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<\/a><\/p>\neight stops plus lunch, starting with an eerily empty Toyota showroom where a whiteboard listing vehicles urgently needed to resell to customers stood in for the normal array of bright<\/p>\n
and shiny things as we awaited the Tacoma’s service and inevitable annual replacement of the blower motor due to rodent infestation.\u00a0 From there L. visited her dentist while I made<\/p>\n the rounds* until collecting her at noon, by which time digits were tripling.\u00a0 More errands ensued** and then an experimental lunch at Tr\u00e9s Margaritas out on the frontage road as all our favorites were closed due to covid.\u00a0 \u00a0The place had great atmosphere but was more of a destination than we needed as one could easily have consumed those tr\u00e9s margaritas well before the orders were in let alone on the table…eventually wickedly hot camarones whose salsa salvaged my hopelessly dry tacos al pastor in soft but deepfried tortillas did arrive<\/p>\n along with excellent rice and beans but investing over an hour for lunch hadn’t been in the program. After that and a last grocery stop I was left fairly shimmering but fortunately L took over for the drive home, making it before 4:30 to mostly unload, crash and then briefly revive<\/p>\n for a foray into our forest.\u00a0 \u00a0We dined on corn and salad and slept deeply.<\/p>\n The next day we made it up Fossil Hill so maybe that illness, whatever it was, is done with<\/p>\n although Pueblo did catch up in the afternoon studio in the form of Comatose Couch Collapse<\/p>\n for the allotted duration.<\/p>\n Small afternoon walks continued, but<\/p>\n morning by morning the smokes from the north became increasingly opaque; the Season <\/a>is<\/p>\n upon us and best not to be further west…<\/a>at least here we get the occasional torrential<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n