No matter how tightly we closed the windows, every season there'd be inches of dust blowing off the cotton fields onto the window sills, into the kitchen sink, onto the beds, to be rinsed away, turning to mud in the drains and washing the county away to a water treatment facility in some larger city. When we clenched our jaws there was the ( Read more... )

More than a year since my last post? Sounds about right.

Well, I guess the countdown sort of begins. Less than a month now before we go visit Albuquerque for the first time with living there in mind. We have one afternoon to visit every standing house selling between $50k-$80 within cycling distance of UNM (I understand there are about four). If none of those work out, we look for rentals the next ( Read more... )

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It's done!

Done!


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Having a crisis in motivation. Reached this point on Saturday


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So tonight! Iris Class picnic. For me that means ( Read more... )

What a difference lighting makes. I need to write some love letters to some affordable floodlight manufacturers. I know it's wrong to want to have the Thrifty Kit's babies...but how wrong is it exactly?

Work day five. More mapping, and the base work for trees and brush.


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