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Bluegrass Fest

baregrass — Thu, 06 May 2010 20:16:08 +0000

Well, here I am 2 months later and finally writing something here. Tonite is the first night of the Bluegrass Fest in Tucumcari and I am getting ready to get up on stage in a few hours with my bandmates and open the show. Little nervous but not too bad. We will be opening for some professional bluegrass bands so I hope we don’t screw up too bad. I am fighting a case of pneumonia and our harmonica player has been having trouble with his diabetes so it might be interesting.

Getting Lazy Again

baregrass — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:22:36 +0000

Looks like I have abandoned this blog again but to tell the truth I just haven’t had a lot to say lately and I’ve been rather busy with other interests. My bandmates and I have been getting ready for the bluegrass festival coming up in May in Tucumcari, New Mexico so it’s been practice, practice. Strange thing I have noticed; it’s not as easy to learn new songs as it was 30 years ago. I really don’t know why. But it is still fun!

Oh, and by the way concerning New Mexico native Americans, Santo Domingo Pueblo has reclaimed its original name and is now officially Kewa Pueblo. Good for them.

More Snow!

baregrass — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:45:03 +0000

Since January 28th we have gotten around 20 inches of snow and since we have been in a real drought for the last few years it is quite welcome. We got around 6 inches last night and the weather man says that we might have more on Wednesday and again during the weekend.

The only thing I have to complain about is that our driveway, which is an eighth of a mile long, is getting in pretty ragged shape. One of my tasks when it dries up good is to get out the tractor and blade, shape it up pretty good and get a bunch of base course hauled in to spread on it. The ruts are so deep now that the pickup is the only way in and out.

I did have to get up on the roof with a push broom and push a bunch of snow off the roof today after I heard the rafters groan a little bit. Having a flat roof has its disabilities and getting too much heavy snow on it is one of them.

2009 – Bye bye!

baregrass — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 04:27:32 +0000

This is my last post for 2009. In a little less than 3 hours it will be history and thank God! What a year. My wish for all is that 2010 will be much better. I also hope that all the members of the US House of Representatives get voted out. Don’t really care who replaces them. A message must be sent that the nation’s problems must be their first business and not their own personal aggrandizement. The corruption at too many levels of politics is stunning. I also hope that the corruption going on at the state level here in New Mexico be exposed and successfully prosecuted. Maybe I’m asking too much.

Finally, two more wishes. I wish that the voting public would rediscover that God and his precepts are the foundations of liberty. Too many are off worshiping at the altars of statism, greed, political hatred and other man-made religions. The Creator of all things has set certain rules in place and we depart from them at our peril. My final wish, for today anyway!, is that we get enough snow and rain for agriculture to flourish here in New Mexico. It has been a long dry spell over most of the state.

Christmas Eve

baregrass — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:27:55 +0000

And yes, it is a white Christmas in Quay County!

Merry Christmas

baregrass — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:43:14 +0000

Merry Christmas to one and all. Looks like it will be very cold here but not much snow if at all although it is snowing lightly right now. Well, have fun and do something nice for someone else!

Heat!

baregrass — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:49:36 +0000

Man it has been hot here lately! We were 101 today and it looks like it will be in the 100′s for the rest of the week and some of next week. We are supposed to get a cold front?? in next week that will bring our temps down to the middle 90′s. It rained on Sunday but none since. The grass and the weeds just won’t grow. Even though they have been getting some rain they just look up there and say, “You ain’t foolin’ me!” But, no complaints. It is just summer as usual on the southern high plains. At least the humidity levels have been down. That helps. Laters

Rain!

baregrass — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:25:01 +0000

Yes it did rain! We got a half inch Saturday evening and it came slow and soaked in. Just what the doctor ordered. For those of you who don’t live in an arid climate, those of us who do thank God for every precious drop of moisture. Also, for those of you who think New Mexico is a desert you are wrong. Only a portion of the southern part of the state is classified as true desert. Most of the state is classified as “arid”. That means we don’t get a lot of moisture but we get enough to sustain an active plant life.

OK, go out and have fun today.

Rain?

baregrass — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 23:24:55 +0000

It has been trying to rain all day but who knows how much, if any we will get. We need a bunch! maybe tomorrow we will get a good rain.

Snow!

baregrass — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:48:15 +0000

march snow

It’s 3:42 AM and the March snow storm is here and it is really coming down! It’s not true blizzard conditions yet because I can see my neighbor’s outdoor lights and they live a quarter mile from me. It’s cold too. 27 degrees. 12 hours ago it was 70 degrees, the humidity was way down there, the wind was blowing at 50 miles an hour and we had just finished fighting a range fire. That’s life on the southern high plains. Back to bed!

Continuing coverage…

8:30 AM and we have near white out conditions. I am going to get some pictures. We have huge drifts in the yard and it is really coming down. Good snow!

Continuing coverage………..

7:32 PM and the snow is tapering off. It has been snowing for around 23 hours now and the temperature is 21 degrees. Lots of good moisture which we need badly. It appears we have received about 8 – 10 inches but it is very hard to tell because of the drifting. We have 3 – 31/2 foot drifts all around the house. Further up north and east in Dalhart, Texas they are reporting drifts up to the tops of houses! Interstate 40 has been closed between Albuquerque and Sayer, Oklahoma pretty much all day and the last time I looked US 54 was closed as well. I-25 was closed for a while between Albuquerque and Santa Fe but is now back open. The wind, at least here, has died down and has shifted and is starting to come out of the northwest so I think the weather system has pretty well tracked off into Texas and Oklahoma. They are still predicting up to 24 inches of snow from the northeast Texas Panhandle over to Woodward, Oklahoma.

March snow storm

Picture taken around 9AM on 3/27/09