Adventure Trails

Nate has been making murals on the walls of Chez Sin Busse on the shelf-part of Adventure Trails Ranch in Spirit Valley, as a labor-of-love sort of adventure with painting/mural work and Judith has a 'natural' interest in rocks, artifact/tools, and she does fun and very interesting things with many different elements in an original artistic style.  Thor has been making things of all sorts for the bulk of his life; making cast iron sculptures, often using natural materials like buffalo gourds and cholla cactus spines for reactive molds which end up as grand molten experiments in that the final look is not fully known until the mold is removed.  Belle makes wonderful art, too, so one can see her pieces here and there and she is irreverent, too.  The Art Crawl should be a great adventure in appreciated what people make.  We are encouraging visitors to bring something they found/made/want to show off to place on the 40 acre ranch somewhere (not sure of the guidelines for placement yet.....).  This event is open to friends, friends-of-friends, neighbors who want to see this property or walk through it and people who have some connection to this effort.  It is technically not a public event where random people can feel free to walk around; we must recognize them in some way; this creates safety for us all, but glad to meet new people, of course!  We encourage bringing food to share in potluck style for snacks and actual meals.  We have a few barbeques, gas and charcoal, so it would be great to grill veggies and meat on them for yourself or to share.  Thor, after having had a wonderful personal experience with this technique for looking at artwork and other objects, is going to lead a guided low-level flashlight tour that will encourage silence and will have a few rules for how to conduct one's self for this experiment in art viewing; should be really fun and we planned this event to be around full moon time, so this should add to the drama!  Nate will guide people to his house, which is a pretty cool house, in and of itself, that I built some years ago and he has lived there for over 5 years.  We are encouraging people to bring instruments and desire to get together and jamb; this part may be big and I love to play and sing, but can get fully absorbed in this, so I need to find a way to balance my involvement...we are and know lots of musician friends who, if they come, will be wonderful addition to the festivities. We are also letting people know they are welcome to camp out overnight on the property and make themselves at home.  We have two 'public' bathrooms; one in the 'rec' room where people can go to talk, play music, get under a roof, etc. and one over at the 'teahouse', which is a good camping, food prep area and a great place to gather and experience Nate's and my "Nichos" project, which is in the teahouse and one could spend over an hour just exploring that alone.  The Galisteo Creek is running nicely right now and hope it will be still in good flow in early June and there are trails and open hiking all over the place, so one does not have to hang around hob nobbing, but can just take off in any direction and tromps around alone or with friends.  We have 40 acres and are surrounded by open land.  We look forward to seeing new and old friends.  Oh yeah, we also have two horseshoe pits that can be used and a few fridges to put drinks in.  OK........se ya!  Oh Yeah...bring your own drinks of choice (we will have basic lemonade and I bought a bunch of sodas, will have fixings for tea and coffee and we have plenty of bottled water).