Bear Food

A change of plans ensued for today's adventure. Instead of the Sandia Mountains, we did the Wildlife West Nature Park. An outdoor Zoo if you will of animals that are injured or for some other reason cannot be released back into the wild. The folks learned of it through a short blurb in the newspaper. Today's special special treat was the park staff gave tours in the back yard to get a much closer look at a bear.

I think I'll pass on a hand shake, but nice to meet you. They were feeding him grapes to keep him in line. This guy was salivating all over the place! Just a big teddy bear in the end.

There were other animals at the park, but the only other item of interest was this butterfly. If only I could get better focus on a close up. Oh well, I'll just have to do with this . . .

I've been trying to get a photo of a butterfly for quite some time now. By far, this is the best I've been able to do.

After our adventure, we flew home for SUPPER - spaghetti with:

Pray for Taste Spaghetti Sauce
1 8-oz can tomato sauce
1/4 cup minced onion
1/8 tsp pepper
1/4 tsp basil
1/2 tsp oregano
1/2 tsp sugar
1/8 tsp garlic powder
salt to taste.

Combine all ingredients in a sauce pan. Bring to boil, then lower to simmer for 20 minutes. Top on cooked spaghetti and chicken, beef, whatever.

I can't believe it actually turned out!!! An experiment! Mark your calenders!

Anyways the dishes are clean and I'm in chill mode. See ya.

Volcano's Anyone?

Here we are. It's Sunday. Tomorrows Monday and the beginning of another work week. I've got some training to do on a tool that I have not used in a very long time this next week. That should be interesting! I'll briefly review some notes tonight, then probably stay late tomorrow night to get close and personal with it. Caress it. Get close. Speak gently, Hold a hammer. Swing it. Persuade it. Pray!

Today I did more hiking in the Petroglyph National Monument. Today was the Volcano's trail. Only did part of it. You can see one of the volcano's in the background on the pic of me. Here are some other photo's . . .

To one side, the Sandia Mountains and the city of Albuquerque.

To another side, the vast open desert.

Another one of the volcano's.

Oh cool!! A mound of what looks like flying ants living in the lava rock. Never seen anything like it. Yes ants do produce flying ants that run off to start new colonies, but this many? I don't think so. I'll have to research this one later.

And yes, it was pretty warm, but not too bad over all. There were clouds that provided cover on occasion, and last nights rain kept things pretty cool most of the morning. I don't think it really started to heat up until after one or so (we got there around 2:30pm). There is one more trail to do at that location. Will head back later to do it.