Ahh, back in the land of spicy food! We've gone out to lunch the last two days while running errands around town. Yesterday we went to Bumble Bee's Baja Grill which came highly recommended for its burritos. I had a burrito filled with grilled fish, green peppers, and guacamole. Jake got a steak burrito with green chile sauce. They also have a great salsa bar where you can help yourself to homemade chips and red and green salsas of several types. They also have jazz groups play on Friday nights apparently.
Today we went to Castro's, a place that looks like a dive from the outside but is quite pleasant inside. Jake first discovered it while waiting for a car repair one day. I had the mixed enchilada plate with green chili and Jake had a burrito filled with roast beef covered in red and green chili. Main courses come with rice, beans and sopapillas. We usually save our sopapilla to have with honey for dessert, but they are meant to be eaten with your meal to cool off the spice. For $7 a plate it rivaled lunch prices in Argentina!
It has been snowing all day today although it only started sticking to the roads in the late afternoon. This is a far cry from Tuesday's weather when I went out to a garden near Espanola to help divide perennials for the Santa Fe Botanic Garden's fall plant sale (see photo of house and garage garden). Over the years this couple has developed a wonderful garden and orchard irrigated by waters from the Rio Grande.
At home, we decided to get rid of the old hot tub in the back yard and replace it with a small flagstone patio. Jake advertised it for $1 on Craig's list and got 12 responses in the first half hour. The first guy who came to look at it agreed to take it as well as to disassemble and remove all the wood holding it up. It turned out to be harder than he anticipated, but the hot tub is now gone and the decking is half torn off. Under the decking we discovered 6" square cement footings that are who knows how deep. We will see if it's possible to dig them out, but if not we may have to incorporate them into the patio somehow.
2 comments:
Replacing a hot tub with a stone patio!!! Has all the romance gone out of life? Or have you become prudish about the life style options available to the tenants who follow you?
None of the above - a stone patio is infinitely easier to maintain and uses less water!
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