In the Coolth

I decided I was out of patience with the summer heat and the frantic pace of my days, and so I proposed an extended holiday weekend in Cloudcroft, a little resort town nestled in New Mexico’s Sacramento Mountains at 8500 feet. We rented a large house overlooking a beautiful mountain valley and settled in for four nights.

We were joined by our friend Louy. Louy has invited us on many occasions to spend time at her family’s cabin in Ruidoso, but the cabin burned down in the catas...