Christmas 2009

Peggy uses her new fancy phone to capture a moment.


Peggy uses Marci's iPod to select one of it's hundreds of songs.


Peggy and Dortea. Dortea is originally from Germany and lives with her husband
Ed in a wonderful house that is also a gallery of art. Dortea does scuptures and other forms
of art as well as running her own landscape business.


Maria and Brian Locke. Brian is a skilled luthier, making custom mandolins. Some of
his instruments can be seen at his website www.lockmandos.com



Ed (Dortea's husband), Art and Tom enjoying some conversation. Art is a professional builder
and done some forward thinking buildings such as rammed earth. Ed is a skilled woodworker
who is in demand in the Pecos area.

Tom, taking a run at the wonderful selection of goose, ham and dozens of other dishes.

Peggy prepares our goose for the smoker. Marci watched the smoker with her eagle eye
and made sure it was a success.

We sure enjoyed our visit to Pecos, NM which is about 80 miles North of Albuquerque. It's
in the mountains, having an elevation of 7,000 feet. It's largely unspoiled and the locals are
fourth and fifth generations of the original inhabitants of the area.