Borrego Springs

 It seems like Borrego Springs, Christmas and New Years was a long time ago!   We're home now, we arrived here on January 2, and we've both finally recovered from the holiday crud.    I slept for two days, Dave sneezed and coughed and blew his nose.       The left-over Christmas decorations are down, both in Beluga and in the house.  (full disclosure - they're actually all in the garage,...I'll put them away next week).  

   Except for this beauty.    It finally bloomed just as we got home, and it's been going ever since!

Taos had his inevitable surgery this week.    He's handling it as he handles everything else.   He's calm and accepting of the "appliances" he needs to wear so as to not lick his incision.    He wonders why we think he would do such a thing if we've told him not to, but his is not to question.    You want me to wear this t-shirt or this inflatable collar?    Alrighty then.     What a guy he is.

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So, when I last wrote, we were on our way to Borrego Springs, California for a week.      We arrived just as they turned the power back on, but we were on notice that there may be more Public Safety interruptions if high winds started up again.  Evidently the power company tries to turn power off to areas that may be in fire danger to try and mitigate some risk.        After what has been happening in LA, I can really understand this strategy.   

The Springs at Borrego Resort was very empty at that time of year, as we expected.   So nice and quiet. 

  The only problem was that there was no cable tv available and no over the air reception (nearest towers are 100 miles away), so I had to become proficient in streaming and casting and whatever.     I don't like it, not one bit, but I figured out enough to keep us busy after dinner.     During the day we sat in the sun and read, explored the area and ate dinners out.    At the very beginning of this holiday rambling trip Pam said she wasn't bringing food, we were going to eat out every night.     I thought that sounded like a fantastic idea, a fantastic way to end the year, so we followed her lead for the rest of our trip!     I made our traditional Christmas Eve/day meal but that's all!    Fun!  

We even saw Santa!     We revisited some of our favorite spots, off road, and showed Taos the huge metal sculptures scattered throughout the area.   He wasn't impressed.     What's the big deal sitting under a huge scorpion, or in front of one, or under a mega grasshopper?    Ah well, they ask, I do.

ho hum

We took lunches and wandered the desert.     It's what we love to do.

  

always a delight to come across water in the desert

lunch on a rock

We went over the mountain to Julian, CA. a couple of times to fill our freezer with Julian Pies.    We stopped at Dudley's in Santa Ysabel (twice!) for other goodies and ate linner at a sweet little spot called Jeremys on the Hill.   Taos loved it there too!

I think Santa was following us.....

We followed a flock of Snow Geese to Lake Henshaw but couldn't get close enough for a picture.    Entry to the lake appeared to be closed and we had a cooler full of pie, so we decided not to work too hard to get to the shore.     It's so nice to be able to just wander, turn here, turn there, stop here, lets move on.....no schedule.

Next stop - Desert Hot Springs and Palm Springs for a week - or two!

Here's Annie!

everyone loves puddles, right?