Today we didn't do much of anything. We've been on the go for the last several days and decided we needed a day at home. After all, we can stay here as long as we like and there is no rush to see everything all at once.
I took care of some inside things and made a crock pot full of beef stew for dinner. Bob rode his bike down to the local Home Depot to see about an electric heater for us to use to take the chill off in the mornings. We have one but it isn't working properly and we don't want to take any chances with it.
While out, Bob picked up a couple of those free real estate books that give color pictures and descriptions of homes for sale in the area. We pick these up wherever we go just to see how far the housing dollar goes in the area we're in. As in Texas, your dollar goes farther here than it does on the east coast. You can get a lot of house for $150,000.00 in this area.
One thing we have noticed is that they don't advertise air conditioning as we on the right coast know it. In the real estate booklets its listed as R/A.....refrigerated air. We have also noticed that the A/C's are all mounted on the roofs here. I don't know why this is. Maybe because there isn't grass all around putting them on the roof keeps dust/dirt from messing them up.
Another observation has been that there are no residential built in pools. In fact we have only seen ONE above ground pool. Don't New Mexicans swim? Even when we have been at higher elevations (think Sandia Tram) and had the opportunity look down over a town or city we haven't seen the telltale bright blue of a swimming pool. I don't get it. With the weather here one would think pools would be all over the place. In fact, few hotels/motels have pools. I'm going to have to ask some questions of the locals to find out why that is.
After dinner we settled in for yet another night of TV.
Tomorrow we'll go see the cliff dwellings of years gone by.
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