Nathan Alter:

Vanessa is feeling the crowding of doing home school with 2 kids around.  Her computer desk is in the living room, which probably isn’t too convenient.  (Mine is in our closet.)  So, she has bigger house fever.  Thus, we begin the long process of preparing the house to sell.  I think we’d be trading location for size.  We’re at a pretty sweet location near the mountains right now.  We’d possibly be moving into the sea of houses on the west side of Albuquerque.  If you look at Google maps west of the river, it’s just a sea of brown houses.



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We must have some kinda city ordinance that declares brown as the official city color or something.  Anyway, we begin to clean in a way we never have before.  We’re pulling out sharp metal objects to clean up encrusted plumbing and so on.

Ethan and Avram and I went hiking in El Mal Pais Saturday.  It was a 4 hour hike along a cliff that overlooks a sea of volcanic black rock.

It’s the New Mexico version of a lake!  Pretty cool to see.  At the end of the trail is a good view of La Ventana Arch.

Avram has a screw in his foot and my knees start hurting on long hikes.  So, although we kept a fast pace, we were moving like C3PO and R2D2 at the very end.  I guess that would make Ethan Chewbacca.