Yesterday, Nina and I went for a ride. We left around 11:00 and returned home shortly after 3:00. It was a nice ride but the lunch was just OK. We headed south from here on NM Rte. 3 and headed to Vaughn to have lunch at Penny’s Diner. It’s a retro style chrome building that has mostly counter seating and is probably known better for breakfast than lunch. We returned home a different way and we probably added about 200 miles to the bike.
I also passed my 2500 mile mark and I need to schedule the 2500 mile service at Harley. I’ll call tomorrow. I think it consists of a minor check up and an oil change. They also wash the bike, which is good.
Vaughn is an old railroad town that has seen better days. Dozens of closed buildings and we’re thinking of taking the Jeep there soon and take some pictures of the old buildings and ruins. The area is still a big railroad center, but Vaughn is pretty much out of the picture for the RR business. Moriarity to the west is now the epicenter for the RR stuff.
Moriarity also has a neat old hotel with several rooms outfitted with the old style claw foot bathtubs, one of which has 2 side by side overlooking the nearby mountains. The hotel also has a resident ghost. One of these days I plan on heading east along Rte. 60 that is the main east/west routes in that area. I’d like to see where that takes me/us.
That area of New Mexico has a special beauty that takes a special person to appreciate it and live in it. We are not that special, not even close.
Business from this holiday weekend was not up to what we normally see on holidays.
The weather played a large part in that. No one driving to picnics or fishing, no gas or ice purchases.
We needed the rain of course, but we miss the added income from the extra traffic.
We did do better than normal, but not as good as expected. Oh well, the rain benefitted more than we lost in general.
Erin is getting a haircut today. I voted for a bob, but I seldom get my choice.
Erin and I went and bought more fish yesterday. Some cats, a couple sharks, some mollies and the like.
She likes to feed the fish and keeps looking for the sharks. They’re her favorites.
I like the dyed fish. Kinda cool looking.
Well, I think I’m going to go riding now. the banking’s done, Erin’s gone with Tori, and I lent out the tractor so I can’t do the lot. May as well ride!
Well, Erin is back at home with us now. She’s in an outfit that actually looks like it came from a real store and not a Goodwill box. The color, turquoise, looks great on her and she’s in a good mood.
I bought Erin an aquarium and it’s finally up & running. We picked it out together and the decorations were Erin’s idea. The picture is a bit hard to take because it’s a bow front aquarium.
I bought a few fish to see if they’d survive and it appears that they’re doing fine. I added the bubbler today since the smaller fish were hanging near the top, a sign of oxygen deprivation. It’s a 26 gallon tank and I plan on adding a total of 35 fish. There’s about 22 in there now and Erin gets to pick out the rest.
That’s the subject line from Classmates.com in their email to me trying to get me to renew. Naturally I click on the email to see if I can see some of the people before they shut me down, but no I can’t see any of them. None, zip, zero, zilch! But what I can see is the first line when I get to my profile.
GLEN, YOU HAVE 1 GUESTBOOK SIGNATURE THIS YEAR! JOIN NOW TO RECONNECT TO YOUR CLASSMATES.
Yep, gonna jump right on that. Can’t wait until I can reconnect with ALL those ummm . . . . . person? I just know that it’s all the popular kids that I hated way back then. I need to unsubscribe from them again I guess.
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