Long day!

We got to Bauer Lake fairly early Tuesday morning ... stalked the eagles at their nest after cleaning the screen at the dam. The day before, we had seen a pair of ospreys flying around Little Bauer Lake, but didn't see the nest. It will be fun to keep watch on the eagle's nest (from a distance) through the summer.

Onward to KSJD, where we worked the telephones for two hours during their spring fund drive. "Worked" may not be the right word ... two calls from the manager and one wrong number!

The station manager invited Sandy to come out Wednesday morning and chat with him online about community radio in "da UP." 

In the afternoon, we made it to the world religions class the local Methodist minister is hosting for a dozen or so people. A woman who is sister to one of our librarians and who is married to an Iranian Muslim was the speaker. She and her kids have lived in Iran and her recounting of those experiences, and of her families' experiences in the US before and after 9/11, were fascinating. 

Thence to the Kennebec Café, to celebrate Sandy's birthday with dinner as the sun's last rays seemed to gild forever the southern slopes of the La Plata Mountains, visible through the dining room windows to the north, up La Plata Canyon. It made us shiver to recall how arctic it had felt when last we ventured up that canyon! But we also, as we indulged in beautifully presented plates of good food not quite on our diet menu (especially the chocolate sundaes for dessert!), both felt the hankering for those upland roads to open, so we can get out and explore the spring flowers, the rushing streams and waterfalls, the wildlife. We've been traveling the road at the east side of Bauer Lake almost daily, doing screen duty, and each day we see something new ... and this is just one of hundreds of roads waiting for our exploration! 'Tis an unending joy to explore the world with this ever-youthful loving partner!

Can't wait to get started toward the southland Friday morning. In the meantime, though, there's lots to do. Sandy's on the radio this morining. A KOB-TV reporter, Tom Joles, is flying up this morning to cover the Mancos FLDS properties and wants to interview me at 11. Tomorrow I'm doing a day-trip to Chaco and back with friends while Sandy gets us ready for Tucson. Gotta get all this roaming around done before I have knee replacement surgery on July 1, which will still my traveling for a while. 

Enough. Almost dawn. Got other things to do in this wonderful life. tv