A mysterious card came with the flowers: Dear Linda Alfresca Or Alfresco ~ Heal So You Can Get Back To The Ditch. Mush
Elephant Ankles
I thought this email from Anne was so funny and so beautiful.
Dear Linda,
Thinking about your elephant ankle and sending healing thoughts. I took this photo of myself yesterday morning. It doesn’t compare to yours (YES IT DOES, ANNE!) but my ankles are big too ….
New Bedside Table
What’s on my bedside table: Children’s Island by P. C. Jersild (thank you, Amy), and My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (thank you, Gwen).
What’s in my bedside table: Ice for my ankle (20 minutes every two hours), candy, beer, fizzy water.
What I See When I Escape From My Chair
We got away for lunch! I never used to like to eat outside before we moved to Albuquerque. Now Alfresco is my middle name.
What I'm Working On While Stuck in my Chair
A poster for FOG gallery, and 49 animals from different Spanish-speaking countries for Whistlefritz. Here are a dozen of the animals; I’ve done about 25 so far.
What I See While Stuck in my Chair
Sunset
Books that Changed My Life
This month Everybody who's Anybody is compiling a list of “Books that Changed My Life.” Since nobody asked ME to do a list, I thought I’d put one together anyway!
Tears in Our Chimichurri Sauce
Happiness
I just got out of the ortho-doc, who said that I wouldn’t need to have any bones set, and I wouldn’t need to have a cast. I was so happy! Not to mention that we discovered a great new restaurant on the way home called Fork and Fig.
Really Goodbye This Time.
I thought if I broke my ankle that Kathy would decide not to move to Atlanta, but it didn’t work. 😿
Huh-oh
I tripped on a tree root in broad daylight and fell on the side of my face, and broke my ankle! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve walked/jogged on the ditch after the sun has set. But nope, this happened in broad daylight. The boot is pretty handsome though, is it not?
She's Leaving Home
Used to be a walk-in closet
It was snowing today––the day Dan planned to cut the hole for the window. It didn’t stop him. (You’re looking through it up there.) It’s still rough, but now there’s a crank-out window in place. I’ve been using the walk-in closet for my computer work station. It will be so much brighter now! You’re looking out “the window” onto my little balcony; and our walking/biking trail (the irrigation ditch) runs between the two fences back there.
January Ditch
Progress Report
Christmas Day in the Morning
Solstice
Such a fun day, other than the visit to the storage locker. But after we escaped the locker we drove straight to Duran’s Pharmacy (best Mexican food in town) for a late lunch. Today was the shortest day of the year and I was determined to get a bike ride in before the sun set.
Falling asleep in the cellar at Zinc
Eli del Puerto, who we love. We first heard her at the farmers’ market downtown.
