Wednesday, April 25 - Saturday, April 28, 2012
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
The Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 60 degrees and mostly sunny to 101 degrees and sunny.
Buster had his carpets cleaned "Randy Jones" came to the park from Carlsbad, NM for carpet cleaning, he stopped at a number of rigs. We also had scotch guard applied.
Happy hour and Mexican Train after dinner tonight.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
The Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 64 degrees and mostly sunny to 91 degrees and sunny. Windy in the afternoon
MEWS - (Men Eating Without Supervision) four of us car-pooled to The Paddock restaurant about five miles east of Artesia, NM.
We have been continuing to replace the rig water connections and have reduced the remaining number to be replaced to 24.
Friday, April 27, 2012
The Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 66 degrees and mostly sunny to 92 degrees and sunny. Windy in the afternoon again today, only bringing on the window awning on the left side.
Buster will be on the road soon as we made plans to meet with Carole in Austin, TX. We will leave here next week and stay in Austin for a week.
Sherry and art left today, two of our Mexican train players, going to northern New Mexico for a week and onto Wisconsin for the summer. Happy hour and Mexican Train after dinner tonight.
Saturday, April 28, 2012
The Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 60 degrees and sunny to 93 degrees and sunny.
To my wife Bonnie Happy Birthday.
Happy hour and Mexican restaurant tonight for dinner. We celebrated Bonnie’s birthday with some people from church.
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Thursday, April 26, 2012
The Ranch, Lakewood, NM
April 26, 2012
An April recap, I have been busy with the presidents job of operating The Ranch Co-op, with board meetings, two town hall meetings (in March) and then a spring semi annual meeting that I am responsible to conduct. The board of directors presented some changes to the operating by-laws that took many hours of discussion in meetings and e-mails. These changes were accepted with a little adjustment during the semi annual meeting. We continue to attend happy hour every day as this is an important function of the Ranch, meeting the new arrivals and being available to members for comment and input. We had a nice Easter dinner for about seventy-two. The first two weeks of the month were the busiest the meeting and that day our managers took off for a week vacation. This left me filling in for the outside responsibilities around the park and we had a fill in for the office. After that it was getting ready to order a portable building to be used as a laundry. The current laundry has a sink hole the floor is cracked and a large piece of concrete is sinking. This current building is close to a dry river that has been wet once in ten years. There also "has been" a water leak under this building. We has a soils engineering company test the ground and it was suggested to go with the portable type building. Park attendance is slowing down as the temperature is rising we are into the nineties and yesterday we did reach one hundred and one degrees. Tuesday on the return trip from Hobbs, NM where we ordered the building there was a small rain shower, I turned the wipers on for two passes over the window.
An April recap, I have been busy with the presidents job of operating The Ranch Co-op, with board meetings, two town hall meetings (in March) and then a spring semi annual meeting that I am responsible to conduct. The board of directors presented some changes to the operating by-laws that took many hours of discussion in meetings and e-mails. These changes were accepted with a little adjustment during the semi annual meeting. We continue to attend happy hour every day as this is an important function of the Ranch, meeting the new arrivals and being available to members for comment and input. We had a nice Easter dinner for about seventy-two. The first two weeks of the month were the busiest the meeting and that day our managers took off for a week vacation. This left me filling in for the outside responsibilities around the park and we had a fill in for the office. After that it was getting ready to order a portable building to be used as a laundry. The current laundry has a sink hole the floor is cracked and a large piece of concrete is sinking. This current building is close to a dry river that has been wet once in ten years. There also "has been" a water leak under this building. We has a soils engineering company test the ground and it was suggested to go with the portable type building. Park attendance is slowing down as the temperature is rising we are into the nineties and yesterday we did reach one hundred and one degrees. Tuesday on the return trip from Hobbs, NM where we ordered the building there was a small rain shower, I turned the wipers on for two passes over the window.
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Saturday, April 7, 2012
The Ranch, Lakewood, NM
Monday, March 26, 2012 The Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 58 degrees and partly cloudy, with a red sky at sunrise to 90 degrees and sunny. There was some wind today, but not enough to bring in the slide.
Board of directors meeting this afternoon last one before The Ranch co-op semi annual meeting on April fourth. I went to happy hour and we went to play Mexican Train after dinner.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
The Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 46 degrees and mostly sunny to 89 degrees and sunny.
Mens Coffee for an hour with doughnuts, water committee meeting at ten o’clock we read the well meters every day and check the water levels in the two tanks the men take the assignment on a weekly basis to read the meters and check the water system operations. Then there is the reverse osmosis system that processes the water before storage is checked daily the water is checked for total dissolved solids in the water. Happy hour and I went to play Mexican Train after dinner.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
The Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 43 degrees and mostly sunny to 89 degrees and sunny. Bonnie went to ladies red hat luncheon today in Carlsbad. We went to happy hour at four o’clock and I went to play Mexican Train after dinner.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
The Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 51 degrees and mostly sunny to 90 degrees and partly sunny.
MEWS - (Men Eating Without Supervision) nine of us car-pooled to The Paddock restaurant about five miles east of Artesia, NM for breakfast at about nine o’clock.
This afternoon I helped to remove the old water stand pipe at a lot as the was not occupied today. Replacing these old water stand pipes is better done when the lot is not occupied this one especially as the pipe was coming up thru a concrete slab that we needed to lift out with the bucket loader on the tractor. After installing the new pipes and valves we keep the hole open for a day to insure there are no water leaks
Bonnie and I went to Happy hour at four o’clock and after dinner Mexican Train.
Board of directors meeting this afternoon last one before The Ranch co-op semi annual meeting on April fourth. I went to happy hour and we went to play Mexican Train after dinner.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
The Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 46 degrees and mostly sunny to 89 degrees and sunny.
Mens Coffee for an hour with doughnuts, water committee meeting at ten o’clock we read the well meters every day and check the water levels in the two tanks the men take the assignment on a weekly basis to read the meters and check the water system operations. Then there is the reverse osmosis system that processes the water before storage is checked daily the water is checked for total dissolved solids in the water. Happy hour and I went to play Mexican Train after dinner.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
The Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 43 degrees and mostly sunny to 89 degrees and sunny. Bonnie went to ladies red hat luncheon today in Carlsbad. We went to happy hour at four o’clock and I went to play Mexican Train after dinner.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
The Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 51 degrees and mostly sunny to 90 degrees and partly sunny.
MEWS - (Men Eating Without Supervision) nine of us car-pooled to The Paddock restaurant about five miles east of Artesia, NM for breakfast at about nine o’clock.
This afternoon I helped to remove the old water stand pipe at a lot as the was not occupied today. Replacing these old water stand pipes is better done when the lot is not occupied this one especially as the pipe was coming up thru a concrete slab that we needed to lift out with the bucket loader on the tractor. After installing the new pipes and valves we keep the hole open for a day to insure there are no water leaks
Bonnie and I went to Happy hour at four o’clock and after dinner Mexican Train.
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