Showing posts with label rural life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rural life. Show all posts
Thursday, October 18, 2018

Retiring to the Frontier: Part 1

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Our friends back in Southern California have said they couldn't see themselves moving out of state to someplace completely new and at fi...
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Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Election Day 2014, Country Style

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Today was election day, so we went to pick up the mail at the post office and then to vote. Our polling place is very picturesque: It...
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Sunday, April 14, 2013

Boyz in the Hood

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This morning I drove six miles up our dirt road for coffee with a neighbor. We were going to inspect her beehives, but the weather turned st...
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Lucero, NM Cattle Crossing

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The other day I was coming home and had to slow way down because it was a cattle convention in Lucero, the teensy village not far from our p...
Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Coyote Creek Traffic

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Yesterday I took a trip to ThreadBear, my local quilt shop in Las Vegas, New Mexico. I'd already been there Monday for our Modern Quilt ...
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Monday, April 23, 2012

Goats: Lucero, NM

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Just down the road is the metropolitan area of Lucero, New Mexico, where there are more goats than people.
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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Bucket Bath

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The boiler decided to quit last week. I tried numerous times to light the pilot, but it just didn't want to stay lit. So good bye to hot...
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Monday, August 8, 2011

Ridin' Down the Trail

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Tom recalls a children's tv show in Albuquerque called The K Circle B Ranch and its theme song: Riding on the trail to Albuquerque, S...
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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Going to Town

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I never thought going to town would be such a big deal, that lunch and a shopping trip to Wal-Mart would be something I look forward to.  Bu...
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Monday, May 9, 2011

Heifers From Heifer International

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When we bought our Angus steers we didn't know much about how to take care of them, but our neighbors have been happy to teach us. Donal...
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Thursday, March 31, 2011

A Big Change: Busy SoCal to Rural New Mexico

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 Last year when I left Corona, California,  3793 people inhabited each square mile. Corona's 2010 population is 147,181. In Mora Count...
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