Snow stuff, Bird Stuff, Dumb Stuff and whatever else I can think of!!!!!
Posted by Pete | Posted in News | Posted on 23-12-2010
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1, Snow stuff: Man the past few days has brought New Mexico and Colorado some good snow for you skiers. Angel Fire, NM 20 inches, Durango, Co 49 – 53 inches, Red River 16 – 25 inches, Sandia (Albuquerque) 20 – 28 inches, Santa Fe 20 – 30 inches, Ski Apache (Ruidoso) 17 – 19 inches, Taos, NM 22 – 27 inches,Telluride, Co 43 inches and listen to this Wolf Creek, Co 77 – 79 inches…All those ski areas are close enough to Albuquerque that you can fly in here and rent a car for the last leg of your journey….come see us
2. Bird Stuff: Well, the little rascals can’t hide from our high tech counters…At Bosque Del Apache we now have 69,246 ducks, 455 Canada geese, 30,785 light geese, 6862 Sandhill crane, 4 Golden Bald Eagles, 0 swan’s a’swimming, 1303 American coot, 4 Shorebirds and 44 Hawks and owls (and that is probably why the shorebirds are not hanging around.)
3. Dumb stuff: The folks that live down around the railroad are bitching because the train is blowing it horn at the crossings during sleeping hours. And they want that changed. Well, folks, the railroad was there long before you were and it is a safety issue if they don’t blow the train whistle, so unless the crossings have a bar that can be lowered to stop traffic, I am not sure you have a valid complaint. Houses have built up around the tracks and around the air port and they were there before you bought or built. Maybe the noise can be toned down somewhat and if so, good…If not, you knew they were there going in…..
4. Ice Fishing: Ice is now forming on the northern lakes, but not enough to allow for ice fishing…I think some of the experts say you need something like 9 inches to support the ice fisherman….well, you need a lot more than that for me. Matter of fact, I ain’t gettin’ out on that crap…now you fish all you want, but I want solid earth under my feet when I am fishing or a good solid boat….Last year they were saying nine inches or more to take your pick up truck out on the ice, un-huh, now that is crazy…..(this could also be filed under the dumb stuff item, if you ask me.)
5. Pecan crop: This year farmers are expecting to get 3.00 per pound for their pecans, in the shell. New Mexico farmers produce about 56 million pounds per year. Now that is pretty good, huh? Did you know that there is no pecans north of I-40 in the state of New Mexico? Las Cruces, Carlsbad, Artesia…all those places down is southern New Mexico enjoy pecans. I had 5 trees in my yard when I lived in Carlsbad. I could get about 75 pounds per tree a lot of years but the highest price I ever got selling them was 82 cents per pound. Anyway, I am glad our pecan farmers are having such a good year. I have heard that New Mexico may out produce Georgia this year,……. well, that’s what I hear…..
6. Political stuff: Say what you will about President Obama, but he is sure trying to work across the aisle. And I for one would like to see our politicians do what is best for America for once and not what is best for their party…Amen?
That’s about all the stuff I can think of for right now…I will write some Christmas stuff tomorrow, Baby Jesus and our greatest gift and other stuff…..thanks, Pete
That explains it. In all my bike wanderings in New Mexico, I never saw a pecan tree, but most all of my wanderings were north of I-40. All I saw were pinon and ponderrosa pine with a few mesquite, cacti, and lots of tumbleweed thrown in. I suppose I will have to visit Pete to see a pecan in New Mexico. There were plenty of times on that bicycle when I would have liked to have seen a “pee-can” tree, but there were none of those also. My main problem in bicycling over the “Enchanted Land” was the search for suitable facilities. I was able to find a few “Texas-size” tumbleweed that did the trick if the eyes were suitably alert.
Barack may make a good politician after all. He obviously knows how to survive. He has learned that “when the going gets tough, the tough get going.” For a politician, that means he starts flapping his lips on the other side. It is also called. “doing what one has to do” to survive.
I have 3 pine trees in Albuquerque….We sold the Carlsbad property in 2006. The new owner there cut down at least one of the pecan trees, so I don’t know about now….There are several pecan orchards near Carlsbad and Artesia. Las Cruces has the original New Mexico pecan orchard started in the 1930’s by a Mr. Stahmann…still one of the biggest producers in the state…
I guess that means I would have had to go all the way to Carlsbad or Artesia to see a New Mexico pecan tree. It is no wonder that I never saw one. That’s too far to ride a bicycle. A hundred miles one way was my limit. I can barely ride 10 today. I guess I will just have to depend on the Encyclopedia Britannica or Wikipedia to see one now, or do as I did in the past and stare at a pinon nut until I see it turn into a pecan. The problem with that is that I understand that a pinon tree only makes a nut every few years. Actually it was easy to make a pinon nut turn into a pecan, at least. visually after riding a bike for hours across the “Enchanted Land”.