Life & times in Southern New Mexico

Beans

I finally got around to de-podding the bucket full of long-dried pinto bean pods I’ve had sitting around for a month.
This is the yield from about 5 or 6 bean bushes. Not very much, and my fingertips are now sore from cracking open all those dried pods. Still, they will make a yummy dinner for [...]

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NMSU’s “pretend” school shooting

Told you so, as I illustrated last April after having envisioned such an incident by reading NMSU’s student newspaper, The Round Up.
Today, New Mexico State University actually staged a school shooting, in an effort to educate staff and students on how to recognize a psychotic killer roaming hallways with semi-automatic firearms and to be sure [...]

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For Sale: ‘74 Escort Wagon

1874 horse drawn US Army Escort Wagon. Like new, great on gas, seats 27, convertible top/sunroof.
As seen in my local craigslist classified ads – in the vehicles for sale section.

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