This has been a busy year, with Turkeys and Chickens beginning in February last year and some of our garden plants in the ground by end of February. While we are still leveling the fields after the flood, there is little else in the garden while it composts the great horse and cow manure from around the farm. We've had lots of animals and we've collected that and the pecan shells for compost.
We do like to get away from the farm for a day or so every so often. There is so much in the state we want to see. Monday, we took off for what is known as the New Mexico bootheel because of the shape of the state.
The weather was beautiful and we took off into the sun rise. Through Deming, onward to Lordsburg and down towards Hachita. The landscape changed dramatincally. As we headed west, towards Animas and then South to Cloverdale, we could see population numbers dwindling to more cattle than cars, but lots of Border Patrol.
Cloverdale takes you to a locked gate, so after asking for directions, we got headed on a road that parallels the National Forest and then eventually cuts over the top. The road in the National Forest was rocky, narrow and a blast. We came out in Arizona, but it will be a trip worth repeating.
Driving back through Deming today, we saw some open land that will change as more boomers look for land to retire on. There isn't much water in the region, that's clear from the types of things growing. You can see land, much as it probably existed when Geronimo Surrendered September 4, 1886. I cannot imagine running 80 miles a day to outrun the 5000 soldiers that were chasing the band of Apache. Life had to be hard out there, but
Geronimo Surrenders
historynet.com/geronimos-last-surrender
One of the things that we did see but would have liked more information on, was the volcanic fields Volcanic Field
Quite relaxing and re-enerizing at the same time. I only wish we could also travel to Mexico to explore a bit further.
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