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This weekend loads of summer folk will arrive on Nantucket. Our time of quiet is just about done. It has been fabulous to have Sconset and it's gorgeous scenery all to ourselves for the past couple weeks. Memorial Day weekend is a big one out here... there's The Figawi Race for one thing. This results in hundreds (perhaps thousands) of drunk sailors storming the island for two days. I'll be glad to be out here on the far end of the island away from that action.

Wine and Cheese (and Miracle Whip)

Published on 2010-05-23 08:11:00

Today is the last day of the Nantucket Wine Festival which has kept us busy the past few days. I don't have pics because we were working as volunteers. Today we get to go as guests... so it's a day of sashaying about with the upper crusties for us.This coming week is the opening of the cafe and market I am baking for. Thursday is the big day. I just have to survive memorial day weekend and then things should settle down for a few weeks til the busy season hits us like a ton of cobblestones and s

Secret Way

Published on 2010-05-21 14:39:00

This way is actually not too much of a secret. It's a pretty well trodden path here in Sconset.... but this little section always feels like a wee bit of magic is workin' on ya.

Roughage

Published on 2010-05-20 08:14:00

Lots of hour glass sand effects coming from Rudy's hind end again these days. His diet consists of 70% dog food/30% beach. Because to dig a hole like this apparently involves eating a few cups of sand each time.

A Pic a Day Kind of a Thang

Published on 2010-05-18 19:13:00

I have so many photos. If I can't get a wordy post up I may as well slap up a pic. It's the least I can do after so many months of negligence.Just us kids... my Mom snapped this one of us on Billy's recent birthday. He turned 35. What a whippersnapper.

Ridiculous

Published on 2010-05-17 17:58:00

I bet if I were to look back I probably have one or two past posts titled "Ridiculous." It is a word that is quite often appropriate and relevant in our daily lives. In this case it is appropriate because it accurately described the amount of information I need to relay in this post to get you caught up with what we have been doing. In a nut shell (one the size of Texas) we packed up and peeled out from Santa Fe, drove across the middle west to Illinois, our truck and trailer were both loaded to

First Days of Spring

Published on 2010-04-13 17:06:00

One small dog in the street sassing off with a serious attitude.Yesterday we had our first spring rain and even though it was crazy windy it was a gorgeous day. We went out walking and hoofed it up to Fort Marcy Park for sunset.

Time Flies When you're Nuttier than a Snickers Bar

Published on 2010-04-07 21:37:00

Howdy y'all! It's me! Remember me? I know there are a few of ya out there feeling mighty sour toward me and my flimsy old neglected blog and you have every right to. I suck. I have sucked for almost a year... but guess why? Because I have been working and life has been repetitious and (kinda) boring. It was winter (BOOOO!) we did not travel (DOUBLE BOOOO!) and Rudy did not sustain any major injuries... sooooo, not much to talk about ya know? I got out of the habit of writing and was feeling unin

Three!

Published on 2010-02-15 09:01:00

Well howdy folks.... hope you are all enjoying this three day weekend which is only a two day weekend for me. I'm gettin' ready to head in to work here in a few. Since when does President's Day fall the day after Valentine's? I'm confused by that one.So this was Rudy's birthday weekend. He turned 3. In years past we have had more of "a party" for him but this year we kept it more low key. We just took him out to a local dog boutique where you can buy cashmere sweaters for your mini-she-poo-shizz

Boots and Babies

Published on 2010-01-31 17:35:00

Happy weekend! I still have one more day off ahead of me so neener neener! I love three day weekends (DUH, WHO DOESN'T?) What's new around here? Well... yesterday I scored some vintage silver cowboy boots. A seen in both pics here. Now I'm like a rhinestone cowboy or some shit like that.... some people call me a space cowboy..... whatever.Also... I have bangs now. And so does Rudy. We both have new hair-dos. He looks great don't you think? I look like a twelve year old with wrinkles. Which is ju

I Know.... I KNOW!

Published on 2010-01-26 21:36:00

I'm just as sick of the damned Christmas Elf picture as you are. Here I am finally doin' something about it. Just don't get too excited because I don't have a whole heck of a lot to report. It's still winter. I just ate a piece of toast at 8:30 p.m. that I really did not need to eat. Billy's watching a video on a guy getting attacked by a shark on youtube and the next big thing on the schedule tonight is pajamas and bed. Hot!Sooooooo.... yeah. We are plodding along through winter and making plan

Post Christmas

Published on 2009-12-30 22:52:00

Christmas Eve at work... dressed as elves and throwin' down with some X-mas cacao for the people.Howdy Y'all! Hope everyone had a great holiday. Ours was pretty low key. We stayed home, opened presents, made lasagna, ate cookies, nursed our colds (yup, we both got sick right in Christmas) and spent the better part of the day on the phone with family. The rest of the weekend is not worth talkin' about unless you are interested in stories of coughing til you nearly puke in the night or what sort o

Buried Alive

Published on 2009-12-20 19:17:00

I'm not sure how to start this post.... "I'm sorry" seems appropriate as does "Time flies when your ass is stuck working too many hours to the point of exhaustion." I guess a combo will do... I'm sorry for disappearing for a few weeks from writing while I got my ass carved like a turkey at work. Yeah! That about sums it up. I wish I had more eloquent ways of saying it but reality dictates that I just lay it out there clean and simple. So the holiday season for a chocolatier turns out to be not s

Holiday Lights in Santa Fe

Published on 2009-11-24 23:10:00

Just a quick photo post. I am crazy at work this week and I am feeling like dookie. Not a great combo... Anyway, on to the farolito lights! And a few other random shots....I guess this last one threw you for a loop eh? Rudy and his creepy rhino friend. This is one of the many fringe benefits of living on Canyon Rd. You share your space with some seriously odd stuff.I will try to post again on Thursday. Hope everyone is ready for the holiday rush... it is here!

Technical Difficulty

Published on 2009-11-15 21:49:00

Where to begin? Our internet service has been working like a hot pig on a Sunday afternoon after eating two tons of slop. In other words.... it has not been working at all. Due to this situation I have ground my teeth down to itty bitty nubs and am on a soft food diet. Since the sow seems to be feeling perky tonight I decided to try to whip off a post with some much over due photos. As I said oh like a week or so ago Billy's Mom came to see us with her best friend Linda in tow. They stayed for a

Time Flies!

Published on 2009-11-09 21:19:00

Hey! Sorry I have once again pulled a solid disappearing act here. The past week or two has been crazy busy. Billy's Mom made a very exciting and unexpected guest appearance here in New Mexico! She and her friend Linda came out for a week and we had a blast. It was Gail's first time in Santa Fe and I think it's safe to say she had a really good time. I took lots of photos (of course) and I will try to get a story or two plus pics up in the next day or so.For now I will leave ya with this... a sh

A Very Cold Camping Weekend

Published on 2009-10-26 09:41:00

We took a few days to drag the Airstream out of it's lonely existence at the storage facility and tow it up to Taos. I feel like our lives are becoming pretty banal these past few months in the apartment. I get up, go to work, come home, eat dinner, watch a movie and go to bed. Billy paints and paints and paints... which is great but he is kinda trapped under a two ton paint brush of commitment. Blah. Unacceptable! But unfortunately necessary until we recover more fully from the economic meltdow

Appreciate the Little Things....

Published on 2009-10-23 00:18:00

and the big, messy, chaotic things....There's beauty in both.Have a beauty of a weekend!

Rubber Eyeballs, Wrestling and Uhhh, Cake?

Published on 2009-10-20 09:28:00

Howdy all. Well, the fall days are just a rollin' on by aren't they? Some folks have already been snowed on and I have a feeling we are not too far down on that waiting list here in Santa Fe. Yeeeeeeesh. It makes my toes curl up just thinking about it. I am trying to keep my pinkie finger firmly pressed on the slow motion button these last few weeks of October. After Halloween comes and goes all bets are off as far as the weather goes. We have experienced winters here in NM where we could sit ou

Autumn Magic

Published on 2009-10-14 22:53:00

Well... I just had to pop back on here and post a few more pics of Santa Fe in full fall color. It is so pretty right now and the weather is just amazing. It has been in the 70's during the day and then hitting the mid 40's at night. Heck yeah people! I can live with that!We live about a block off of the Santa Fe River.... it is dry as a bone now but that just converts it into a great walking path to get in and out of town on for us. Right now the whole thing is lined with aspens and other brigh

Nothing Much

Published on 2009-10-12 20:33:00

Well... I just came from having three days in a row off and what do I have to show for it? Nuthin'. I still have a messy house and the inside of the fridge is like something out of a Tim Burton movie. We have been doing that thing that you do when you get lazy about cooking and you go to the store and buy three stupid things... only enough to make one half assed meal and then the next time you are hungry it's like "We were JUST at the store why don't we have any food?" And then you eat a pickle

About the New Header

Published on 2009-10-05 22:50:00

The alternate foot note on the new header was "Takin' it to the streets." It was a hard choice but I went with takin' care of business instead. It felt right.So pretty much all there is to say about this is that Billy and I have a habit of bringing home chairs... office chairs to be exact, that other people have left out on the curb as garbage. Why? Because we like them. Again... Why? I can't say. It's free? It's a free office chair? There is no good reason for this behavior. All I can tell you

Aspen Vista

Published on 2009-10-05 12:45:00

I have been in a panic the past week or so to get up in to the mountains so as not to miss the aspens in full color. It does not last long once it gets rolling... it's just a short window of time for peak color. It is one of my absolute favorite landscape visuals anywhere in America. I love it. Let me show you why...Sigghhhhhhh. Purty ain't it? Yesterday we packed Rudy into the truck and drove his most dreaded car ride up into the ski basin area of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains that back Santa

Brief Interlude with a Snake

Published on 2009-09-27 00:59:00

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