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January 6th is the official New Mexico Centennial. On that day in 1912 New Mexico was admitted to the union. Celebrations will be held all over New Mexico for this event.

As Geocachers we will be celebrating also. We have events planned for every month this year beginning on Jan 6th. On that day a whole slew of Caches will be published. It should be a lot of fun. Here in Deming I have placed 2, Jake and Cindy are placing a couple, and Gary and June are putting out a couple. On Feb 11th we will host the first ever Event cache in Deming. We will meet at Ranchers Grill starting at 11:00 am, and will finish up sometime later. A special NM Centennial will also be placed and will be published a day or two later. The coordinates for the Cache will be available to all attendees at the event.

All that are interested in attending may do so. If your interested, are curious of just nosy show up, it will be a blast.

A not so typical Geocache.

 

A list of the events planned for 2012

February 11, 2012: GaryJune, Ramblin Ramsey's, CeeJay535: Deming Deming Event

March 24, 2012: Sexyboo + Mauraders, Las Cruces Event

April 21, 2012: Frog Dog&Corker and Suzze&Grump: Roswell

May 5, 2012: kingbee, Four Corners/Farmington

June 2, 2012: BLMBilbo, Lincoln

July ??, 2012: geowalkabout, Taos

August 11, 2012: cyclegreen, Heron Lake

September 15, 2012: RioNaiad, Albuquerque east mountains

October 20, 2012: suz55tbird, Valencia County

November 17, 2012: WarrenGSr, Clovis

December 8, 2012: team donutdog, Santa Fe

It’ a real adventure for anyone….Have fun.

Happppppy New Year………

A Happy New Year  to all.

May it be a great 2012

A short getaway!

 

 

This morning Tues Nov 22 in the year 2011 Wanda, Betty and I headed for Ruidoso for this.

We had to pass by for the time being because the show is not until tonight and we were on a mission. We had to go here first.

 

After a brief but very filling visit at Schlotzsky’s we rested a bit then hit TCBY……Oh my god. We are totally stuffed. Lets go check in our motel and rest…..Maybe a short nap…… Around 4-4:30 we headed for the Inn. It’s not far from Ruidoso, may 10 miles.

We checked the car and headed for the lounge.

These are not very good, New camera phone you know, but here is what we saw.

They were mad of what looked like Gingerbread…Hey!  Who knows…?.

Shot this one outside after the show….

It’s the sculptures in the loading/unloading area.

The show itself was really great and we enjoyed it quite muchly.

That’s it. It was a long drive back but well worth it.

Oh yeah, I think that the one armed Banditos got some of our booty…….

Until later

hasta más tarde

Element Power Grand Opening Nov 8th 2011

 

Wanda, Betty, Pam and I went out to the dedication of the new wind generators out by Nutt today. Ended up being a real nice day for the event. We toured the operation/maintenance building which is full of great photos of the entire building of the farm from ground breaking to the finish.

After touring the area we headed for the portable tent which had been erected for the occasion. Tables and chairs were set up and they were building fresh Tacos and plenty of goodies to go with them.

After the goodies several of the operations personnel, local dignitaries made some short speeches.

Get a load of these things, those blades are 170 ft each. There is a total of  I believe 28 generators which put out 50 megawatts.

 

 

 

The official ribbon cutting ceremony followed

We then went out to the Nutt bar to see Tom and Suzan, and of course have a couple. A nice end to the day.

Broom Stick Pool At the VFW

 

March 18th 2011

The VFW Post 1477 held a Broom Stick Pool tournament just because it sounded good and the last one was a blast….Can you imagine, Shooting Pool with a Broom Stick……….Yeah!!!! We started at 1:00 with 12 players, the games were still going when the band showed up at 6:00 pm, what a day. Stu won first prize and Barb won second. A blast was had by all including a few that had never played before…

 

Barb lining them up

Jim being serious.

Patsy’s going to wack em.

Can’t figure out how I missed that shot.

No cheating Herb.

Easy does it Leah.

Gettim Wanda.

I’ll rack em.

That’s the Que Ball Bob.

 

Mike at work.

Do it Fred.

 

Our winner Stu

2nd Place winner Barb.

Camp Furlong Day Saturday March 12th

 

COLUMBUS, N.M. - A dawn raid nearly a century ago on the New Mexico-Chihuanhuan border has evolved into a friendship fiesta stronger than the ravages of drug wars, political unrest and immigration struggles, as hundreds of Mexican and United States horseback riders join for a multicultural celebration from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday in the little village of Columbus and at Pancho Villa State Park.

In the early morning darkness of March 9, 1916, Gen. Francisco "Pancho" Villa and his band of about 600 Mexican revolutionaries invaded the little New Mexican border town of Columbus. By the time dawn broke, the town was a smoldering ruin. Among the dead were 18 Americans, including eight soldiers and 10 civilians, and reportedly more than 200 Villistas had perished.

The bold foreign invasion triggered Gen. John J. "Black Jack" Pershing's Punitive Expedition, taking 10,000 U.S. Army soldiers deep into Mexico in a search for Villa and his raiders. The massive military buildup transformed a small town into New Mexico's biggest city almost overnight.

Villa eluded U.S. troops, but the expedition made history as the last major cavalry action mounted by the U.S. Army and the first U.S. military operation to employ mechanized vehicles and airplanes, and set the stage for Pershing's service as commander of World War I Allied forces.

 

A dark chapter in Borderland history has morphed into a multicultural fiesta. Join the international celebration at the eighth annual Camp Furlong Day Saturday at Pancho Villa State Park and the 12th annual Cabalgata Biacional and other festivities in the village of Columbus.

"Camp Furlong Day honors the strong ties between Mexico and the United States. Residents of both countries and visitors will join in the celebration of our common heritage and friendship and goodwill between both countries.

After our VFW meeting, Wanda and I headed for Columbus to check out the Camp Furlong day celebration. We were too late for the Equestrian part but got there in time for the Bands and Folkloric dancers. Now let me tell you the these dancers were nothing but fantastic. I wish that I could post all the pictures that I took, but I can’t so what you get is what you get.

 

Baile folklórico, literally "folkloric dance" in Spanish

 

Dry Gulch was one of the venders at the celebration, so we had to have some BBQ and it was great. Thank you Dry Gulch.

Some RV friends, John and Barb Ely landed in town for the night so we invited them to attend with us which they did. That evening we and another couple of RVers Steve and Kathy went to the Grand for dinner. All in all it was a very enjoyable day. A lot of good BS crossed the table at dinner.