Well, today was about as exciting as it gets! They delivered our casita down 60 windy New Mexico miles without it getting blowed off the trailer.

Mom and I went down to our little town of Madrid to take some cool pictures of them bringing it up the road.

Then they backed it into our concrete slab, and they set it down exactly on the slab, and it all went exactly perfectly!! Afterwards our best buddy the excavator Thomas Vigil did a really innovative welding solution that anchored the house to the slap forever and ever.

I was there for a lot of it, although Mom and I took a trip up to Santa Fe to pick up our new dining room furniture for our new vacation house. When I was there, it was pretty exciting seeing all these people put a whole house down. Afterwards we went inside and Mom set up a magazine shot of the new dining room.

I have always loved it on our land and I love to run around, and I'm very proud of running all over the place without getting cactus in my paws ... but let me tell you, standing on a wood floor and looking out at the view through the screen door -- that beats all!

Today we had a very active day. Mom and Dad went down to Target and bought all the things they hadn't found at yesterday's yard sales. I stayed in the car.

Then we went up for this hike at Glorieta, which is up the mountains toward the East outside of Santa Fe. We ended up walking 7 miles round trip -- and believe me, when your legs are only 3 inches long, 7 miles is a heck of a lot of footsteps!!

Still, it was a wonderful walk -- more great smells than I could ever tell you (unless you were a dog), and the beautiful sound of the big winds up in the aspens and the big pines that Dad calls 'Ponderosa.' As you can see, I spent a lot of time in the brook that winds back and forth for most of the trail. Mom and Dad kept hopping over the brook, using rocks and pieces of tree and sand bars. I don't see the point, myself, when you can just walk through it and cool your paws off.

Since then, I have been doing a lot of snoozing and look forward to a big night's sleep.

So today we finally got out on the road and did some stuff. Mom and Dad went to about 100 yard sales in Santa Fe picking up all sorts of bargains for the new casita in Madrid, such as pots and pans, collanders, knives and all kinds of things we will need. (OK, it was maybe 10, but it felt like 100 by the time they started keeping me in the car.)

Then we went out on a hike in the little town of La Cienega, south of Santa Fe. The hike was not all that long, maybe a mile, but it was very steep and the afternoon was very hot. Mom started feeling pretty sick from the heat and had to stop a couple of times in the shade of several juniper trees.

Dad was very insistent that we keep going (although I also would have been perfectly happy to turn around and go down), and finally we got up to the top of a ridge and I could see why he wanted us to keep on: a beautiful view of a huge gorge that the Santa Fe River has cut through country that not many people have ever seen.

Relaxing tonight, after cooling down and sleeping some. Tomorrow another hike but I think it's going to be a cooler one.

This is me standing on the wall outside of Joseph's, with one of his really cool wind whirlygigs. We are waiting for the guy who supervised the concrete slab project, who just called us up to say he'd like the rest of his money.

Unfortunately he has gotten completely lost in Santa Fe and, after running out of interesting things to do around the wall, Mom and Dad will finally tell the guy to stay in one place while we come out and find him to give him the check.

This has been a Santa Fe day, which is fine with me. Mom and I took some little walks while Dad went out and did some paperwork business with the state and county; Mom also had a lot of phone calls about her Senator Shaheen event. Then we all went out shopping. We got a great bargain on some PotteryBarn plates and cups that a woman was selling (she had to move because she lost her job), and some nice glasses and placemats from Jackalope.

Mom and Dad went to a gallery opening on Canyon Road while I got to stay in the car (again!), and now we are all back at Joseph's place, chillin'. Tomorrow: many yard sales!

This is me smelling the flowers at Joseph's casita, which is where Mom and I spent most of the day. We had a couple of nice walks around Santa Fe, and then Mom worked and I mainly hung out, in between loud barking at Joseph's cat, Cappucino.

Dad came back from working on our land project in the afternoon, and then we drove up to Espanola to check out our modular house one last time before they would deliver it on Monday.

Terrance, one of the modular guys, said "There is one complication ..." Apparently the guy who was going to drive the house down to the land, known as the "toter," had a cow stuck in a cattle guard and when he got the cow free it ran over him, and it was not clear if he would recover in time for Monday.

Mom then went "buffalo ugly" (as she put it) on Terrance and made it clear the house would be delivered Monday, no matter what he had to do. Fortunately Tino, the other modular guy, was able to find another toter tonight.

Dad says this is another example of the "rule of two" -- everything about this house has to be done twice (two seller's lawyers, two wells, two excavators and now two toters). I don't understand that -- all I want is to get the house set up and move in.

A Limo ride to the airport and a truck ride to Santa Fe

We're in New Mexico tonight, finally getting some rest!

Mom and I woke up this morning at 4 a.m. and took a limo to the airport, and flew on airplanes for hours and hours. Finally we got to Albuquerque and met up with Dad.

I was so glad to see him I licked him to death!

Dad's been very busy getting our New Mexico property ready to live in, which has included a lot of excavating. This photo shows Mom and I on top of a pile of rocks that Thomas has been excavating, but Dad says this is only a very small piece of all the rocks Thomas has been digging out. Today they poured the cement slab that our little house is going to sit on.

This afternoon down in Albuquerque, Mom, on a whim, went into a furniture store and we ended up buying a living room table and four chairs of different colors. So once our slab is dried (more or less) on Monday and they deliver the house, we'll have a place to sit.

We're all very excited to have a second place to live in New Mexico!!