actual hny but also pre-xmas

 Happy New Year to you all!  May our 2024 be healthy, happy and peaceful - more of all of that for everyone.  Plus good nights' sleeps.

But first!  We spent the long Christmas weekend in Moab, driving down in the middle of the day the Thursday before.  The sun was just setting and we didn't really have neough time to "do" anything, so instead we settled Milton on the bed and took a forty minute town walk.  We were lucky enough to run into our favorite bartender as she was leaving work; we walked with her for a couple blocks, then turned and headed home.  

Friday was chilly in the morning but warmed to pleasant (high 30s/low 40s) in the sun.  It was partly cloudy so it was nice that it had warmed as much as it had.  H wanted to do some trail running - he's recently gotten back into running: since it hasn't snowed much, running enables him to exercise outside instead of on his trainer in the basement - so we headed to MOAB Brand Trails.  There were a few vehicles there and we saw a handful of people: a couple MTBers, a couple trail runners, a couple hikers.

That's more "cloudy" than "partly cloudy," sky-wise

All told, we were out for about an hour, and H and Milton did an out-and-back on their run so they could rejoin me.  We just did the Lazy-EZ loop, which we've ridden a lot but I don't know that I've ever walked the whole thing.  Aside from the portions where I have to hike my bike.

We went home, got cleaned up and walked to Josie Wyatt's for a Christmas Eve Eve beer.  It was quiet and the draft PBRs were, as always $2.00.