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| no partners | | This weekend was the first of many highly-anticipated painted desert trips for me for the next year or so.
My sister and her husband, Brian (VVebb here on HAZ), are moving up to the vicnity to pursue a job opportunity for him, and they recently acquired an old, vacant house near the Echo Cliffs. This weekend I met Brian up there to help clean the place. The biggest job was (and still is) to kill any potential hantavirus, so we threw on old clothes and respirators and mopped all the rooms with a strong bleach solution. It will certainly require many more mop sessions (there was a thick layer of red sand on every surface in the house), but we still made some headway. Sunday we decided to work on dog-proofing the yard rather than mopping the house more, as we didn't feel like dealing with the respirators and clothes-changing and general uneasiness of bleaching out a deadly virus for two days in a row (at least I was pretty paranoid the entire time, and Brian probably didn't feel like dealing with my neuroticism two days in a row).
Both Saturday evening and Sunday evening included a trip to Coal Mine Canyon. Absolutely gorgeous both days, I can't wait to go back!
Other news of the weekend: Brian (VVebb, in case you forgot) found out he passed the bar exam Friday evening! Congrats to him! Anyone know any good lawyer jokes???  |
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"Arizona is the land of contrast... You can go from Minnesota to California in a matter of minutes, then have Mexican food that night." -Jack Dykinga
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