What a week! This week has been a doozy, dear friends, and I'm just now finding time to sit down and write about it. I'll try to write as much as can.

On Saturday, I went out in the afternoon with my church singles group to the Valles Caldera near Jemez Springs. Our purpose was a sleigh ride, yes, a sleigh ride, in New Mexico, land of dry winters. Well, believe it or not there was about a foot and a half to two feet of snow! We all got in a sleigh/wagon sort of contraption pulled by two horses and went about a half mile out into the caldera, close to an old movie set built for the Terence Hill/Bud Spencer spaghetti western comedy "Troublemakers." The set was also used in "Last Stand at Sabre River," and the Ron Howard non-hit "The Missing." I will send a photo of myself standing on the set's porch to my buddy Tom Betts who publishes the spaghetti western fanzine "Westerns...All "Italiana!" An absolutely beautiful day, cold but not too cold, just enough to be invigorating. A little bit of mild snowball tossing, picture taking and posing with the horses. In truth, the whole bit wasn't long enough, but we made our way back to Jemez Springs for a nice early dinner at the Leaping Lizard Cafe. Overall, a very pleasant way to spend Valentines Day. Little did I know what was going on at church while I was playing in the snow......more later, when I can finish this.

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