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Pet paws beware! Puncture vine is everywhere in with the nightshade and mallow. All day I spent pulling up goatheads; weed whacking would only make them stronger. The humidity, and heat and my mind wanders. Maybe those ones will be too small to grow seeds. . . . That one is a lookalike, isn't it? . . . I thought I had done that area already? . . . … Continue

Like a classic New Mexican, I too love to go up on the rooftop to watch the fourth of July fireworks. I guess that I think I'll avoid the crowds, the noise, the traffic. But it will be cooler up there, hopefully with just a bit of breeze. I go up just before sunset; it seems like the sun takes forever to set in summer. I look around and remember I'm supposed to put more tar around the skylights, that maintenance I told myself I'd do last winter. I remember to take a cold beer (near frozen with l… Continue