We've had a few days of catching up ... cleaning the house, paying bills, chucking accumulated paper, making up new cards ... interspersed with some fun events.
As I drove around town a few days ago, I was reminded that Mancos has some interesting buildings, too, just as Silverton and Ouray do. The bottom picture is of a new Victorian-style house, built on the corner of Spruce and Riverside where an old two-story house with a mansard roof was razed. The next photo up is an OLD Victorian house on Bauer Avenue, one of three old two-story houses along that street that survive and are in good condition and appearance.
Thursday night we went to a dinner party for Mesa Verde Foundation and Mesa Verde Museum Association board members, hosted at a beautiful home on the banks of the Animas River south of Farmington. Our gracious hosts provided a setting for getting to know each other, which was helpful when the two boards got together to discuss cooperative arrangements the next morning, meeting at the Center of SW Studies at Fort Lewis College.
Friday night was the SW Open School Halloween party, which Sandy and I attended as gypsies. She looked pretty darn convincing (and good!), while I sorta stayed in the shadows. The kids had a great time with their music (I took my hearing aids out), as evidenced by the grins on the dancers.
Last night (our seventh-month anniversary) was the event we were really waiting for ... the benefit party for the Medicine Horse equine therapy center south of town (where horses are used for therapizing people). It was held in the historic Mancos Opera House and, as you can see, the place was filled ... tables are empty in the picture because so many people are standing in the line at the left for the Mexican dinner served by the Ladies Auxiliary to the Mancos VFW Post, which owns the opera house.
In addition to a silent auction to benefit Medicine Horse (we had a framed print and two boxed sets of cards, all of which were well-received), the featured performers were the JS Trio ... three jazz musicians with the initials J.S. With due respect to the talents of her sidekicks, the key attraction for us was the wonderful lady pictured at the top, Joyce Simpson. What a voice! And what a nice person bearing that voice! She lived in Mancos for a while when I was editing the paper and she is just the most personable person you could want to meet! We had a great time, got the CD of last year's performance and will eagerly await their return next year!
In the meantime, we learned last night that Michael Martin Murphey is going to be playing in the Mancos Opera House on Nov. 2o! Wow! We will be getting our tickets the second they become available! tv
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