Taos

“Squeeeeak!” “Squeeeeak!” It was happening again: the rotating cap on the dead landlord’s wood stove chimney was complaining in the breeze. It was probably almost ready to fall off, too. The last time I’d been up on the roof, it was leaning rather severely, but seeing as how the landlord has long since shed his [...]

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Don’t think everything in Taos is deep, meaningful, or expensive. Oh, no. Earlier this evening my wife and I were sitting quietly in the living room. One of us said something about the cat. (She is a lovely creature, is she not?) An even quieter period ensued as we watched her slowly walk across the [...]

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I need an intervention. My wife is living with a crazy man. Everything was fine until we came home from the grocery store. There on the steep, narrow curve leading to the top of the hill by the little adobe church whose wall comes right out to the pavement was a freaking combine! (A hay-mowing [...]

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In a couple of days, my wife and I will be returning to a house with no natural gas service. It’ll be sponge baths and “cooking” over a single-burner camp stove for who knows how long, and none of this is my fault. I know, I’m not supposed to focus on things to complain about, [...]

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Dear Mom: All quiet on the Taos front. Well, there is the sewage thing. We had the septic tank underneath the dead landlord’s apartment pumped out not too long ago, and our toilet works fine, but the next-door neighbors are on the same system—yes, three places on one single-chamber tank—and haven’t been able to flush [...]

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Something happened here today that I’ve never seen before: a couple of big trucks showed up and took away a bunch of dead cars! It took them most of the day. There must have been eight or nine vehicles, and I’m kind of sad to see them gone. To me they were part of the [...]

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For your viewing pleasure heading into the weekend, this amazing sunset view taken January 6, 2011 in Llano Quemado, just south of Taos. Yes, it really looked like that. Living in New Mexico, I feel I have to say that every time I post a shot!

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