HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

It's been the first line of almost everyone's holiday newsletter...
"Where did the year go!?"

Seems like only yesterday, or at the most last month, that we all gathered at the T-Square Ranch for First Annual SRE Landowners Barbeque over Memorial Day weekend.

Time sure seems to fly when you're elsewhere.
That is somewhere other than on the Santa Rita.

Because when we're all on the Santa Rita, time does seem to pass a little more slowly. The sunsets are a little more glorious. You can sit and stare at the mountains until your eyes all but glaze over...

Wondering what daily life might have been like when the ancient ones used to walk that land...
Gathering water from what is now the big ravine...
Even though we see wildlife on our land, how plentiful was the game they used to hunt?
And exactly how many people called the Santa Rita their home?

Seemingly not much has changed on that land since that time, at least not that we're aware of anyways. But maybe much has changed.

Maybe what we call the Santa Rita could have been home to dozens if not hundreds of people. People who made their way up to Chaco to trade pots and peaches for other things they needed while they made their home out on the Santa Rita.

Might those things still be there, or did they take the items with them when they left the area?

As we continue to gaze at the orange mountain to the northeast, we can only wonder, speculate, imagine the daily lives of the people who used to live there, and hope that perhaps in the New Year that we'll find a remnant of their lives buried beneath the sand.

Or perhaps even think about leaving some memories and items of our own.

Wishing every one a very Happy Holiday season, and especially...
Happy New Year!