The Ranch - Lakewood, NM

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This was forgotten and adding it today

Saturday, November 19, 2011

The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 56 degrees’ and partly sunny to 80 degrees’ and partly sunny. Some 25 MPH wind with some higher gusts.

About twelve cars or trucks from the Ranch went into Carlsbad, NM to help the Elks Lodge 1558 deliver to needy families Thanksgiving turkeys and fixings. Carlsbad Christmas Anonymous provides the addresses of the needy. It is rewarding experience to deliver a nice meal to a family in need. The neighbor next to Buster Rich and I used Silver Sally to deliver to three families. Some of the Ranch vehicles had more families to deliver to.

Bonnie went to Roswell with Maryann and was able to get Merry some more cat food that is not available in Artesia or Carlsbad Walmarts.

The six of us played Mexican Train dominos' Art and Sherry, Don & Doris and George & Bonnie. Girls against Boys, tonight girls win.

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Saturday, November 26, 2011
The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 39 degrees’ and sunny to 57 degrees’ and sunny with a wind blowing today.

Bonnie went to Carlsbad with Maryann and Marge checking out the Christmas craft fair there. A girls day out where the Christmas on the Pacos is held. For me a slow day poking around.

Sunday, November 27, 2011
The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 21 degrees’ and sunny to 60 degrees’ and sunny.

NFL Sunday J E T S
Happy Hour (social) 4 -5 every afternoon greeting returning leaseholders and visitors who have arrived today at the park. We had four the came in today but were tired and did not attend happy hour. Announcements and other regular functions are birthdays and anniversaries and lots of talking - visiting. Visitors and Leaseholders departing announce their departure the next day, wishing them a safe journey and our rendition of "Happy Trails". There was one leaseholder departing in the morning.

Tonight the last Sunday of the month we celebrate all the birthdays and anniversaries of the month with cake and ice cream party.

Monday, November 28, 2011

The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 27 degrees’ and sunny to 70 degrees’ and sunny.

Today we had a work project at the waste water pond fence. Fifteen men to lift the fence up and place it on the posts again. The wind had lifted the screening material, chain-link and top rail like a sail along the south end of th pond. Fifteen minutes latter we were back in place then drilled and a screw were put in the post caps.

After lunch I had a co-op board meeting plans for our park laundry facilities were discussed.

I went and played Hand & Foot against tonight three table of four playing tonight. We are still waiting for the "train". Don and Doris should return soon.

Oct 4 Balloon Fiesta

  

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Friday, November 25, 2011
The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 46 degrees’ and cloudy to 65 degrees’ and partly cloudy. "Weather" moved across New Mexico and we will have cooler and cloudy days thru the weekend.

Balloon burner working

This balloon landed in the field in front of Buster's parking spot in October. this one changed passengers and took off again. I took this shot just pointing the camera up into the balloon as the pilot was firing the burner.

The passenger exchange taking place

We went into Carlsbad today as i need to do research for a project here at The Ranch. While there I could see some places had rain as there were some puddles about. Before leaving there where some big "blackies" (clouds) were noticed in the sky mostly looking north and east. After returning to The Ranch there some puddles here also and they also had a wind blow thru.

Tonight it was leftover potluck dinner turkey, ham stuffing and gravy. Other vegetable are dishes supplied by the table attendees.

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Thursday, November 24, 2011
The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 34 degrees’ and partly sunny to 65 degrees’ and partly sunny. We hope everyone has a great thanksgiving.

Turkey Carving (Shirley & Rich, Wayne in back)

Gravy Making (Helen & Helen)

George and Bonnie

We had Thanksgiving dinner at two o’clock local time with a party of seventy-three. At a table of ten. There were eight tables and we use the pool table furthest from the kitchen, for coffee and pie. Between dinner and desert we had an abbreviated happy hour, giving us time for dinner to settle.

Room filling up

Turkey and ham with stuffing, pumpkin pie and gravy cooked at The Ranch House for three dollars per person. The other dishes supplied by the table attendees.

Ready to eat

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The Ranch House

Tuesday, November 22, 2011
The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 46 degrees’ and sunny to 68 degrees’ and sunny.

Mens coffee at the Ranch House today followed by a water committee meeting for me.

Happy Hour (social) 4 -5 every afternoon greeting returning leaseholders and visitors who have arrived today at the park. Announcements and other regular functions are birthdays and anniversaries and lots of talking - visiting. Visitors and Leaseholders departing announce their departure the next day, wishing them a safe journey and our rendition of "Happy Trails".

No "train" tonight, Mexican Train dominos' Art and Sherry, Don & Doris are both "on the road". George stayed home in Buster & Bonnie went to a ladies bible study in Artesia.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011
The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 32 degrees’ and sunny to 70 degrees’ and sunny.

Turkey preparation day. We are having turkey dinner here at The Ranch, "a party of eighty", five turkeys, gravy and stuffing. Ten tables and each table hostess assigns the attendees bring a dish to round out the meal. A Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.

Sunset at The Ranch

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Sunday, November 20, 2011The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 52 degrees’ and partly sunny to 75 degrees’ and sunny.

Mr. Canon has been very quiet sleeping inside Buster so I need to get him out and about the Ranch winking at our park here in the desert.

One of the other ranch hands

This the last NASCAR and NFL Football Sunday, NASCAR is off until February.

The seven of us played Mexican Train dominos' Art and Sherry, Don & Doris, George & Bonnie and Ron. Girls against Boys, tonight boys win, when the girls go out one of the boys remaining tiles is not counted.

Monday, November 21, 2011
The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 46 degrees’ and mostly cloudy to 69 degrees’ and partly sunny. About 9 A.M. this morning there was enough moisture to see moisture on the windshield of Silver Sally. Later in the afternoon the was a front that moved thru the area with wind gusts (dust blowing) and heavy clouds but that was all we had here today.

You can see the gray day

I had a co-op board of directors meeting today so there was preparation in the morning and an afternoon meeting. That ended in time for a break before happy hour.

The five of us played Mexican Train dominos' Art and Sherry, George & Bonnie and Ron. Girls against Boys, tonight girls win, when the girls go out one of the boys remaining tiles is not counted, the score sheet is only counting two against two.

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Saturday, November 19, 2011
The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 56 degrees’ and partly sunny to 80 degrees’ and partly sunny. Some 25 MPH wind with some higher gusts.

About twelve cars or trucks from the Ranch went into Carlsbad, NM to help the Elks Lodge #1558 deliver to needy families Thanksgiving turkeys and fixings. Carlsbad Christmas Anonymous provides the addresses of the needy. It is rewarding experience to deliver a nice meal to a family in need. The neighbor next to Buster Rich and I used Silver Sally to deliver to three families. Some of the Ranch vehicles had more families to deliver to.

Bonnie went to Roswell with Maryann and was able to get Merry some more cat food that is not available in Artesia or Carlsbad Walmarts.

Merry in the Box

The six of us played Mexican Train dominos' Art and Sherry, Don & Doris and George & Bonnie. Girls against Boys, tonight girls win.

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Thursday, November 17, 2011
The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 32 degrees’ and sunny to 60 degrees’ and sunny.

MEWS - (Men Eating Without Supervision) eight of us went to The Paddock restaurant east of Artesia, NM about five miles.

The six of us played Mexican Train dominos' Art and Sherry, Don & Doris and George & Bonnie. Girls against Boys, tonight girls win.

Friday, November 18, 2011
The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 32 degrees’ and sunny to 79 degrees’ and sunny.

We were at Happy Hour and reminded us about the Elks and Christmas Anonymous delivering on Saturday.

The six of us played Mexican Train dominos' Art and Sherry, Don & Doris and George & Bonnie. Girls against Boys, tonight girls win.

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 42 degrees’ and mostly sunny to 67 degrees’ and sunny.


I am still learning and understanding the running of The Ranch as and RV Park. I am into records and dealing with the day to day things the managers need. We are looking into a change to the laundry as there is a crack developing in the floor with a corner of the building sagging.

Probably leaving here (The Ranch) the week before Christmas headed towards Apache Junction, AZ. After the first we will go to Quartzsite, AZ for a couple of weeks. That is the is as far ahead I am looking now.

The five of us played Mexican Train dominos' Art and Sherry, Don & Doris and George. Girls against Boys, tonight boys win. Bonnie went to Wednesday church meeting.

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Monday, November 14, 2011
The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 57 degrees’ and partly sunny to 71 degrees’ and mostly sunny.

The six of us played Mexican Train dominos' Art and Sherry, Don & Doris and George & Bonnie. Girls against Boys, tonight girls win.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011
The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 41 degrees’ and mostly sunny to 74 degrees’ and mostly sunny. Happy Birthday Don

Mens coffee at the Ranch House today followed by a water committee meeting for me.

Happy Hour (social) 4 -5 every afternoon greeting returning leaseholders and visitors who have arrived today at the park. Announcements and other regular functions are birthdays and anniversaries and lots of talking - visiting.

Miss Merry's bed

No Mexican Train dominos' Don and Doris were celebrating his birthday. We stayed home at Buster visiting with the Television.

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Sunday, November 13, 2011   -     Happy Birthday Ariana our only Granddaughter.

The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 57 degrees’ and partly sunny to 70 degrees’ and partly sunny and windy this afternoon. There was some high wind before sunrise today, Buster was rocking a little before I got out of bed.

NASCAR and NFL Football Sunday. In the middle of next month we will be headed to Arizona probably Apache Junction area around Christmas then on to Quartzsite for three weeks. Thanksgiving will be here at The Ranch with the Ranch Hands and visitors to The Ranch.

Merry resting

The six of us played Mexican Train dominos' Art and Sherry, Don & Doris and George & Bonnie. Girls against Boys, tonight boys win.

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Thursday, November 10, 2011

The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 32 degrees' and sunny to 61 degrees' and sunny.

MEWS - (Men Eating Without Supervision) we to a restaurant east of Artesia, NM about five miles The Paddock restaurant. Our semi annual meeting has passed and many rigs have moved on for many reasons. This week there was no annoucement at happy hour yesterday and we has low turnout.

Then back to Buster for some computer work.

The six of us played Mexican Train dominos' Art and Sherry, Don & Doris and George & Bonnie. Girls against Boys, tonight girls win.

Friday, November 11, 2011

The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 32 degrees' and cloudy to 64 degrees' and cloudy, a gray day.

Computer work today and paperwork.

The six of us played Mexican Train dominos' Art and Sherry, Don & Doris and George & Bonnie. Girls against Boys, tonight girls win.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 58 degrees' and WINDY & partly cloudy to 74 degrees' and partly sunny.

Florida State Football is on TV here today. FSU wins

The six of us played Mexican Train dominos' Art and Sherry, Don & Doris and George & Bonnie. Girls against Boys, tonight girls win.

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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 36 degrees' and sunny to 60 degrees' and sunny.

Mens coffee at the Ranch House today followed by a water committee meeting for me.

After that we went to Roswell for cat food and captured six boxes. Merry is now happy the food locker is full. Still, cannot get "her" cat food packages in Artesia or Carlsbad. I need to call Walmart again. Yes we also purchased coffee and paper and other things for The Ranch while we were there in Roswell. Those were at Sams Club. We made it back just in time for happy hour at the Ranch House.

The six of us played Mexican Train dominos' Art and Sherry, Don & Doris and George & Bonnie. Girls against Boys, tonight girls win.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011
The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 32 degrees' and partly cloudy to 52 degrees' and sunny. Overcast to clearing with a front passing thru.

Town Hall meeting today members of the co-op discuss the operation of The Ranch.

Chili chapter # 23 luncheon was held this month at a new to Carlsbad IHOP restaurant.
It has been open a few months. When we here in the spring we saw that it would be open soon. It's location is south of Walmart, we normally only go south of Walmart for the Caverns or traveling out of the area.

The five of us played Mexican Train dominos' Art and Sherry, Don & Doris and George. Girls against Boys, tonight boys win. Bonnie went to Wednesday church meeting.

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Monday, November 7, 2011
The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 40 degrees’ and sunny to 75 degrees’ and sunny.
There was some wind today but not enough to bring up the dust we had the other day.

I had a co-op board of directors meeting today and a trip into the bank in Artesia to inspect our co-op safe deposit box. We have decided to create an official inventory and have two copies with one in the box and one in the office. This will be future work after the budget that needs to be completed by the first Wednesday in December.

The six of us played Mexican Train dominos' Art and Sherry, Don & Doris and George & Bonnie. Girls against Boys, tonight boys win.

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Sunday, November 6, 2011

The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 36 degrees’ and sunny to 69 degrees’ and sunny.

Buster at The Ranch

When Bonnie returned from church in Artesia we went to Carlsbad for lunch Buffet with Art and Sherry. We both won a free buffet lunch at Stevens Inn during the Round Up in October. Of course we went to Walmart and Albertsons too.

The six of us played Mexican Train dominos' Art and Sherry, Don & Doris and George & Bonnie. Girls against Boys, tonight girls win.

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Saturday, November 5, 2011
The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 41 degrees’ and sunny to 69 degrees’ and sunny and high wind advisories. Happy Birthday Carole.

We had a busy day running to "town" in the morning Bonnie went to the Moose Lodge in Artesia with other ladies from The Ranch who serves lunch to seniors at the lodge the first Saturday of the month. The Ranch supplies "both servers and eaters" on these days along with others from the community. Many Escapees are members of the Moose Lodge we are not. I went to the Moose Lodge for Lunch, there is a donation container to help with the cost of food. From there to Walmart for supplies for a few days. I am having a problem in getting a pet food in Artesia for Merry our cat and will have to go to Roswell for pet food soon.
After happy hour at the ranch we went our separate ways again with Bonnie going to Artesia for a Birthday dinner, a church member and George going to Carlsbad Elks Lodge to serve dinner. The Elks Lodge was hosting a dinner evening for a local catholic school that is raising operations money. George went with Phil and Jean and Maryann. A lot of car pooling when traveling to functions in town.
We did not ride the train tonight. Mexican Train dominos', Art and Sherry, Don & Doris did. Girls against Boys, tonight girls win.

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Thursday, November 3, 2011
The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 28 degrees' and sunny to 56 degrees' and sunny.

Today is bank day. All four new officers and our co-op park managers go to give signatures to the bank that has our Ranch Co-op accounts. Then preparing work for board of directors meeting tomorrow. November is a busy month for our co-op board of directors planning the coming year's budget and setting the maintenance fee that is charged to the membership. We are also planning work (maintenance and up grades) that needs to be done our park was officially started in June 1983. So last June The Ranch was twenty-eight years old the second oldest Escapees Club Co-op park.

The six of us played Mexican Train dominos' Art and Sherry, Don & Doris and George & Bonnie. Girls against Boys, tonight boys win.

Friday, November 4, 2011
The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 38 degrees' and sunny to 70 degrees' and sunny.

I worked in side today at the Ranch House with the other board of directors present at The Ranch the plan The Ranch operating budget for 2012. This is a total line item review of 2011 with backup on some items for where the money went for expenses and the income comes from. This will set our member maintenance fee for the coming year.

The six of us played Mexican Train dominos' Art and Sherry, Don & Doris and George & Bonnie. Girls against Boys, tonight boys win.

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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 41 degrees’ and sunny to 85 degrees’ and sunny.
After happy hour the men took down the round tables and we put up the long tables for the meeting tomorrow. We will take them down and store them after happy hour on Wednesday.
The leg is getting better staying off it more yesterday and using the heating pad is helping the recovery.

The six of us played Mexican Train dominos' Art and Sherry, Don & Doris and George & Bonnie. Girls against Boys, tonight girls win to start the month.


Wednesday, November 2, 2011
The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 54 degrees’ and sunny to 68 degrees’ and partly sunny. The wind came up this afternoon, off in the distance there was dust in the air from the wind and farmers working the land.
Semi annual meeting at nine o’clock today, the ranch co-op business meeting, and by ranch history this was a short meeting. The board of directors then holds a executive meeting there were two returning and seven new members to the board of directors along with the outgoing president. The only order of business is to elect officers and then a "train" came thru and I was elected president of the board of directors. Then another executive board of directors meeting without the outgoing president, to elect other officers and plan the boards work for the rest of the month.
My term on the board of directors runs another year and my duty’s have increased to President of the board of directors.

The five of us played Mexican Train dominos' Art and Sherry, Don & Doris and George. Girls against Boys, tonight girls win. wednesday Bonnie went to bible study. 
No heating pad tonight as the leg is doing well.

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Saturday, October 29, 2011
The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 33 degrees' foggy and overcast to 70 degrees' and partly sunny.

The six of us played Mexican Train dominos' Art and Sherry, Don & Doris and George & Bonnie. Girls against Boys, tonight boys win.

Sunday, October 30, 2011
The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 46 degrees' and partly sunny to 70 degrees' and partly sunny.

Football and NASCAR Sunday

October Birthday's and Anniversary's celebrations at seven o'clock tonight. There were two fifty's tonight and a twenty-nine and a half a dozen birthdays’ celebrated.

Monday, October 31, 2011
The Escapees Ranch - Lakewood, NM 38 degrees' and sunny to 78 degrees' and sunny.

I have been taking it easy since Friday as I stepped wrong and my left leg went out from under me and I went down to the ground when doing the road clean-up. I am using the heating pad just below the knee and that is helping.

The six of us played Mexican Train dominos' Art and Sherry, Don & Doris and George & Bonnie. Girls against Boys, tonight boys win.