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| Mom's very good friend, Wendy |
Next stop: Placitas, New Mexico. What's in Placitas, New Mexico, you ask? Well, not much. Some scrub brush, a few low cacti, quite a few mesquite trees, rattlesnakes in the warmer months. The reason we came here, though, is because it's about a 1/2 hour above Albuquerque. To get here from Shamrock, TX, we came through Albuquerque and took a right, not a left. (Only Bugs Bunny fans will get this.) And why did we want to be near Albuquerque? Well, I'm glad you asked. Because a very good friend of Mom's lives in Albuquerque. And they invited us to join them for Thanksgiving dinner.
Wendy works at nursing homes and she was telling us about the various protocols that are in place to keep residents that have Covid isolated from the ones that don't. It's a very complicated procedure to keep everyone separate - those that are negative, those that test positive but have no symptoms, those that have symptoms but still test negative as they might be sick from something else, and those that both have symptoms and test positive. It all sounds very stressful. These health care workers put themselves and their families at risk to care for patients during this pandemic and deserve our utmost respect and admiration. Maybe they hear everyone's thanks a lot, or maybe they don't hear it enough, but thank you to all those front line workers that care for others. You are true heroes.
Wendy's house has a walled in patio and Dora and I had fun roaming free, sniffing and investigating everywhere, and watering the plants - well, that was me. Dora just squats anywhere without aiming. It was nice to be off leash to roam as we pleased. There were grass burrs in Shamrock and low cacti in Placitas so we had to be on leash all the time to avoid getting tangled up with them. We were only in Placitas for a few days, just a brief stop over, really, on our way to Hurricane, UT, where we'll be for the month of December. So I'll just post a few pictures and call it good.
--Sammy
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| Snow on the mountains |
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| View from our RV spot |
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| Cactus plant - wouldn't want to step on those spines! |
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| Mesquite tree |
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