Woody Guthrie’s 1942 new year’s resolutions

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1. work more and better
2. work by a schedule
3. wash teeth if any
4. shave
5. take bath
6. eat good – fruit – vegetables – milk
7. drink very scant if any
8. write a song a day
9. wear clean clothes – look good
10. shine shoes
11. change socks
12. change bed clothes often
13. read lots of good books
14. listen to radio a lot
15. learn people better
16. keep rancho clean
17. don’t get lonesome
18. stay glad
19. keep hoping machine running
20. dream good
21. bank all extra money
22. save dough
23. have company but don’t waste time
24. send Mary and kids money
25. play and sing good
26. dance better
27. help win war – beat fascism
28. love Mama
29. love Papa
30. love Pete
31. love everybody
32. make up your mind
33. wake up and fight

Happy 2012 everyone!

White Pre-Christmas

Awoke this morning to about 4" of snow this morning, the nice powdery stuff this time. Shoveling and clearing the cars, then a sniff-ful walk across the river with the dog.

Afternoon at the museums downtown with M+D, targeting the Drake and St. John's Bible exhibits.

Temperature's dropping already, but snow's been melting away all day. And now a bumper sticker spotted on the way home has us wondering, "what, indeed?"

I probably ...

... should call it something interior-decorator-ey like a "winter woodland" wreath.



You know, instead of calling it the "Siberian-elm-branches-I-pulled-out-of-the-pile-of-dead-brush-piled-up-next-to-the-shed-and-wired-up-into-a-ghetto-fabulous-wreath" wreath.

kiffles!

So, so many kiffles. Dried cherry filling this year.

Gotcha Day!

And yesterday, it was almost 50°

And it thundered some in the middle of the night. Before bringing on the snow that's falling — and looks to be continuing to fall through tomorrow. Looks like M+D might catch a break driving up from Abq on Wednesday, but looking at more snow at the end of the week.

Big Adventure

Our friend Kevin bought out Santa Fe's only comic shop at the beginning of September. He'd been a part owner of its predecessor and, after more than a year-and-a-half, is its sole owner. He began referring to the whole process as his big adventure, and one of the kids at the regular Magic gathering suggested that as name.

Danny designed the logo and we've been working with them to put it all together. A couple weeks later, Pronto was at the shop on a rainy, gray, windy Monday to install the sign. While the name was in question, Kevin just put up banner that said "COMICS" in big red; turns out, that brought in more people than anything the shop had ever done. The new logo was driven by that lesson.

It's been a real kick to get to work with Kevin on Big Adventure Comics, putting together the sign, business cards, ads — to watch his dream come together and be a part of it. Being an insider at the comic shop, well, that's just bonus.

Morning Walk Across the River

The inch of snow that was on the ground yesterday morning pretty much melted over the course of the day. This is the remains of last night, which fell just about from the time we left town to go down La Bajada to friends' in Pena Blanca 'til the time we made our way home on the snow-packed roads.

Not too bad out in the sun. Tonight's calling for an unacceptable low of around 16° and it's not really supposed to warm up during Monday. And maybe up to 8" more.