Ok so I am more used to being alone than most, an old bachelor kind of mentality maybe… And here in Santa Fe, as much as I have loved it, I am not alone. Don’t get me wrong, there is absolutely nothing annoying or wrong about anything. It is just out of my routine and when it boils down to it I believe I may have Asperger/OCD tendencies and this has been a long time out of my norm. I do ok alone as I most of the time can stand my own company but whether others know it or not i am always trying to be sure everyone is happy and sometimes my default when that is complicated is to go off on my own. This morning was nice and relaxed, Colin and Wendy had gone off on a train ride and we were putting around waiting for Mike and Colleen. They arrived and Mike and I set off for Home Depot to get supplies to make these cool earring holders Celia has. That was a lot of fun and amusing. We spotted a place called Jackelope and decided to come back later
. When we got back like proud hunters and gatherers it seemed to take a while to get going and I found myself wanting to jump in my car and just go. I hope I didn’t offend anyone but that is what I finally did. I needed to put the top down, blast the radio and go. That is one of the challenges, there has been a lack of music the last few days and no TV thus no news or anything. Very hard on this media junkie. Hey that reminds me, when we were at the field yesterday we ended up on Channel 4 Pinpoint a Weather broadcast!
Finally we all took off for downtown. I followed and then finally broke off and found a parking spot. I walked around the corner and there they were. We went into an art gallery and I was drawn to two specific artists, one turned out to be from the Tlingit First Nation whom I worked for it in Atlin! His work with glass is amazing and his work is even in the Smithsonian. Check out Preston Singletary
tony Abeyta was the artist whose work I would have bought had I been able to. This piece looked like music to me
this is worth checking out too http://www.martinspei.com
Next I stopped at The Native Market to see if I could find the lady I spoke to two days ago and she spotted me first and gave me a big Hi! I passed her a bag with two packs of smoked salmon and told her to share. She looked confused and then suddenly beamed with gratitude and as I started to leave she insisted on giving me one of the bracelets she was selling and picked the one tat was most authentic Navajo colours she said as she put it on me. Official trade beads!
We wandered about town seeing many interesting sites
and inside St Francis Cathedral where I actually kneeled and prayed to keep the bitch away ( hey, it’s God, he knows me)
Next we wandered for lunch and ended up in the Bell Tower at La Fonda where I shared nachos like I had never had before
My meter was going to expire and I wanted to go to Jackelope so I left and they met me there
It was a funky place and at one point Celia and I were snuggled on a huge Chaise and I said, ‘we’re peopled out aren’t we?’ And she just agreed and we enjoyed sitting there
Colleen bought a gorgeous table out of 1500 year old wood and inlayed turquoise. I bought a rabbit in honour of my Jackelope terrors
this is the mother of all
I want this but resisted
We all met back at Celia’s for Green Chile Stew and Sangria to hear about the train ride and share a meal and our day before tucking in as tomorrow is Ascension Day!! Hmm only 13 Km today
triumphgal 