the tile in my cart and the receipt fluttering in the breeze.
Various other issues too tedious to mention also happened. Like they installed the toilet crooked, and the contractor had a little grumpy-fit when we asked him to fix it, and then he charged us $200 extra to fix it, when he should have done right to start with. Remodels are maddening.
Here’s a photo of it mid-process.
This is the elusive floor tile grout. The company abruptly discontinued our color after we had used it for most of the house. I had to pay twice the regular price to get it from Amazon because it was suddenly no longer available in the local tile or hardware stores.
Looking better. The tile guy, Oscar, was good. After the project was over, we tried to hire Oscar directly for other tile work elsewhere, but he only works for the contractor, whom we don’t plan to hire again.
In this picture you can see that we accidentally mixed in some floor tile from the wrong dye lot. And we had so carefully bought our tile all at once to avoid that issue! John thinks the mistake occurred when our first contractor had two jobs with the same floor tile and he was using ours for them and theirs for ours. Very annoying, but we don’t notice with the throw rugs down.
Construction is so dusty. Here’s my bedroom floor AFTER they supposedly cleaned. Plus they had a plastic dust curtain up, but a lot of good that did.
This next picture is the interior of the built-in linen closet that we had made by our friends in Taos, Blanca and Gonzalos, who own Antiqua Home Furnishing. They build furniture, and will do custom work for reasonable prices. https://antiguahomefurnishings.com/
Here’s the exterior. It matches our bedroom furniture, which they made for us five or more years ago when we lived in Placitas, NM.
The bathroom door isn’t stained yet. The contractor doesn’t offer door staining as part of his services. So we have to find someone else to do it.
Overall, it’s a huge improvement and has a much more open feel. Here’s the “before” picture from the real estate listing when we bought the house in 2020:
I’ve been in a very introverted mode recently. Surprisingly, that does affect this blog, even though I’m sitting here alone in my living room as I write. What could be more introverted than that?
But in reality this is a reach-out, initiating contact. I’m thinking about you. This is for you. This is social. This is me wondering what you might want to hear about. This is me talking to you and imagining what you’re thinking and saying back. This is me thinking about your life, and wondering how you’re doing. I don’t blog to a nameless, faceless public. I know who you are, I know who reads this blog – you are my friends and family.
It’s not just this blog that has suffered during this time of introversion of mine. I’ve not been reaching out to all of you individually very much recently either. I hope I don’t lose any friends because of this. I’ve just been feeling a need to step back and focus on getting my own ducks in a row, as they say. Don’t worry, I’m not depressed. I’m just regrouping.
Not only was it a hard three years of pandemic (and for me, cancer) that we are now emerging from, but in a way I’m emerging from three decades of hard work, mid-life career, and entering a newer, slower phase. I’m pretty much retired now. Not quite fully – I still put my life coaching hat on occasionally. But I’m mostly done earning money.
We are also (we hope) done moving. We moved so many times, it’s incredible to think back on it. We did so much buying and selling and renovating of property. We never thought of ourselves as house flippers (buying, renovating and selling), but we almost were – with the added twist of holding some as rentals for awhile, and doing all our own rental management. Everything took so much time. It was an enormous amount of work.
And all through that time John worked overtime at his job and I worked as an environmental scientist plus life coaching on the side. And all those years I had near-continual migraines. I look back on it and wonder how it was all possible.
As I’m getting older, I’m not as good at tracking things, keeping up with things, finding things, remembering things. To compensate, I want more organization in my life than I used to need. I want to own fewer things, and I want my possessions to have a place where they belong and I want them in that place. I want my financial books in order, with a budget that I can easily track and understand. I want simple, easy, clothes that fit me right. I want routines and structures to help me remember what I’m doing throughout the day and to help me stay on track.
Thus, I have been culling and organizing. I gave away 18 boxes of things to charity earlier this week. 18 boxes! It took me days and weeks of time to go through enough stuff to come up with 18 boxes of give-away items. And we still have an entire storage unit full of who knows what. I’m embarrassed that we have so much stuff, but we just bought what we felt like we needed or wanted at the time. Plus, for a surprisingly large amount of time John and I have occupied two residences. It wasn’t just this recent split between Tucson and Albuquerque. There were also a few years when I was up in Santa Fe during the work week to avoid having to make that commute on a daily basis. And even longer ago we had a little condo outside of Las Vegas for awhile. So we have duplicates of a lot of common household items.
I’ve also been trying to catch up on old projects. For example, mending that’s been sitting in bins for years. Art projects I’ve started and not finished. Some of it I’ll never do, and that stuff is getting thrown out or given away.
I’m also doing digital organization; financial and budgeting kinds of things that have been neglected for too many years. And our office is still a disaster zone. So is the storage unit. And the garage isn’t much better. I need things to be easier; life had gotten far too complicated.
Adding to my inclination to hunker down is the weather recently! After a lovely warm fall, it has suddenly gotten cold. I have throw blankets tossed everywhere, because every time I sit down I get cold. LOL. I even Tucson is not warm enough for me. Not in the winter it isn’t!
I hope you’re all well. I will probably get back to regularly posting soon. I guess we’ll have to see what happens!
Oh, and Biska says hi. She says she’s bored and she wants a puppy for Christmas, but John says no! He’s a one-dog sort of guy, and we’ve got a good one already.
Sonoran hot dogs in Tucson are something like what Frito pie is in Albuquerque – a local comfort food consisting of a least-common-denominator mash-up of North American and Central American fast food.
I don’t like hot dogs – I don’t care what you put on them, I’m not going to like them. But I live here now, so trying Sonoran hot dogs was inevitable.
It was a sunny Saturday afternoon and we had been on our way to what was advertised as a live music and art show. I love live music and art shows! I imagined us walking around in the sunshine, looking at the different art booths, buying street fair food from food trucks, listening to the band…it sounded like the perfect Saturday afternoon activity.
We plugged the address into our phones and headed out. We arrived in a somewhat sketchy part of town, which doesn’t really mean anything because Tucson is definitely mixed. There are gems to be found in sketchy neighborhoods. And all the neighborhoods are safe enough in the middle of the day.
But at that particular address, there was not a park or green space or plaza of any sort. There was a small, mostly empty, disintegrating parking lot next to a square cinderblock windowless dive bar. John wasn’t even inclined to bother getting out of the car, but I had to see how this was an art show.
We went in and stood near the door long enough to let our eyes adjust to the gloom. Sure enough, there was a band on a small stage in the back. And along another wall there was a folding table with a few items piled on it, like you’d see at a garage sale. A particularly disappointing garage sale.
So we headed back out to the car. Now what? John was hungry and that’s how we ended up getting authentic Sonoran hot dogs a few blocks away.
It wasn’t quite a restaurant. It was almost. It was a food truck – no actually, a food trailer – parked in front of a small storefront in a rundown strip mall. The indoor space was where customers could sit and eat out of the heat. But there was no kitchen in there, or servers, or employees of any sort. The kitchen was in the trailer. It was a one-man show. The dude in the trailer.
The Sonoran sauces were in that refrigerated gray box you can see plugged in along the bright yellow brick wall. They were excellent.
When we first got there, we were hesitating over the menu taped to the trailer. John and I know enough Spanish to generally be able to order food. But the menu seemed to have a lot of varieties of the exact same thing (hot dogs) and the details of the different options were not immediately clear. Luckily another customer came by and ordered in Spanish for us.
Here’s what I ended up with. The item on the top right is the Sonoran hot dog. It’s a hot dog in a bread pocket, with mayonnaise and various salsas. In the front is a couple of grilled chiles, which we had specifically seen and made sure we ordered. We both enjoy grilled chiles, so we ordered all three kinds.
Help yourself to the soda in the refrigerators. A highchair thoughtfully awaits if your little one needs it.
And cool art. Yep, I got my art show after all. Look close and you’ll see that’s the guy cooking in the trailer. The very dude himself, looking a little younger in the picture, but definitely recognizable.
A true local cultural experience that you won’t find on Trip Advisor.
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