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e family her brother zach and his wonderful family who has since moved back to the bay area while she was there she ran in the nike women s marathon were she completed her 3rd marathon with her wonderful friend naomi and love it ben wants to do one with her next year we are looking forward to that november we were able to see ben s mom and dad was we met up with them in sedona arizona loved seeing them and it was knock out gorgeous great to see family we hope we can see them again soon took a trip up to taos new mexico where we fell in love again with all of the beauty around us enjoyed having telia s parents with us as well as some of the most amazing food spend a wonderful thanksgiving with telia s family as well as some wonderful friends loved the food loved the company we worked off the calories by immediately going to cut down a christmas tree on the rez it was a beautiful pinon we had 7 pies for dessert december finally got a new family camera after 8 months of the year sans camera we loved the colder weather loved starting fires in our wood stove loved the time with family in abq loved the time to study about the birth of christ loved receiving christmas cards from family and friends loved the decorations loved the season of giving loved giving presents to our children love who excited they were about christmas loved the season of christ we love you all and hope that we can see lots of our friends and family in this new year of 2012 posted by telia anderson at 9 48 am 3 comments january 21 2011 hiking around zuni one of the best parts of living in zuni is quick access to great hiking here a few of my favorites so far mount taylor at the top me and my father in law at the edge of the world mount taylor is the tallest mountain in northwestern new mexico at 11 301 feet it is located just outside of grants it provides over 100 mile views to albuquerque eastward and the chain of craters to the south west it is sacred to the laguna zuni and navajo i hiked it on mlk day with my father in law tracy stout it took 4wd to access the trail head due to snowy road conditions it is a moderate 2 5 mile hike to the summit with great pay off it wanders up through ponderosa pines then transitions to spruce it never exceeds tree line though it opens up on the final push to the summit for a 200 yard stretch called the edge of the world we used snowshoes and trekking poles this is a must do for any local outdoors enthusiast this is my favorite hike in the area to date coronado s curse my dad at the top of coronado s curse on dy my dad poses for a picture on the way up to dy coronado s curse this hike is literally out my front door it is the on the northern approach to the sacred zuni mountain bluff dowa yallanne dowa yallanne translates to corn mountain but most people just call it d y back in the 1500 s when the spaniards were exploring for the el dorado and seven cities of gold cororado swept through this area threatening to wipe out all the natives a shiwi the a shiwi took refuge on top of dy and lived there for a long time according to local legend coronado tried to attack the zuni via the most obvious trail which dead ends into a sheer rock face just 75 feet short of the top hence the name coronado s curse i have been up this route a couple of times but most recently with my dad in december at first the trail winds through pinyon locals call it pin yawn then climbs into predominately juniper it was super muddy but rewarded us with good views of the zuni valley fascinating rock formations that look like russian turrets and at least six abandoned ruins some still largely intact zuni acoma trail somewhere in the lava fields this type of lava was slow moving it has a hawaiian name zuni acoma trail located in malpais national monument the zuni acoma trail is a 7 5 mile hike over old lava floes as young as a few thousand years it is an official part of the continental divide trail i hiked it back in october with my friend jeremy john we had our wives intercept our car from the trail head on highway 53 and drop it off for us where the trail ends on highway 117 walking on lava was strenuous not only on our ankles and calves but the soles of our shoes as well we had to jump over deep crags in the lava some were over 30 feet deep most crevices would have ancient rock bridges built for brave travelers i enjoyed it the zuni acoma provides a variety of lava and hearty flora but lacks a lot of animal life a few reptiles birds and insects there is a reason it is called the bad lands the navajo believe the black lava floes to be the blood of the twin war gods pretty cool el morro national monument my nephew poses for a picture in front of el morro beautiful cloud formation from the top of el morro el morro this was our first and easiest hike in the area we have since done it many times with visiting family and friends it is a national monument that commemorates the many travelers who scratched their names into its famous inscription rock you can hike up and over the bluff which passes by a few ruins including what is believed to be a kiva of an ancient puebloan society round trip this is only 2 5 miles it is the sort of thing that retirees do when they need to get out of their rv s and stretch their legs zuni arch taking a look back at the arch after our hike me aeden and eliza perched on a ledge in the arch she is crying so is aeden tracy s dirty truck after we cleaned the windshield zuni arch actually i do not know if this is the real name of this destination but it seemed fitting since it is the only arch formation in zuni of which i am aware last friday my father and i were watching the kids and we got this ill conceived notion that we should hike with the kids up to the arch well we did it but i will not do it with kids again at least not in the winter it was a short hike actually about a 200 yard scramble up loose shale scree covered in a thin layer of snow and ice we took the back approach to the arch which leaves it in perpetual shadow so the snow doesn t melt quickly and was left over from our cold snap last month it made the hike dicey at best to make matters worse i simply had aeden on my shoulders by the time we reached our little perch in the arch aeden was panicked and cold i warmed him up by opening up my down coat and feeding him cookies the descent while tearful on aeden s part was pretty easy since i could just slide down here and there on my backside afterward we rallied tracy s f150 on some dirt reservation roads until we couldn t slide any farther our apologies to the bia for tearing up the road in a recreational manner posted by ben telia aeden and eliza at 1 21 pm 2 comments october 31 2010 abundance aeden circles the true meaning of halloween our october zuni social life overfloweth so many parties so many treats how is that not a good time aeden and ellie dressed up as a pirate and shark respectively last night was the branch trunk or treat the young men were en charged with pumpkin carving and the pinata the biggest hits of the night telia and i also entered the chili cook off and cake auction it was a lot of fun my greatest surprise was the pinata itself i have been constructing it since last week hoping every moment that it didn t break before the kids actually hit it it was made of some flimsy scrap cardboard four twisted coat hangers one layer of paper mache 200 feet of hand cut crepe paper and a small amount of duct tape it was under engineered and liable to spontaneously spill its contents it literally took a beating from twenty kids before it shewed forth its candy exclamation point for me i heard that zunis will trick or treat all night i also heard that the adults trick or treat we shall see anyway things are starting to cool off we have two electric radiators we move through the house to keep it warm we are doing everything to not use propane to heat the house some of my colleagues report paying up to 600 00 a month in propane to heat their homes during the winter that is madness these homes are poorly insulated built on a slab overlied with thin linoleum tiles without a wood burning stove or a fire place it makes me wonder if the gas companies paid off the contractor i spoke with an alternative rental agency on friday about getting into a smaller place on a raised foundation with a wood burning stove for less money the hospital uses its political flex to restrict these better insulated homes to physicians but i plead my case i pulled out all the stops and perhaps by grace itself the rental agent finally relented and conceded to reserving a home for our family she said it would take about 6 months to renovate which in zuni time i translate as about 8 10 months either way this is a huge answer to our prayers the trade off is giving up our spacious rez mansion and regrettably our chickens i have already identified a lucky family in the branch who will be the recipients of a lovingly built coop two roosters and four hens as for the other renovations provided by my father in law tracy i will take them with us all of them the gravel the fencing the playhouse everything i will figure out a way in the mean time however we will continue to live in the abundance of our cold and spacious luxury home aeden summons a disinterested hipster pirate face i can see you our harvest display aeden paints the pumpkin pinata with a satisfied artsy smirk ellie musters the spirit of a great white shark ellie looks like a shark cherub on a swing showing off the finished pinata notice the crepe paper please aeden ellie at the bandera ice caves posted by ben telia aeden and eliza at 3 23 pm 4 comments october 17 2010 tarantulas tarantula on our sidewalk tarantulas migrate did you know that nobody really knows where to or from but they pass through zuni every year i saw two telia saw five normally i loathe hate and despise arachnids of all kinds they give me the creeps and i have taught aeden to smash them but i like tarantulas first off they are way too big to squash they also have a mammal like gentleness that ironically places these gigantic spiders in the category of unorthodox warm fuzzies hiking chaco outlier ruins circa 1200 ad this last week telia and i made it out to el malpais national monument twice separately exploring different areas i hiked 7 5 miles of craggy black lava along the zuni acoma trail with my friend jeremy yesterday telia hiked 5 miles to a few old chacoan ruins called the dittert site with her friend jennifer as it turns out malpais is a spanish term that literally means bad country but was commonly used to describe volcanic landscapes gnarled junipers and pinion pines pop up along the trails of el malpais supposedly the curvier the trunk the curvier the root system tracy strikes again play structure of anglo saxon origin in the americas circa october 2010 does it surprise you not me he s generous handy and loves his grand kids check out the play structure he built for aeden and eliza composting i have wanted a great compost for a long time now that hoa s are a thing of the past that time has come the straw bale method involves digging down about 6 12 surrounding it with straw bales and using red worms at the bottom to accelerate the composting process i built it yesterday and am really excited about getting started baby shower telia threw the most rocking baby shower ever for our friend lori i smuggled myself in can witness that it was fun in its informality we tie died onesies and listened to bob marley as zunis navajos anglos as we are called and one woman from st thomas milled around enjoying the ambiance there was so much good food music i have subscribed to a song of the day podcast from kexp it is available for free on itunes yesterday after downloading over 300 free songs i have finally waded through the so so and distilled my favorites to about 50 new songs and artists if you re into music you should check it out i can t believe it is legal since i got titles like peter bjorn and john matt and kim she and him rodrigo and gabriela plants and animals blitzen trapper and sufjan stevens and those are just a few of the names i knew already anyway now you are more or less caught up love you all enjoy the pictures appreciating our fuzzy friend from a distance a tarantula and daddy long legs on my garage wall aeden on the watch tower this blm ranger led telia s hike he possesses more knowlege than anyone person should have or share our friend and colleage jennifer kim in front of an old abandoned homestead pure joy so cute she was highlighting the keyboard posted by ben telia aeden and eliza at 6 17 pm 6 comments october 3 2010 hippies and saints the pies made from real farmers market pumpkins mmm mmm this weekend has been wonderful the kids are almost better friday we went hiking over 3000 year old lava beds and explored pie town nm saturday we went to the ramah harvest festival where telia entered a pie contest and won first prize for her pumpkin pie it was a lot of fun some hippies were selling this incredible apple green chile jam i am wondering what life was like before we bought a jar refrigerators are the best place for 1st place after inspecting the hens and roosters there we once again are wondering at the gender of our largest chicken olga or dick we still don t know but now we are leaning toward olga today we have been listening to podcasts of general conference due to our dial up esque bandwith it is so slow we will probably finish general conference some time this week so far it is amazing and basic also i found a really cool spider that made a very intricate web with extremely strong silk i think she is some sort of orb weaver olga ate her up in two bites sorry no picture tonight for dinner we are having pumpkin pudding and butter biscuits with the apple green chile jam yum literally 5 people walked by looked at the kids looked at me and said well now i guess you ve got to get a bunny our general conference set up posted by ben telia aeden and eliza at 6 15 pm 3 comments october 1 2010 pie town nm population 35 for the past few weeks we have heard talk about a magical place called pie town from talking with neighbors one would get the impression that if given the choice between heaven and pie town you might be strongly tempted to kick it in pie town so we went it was a long drive down rural dirt roads past several ranches a mountain range and over ancient lava flows finally we arrived i don t know what we were expecting exactly telia thought maybe it would be really touristy and have the best pie ever even as i write this i am not sure if i was disappointed or charmed but it was interesting enough to capture our imaginations the story of how pie town got its name has a few versions but my gut tells me the most accurate is in new mexico s continental divide trail official guide by bob julyan the generally accepted story tells that in 1922 clyde norman opened a gas station here calling it...