Meow Woof - Santa Fe

 My son wanted to go here for his birthday. However, our August was quite busy, so we finally delivered on our promise last weekend. Meow Woof is an interactive art exhibit. It was a real workout for me as I shimmied into a fireplace, climbed into the trees, and walked through a refrigerator. I thought this would be sensory overload for my autistic son, but we came prepared, and we went through early.

It was interesting and a bit weird in a good way.

Def Leppard Stadium Tour- Last Stop

 We came, we saw, we rocked, and now we are deaf.  We saw Cheap Trick, Journey and Def Leppard at Coors Field in Denver. This was my second time seeing Def Leppard. This was the last stop on their stadium tour.

We sat on Coors field. The seats were amazing. Show Report and Set List. I made the scrapbook page in project life.

Operation Fun - Lincoln After Dark

 Lincoln NM is a New Mexico Historical Site. This is the epi center of the Lincoln County Wars.  It is also a place where Billy the Kid was made famous.  The town is filled with historic buildings. I believe there are 17 buildings.

 Lincoln After Dark was our first-time exploring, Lincoln. We stopped at most of the buildings - Visitor Center, Store, Post Office, Doctor's Home, Courthouse, and Church. They had actors out telling their part of the Lincoln story. I didn't get a lot of pictures. It was a unique experience.  More history here.

Torreon

Defensive Tower

My husband is in this picture too hidden behind the bearded one

Loved the Pulpit at the Old Church

San Juan Mission Church

Operation Fun: Brantley Lake

The other day we decided to stop at this New Mexico State Park that we pass frequently. Lake Brantley has a large dam.  We did a bit of exploring. We took a hike.

We did not see a Texas Jack Rabbit. The high desert flowers are just starting to bloom.

We also saw this graffiti that was pretty interesting by the Pecos River.

Details about Operation Fun

Operation Fun - Recycled Art

Sometimes I get a wild idea. The library and Artesia Clean and Beautiful were having a recycled art show. I decided to give recycled art a go. I don't consider myself an artist. I am a crafter. The top photo is called Artesia Sunrise and made of cardboard, newspaper, and magazines.

The art above is called ThRASHer.  It was made with trash we collected at the skate park. I won't lie this piece kinda smelled alcoholic. You know how movies have easter eggs little nods or hidden things.

My oldest gave himself a nickname in like elementary school. He wrote Ace was here.  

Stuff We Love was a happy accident in the Artesia Sunrise piece.

I call this process art.  This was fun for me.  I did it only to have fun and stretch myself. Mission accomplished.

Operation Fun - Bombs Away

 A couple of Sundays ago we decided on a lark to go get a geocache. It was definitely off the beaten path. We literally were out in the oil fields. You know you are out there when a business has the GPS coordinates on the sign. Below is the geocache description. The cache name was "Bombs Away."

Below is a picture of the cache. It is hard to explain the attraction of finding a piece of Tupperware in the middle of nowhere. Can you spot the cache below.

It was flipping cold. The sunglass picture is to annoy my MOTHER.

Operation Fun Details

This is the year of having fun. I decided I needed to schedule it!! Once a month I am going to do a fun thing. I wrote this above quote for a 31 Adventure Post. It has been getting a lot of attention according to my blog stats.

Why You Should Make It a Habit to Have Fun is an NPR article. It said I should identify 4 fun magnets. These are past fun activities. So below are links to 5 things I find fun. 

Geocaching - Cache Machines and Geocaching trips

Special Trips - Hiawatha Trail, Fort Stanton, Sitting  Bulls Falls

Creating/Crafting/Art

Hiking/Walking - Trek for the Treasure

Genealogy

If I really drill down on this, I love adventure, trips, solving puzzles with my friends and family, being creative, researching, and laughing. These are my fun magnets.

 BUT more than anything I like to laugh.  I didn't realize how much that was missing until I visit my family or hanging out with my friends. My nieces and nephews are hilarious (Beth, Tyler, Colby, Colby, and Aubrey), my parents are very funny too, my kids are annoyingly funny, and my friends put up with me, so they have to have a good sense of humor. Not to leave out my husband who I once sword fought in the Army barracks with those pop out swords. He too has a good sense of humor.

Operation Fun

I have been doing a yearly project. Last year, I leaned heavily into Genealogy my personal genealogy. This year, I was feeling like I need to add some JOY and FUN to my life. Things have gotten way too serious.  The problem is once you make this a goal does it become unfun? 

Have you ever gone somewhere and laughed and laughed. I hadn't done that in so long. I did that last year and I realized how I was living was drudgery.  I am not into drudgery. I realized too life is short. I don't want to live that way.

More details about operation fun to follow. So stay tuned.