June 27, 2025 Lunch - Leftover Enchiladas and Rice, Pea, and Salmon Bowl. Dinner - Shrimp Salad at Amy’s

June 27, 2025 Lunch - Leftover Enchiladas and Rice, Pea, and Salmon Bowl.  Dinner  - Shrimp Salad at Amy’s

It was liberating to have filed my pleading due today last night. It gave me a free morning.

I ate a chocolate croissant and watched the market open up again for the fourth or fifth day in a row. . Then at 8:00 I walked 2200 steps  to Sulver and around the triangle to 15th and back. I was sore and tired but happy when I returned.

Soon after I returned to my desk Rahim called with two additional contracts to review and I spent much of the morning reviewing and discussing a contract with him and discussing the LRGA with a client until 1:45 when Suzette came home and I watched the market close at a new all time high for the NASDAQ and the S&P. This left my portfolio 2.7% away from its all time high after recovering from a loss of around 15.5% of its value before and after Liberation Day on April 2.

Unfortunately, today Canada imposed tariffs of digital services that enraged Trump to cut off all negotiations with Canada, so the prospect of a tariff war became real and that will spook investors and the market on Monday.  Trump likes to be the bully but does not like it when a country he is bullying fights back.

The U.S. is probably the world’s largest exporter of digital services.

Suzette layered PPI Rice, peas from our garden, and PPI Teriyaki Salmon in a bowl and heated it in the microwave for a quick lunch. I also heated my leftover enchiladas from yesterday’s lunch and enjoyed both and got the energy boost I needed to help my muscles function at full capacity for the afternoon.

We drove to Santa Fe at 2:30.

I drove and Suzette googled art openings on the way. When we arrived we drove to Olive Rush’s House on Canyon Road.

 We were greeted by several of her nieces and nephews who were all artists and told us that they had pooled their money to buy the house from the Quakers when they decided to sell it.

Leah and Tocino were selling their works of art but the family had assembled two rooms full of Olive’s works. We learned that Olive was a member of a group of muralists who worked in fresco. There were several parts of house decorated in frescos over the plastered Adobe on the horno and above lintels In the living room where many lovely watercolors and a large fresco of bulls were displayed as the main gallery. 

In a smaller adjoining dining room were a lot of magazine covers and illustrations from books and magazines.

Olive had a successful career as an illustrator in New York before moving to Santa Fe in the 1920’s and Suzette was attracted to a small book called A New Mexican Boy by Helen Marshall in the second room that she will probably buy to add Rush’s illustration to her collection of 20th Century New Mexican female artists.

What is also interesting is that the house is one of only a few vintage artist’s studios intact.

After about 45 minutes we drove to Blue Rain Gallery near the corner of Guadalupe and Paseo de Peralta for the opening off Erin Currier’s latest body of work.

There were many of the larger darker heavily painted works but I was immediately attracted to a smaller portrait of a woman named Maria Goretti who was approached In 1902 at the age of 22 to have sex and when she refused, the young man stabbed her 14 times. As she lay dying in the hospital, she forgave her assailant. Her 20 year old assailant was tried and sent to jail for 27 years, during which time he repented his deed and when released sought and was given forgiveness from Maria’s mother. Maria was canonized as a Saint of forgiveness as one of the youngest persons to ever be canonized.

I loved the painting and bought it for $4500.00 plus tax during the opening.

We then walked two doors down to Charlotte Jackson’s Gallery and viewed the William Metcalf Double Take exhibit. We liked them but not enough to buy one st $9800.

Around 6:30 we drove to Amy’s house in Eldorado.

We drank a glass of wine and talked until the sun set and then Amy fixed lovely platters of shrimp salad that we drank with glasses of Vireton, a Pinot Gris produced by Archer’s Summit that was a delightful wine.

After dinner we talked more, mostly about the family and went to bed at 11:30. I found and took a sip of orange liquor while the girls drank Fume Blanc.

We slept in Amy’s sofa’s hide a bed in her guest bedroom.

Vahl is on a tour in Africa and on this day at Victoria Falls.

Bon Appetit