Hiking at Tent Rocks
Originally uploaded by Jill Elfering
Here we are at today’s first site - the Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks. We
hiked the mile-long cave trail of these rocks formed millions of years
ago from volcanic eruptions.
I feel like a broken record to say Mac did great! Jeremy walked
quickly from one shaded spot to another, and [...]
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Yesterday we toured “Sky City,” a pueblo settled by the Acoma tribe. They built their city on top of a large mesa (flat rock), hauling all the materials up a stone staircase along the side of the rock. It was amazing to not only see the site but to hear of the history [...]
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Today we traveled past Santa Fe to see an old church built in 1816 in Chimayo. We even got to catch the end of the Mass. Mac had his naps in the car, and after the church we had a picnic at a beautiful national park at Santa Cruz Lake.
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For those of you who may be trying to access “In My Own Little Corner,” I have not locked you out. I upgraded and now the plugin that authenticates users is not working. Unfortunately, I won’t really have a chance to work on it until we get back from New Mexico. Until then, here is [...]
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I never in a million years pictured myself in the situation I was yesterday morning. Jeremy went to a mall to stand in line for me early so I could get the iPhone (2 WEEKS after they were first released) for which I’d been saving my money. I had gone the day before, arriving 15 [...]
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I found this little application in one of my edtech blogs. Thought it would be fun to see how the words “stack up” that we use in this blog…
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I know I say it every time I do one of these update posts, but time has gone so fast; I can’t believe Mac is already five months old! He has had a few new developments this week…
The biggest one is that he is starting to sit up by himself. He can balance for almost [...]
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Jeremy, Mac and I took our first road trip this weekend, to visit my family and friends in and around Madison. It was not as long of a trip as I had originally planned because of the house negotiations, but it’s been nice so far. We drove down on Thursday morning after Mac woke and [...]
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Our second day of house-hunting yielded more positive results overall. We found a very close second choice to the one we saw Saturday, moving the one on 71st down the list. We also added a distant fourth choice for one that is smaller than others we’d seen but in good shape and ok as far [...]
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