Dacjohns--Changes

[Zenbirder]

New Mexico between Quemado and Pie Town, beautiful country! For a mostly rural state, that area is quite remote from any towns. A long way to find a big grocery store or hospital.

I took the kids to Quemado lake camping a few years ago. We had so much fun with the canoe. I don't fish any more for ethical reasons, but here we could enjoy fish viewing just by looking down in the water and watching them swim! Of course goldfish are the easiest to spot

Do you miss New Mexico? What did you like best and worst about living in that area?

 

[dacjohns]

I loved New Mexico. I love the people, the mix of different cultures sharing and living with each other. I love the red sunsets. I love the food. I love the forest I worked on. I love the wildlife. I love the peace and solitude. I love the smell of pinyon firewood burning. Hummingbirds. I lived reasonably close to three of my kids. It was less than a day drive to Flagstaff, AZ and the Grand Canyon.

It was a long ways to any store. Fifty miles to the border with Arizona then another 20 miles or so to town. Long ways to Grants. 80 miles to Socorro. Three hours to ABQ.

I lived just off US Highway 60. Now I live near Paducah, KY. US 60 runs through Paducah.

 

[dacjohns]

My house in New Mexico. We had 40 acres of pinyon and juniper.

View from the front yard looking south.

 

[FarmerChick]

On my list is visit ABQ
I want to camp there.....long way from NC but I will get there.

wow the scenery. not a tall, tall tree in that landscape looking to the mountain. very peaceful!

 

[dacjohns]

But there are Ponderosa Pines on the mountain. If you look real close you can see them.

 

[dacjohns]

Little bit of a rant here but this is my "journal" so I can do it, right?

I consider myself fairly religious and I don't mind the religious themes in people's signatures. Up until now I have been pretty tolerant of the the threads against anything not chicken in BYC, including the "pray for" threads.

With all the election saturation of the media right now I am pretty much fed up with anything political, especially pertaining to the election. Now there is a pray for the election thread. Argh.

Now dacs, don't you know that posts like you just made might have contributed to a thread being shut down? Just calm down. It will all be over in a few days.

 

[FarmerChick]

ponderosa pines....kinda scrubby type and shorter. We have the big scrub pines here...grow tall and have bad roots and come down all the time. Ugh



Now Dacs, the election day is soon, and will be over. Hang in there. BUT sorry to say when someone is elected, then the new threads will start..ARGggg...about how the new guy will kill the country. So it won't stop, sorry to tell you...HA HA

 

[dacjohns]

Ponderosas are tall and the bark smells a little like vanilla or butterscotch.

Where I lived in NC we had long leaf pines. Another tall tree. I did see some scubby pines with the scrub oak in areas of really dry and poor soil.

 

[FarmerChick]

Ponderosas are tall---hmm...I went skiing out west and visited "the ponderosa".....and yes those trees were tall...LOL

SC grows those pines by the 1000s --make great cardboard

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

Little bit of a rant here but this is my "journal" so I can do it, right?

I consider myself fairly religious and I don't mind the religious themes in people's signatures. Up until now I have been pretty tolerant of the the threads against anything not chicken in BYC, including the "pray for" threads.

With all the election saturation of the media right now I am pretty much fed up with anything political, especially pertaining to the election. Now there is a pray for the election thread. Argh.

Now dacs, don't you know that posts like you just made might have contributed to a thread being shut down? Just calm down. It will all be over in a few days.

Are you serious?? I've been off and on BYC all day, somehow managed to miss that thread!

Frankly I am a little tired of it all, too. McCain was 45 minutes from my house today. TWICE! First town, 30 minutes East of me, second town, 45 minutes West of me My parents insisted on going....I declined the invitation to join them.