Me and my Leo friends!
My son, Russ, is quite proud of his daughter who was in the Washington Post!
It was delightful going out around 8 and not feeling hot at all! Air quality was ok too. (You may have seen some of these photos before if you ever read my musings on my other blog, Inner Workings.)
I got my exercise bringing things in from the car which were purchased the day before, most of the work is hiking down the long hallway to my apartment.
With windows open at dawn, I was cool enough to wear my Alpaca shawl!
I made buckwheat pancakes for last Sunday night supper. They were ok tasting, but crumbled more than regular wheat ones.
Silly little things to adjust to.
I often nap around 2-3 when that sun just blasts against these windows.
The first train of the day is a diesel. The steam engine seems to pull the second one. I don't know if this is the pattern all the time, but it seemed to be this last week.
A nice fortune-teller type forecast! I do hope you have all these things come your way!
Hello Barb,
ReplyDeleteI am glad you are adjusting to the altitude. You have pretty views from your windows.
It is a good idea to keep the blinds closed on those super hot sunny days.
I hope good things are coming your way! Great quote.
Happy Sunday, enjoy your day and the new week ahead.
Thanks Eileen...I am so glad to be living here now!
DeleteWhen we recently toured the restoration sight apartments, the hauling of groceries was the one thing that came to mind. I don’t suppose they deliver?
ReplyDeleteWalmart delivers to one's door...I was told. There are also shopping carts in the laundry room for one to unload things into...if they are there. So far others have been using them when I needed anything bigger...but they helped my crew move me into the apartment. The front doors downstairs are key-fob entry, or with a buzz from the landlady's office when she is there. Other deliveries are left on a ground floor table inside the front door. We have to trust the other residents.
DeleteYou seem to be getting the hang of living in your new place. That's a long hallway to navigate!
ReplyDeleteIt is now my walking meditation...a good challenge to pay attention to how my feet hit the floor.
DeleteSeeing those trains outside your window takes me back to my childhood. We lived right beside the train tracks too.
ReplyDeleteI'm on my second, er, tenth childhood!
DeleteWe have a train track in our back yard I mean that in the most literal way. Even after all these years, it can be startling.
ReplyDeleteOlive oil ice cream. Hmmm... I'd have to try it to know but I have no overwhelming desire to do so.
You are looking lovely, Barbara.
Some days (on my looks) I am ok with a bit of olive oil, but can't imagine it in a sweet ice cream combo at all! How often do you hear trains go by? I hope not in the middle of the night!
DeleteWOW The 473 Engine made my day@ ! Howlucky you are, The diesel train is also pretty wonderful, coming from a railroad family trains are in the blood! Time to take a ride! the walls to get to your apartment are about as charming as a mental ward! Glad that you are settling in, it takes some adjustment that is for sure!
ReplyDeleteHere is a link to 473 tooting chuffing along
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0lUYh8kgOM
Oh that was a great video of the 473! Some of the same cars are also being pulled but with windows open at this time of year! The observation car may have been repainted silver, or it's a different one with the overhead windows. AND there's a second steam engine that went past this morning after the 473. I didn't pay attention and take a photo. But maybe I'll see it coming home tonight.
DeleteI'll pass on the olive oil ice cream. Train tracks at the other end of my street on the other side of the street mine ends at. There is only one crossing opposite this little neighborhood and it has lights, bells, and arms but the engineer that drives that train that come through at 3 am love to lay on the horn. I can hear it at my end inside the house. I can only imagine how loud it is for the people who live at the other end.
ReplyDeleteThe series of toots is always the same when crossing a junction (I looked it up once). But the long toots don't have to be quite as long as some engineers make them!
Delete...I love your Leo friends! This old train lover would enjoy seeing trains running through town. Take care and stay healthy and well.
ReplyDeleteWell, when you come to Durango for a visit, we'll have to go riding on that train!
DeleteSo much to learn about ! You seem to be adjusting quite well>
ReplyDeleteI think of it as being in training, yet again!
DeleteI just love those trains! I love olive oil too, but I can't even imagine it on ice cream.
ReplyDeleteMe neither...the olive oil ice cream. Wouldn't it stick on the roof of one's mouth?
DeleteAre the steam engines a tourist thing, or actually used in "ordinary" traffic? ... I live pretty close to a railway myself but with the windows closed I don't really hear it now, since they exchanged the tracks a few years back. Before that, one also felt the vibrations every time a train passed. It never bothered me very much though - my p. grandparents lived right by a railway (and then my parents lived in that house in their retirement years), so I've kind of been used to it all my life.
ReplyDeleteIt's totally tourist stuff, a narrow gauge railroad which was probably originally for the mines up in the mountains...though where Durango would take the ore is still a mystery to me. Yes, I like the vibrations but we don't feel any here.
DeleteBarb, you seem to be getting things under control! Joe would love your trains. He has a nap most afternoons, too.
ReplyDeleteMy great grandfather was a train conductor in Texas...going across the southwest. So I do appreciate trains a lot. Here's to afternoon naps!
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