One moment you’re sitting in a meeting having a conversation with a colleague and you’re able to present yourself as a professional, intelligent person. Before you can blink, your mind turns to Jell-O, you can’t remember the last word you said nor the poignant message you were trying to convey, your body temperature seems to be going through the roof, and you’re sweating profusely.
Drive south on I-25 about seven hours from Lyons and you arrive in Santa Fe, New Mexico. “A City Different,” “Aspen’s sister,” “O’Keeffe Country,” the highest US capitol city at over 7200 feet, and Spanish for “holy faith.” Thirty-two years ago my husband and I visited the city for a company business conference. More recently, we traveled there to help our middle son and his family settle into a house. Santa Fe has definitely changed!
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Another week gone by! School starts this Thursday, the Folks Festival Festival starts on Friday.
We hope the weather will stay cool. What a hot summer we have had, over 90 days of over 90 degrees! The hottest in 54 years! This global warming is bad for the universe! What can we do about the changing of the world!
If a King of Comedy was crowned at the Lyons senior center, it would have to be Don Hunt. He brought jokes and songs to the seniors on many occasions over the years, but due to health concerns, he retired his repertoire in spring.
Can you believe it? A year has gone by. A whole year since Lora and Joseph at the Lyons Recorder agreed to let me blather on about what makes my world go ‘round: fixing things and playing with power tools! (Cue Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor sound byte. Actually no, don’t. That just sounds ridiculous.).