Tuesday Nov 11


Had first snowfall Sunday night, was not that heavy but been so cold that there is still some in sheltered spaces.

The snow starts Sunday night, Eldon Mountain hidden by snow clouds

Real little Xmas tree-so pretty, Mon morning

View from office window, Mon morning

Still have not been to the Grand Canyon, we were hoping to be able to go altogether but with Coz working weekends hard to have them both off at the same time so decided on Saturday to go somewhere Rob hasn't been and Coz and I will do the Canyon one day, during one week, not this week tho' cause she at Bullhead City and won't be back until Thurs night.

So on Saturday off we went accompanied by the three dogs, Darwin doesn't like the leash much but was very well behaved, Roo has only been on a leash once before and handled it perfectly, the one time had Tassie on lead he sat down, howled if being beaten and would not move at all, he is only a baby, however this time he didn't make a sound, ran along quite well but had to be carried alot, people kept stopping to remark on Roo's blue eyes, the cutness of Tassie, the behaviour of Darwin, didn't get to take many photo's!

Montezuma Castle National Monument, located near Camp Verde, Arizona, in the Southwestern United States, features well-preserved cliff dwellings. They were built and used by the Pre-Columbian Sinagua people around 1400 AD. Several Hopi clans trace their roots to immigrants from the Montezuma Castle/Beaver Creek area. Clan members periodically return to their former homes for religious ceremonies. When European Americans discovered them in the 1860s, they named them for the Aztec emperor of Mexico Montezuma II, due to mistaken beliefs that the emperor had been connected to their construction.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montezuma_Castle_National_Monument)

Montezuma Castle National Monument

Gaze through the windows of the past into one of the best preserved cliff dwellings in North America. This 20 room high-rise apartment, nestled into a towering limestone cliff, tells a 1,000 year-old story of ingenuity and survival in an unforgiving desert landscape.

Marveling at this enduring legacy of the Sinagua culture reveals a people surprisingly similar to ourselves.

Spend a few hours and discover the incredible legacy of an ancient people. Montezuma Castle National Monument.

A self-guided, 1/3-mile loop trail leads you past an incredible 5-story cliff dwelling, through a beautiful sycamore grove and along spring-fed Beaver Creek, one of only a few perennial streams in Arizona.

Dogs, on leashes no longer than 6 feet) are welcome on the park's trails. Pet owners must clean up after their animals.

(http://www.nps.gov/moca/)

Then onto Jerome an old copper mining town, now very Leura-ish, perched along mountain top,

Modern Jerome: tourism and art

Today Jerome is a tourist destination, with many abandoned and refurbished buildings from its boom town days. Jerome has a large mining museum, presenting the town history, labor-management disputes, geological structure models, mineral samples, and equipment used in both underground and open-pit mining. The National Historic Landmark designation has assured architectural preservation in this town, a mile high on the side of Mingus Mountain.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome,_Arizona)

Didn't take any pics at all-oops

Came home up the canyon creek road, stopped to have a look at the creek, not a lot of water but very tranquil.

This morning the puppies chewed the power cord to Rob's speakers and munched on his headphones, BAD PUPPIES. I was going to post about latest knitting project, knitting two socks on one circular needle, all was going well until the puppies of doom intervened on Sunday, chewed right thru cable between needles and munched on some wool, so here is the sad result, have put it away for a bit, need to get more needles,

Still the concept is great, bought 2-at-a-time SOCKS, by Melissa Morgan-Oakes, ISBN 987-1-58017-691-0. Sets out the process very clearly and very well illustrated. I have been pratising knitting one sock at time on the circulars and but this book would also suit a total beginner.

oh so innocent puppies, yeah right!!