Alaska to New Mexico

Life in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. We left Homer, Alaska on June 3rd, 2009, traveling in our van loaded down with everything we need to set up housekeeping in New Mexico. We now own a small house here and are loving life in the sun. If you scroll back far enough, you'll find a complete record of our road trip.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

SNOW

Woke up yesterday to snow on the ground. It was mostly gone by mid-afternoon, but it was a bit of a shock. Temperatures have been dipping into the teens at night and in the 40's during the day, but the forecast is for warmer weather over the next few days. We made a trip to Albuquerque earlier this week, and the mountains to the west were snow covered, but this is our first snowfall here in the lowlands (4100 feet).
Our friends Brian and Terry are getting married tomorrow, and we're expecting temp's in the mid-50's. It's kind of an indoor-outdoor thing, so keep your fingers crossed. Annie is the Matron of Honor and she and I are playing music after. (Brian's my trumpet player friend. About a week ago we took a trip to Las Cruces and bought a used keyboard to replace the piano lost in the fire. I also got a small PA system. The keyboard has some pretty sophisticated rhythm and accompaniment features and Annie is playing with Brian and I. She's all excited to be in a band and Brian and I are thankfull we don't have to play with some of the less-than-stellar drummers/bass players/guitarists we've tried over the last few months. Most of the good musicians we've found don't want to actually play more than occassionally and we're looking for semi-steady work. Brian plays Trumpet and Trombone. I do Sax and Guitar. This gives us quite a bit of flexability and we do Western Swing, Jazz, Dixieland (B is from New Orleans), Standards and straight Country. This lineup is small enough to work cheap but have a pretty full sound for a trio. We're playing for the Chamber of Commerce's "Christmas in T or C" on the 11th and also have a tentative New Year's Eve job. That's it for now from the Sunny/Snowy Southwest.

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