Monday, October 29, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 34 degrees and mostly sunny to 76 degrees and sunny.

Well the rain gutters are done on the new laundry shed thanks to John.

At four o'clock Bonnie and I went to happy hour at the ranch house. After dinner we played Mexican train with Don and Doris at the ranch house.  Full moon tonight.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 40 degrees and mostly sunny to 79 degrees and sunny.

Mens coffee I went to Artesia to get the doughnuts for coffee this morning. Water committee meeting today.

Well house number two, north east

We are in preparations for Roundup an annual activity here at The Ranch.
At four o'clock Bonnie and I went to happy hour at the ranch house.

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM -

Sunday, October 28, 2012

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 33 degrees and mostly sunny to 66 degrees and sunny.

NASCAR race at Martinsville, VA and football Sunday.

　
At four o'clock Bonnie and I went to happy hour at the ranch house.

Birthday people

After dinner Bonnie and I went back to the ranch house for the birthday and anniversary celebration at seven o'clock. With attendance more than double since last month there was a large gathering of celebrators this month.

Anniversary couples

 

Saturday, October 27, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 39 degrees and mostly sunny to 58 degrees and sunny.

US 285 southbound (after cleanup)

The SKP Ranch is responsible for road cleanup on US 285 for one mile. We do the cleanup twice a year October and April. Today was our October cleanup for the year.

Fifty one bags of highway trash was picked up by twenty seven people from the ranch on US 285 mile number fifty five.


Fifty one bags

At four o'clock Bonnie and I went to happy hour at the ranch house. After dinner we played Mexican train with Don and Doris at the ranch house.

US 285 northbound (after cleanup)

 

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - MEWS

Thursday, October 25, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 61 degrees and mostly sunny to 73 degrees and sunny.

MEWS - (Men Eating Without Supervision) thirteen of us car-pooled to The Paddock restaurant about five miles east of Artesia, NM for breakfast this morning. We left the ranch at eight-thirty for the drive there. After breakfast I relaxed for the day.

At four o'clock Bonnie and I went to happy hour at the ranch house. After dinner we played Mexican train with Don and Doris.

Friday, October 26, 2012

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 38 degrees and partly sunny to 57 degrees and sunny. There was a cold front that moved across the region yesterday giving us a cool day and this morning a coldest morning of the season.

Overcast morning looking southeast

Today I went to Carlsbad Lowes for a few more things to complete our laundry work. Then Bonnie and I went to the county clerk’s office for early voting. We cast our ballots in Eddy County New Mexico election district # 38. This is one of three visitors that came in today.

County clerk’s office for early voting

Visitor arriving at the office

At four o'clock Bonnie and I went to happy hour at the ranch house.

After happy hour one of the locals was having dinner outside the ranch house. Soren and John walking over did not bother her or interrupt her dinner. After our dinner we played Mexican train with Don and Doris at the ranch house.

Soren and John

 

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM -

Wednesday, October 24, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 56 degrees and partly sunny to 83 degrees and sunny.

I was out early to have Silver Sally’s oil changed. When I got back it was getting the fence sections installed with help from John and Wally, on the fence posts while Norm, Bob and Art were installing the remaining gutters on the laundry shed front and back.

From the ranch house

At four o'clock Bonnie and I went to happy hour at the ranch house. Attendance in the park and at happy hour is up significantly this month.

Happy hour

Sunset on Windmill Vista

 

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - coffee

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 49 degrees and mostly sunny to 87 degrees and sunny.

Sunrise just after 7 AM at the end of Buster's street

Mens coffee I went to Artesia to get the doughnuts for coffee this morning. Yesterday I asked for help to install the rain gutters and install the fence sections around the clothes lines and the grey water tanks for the laundry water and dig two lots for water stand pipes. This made a busy morning for me.

The water committee meeting I missed today keeping my work committee busy with a number of projects to complete. The water standpipes are complete only one leak as the standpipe was dug. New standpipes are installed and there are no water leaks, one even backfilled.

At four o'clock I went to happy hour at the ranch house. After dinner we played Mexican train with Don and Doris.

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM -

Sunday, October 21, 2012

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 64 degrees and mostly sunny to 87 degrees and sunny.

NASCAR race at Kansas, and football.

At four o'clock Bonnie and I went to happy hour at the ranch house. After dinner we played Mexican train with Don and Doris.

Monday, October 22, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 61 degrees and mostly sunny to 87 degrees and sunny. Windy overnight last night.

Working a bunch of small things this morning then getting ready for a board of directors meeting at one o’clock.

At four o'clock Bonnie and I went to happy hour at the ranch house.

 

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - gravel

Friday, October 19, 2012

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 44 degrees and mostly sunny to 79 degrees and sunny.

I had mike order gravel for the outside clothes line and laundry area. So we now have gravel to spread on Saturday

At four o'clock Bonnie and I went to happy hour at the ranch house. After dinner we went to see a movie "Obama 2016".

Saturday, October 20, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 45 degrees and mostly sunny to 89 degrees and partly sunny.


I had about ten members and one visitor turnout for the gravel spread today.


　

At four o'clock Bonnie and I went to happy hour at the ranch house. After dinner we played Mexican train with Don and Doris.

 

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM -

Thursday, October 18, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 51 degrees and mostly sunny to 77 degrees and sunny.

MEWS - (Men Eating Without Supervision) eleven of us car-pooled to The Paddock restaurant about five miles east of Artesia, NM for breakfast this morning. We left the ranch at eight-thirty for the drive there.

Walkway is completed

At four o'clock Bonnie and I went to happy hour at the ranch house. After dinner we played Mexican train with Don and Doris and Sherry.

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - cement

Wednesday, October 17, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 72 degrees and partly sunny to 88 degrees and sunny.

Soren, John, Bob, Glen, Bob, Phil and two visitors staying here at the ranch and I helped in mixing and pouring the cement for the walkway to the ramp. We mixed all it purchased on Monday and four other bags laying around in the buildings them I determined more is needed. Mike made a run to the store and purchased six more bags to complete the job.

Bob, Chuck and Greg attend a meeting at the Baptist church in Lakewood with me and local ranchers and the state of New Mexico water engineering. Many rancher’s water wells are going dry due to the drought and the state pumping water into the Pecos river going to Texas. The state of New Mexico is required by a court order to pass an amount of water into Texas. As far as I know our wells (two) are not going dry.

At four o'clock Bonnie went to happy hour at the ranch house and I showed up late after the water meeting. I was able to thank the men showing up for the work party mixing and pouring the cement.

 

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM -

Tuesday, October 16, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 58 degrees and mostly sunny to 89 degrees and sunny.

 

Mens coffee I went to Artesia to get the doughnuts for coffee this morning. At the water committee meeting we discussed the mechanical gage for the water storage tanks that Greg and Wally installed.

Yesterday we also purchased cement for a walkway between the laundry room deck ramp and the blacktop parking area. Glen, Soren and I dug out the area and made the forms for the concrete today.

 

 

At four o'clock Bonnie and I went to happy hour at the ranch house. After happy hour a few of the men went to another members rig to move a platform deck onto place and remove a ramp no longer needed.

 

Politics tonight, the debate from Hofstra University.

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - local # 561

Monday, October 15, 2012

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 51 degrees and mostly sunny to 77 degrees and partly sunny.

Number 561

Today I went to Lowes in Carlsbad with Wally and Greg and Pat a former member who lives in Lake Arthur north of Artesia.

The idea of this is Pat has the trailer to haul long items as we are purchasing ten foot rain gutter and six by eight foot fence sections. Late this afternoon I went to the post office and these locals were beside our road eating and resting.

At four o'clock Bonnie and I went to happy hour at the ranch house. After dinner we played Mexican train with Don and Doris.

The overcast partly cloudy day gave us a nice sunset today.

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM -

Sunday, October 14, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 55 degrees and mostly sunny to 79 degrees and sunny.


The NASCAR race was last night so there was only football today JETS and Giants.

At four o'clock Bonnie and I went to happy hour at the ranch house. After dinner we played Mexican train with Don and Doris.

Sunset on the way to Mexican Train

 

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - Pictures

Saturday, October 13, 2012

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 61 degrees and mostly sunny to 81 degrees and sunny. On our way back to Buster after playing Mexican Train the eastern shy was lighting up with lighting the storm we got was moving east.

 

Pictures captured from a video of the ranch taken from north of our street Windmill Vista. This ariel view is from a remote control helicopter operated from the other side of our street and west two sites.

 Buster Brown and Silver Sally will be in the picture. To Busters right is one motorhome and then a couple of large trees. (To enlarge pictures; Click on picture to enlarge, click on the X in the upper right to return to the blog).

 

There is the waste water pond east and south of that is the well # 1 and water treatment and water storage tanks (black).

In the west is a storage lot for extra trailers. You can see the heavy green arroyo one of the seven rivers noted in this area.

The entrance road coming in from the top and the ranch house to the right.

 

 

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - Roswell

Friday, October 12, 2012

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 64 degrees and partly sunny to 84 degrees and partly sunny. Trying to rain today

From 2008

Bonnie and I went to Roswell Sam’s Club to get some coffee supplies for the ranch house. Of course we did some shopping for our self’s, cat food for Merry our cat of eighteen years.

Merry happy to play as Bonnie puts on the clean sheets

At four o'clock Bonnie and I went to happy hour at the ranch house. On returning to Buster we got that rain that was trying all day. A real rain for a half an hour. After dinner we played Mexican train with Don and Doris.

Is this cloud speaking after the rain?

Sun catching the edge of the clouds


 

 

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - mews

Thursday, October 11, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 62 degrees and mostly cloudy to 83 degrees and sunny.

Sunset on Windmill Vist

MEWS - (Men Eating Without Supervision) seven of us car-pooled to The Paddock restaurant about five miles east of Artesia, NM for breakfast this morning. We left the ranch at eight-thirty for the drive there.

At four o'clock Bonnie and I went to happy hour at the ranch house. After dinner Bonnie and I played Mexican train with Sherry and Doris

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM -

Wednesday, October 10, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 54 degrees and mostly sunny to 87 degrees and sunny. Some more pictures from last years Albuquerque balloon fiesta.

Sunset at the ranch this week

(To enlarge pictures; Click on picture to enlarge, click on the X in the upper right to return to the blog). We took over five hundred pictures in four days from the launch field and a landing area south of that where Buster was parked.

Our membership had a town hall meeting today at ten o’clock, member to member discussing operation of The Ranch Co-op and it’s direction.

Well my time on the board of directors will be complete next month. Bonnie and I will travel three days in Buster to Texas for a week visit with our daughter and grandson there in Austin. We will then travel to North Carolina for two more children and grandchildren visit until after Christmas.

At four o'clock Bonnie and I went to happy hour at the ranch house.

 

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - more balloons

Tuesday, October 9, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 46 degrees and mostly sunny to 89 degrees and sunny.

Mens coffee thanks to Greg we had doughnuts for coffee morning. At the water committee meeting we received the mechanical gage for the water storage tanks and will install that this week. After this I worked on our trip plan again today.

At four o'clock I went to happy hour at the ranch house as Bonnie was at the Veterinarian with our cat Merry. After dinner we played Mexican train with Don and Doris.

And ore pictures from last year’s balloon fiesta.