Do you have a convertible?
Do you have a convertible?
Gina "Spent most of the day running errands that required a car trip with the top down.
I love convertibles, but have never had a real one. We do have a Jeep Wrangler whith a hardtop that comes off after a few hours work. You do have to be careful how you describe these trips. One of the pastor's at our former church in Minneapolis was visiting with his wife. We gave them the jeep and they were out exploring the back roads. They found a spot with cell reception and Mom decided to call the kids at home. She told them she was having a great time driving around the back country in a jeep with no top on.
Her teenage children will never let her forget that one. What kind of convertible do you have, Gina?
This time of year is my favorite weather in the mountains of Northern New Mexico. We get down to freezing at night, but the walls of the courtyard are warmed by the sun all day, and have protected the plants from freezing so far. We are getting to the low to mid seventies during the day.
Our trees are turning here as well. We have mostly juniper at lower levels, changing to ponderosa pine as you get higher. But, where there is sufficient water we have aspen trees. Jemez Springs (as you might guess with a little thought) has a lot of natural springs. During most of the year they don't really stand out. However, in the fall, the yellow leaves of the aspens that grow by the springs mark a vivd contrast to the perpetual green of the junipers and ponderosa pine. I can walk out on our deck and locate springs that are twenty miles away.
As an interesting side issue to this thread, I would love to hear if any of you have run across people with an uncanny ability to predict the weather? I have a friend/hired hand from the Jemez Pueblo. He and I have spent a lot of time working together, and talk often turns to the weather. Weather can be hard to predict in mountain areas. It is not uncommon for an area 20 miles away to have weather conditions that are completly different from our location. This spring all the experts had predicted a return to drought conditions, and a high fire danger.
Joe & I were working to build a stone/cement wall from the ground up to the bottom of our wooden deck. I wanted to prevent fire from getting undet the deck-if the bottom of the deck is vulnerable, the fire danger to the house is greatly increased. I was stressing about getting it done early in the spring as the forest service was already (in the very beginning of spring) listing fire danger as high. Joe absolutley assured me there was going to be a lot of rain, and no fire danger. We, despite the predictions of drought by the "experts", had record rains this spring, summer and fall. It rained so much it took the whole summer to get enough dry days to have our cement dry around the stones. Joe left school many years ago in the middle of the fourth grade, but he gets the weather right about 70% of the time. a far better record than the professionals.
