Roque Tudesqui House - Historic Santa Fe Foundation

The other thing I know, I like living in this house because the
Baumanns were very hospitable people, and I enjoy having people and
it's a very hospitable house. It's fun and easy to entertain in; it's sort of an
unusual shape. People don't know exactly what to expect. I love it when
little kids discover that they can run a total circle around inside the house.
They can start in the kitchen, go through the edge of the dining room, then
through the front room, the hallway into the living room and back to the
kitchen, and they can run in circles till they turn into tubs of butter.
I like the kitchen, it's very
small and there's no room for a refrigerator.
So, the refrigerator is out
on the porch where the old icebox
used to be. There are still little holes
where water from the icebox
drained through the floor. The
kitchen is wonderful to cook in. I
think it might be because you have
to get all the ingredients out at once
from the refrigerator. I love cooking
in it. The disadvantage is that you
can have only one helper, and that
helper has to be pretty sensitive to
body language. The sink is one of
those great big old deep sinks with Front entrance to the house
white ceramic around it. It's a double sink. It's just perfect. It doesn't take
much effort.
Another thing, in the summertime, even when it's really hot, pretty
much whatever breeze there is, is caught by the house. In the daytime, the
house is shut. When I come home, it's cool no matter what it's like outside.
Most adobes are like that, but I'm not sure others are quite as wonderful.
The dining room is my favorite room. I get up in the morning and I
make my pot oftea. I sit there and I plot my day and do my little writing
and look at who's walking dogs in front ofthe house. In the summer, it
doesn't get the straight sun, and in the winter, it does and it's very warm.
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