May 12, 2005

• so. a real update.
  well, where i work, there are a couple customers that live in a van and
  come to the store just about everyday. it's an older man and his old
  enough son. they sound like they come from somewhere up north like
  jersey or new york. the old man puts money in the toilet for god.(the store toilet). they
  love to ask if i'm working. or shopping. or if i'm still having a great
  day (there are no bad days!). some people say they smell, i guess i just don't get that close.
  sean says "'THEY SMELL', believe me, no doubt about that!"---he's met
  them.
  young people who live here want out for the same reasons we wanted in. spoke to someone in charge about getting orange
  capuccino gfic on the shelf (yeah!) the discount i get at work totally
  rocks.
  senor
  malvado still attacks queen fuzzy. he likes to climb up on top of the
  cabinet tops that we can't reach to get him down. they occasionally
  both sleep on the bed AT THE SAME TIME.
  we have a 4-slice toaster after going for a year or so without. toast is good.
  sean
  has a wonderful new coffee maker. it's a brewstation so the coffee
  doesn't get all funky, he just pushes the lever and 'ahhh coffee'. we
  were given an electric skillet, it makes perfect pancakes.
  
  the
  telescope is temporarily set up inside to watch the mountains. sean
  picked out the new bedroom set, we also got a pillowtop mattress, it
  rocks. have a real kitchen table with matchiing chairs for the first
  time ever, it's sweet too.

  started
  the spiny garden. with the aloe, rattail and agave, then cleaned out
  the neighbors' cactus patch (of tumble weeds) and got some pieces
  (cholla, prickly pear, cow tongue) to start around the land from the
  starter circle.

  

  
  the 3 neighbors are great. one couple gave us a bunch of prize-winning
  asparagus and his wife makes cactus fruit jelly i look forward to. the
  other neighbor is the one with the cactus patch next to us-she loaned
  me 5 books on plants, flowers, poisonous creatures and bats of the
  southwest. the later is a wealth of information, she pointed us to the
  well drillers and garbage collector which in turn turned us onto all
  our other builders.

  we've borrowed all kinds of movies and bought pirates of the caribbean
  (and hero, and kill bills, princess mononoke). the ones we rented were
  house of flying daggers (kickass), donnie darko, chronicles of riddick,
  returner(interesting but when you talk time travel, there's always
  glitches in plot), exorcist (the beginning), lemony
  snicket-unfortunate, napoleon dynamite, iron monkey, sky captain-wot,
  perfect blue-animated pschological thriller, demon eyes kyo, van
  helsing, league of-gentlemen, 1/2 of gangs of new york (the other half
  was scratched up, so we'll be in perpetual suspence til we see the
  rest), motorcycle diaries-we enjoyed A LOT, spriggin, the
  incredibles-cute.
  
  go
  on outtings about once a month, more when we have the chance. our
  trips today were on dirt roads with some hiking at the first place,
  collected bunch of quartz rocks.

  when
  we don't actually leave the land, there is treasure hunting in the
  backyard, kite flying, other crafty crap.
  like carving. and soon we need to get some tomato plants from
  the neighbor next to us-she says she has too many and not enough room
  (i've got plants started, but unless i get them replanted, i aint
  gettin nuthin this year). eventually we'll be spending time doing other
  improvements like a deck, screened in porch for cats.

  tomorrow is another excursion, after which we will get some of my car washed, or atleast the front window, so i can see again.
  possibly a dog at the end of the summer.
  food. picked up a neat cookbook of other-side-of-the-world stuff to
  make (india, china, japan, middle east). we made an awesome south
  western beef stew, sean made spaghetti with homemade meatballs, another
  great chili with hatch, southwest chipotle jambalaya with roasted
  chicken in it. tomorrow stuffed chicken with pepperjack and ham. sean
  makes the best scrambled eggs. and we're talking about making more
  icecream sandwiches soon.

  

  

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