We had a very nice road-trip today, going over to the other side of the Rio Grande and up into the Jemez Mountains (which, when we're back home in our casita, we can look out at every day from our front window).One great thing we saw was the Soda Dam. This happens on the Jemez River. Dad read the sign which says that this dam is a build-up of calcium carbonate (whatever that is) from a spring behind it.
I also got a chance to get my feet and nose wet in the Jemez River itself. It's a pretty nice big river. We also visited a hot springs just up the ridge from the river; people were bathing in it, so we didn't take pictures. (Dad says that back in the 1960's, people bathed naked in these pools ... but that's before I was born ...)
Mom and I also had a good run through the Ponderosa Pine forest (we spent a lot of the day above 8500 feet, during which Mom and I were a little dizzy and silly from the altitude).
Then this afternoon we came back home, and Mom made jewelry, and Dad fought with the winds and rocks to get the windmill set in place for tomorrow's concrete pouring. They went out to dinner. I was happy to sleep in the car.
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