Life & times in Southern New Mexico

The Butterball Gang Strikes Again

Yesterday evening was exceptionally strange in my neighborhood, usually on the quiet side (not including barking dogs), and it convinced me that I made the right choice by finally deciding it’s time to move to a new place.
Returning from a quick walk to the store I was only a few blocks from home when I [...]

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The Downtown Mall, Friday 6pm

I took an urban stroll today, walking several miles through furious gusts of desert spring winds and holding onto my hat. Time prevented me from taking many more pictures of Las Cruces’ Downtown Mall – which I will do very soon before The City tears more old shit down to expand the government evermore.
This is [...]

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Solid, quiet & big butt

I’m assuming there’s an entire vernacular surrounding the farm/ranch/horsey-cowboy lifestyle that I’m totally unprivy to. So, as a semi-urban city dweller it humors me to read the regional classified ads – particularly the farm & ranch section and more particularly ads like these:
Love the horse names…Beware The Mare, Watch Your Pennys, Bluffing Poppy, Fly Poppy [...]

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