Food Truck at La Puerta Real Estate Services, LLC
Oh Yay! Oh Yay! We have a great new addition to the Placitas Food Scene! Kimberley Calvo, a seasoned chef and Placitas resident is parking a food truck in the west La Puerta parking lot offering lunch and dinner Tuesday through Friday and breakfast on Saturdays, though this schedule is not yet set in stone. She's just started this week and welcomes feedback and suggestions. She is very excited about her new venue as are we, here at La Puerta. Her food is fresh and seasonal, tending towards organic as much as possible and definitely healthy and delicious. The menu changes regularly so we won't get bored and she may be posting her menus on her website. She says she'll also have a selection of kids' food so when you're driving starving children home from town, you can stop by and pick up a healthy meal for them without your having to rush to prepare their dinner while they're becoming little grumps. We welcome Kim and her assistant chef Alan to our neighborhood and hope you'll all come out to support this fine new local endeavor.

Sandy Poling, Associate Broker

Goldfinches in Placitas

From flowers to food, these goldfinches are loving the seeds from our late summer harvest of Maximillion. We spotted this mated pair having a feast. If you are a birdlover and/or observer, there is a cornucopia of wild birds here in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains. We started keeping a calendar to mark the migration of the birds. We also now know where the robins come during the winter -- our back yard!

Mindy Prokos
Associate Broker

Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention

Here I am in Anasazi Meadows (I'm on the left), standing with Diane Schuler, my customer from Wisconsin. Diane's husband, Craig, is a professional photographer, and he shot the photo of me and Diane holding some PVC from Home Depot, which we connected and used to determine where a 17-foot high house might be built on the lot next to the one they are buying. It worked! Necessity IS the mother of invention!

Pepi Strahl
Associate Broker

IT’S BALLOON FIESTA TIME AGAIN!

It’s a lovely time of the year in New Mexico – cool mornings and nights, beautiful sunny days and best of all we enjoy seeing hot air balloons flying around us on a daily basis for a couple of weeks in October. When I opened my living room blind, what did I see but a hot air balloon just below my property. When you see these hot air balloons, you just feel happy! Lynn Koch, CRS