Momma said there'd be days like this...

Saturdays on the Rez are still a challenge. I slow down, sleep in a little...then I want to go visit my peeps. MY peeps. The ones I keep leaving to go on these crazy journeys. I stayed in most of the day and watched the Breeder's Cup races online. Even pixelated they are the most majestic creatures God invented. My old buddy Shackleford would have won if that one horse hadn't beat him. Big red handsome guy he is. So after the classic I had to escape and go on some adventure, and one thing I hadn't tried yet is going to Grants. I thought Grants had a Chili's or an Applebee's or something where I could go sit amongst some humans at the bar and potentially engage in light conversation. Nope. I stopped at a Mexican restaurant that I'd never heard of, and it was tasty, but more of a glorified Burger King. A little Navajo lady stopped by my table and sold me a Navajo necklace. Slowly collecting Christmas gifts. Food was good, but that feeling crept up again of being alone in a foreign country, and although I was slightly cheered/entertained by the sign on the way out that invited me to shoot turkeys on Nov. 19th to win a fat yearling lamb, I returned to exploring the streets of Grants for some sort of adventurous place to visit. As a rule, I don't stop in bars that only have two trucks in front, and the one hotel that looked fairly large had no restaurant in it. So there we have it folks, I made it to 7:40 PM on a Saturday before tear spillage, a new record, but tear spillage came anyway. This isn't usually the best time to visit Walmart, but I needed dogfood. The nice thing about Walmart is that is also contains life-saving items such as Monty Python and the Holy Grail, so I am now back home again with an old friend of sorts. Miss you Tina, Tracy and Melissa! We should be watching this together. A half-pittbull and a half-collie are fairly good company as well. They don't say much but they luuuuuuv meeeee ;). Tomorrow I will go back to the church in Gallup that seemed fairly nice and normal, despite being in Gallup. Snow today, and lots of wind. Winter is coming to NM.