Open for magic

I did not give into Harry P and his world- I dont know why, but I like to stay away from fantasy.. today, I was so open for 'what can happen'. At laser tag, we had to insert a marker into the laser gun- while doing this and other things, I was hoping for some more such - new experiences?

Manned Easel

One day, almost towards the end of a hike, we approached the back of a painter at work. He was wearing a white shirt with a medium sized fish on it. A clear outline of the fish- skinny sketchy diagram is for us commoners. His fish had its body filled with daubs of colorful paint.
It was interesting to see what he was sketching. His painting had horses in it and he was using the background of mountains to fit in his picture. I was wondering where he painted the horses from.
I have been noticing how, when we hike the same place, at each point I am reminded how something happened. They are building up each time. I am already confusing one mountains feeling with another.

Guinness Brownies

I must have looked the biggest fool to a waitress today. There were lots of coffee drinks to choose from but all had alcohol in them. I have had a sip of Irish coffee- nah! not for me. So when asked for beverages- I said I dont have any of the things in your menu. I stopped my finger at Guinness Brownies. I didnt like the brownie so much- it was moist. Few hours later, knowing it has beer- I feel, had I been in the place of the waitress, I would have pointed out the contents. Its another thing that this brownie is not supposed to have the beer taste.

One stop shop

I went to buy a tube of size 24. Now I was expected to know its width too. I said I wanted some resistant tube. After a phone call, I had the size as 'normal'. Now the shopkeeper believed that there was no normal size. I concur. Then I was expected to look around and point to a similar bike for an idea about the tyre. Now what do you expect of a person who had a bike for a year and didnt know until recently that it had numbered gears. While looking for the cycles.. needless to say that I was imaginatively trying on each cycle..Thats when I was distracted by the camelbacks around.. I have to get that for a hike.. In that built up looking for the list, I asked if they had poles. Now after a phonetics class of bowls and cereals.. in a semi offended tone he said '(Heavens sake..).This is a bike store. go to rei for your cane..' . I knew I could get that stuff at REI. But as it goes with one kind of humans.. I want it at a local store..Well, blame it on the overlap.. When one of the things on the wanted list matched.. I thought I would find the rest..For a minute, the situation seemed like ... when I enetered the store.. the place looked so populated with Alice Land props.. that this place would have eveything...

Punched wall

Recently a wall in the apartment got punched at by a bed end which was on its way to another floor. How the bed came down that little T- corner is a mystery. After the fiasco, complaint followed. Few days later, I wanted to check if it was fixed. I pass everyday by the stairs atleast six times a day. It took me two weeks to consciously look out and see if it was fixed. Anyways, in the last two weeks it didnt seem like the wall had the damage. It seemed like a simple everyday human genius to be able to detect things if they are fixed or not even without looking at them.

South Mountains

Enroute Flagstaff, when we came across Hidden Hollow Road, I said aloud, I am not going anywhere which starts with "Hidden..." Such was the experience last time when we had to turn around as we could not climb a smooth rock on the Hidden Valley Trail at South Mountains.
When I got to this tunnel I asked myslef "Where am I?". You will too. Rocks over rocks formed years ago. Reading about these rocks, I am trying to imagine the temperature and pressure that created these rocks. This time once we got over climbing the rock we shied away from last time, we went beyond that and came across Fat Man's Pass. That was an interesting side walk.
On this trail we spotted some Cholla. It will be nice if I get to see a cactus flower bloom.

Recently I saw a mountain just by itslef and no ranges in the middle of a flat land. Have to find out its name. I have come as far in knowing that its close to Higley road.

Menudo

I was all tired and lying in a car seat so much that a 9 year old girl was surprised to see hair poking out from the front seat with no traces of a person. When she was asked about what she had for breakfast, all I heard was Menu... something, then we asked her to spell it. Well this would have worked well with an adult. She still tried to spell it and somehow I got this feeling that she only spelt it till the first half until where we could guess, so that did not help. I didnt ask her to spell it again, since anyway, I would not be able to deduce the word intelligibly from those letters. The next thing we asked was if she knew how it is made. She recalled the ingredients but not the procedure. Had my friend driving this girl known about Menudo being good for a hangover, she would have had a better Saturday Breakfast.

PS: And did I tell about my absolute crush for Chili's grilled carribean salad.