It’s been awhile, so I decided to combine everything and some may be repeats. This probably won’t be in order, but will do the best I can.
We took in the Centennial geocache meet in Roswell, which was quite fun. We stayed at the Elks RV park and ate over at the Lodge practically every night as they had a full menu dinner. Really good food, also. We actually found more caches walking the dogs ( yes, we took the girls, Fancy and Peanut, and they loved it) than any other place. Had truck trouble so didn’t do a whole lot of running around. Heading home, the truck decided to jump and balk so turned around and went back to Roswell. No diesel mechanic there, but was sent to Artesia saying it was just 20 miles. HA!! It was 35, but hey, who’s counting. Got there and ended up parking in their used car lot while their mechanic was at lunch. Have you ever ate lunch in a used car parking lot? But when he got finally got there, he had the truck fixed in an hour. We headed back home and made it as far as Ruidoso Downs, parked in their parking lot, went in and ate, and walked out and went to bed. Can you believe we didn’t even glance at the casino?!!!!
A while later, back to Ruidoso for their Centennial geocache meet. We went to Carrizozo first, ( my old stomping grounds) and picked some up there and also some sight seeing. Damn, my old school is gone and the hospital moved to Ruidoso years ago, but the park looked the same and they actually have an international airport I knew nothing about.
In Ruidoso, we got into the Little Bear fire area. The cachers actually got split up because some of the caches were in Capitan and Carrizozo and once you left Ruidoso you couldn’t get back in. So some went to the Valley of Fires (at Carrizozo) and some of us were in Ruidoso. But it was still great fun.
Jake, Cindy, Chuck and I took off real early for the Centennial geocache meet in Las Cruces. Found part of the series and will go back later for the rest. Those one way streets will kill you. But we had a lot of fun and enjoyed it all.
Sorry I have no pictures. Chuck has them and I haven’t gotten them from him.
I’m now sitting up at The City of Rocks State park writing this. This is the Third time we’ve been here. It’s convenient as it’s close to home as we can’t stay gone too long. The girls love it. The first time we were here, Fancy broke her leash trying to get a lizard. Funny!! Just glad the rattler wasn’t near at the time. When we saw him it was late evening and he was cool enough not to bother us. I found the caches that are here. Chuck already had found them.
Nothing notable on our second trip except fun and relaxation was had by all. Well, it did rain every day while we were here. Something we haven’t seen at home.
We took the ATV’s out behind the Florida’s and I got the geocaches that were there. I think they were put out by Chuck. Of course, Chuck made me climb up the rocks for them. Wasn’t that nice of him? It was a nice day for the ride and was the first time this summer we had a chance to ride.
Last week Jake and Cindy went with us on the ATV’s (they rode mine) and I rode with Chuck. Got the new cache out there.
Then last Saturday Jake, Cindy and us went up the Mimbres River up to Lake Roberts and around to Pinos Altos and Sliver City geocaching. Boy, I am definitely not into rock climbing any more. After a 1/4 mile hike and climbing rocks, there was a damn rattler guarding the cache!!!! Needless to say, we DID NOT get that one. But we had a nice picnic under a nice shade tree and stopped at the store at Lake Roberts for ICE CREAM!!! Had a really good time and lots of fun!!! (except for Mr. Rattler)
We usually try to go to the Moose Lodge every Friday afternoon and visit with everyone and we sometimes go play 9 ball on Sundays. We both kinda got burned out when we were playing in the 8 ball tournament, what with all the seriousness and arguing going on.
We’ve gone out to the Am. Leg. a few times just to visit and do a little dancing.
We planted 5 tomatoe plants and are getting some off now. Mostly the little pear tomatoes, but they sure are good.
Got Dillon to come up with his backhoe and dig out the oleanders. They are a pain in the …..to take care of and they are poisonous, so now they are gone.Yea!!! Yes, Dillon and Jean are doing fine. Of course, a water line got broke and the fence got bent a little (he’s just learning how to run it, you know how that goes), but it all turned out fine with everything put back together.
I’ve lost a couple of friends this summer, which is sad(both from the same family), but I know it’s just a part of life, even if I don’t like it.
Oh,yes, just a small note. Pam is now managing the Nutt Bar. We all think this is great!!!!!!
Guess that’s all for now. If I forgot anything, well, it’s probably not important!!!
Bye and God Bless!!!
