[Sca-cooks] Off List A Couple of days

[Anne duBosc]

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I'm back.  We actually had a pretty neat time.  Weather cooperated, and the scenery was beautiful.  I am awfully glad, though, that I talked them into staging the journey and stopping off in Sedona overnight on the way up and on the way back.  As it was, Daddy was tired at the end of the day, but not exhausted.  The canyon was it's usual majestic, awe inspiring self.   Sedona was absolutely gorgeous, and weird.  (For one thing, our electronic room keys simply stopped working, twice, in the middle of the night, both nights).  We came back by Snow Bowl in the San Francisco Peaks, and there was deep snow on the ground, but the sky was clear for us, and no snow on the roadway.  Just some small patches of rapidly melting ice.  Today we stopped by the Sinagua ruins mistakenly named Montezuma's Castle.  The Castle is a nearly intact cliff dwelling that probably held about 35 people.  Less than a hundred yards up canyon, in the same park, are the ruins of a much larger castle, that probably held around 350.  They were both abandoned around 1400 AD.  OBFood content:  The Sinagua raised maize, cotton, pumpkin, squash, turkey, and macaws (imported from Mexico).  They hunted Mule Deer, Elk, Pronghorn, rabbit and jackrabbit, squirrel, ground squirrel, desert tortoise, river turtle, and river otter.  They gathered mesquite, yucca, prickly pear, suaro, and pinon and mined salt.
I saw a mano and metate set that I'd truly love to have in my kitchen, one of hundreds found on the site.
Mordonna


Lady Anne du Bosc
Known as Mordonna The Cook
Atenveldt, Atenveldt
mundanely Pat Griffin
Phoenix, AZ


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