It’s a fair boast. Pueblo chile peppers can be appetizingly amazing. They can be “meatier and thicker” than some of their New Mexico counterparts, raised in the cool evening air and loamy soil of southeastern Colorado’s St. Charles Mesa. There is room enough in the world for a range of good chile pepper regions,...
Read more →A week and some ago, I got an email from the UNM Library letting me know that the books I had checked out were due for return. I thought, hey, I think this script deal is a long haul project- might as well see if any of them are available as used books out...
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It was nice this morning to have my folks call and say they were on their way out of town, up to Santa Fe, to take a stroll through the city’s annual Indian Market. “Would you like to go?” I thought about it for about two minutes and said yes. They turned around to...
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I don’t usually just post food stuff on the old blog here, but today I had a truly remarkable meal at the Owl Cafe. For lunch, a few people from the office were heading up to the restaurant, and it sounded good on a sluggish Friday. With the invite, I had to join the...
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I appreciated getting to spend the last day or so with my sister and her family. After roading up to Monument Valley in Utah on Friday for a Saturday explore, I left from the park around 12 or so and trekked east, through Shiprock, Farmington, Chama, and Tres Piedras to land in Red River...
Read more →Not more than 15 minutes earlier, I had been standing at the geographic center of the Southwest (as regarded by some with geographic proclivities)- the Four Corners Monument- the only place in the United States where four states met at a symbolic point. When I was there, after waiting in a short line to...
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It is 8:15 PM and tonight there is no baseball on the tube since it is the day after the All Star Game. It is the proverbial All Star Break, which means the baseball addicts cannot watch professional baseball. It’s okay. This evening, the sky over the mountains to the east coalesced into a...
Read more →I slept in this morning until 8, and went downtown to get a hearty breakfast. The cafe that was recommended to me was closed, but there was a fine greasy spoon right by it that had exactly what I craved- a ham and cheese omelette, juice, coffee, and toast. I walked around downtown and...
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It’s 10:40 and after a long day I am just getting around to posting, so it will be short. The day started off great, with an early morning drive to City of Rocks that was charmed because of the animals out and about that I saw. I arrived at City of Rocks about 7:45...
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After hearing from my co-workers about Silver City these last few weeks, and seeing photos from others who have visited there, I decided rather than sit at home in the pizza oven with a few extra days available over the Independence Day weekend, it was as good a time as any to use some...
Read more →Late in the day, at the end of work, I skimmed a few of my favorite Craigslist pages online looking for treasure. About once a week, I’ll visit the Craigslist “game” pages of a few key cities just to see if there are any Avalon Hill games- my favorite board games from the past-...
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In the spring, when the sky grew more blue than gray during the day and the snow in the high places began to melt and wake the water on the hillsides, little Udaya was told to watch her brother. In the early evening of the day before, Elan and Gopan had gone up into...
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Today was a day of pleasant treats. The first was unexpected, but most enjoyable, when my sister texted around 11 AM this morning and said she was in the area, and wanted to take me up on my taco lunch request a week or so ago. The request was that she join me for...
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I spent a good chunk of time on Sunday morning trying to sit back down into my research efforts on Anza. Some of the time was spent trying to read a few more pages in the Anza book, and some of the time was also spent transcribing chicken scratch notes written on a legal...
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I was born in Albuquerque and have spent most of my life living here. I’ve also spent time in most every weekday in the last nine years on I-25, driving north and south to and from work. It’s odd, then, that it was only a few years ago that I actually noticed the three...
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It had been bad for a while, but I guess in the mid-1770’s it got really bad. From 1772 to 1776, a drought seized Nuevo Mexico, and thin food and water resources became even more scarce in the desolate territory. For those Spaniard colonists who took a chance and settled north of the Sonora...
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