Icecapades

Today I got a glimpse of what it will be like to drive through the Rez in the winter. Sheer ice. The first incline 7 miles or so towards Crownpoint was littered with cars off the road, just over the incline was upsidedown pickup #1, and the second incline had us all parked on the road for an hour behind upsidedown pickup #2. After the first hour on the road the snowplow went by, and according to NM native reports that was not normal. We don't get snowplows very often. But alas I made it to work after about two hours with only 1 dog accident in the back seat, checked on my frosted llama on the way there, and as usual I got to Crownpoint to find something totally different: dry roads and sunny skies. My little trip through the canyons to get there will be the challenge this winter. And avoiding all the nuts who don't know how to drive in snow.


I had a kitty cat spay today and not a whole lot else. Thankfully. The mound on my desk is terrifying and I have two exams coming up. I found out we have this Friday off and I'm going to go back to CO for a couple of days. You can't see it but I have a seriously big smile on my face! :D Missin' my peeps. And my horsie. I'll take my three goon dogs and hopefully squeeze my current Navajo pup foster project into an ophtho appointment at CSU. This is the pup I saw left by the road after a car pulled out in front of me, from right where the pup was, early in the morning on my way to work last month. Instantaneous transformation of Janel the bleary-eyed non-morning person to red-eye fry the guy mode. I snatched up the pup and sped up and passed a few cars to get behind the dude, then I flashed my lights at him and tailed him all the way to Crownpoint. He pulled into a bus parking lot and I whipped around and flapped my arms at him to roll down his window. STERN (but not yelling) mad Janel voice, "Did you abandon THIS PUPPY by the side of the road???!!!" *Cold stare*... and surprising recognition that the driver was someone who works at NTC. "No! I have no idea where that puppy came from." I explained what I saw, and they insisted they didn't know whose pup it was. He had picked up a hitchhiker and the pup was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I guess. I gave him the benefit of the doubt and took him some cookies later. The pup probably got dumped because of his bad eye. Noone has claimed him yet. SO! Adopt a Navajo dog. And donate a snowplow.