July 3, 2026 BDDay Breakfast - Paella Scrambled Eggs Lunch - Las Magueyes Restaurant. Dinner - Paella and Pipirrana Salad

July 3, 2026 BDDay Breakfast - Paella Scrambled Eggs  Lunch - Las Magueyes Restaurant. Dinner - Paella and Pipirrana Salad 

We got up around 7:00 and I heated about a cup of paella in a small skillet to which I theb scrambled two eggs with the paella.

Then around 8:30 we drove to an estate sale in Eldorado. We bought a 12 x 14 rug for the back bedroom, a Japanese woodcut of a bamboo forest lit by the full moon, and several other items.

After we loaded the items except the rug and we drove to Amy’s house at 11:30.

Amy served us cinnamon iced tea and made a plan for Sunday, when we intended to return to pick up the rug.

Then at 12:15 we drove to downtown Santa Fe and parked in the Sandoval Street garage and walked the one block down Burro Alley to Magueyes Restaurant. It was too hot to sit in the outdoor and there was a TV with the World Cup match between Australia and Egypt inside, so we took a booth with a good view of the TV. We were hungry and T.R and Linda were not expected until 1:00 so we ordered two draft Negra Modelos and queso fundido made with house-made white cheese and house-made chorizo and six corn tortillas.

The queso was spicy and rather runny but delicious. The mugs of Negra were frosty and the beer cold. This was the best part of the meal.

At 1:00 T.R. and Linda arrived. Linda’s birthday is July 2, so we gave her several gifts; the book titled Being Ram Dass, a seahorse broach we bought at the estate sale, and a jar of our apricot chutney.

We all ordered dishes from the lunch menu. Suzette and I ordered Lunch No. 1  that included a Chile Relleno, a taco, a small amount of guacamole, and refried beans. TR ordered chicken enchiladas and Linda ordered:

Sincronizada

$12.25

Old favorite. Grilled tortilla sandwich stuffed with chicken, cheese, onion, sliced jalapenos and chopped avocados

T.R. Drank a Negra Modelo also.

I was surprised by the Chile Relleno. It was a folded green Chile topped with taco meat instead of stuffed and battered and fried, but it was really delicious, so I enjoyed it.

The restaurant is a real Mexican restaurant where you can order anything any way you want. For example, Suzette ordered her taco with pork and got a delicious Carnitas stuffed taco.

We ate and talked until after 2:00.

We wanted to see Erin Currier’s new show at Blue Rain Gallery, so we drove there and found a handicapped parking space in front of Tai Modern on Paseo de Peralta.

After viewing the Erin Curriers we walked to Charlotte Jackson Fine Art and began looking at art. One round piece with white lines intrigued me and I asked about the artist. It was Ron Davis. That started a conversation with Charlotte that lasted over two jours. We found out that Ron died in November while we were in Japan and that Charlotte exhibited his last show, called the Condo show. She still had several of the pieces and I bought an unusual one with a colored square elevated off the surface of the painted background. 

When we told her our story about buying the Barbara Latham in Cimarron on my birthday, Charlotte offered me a birthday discount on the work we liked. She also gave us several catalogs and information on Ron Davis and her books on Fredrick Hammersly and Florence Pierce.

I felt like we established a renewed and deeper relationship based on a similar love of art.

Finally, we left around 4:30 and went next door to show Margo at Tai Modern the Japanese print we bought at the estate sale in the morning. She read the printer’s chops and signature and title and verified the work and artist using Google.

It seemed to us that the Treasures Santa Fe estate sale pricing was 1/2 of the estimated retail price for the woodcut and that it was likely produced in 1954.

We were happy we had bought a lovely print that was authentic and worth twice what we paid.

We drove home, arriving a bit after 6:00 p.m.

We unloaded and I rested for a while and then we ate leftover paella and Pipirrana Salad for dinner with glasses of Trader Joe’s Bandol rose’.

Suzette went to bed around 9:00 and I stayed up to watch Colombia beat Ghana in their World Cup knock out round match and then went to bed.

It was a very pleasant birthday. I was able to buy a large rug for our bedroom and a Japanese woodcut print, a really interesting Ron Davis at a good price, lunch with good friends, and become really good friends with Charlotte through our mutual love of art.

It is hard to say I don’t collect contemporary art when I keep buying Erin Currier and Ron Davis works.

Bon Appetit