Abiquiu Library

This morning we made our third (and final) move of our stay at Lake Abiquiu. We moved out of a less desirable site and got a chance to dump our tanks. So now we are in site #13 until Friday (that sounds vaguely unlucky, doesn't it?)

We started out this afternoon to go to the Fiesta de Santa Rosa de Lima at Santo Tomas Church in Abiquiu. The brochure "Abiquiu & Around" had assured us that it was held every August 23. As we approached the plaza, we knew right away that no fiesta was in progress. We went into the little library and information center and were told that the fiesta had been held last Saturday and that it's usually held on the last Saturday of August. So much for the brochure.

We did manage to donate some money to the library--in exchange for some used books. We never know what we'll find at library book sales. This sale featured a large collection of cultural anthropology books that had recently been donated, as well as the usual hodgepodge.

The big event today is the arrival of an unseasonable cold front, bringing with it cold winds and rain. Toward sunset, the sky was filled with towering black clouds, except on the western horizon, so the sunlight shone through the rain, shattering into a rainbow and lighting up the lower clouds with a rosy gold light.

Mary Ann Erickson called to tell us that she and Gary had decided to spend this winter in Arizona and had cancelled their reservation at Bentsen Palm Village. We will definitely miss them, but hope they have a good stay. One of the things they want to do is get an appointment for Gary at Barrow Neurological Institute, where they have several neurosurgeons who specialize in difficult back problems with prior surgeries.

We talked to Geraldine today. She had called and left a voicemail for Ken yesterday. She's 94 and still hanging in there, but she says she is getting weaker and her heart isn't so good. She sounds good, and she says she walks every morning and evening around the corridors of her apartment building.

We made reservations at another Corps of Engineers park, Brushy Creek in Texas, to spend ten days relaxing. It sounds like we might not have either TV or Internet, so we'll see. We had to make two separate reservations to get the ten days we wanted, so we'll be moving in the middle (a good chance to dump our tanks).
Tonight we played Rummikub again: Ken 2; Lee 1.