Patrick, your mention of "bosque" has me pulling a favorite book from the shelf to look up the term. It's called *Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape*.
On Thursday, August 17, 2017 at 5:13:42 PM UTC-4, Patrick Moore wrote: > > 22 mile dirt ride today in the Corrales bosque -- Corrales is a village at > the north end of Albuquerque, with a pleasant mix of the remnants of old > Hispanic peasant agriculture and small scale ranching, and gentrified > residences, and not as pleasant but still pleasant considering > neo-retro-Hispano-village-McMansion living. You still see much real adobe > and lots more pseudo adobe. > > Anyway, upper 80s, mile high blue sky, puffy clouds, no more rain until, > perhaps, early next week -- this after a downpour on Monday. Much of the > ground wetted and dried, and so the sand is less deep. > > Corrales acequia roads, about 1/2 mile west of River and up to 12 miles > north of Alameda Boulevard. > > Met a couple riding horses and leading one being trained and still > skittish; I pulled off in advance of the meeting and waved them through, > and they pleasantly thanked me. Most equestrians are friendly, ordinary > folk, though you get some self-entitled assholes (makes me dream of > screaming, blowing a loud horn, and beating a tin kettle while setting off > fireworks as their horses go by, but I won't do that, I promise). > > -- > Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. > By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. > Other professional writing services. > http://www.resumespecialties.com/ > www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten > ************************************************************************** > ************** > *Interested in trading resume, LinkedIn, and other writing work for > professional (professional) help with marketing and growing my resumes, > etc. business. Respondents should have considerable experience in helping > small, online businesses grow. Please contact me at > [email protected] <javascript:>. Thanks.* > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
