Weekend Edition: Homebody

Ugh, the weather is terrible here! Its cold and sleeting on and off. Yesterday was a little better, at least the grey skies broke for a little while and provided this gorgeous sunset. With the monochrome skies of today, I have no hope for it happening again. Brr.

This weekend I did nothing exciting. Just some errands on Saturday, Trader Joes and Target, and then home where I took advantage of the gloomy weather to sit inside and read and watch movies-- Anna Karenina and Coco Before Chanel respectively. Then Sunday was entirely about laundry and working on my portfolio, a task I find so odious that I update it as rarely as possible and therefore had to completely start from scratch. Ugh. I don't know why its so awful, because it's all about job hunts?

New Year

Its a new year and with the holidays over its right back to the grind. I was up early to get the dogs fed and the recycling out to the curb before 7:00 am. It was freezing out, and now at 8:30 its only warmed up to 20° F. The thing is, it was gorgeous out, with frost covering the ground and cranes flying west from the river to some of the open fields to graze a little. I said good morning to the neighbor's horses who came to the fence hoping for a treat, and gave them what I could find, a couple of handfuls of frozen wild mustard and some pasture grass that migrated from someone else's field to our acequía. That's the beauty of a new year, it makes the things you see every day look beautiful again because it imbues hope and promise. Here's to the New Year!