The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - Roswell

Saturday, September 29, 2012

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 60 degrees and mostly cloudy and rainy to 87 degrees and sunny.

I worked on the trip plans again this morning and then we went to Roswell, our coffee maker stopped working. We also needed cat food that this store in Artesia does not carry. We were able to get five boxes today. There was not any selection of coffee makers to take home, the model I wanted from the available display was out of stock.
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Roswell, NM Wallmart



At four o'clock Bonnie and I went to happy hour at the ranch house. When we got home we watched the FSU Seminoles beat the USF Bulls

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - nap

Friday, September 28, 2012

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 64 degrees and mostly cloudy to 73 degrees and rain. All of the real "Weather" came after eleven this morning, rain all afternoon sometimes hard, nice day for a nap.

I finished assembling three more water standpipes. Earlier I worked on the travel plans for November to Austin, Texas and on to Holly Springs, NC

At four o'clock Bonnie and I were napping in Buster, the first happy hour we missed in a long time. I could get used to these naps.

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - plans

Thursday, September 27, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 68 degrees and mostly cloudy to 75 degrees and mostly cloudy. Thunderstorms in the forecast for today and we only got some southwest rain showers.

MEWS - (Men Eating Without Supervision) eight 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.

I talked with Carole today and told her of our plans to be there in Austin about the eleventh of November. I have been making travel route plans and worked on them again today.
Buster will take three days for the five hundred mile trip stopping in Big Spring and Brady, Texas.

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

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM -

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 60 degrees and mostly sunny to 91 degrees and sunny.

Mens coffee water committee meeting, the low level switch is working fine now but we will keep an eye on it for normal operation.
At four o'clock Bonnie and I went to happy hour at the ranch house. After dinner it was nice sitting outside watching TV.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 62 degrees and partly cloudy to 91 degrees and sunny with a late afternoon wind. We might get some rain from a hurricane coming inland from Baja California across Mexico.

I had to remake the clothes dryer I have for Bonnie outside on Buster. The wood broke on the upper bar. I attached the new bar to Buster a different way.

　

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

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - sunset

Monday, September 24, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 54 degrees and mostly sunny to 92 degrees and sunny.

A low level switch in the water storage tank was sticking today requiring an "attitude adjustment" to work correctly.

sunset

At four o'clock Bonnie and I went to happy hour at the ranch house. At seven o’clock I went to the ranch house and played hand and foot. I took these sunset pictures on the way to the ranch house, the sun made the tree look on fire. The sunsets are moving to the left.

zoomed in

 

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM -

Saturday, September 22, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 57 degrees and mostly sunny to 93 degrees and sunny.

Jerry and I helped Mike B switch lots with Bob W other than that a slow day for me.

At four o'clock Bonnie and I went to happy hour at the ranch house and Bonnie was the ding-a-ling. At six o'clock Florida State played Clemson on national TV, Bonnie was happy they won.

You can see the sun rising further to the right in these morning pictures

Sunday, September 23, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 53 degrees and mostly sunny to 91 degrees and sunny.

Taken from in front of the ranch house

NASCAR race today in Loudon, NH and Football Sunday JETS win.

At four o'clock Bonnie and I went to happy hour at the ranch house and Bonnie was the ding-a-ling again.

 

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - Roswell

Friday, September 21, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 59 degrees and mostly sunny to 95 degrees and sunny.

Well it started out to be a do a bunch of small things today, but I went back to Buster for something and Bonnie asked me do I want to go to Roswell? Why not, there were things I could get at Home Depot for these projects, and I wanted another flash drive for pictures.
Yesterday Wally and I also completed the clothes lines for the new laundry only needing to put down gravel for the area.

Well I dropped Bonnie at her store and I went to Home Depot for three things and purchased one. Then picked up Bonnie and went to Tractor Supply for five things and purchased nothing, out of stock or seasonal and not received yet so lets do lunch at the Rib Crib, yea a successful stop. Then to Wally and Sam but the mind went blank part way thru and did not have a shopping list thus forgetting to even look for some things. We arrived back at the Ranch about three-thirty.

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

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - wagon

Thursday, September 20, 2012

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 60 degrees and mostly sunny to 97 degrees and sunny.

MEWS - (Men Eating Without Supervision) five 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.

Later I worked on some water stand pipes finishing the assembly and putting them on a pressure check. We received the cart for transporting the grey water to lot sites or common areas. So I guess you can say I fixed their wagon.

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

Sunset just after seven tonight

 

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - computer

Wednesday, September 19, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 57 degrees and mostly sunny to 96 degrees and sunny.

Sunrise is moving to the right and latter in the morning

Greg, Wally and I sanded and painted the clothes lines poles grey. I started to assemble three water stand pipes as we are running low in our supply of ready to install cstand pipes.

Now a history lessen, back last December we had computer problems. When pluged in and powered on the power on light would come on and you could hear the hard drive start. The power would then go off nothing more, I tried more than a hundred times nothing. The computer has been riding in the car waiting for me to take it to a computer shop for attempted repair. Well I tried again and Walla the computer is working. Well at least I down load pictures to a flash drive, November and December’s pictures. Now I need to organize my flash drives so there is a folder of what is on each drive. I am a belever in flash drive backup’s after this computer problem.

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

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - Mens

Tuesday, September 18, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 59 degrees and mostly sunny to 82 degrees and sunny.

Mens coffee Greg went to Artesia for the doughnuts again today. Then water committee meeting noted the water meter measuring the water into the park. Leveling the clothes line poles and cementing them in place. We also disposed of the old water heaters today, loading them into greg’s pickup truck.

　

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

 

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - cards

Monday, September 17, 2012

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 52 degrees and mostly sunny to 97 degrees and sunny. Some wind blew this afternoon and the temperature did not feel the number but nice. A front is coming down from the northeast.

Finished the cabinet this morning and a board meeting this afternoon. Items needed to complete the laundry job are clothes lines and heater for the gray water tanks and inside the laundry. We need to install gutters on the front and back. Mike, Jerry and Dennis got the clothes poles "stood up" in the holes after happy hour.

At four o'clock Bonnie and I went to happy hour at the ranch house. I went and played cards (hand and foot) after dinner.

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - football

Sunday, September 16, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 50 degrees and mostly foggy to 84 degrees and sunny. Surprise wow the fog was unexpected this morning.

NASCAR and football Sunday, and rest today but the clicker did get a workout.

At four o'clock Bonnie and I went to happy hour at the ranch house. At seven o'clock we were at the ranch house to watch a movie on the big screen, Happy Feet Two.

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - Happy Feet

Saturday, September 15, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 56 degrees and mostly sunny to 77 degrees and sunny.

Bonnie and I went to mike and Margie’s for mid morning coffee. Then a kickback Saturday watching football go FSU (52-0). I also did some maintenance on Buster.

Bonnie went to Carlsbad with a group of woman taking Martha to lunch for her birthday.

At four o'clock I went to happy hour at the ranch house. At seven o’clock we were at the ranch house to watch A movie on the big screen, Happy Feet.

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - Gas

Friday, September 14, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 57 degrees and partly cloudy to 75 degrees and sunny. Just a nice day for working out side.

Sunset

Wally and Bill sanded and painted on the cloths line poles (bottom end). I worked on the door to the cabinet. Trying to get the screws shortened resulted in me losing the door handle but I did find it after a couple of hours and deciding to purchase another one. Bonnie and I went to Artesia to get new screws and stopped at Walmart. Gas $3.449 a ten cent discount with the use of their gift card.

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

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - Roswell

Thursday, September 13, 2012    Revised
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 59 degrees and mostly foggy rain to 65 degrees and rainy. Rain and wind over night rattling the awnings and a rainy day today. Not any real quantity of rain but there were puddles. A soaking type of rain, to get the weeds growing.

Mike went to MEWS (men eating without supervision) about five miles east of Artesia with me and then to Roswell. I needed a part for Buster at the RV dealer. We then went to Sam’s club and purchased a case of copy paper for the ranch office.

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

I forgot to add pictures

You can see all of the important things are there in the cabinet.

This was the fire sunset in the west.

and this was in the east sky

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM -

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 66 degrees and mostly sunny to 92 degrees and sunny. It really did not cloud up very much but we did get a few rain drops about four o’clock, and there was some wind before and during the rain with no puddles.

Our membership had a town hall meeting today member to ember discussing our operation. I got the shelves made and installed inside the cabinet.

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

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - coffee

Tuesday, September 11, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 63 degrees and mostly sunny to 94 degrees and sunny changing to mostly cloudy with a "twelve" inch rain, one drop every twelve inches then cleared.

Water meter in the lo
wer left (Blue)

Mens coffee thanks Greg for getting the doughnuts. Water committee meeting yesterday’s repair corrected a few small leaks that were a nagging type, individually we would not shut down to fix but collectively were enough to shut down the water supply. Having everything thought out and parts on hand made this an easy job. The new water meter now installed.

I installed the cabinet framework on the laundry toilet room

At four o'clock Bonnie and I went to happy hour at the ranch house. After dinner we went to Artesia walmart and captured these sunsets on the way there.

 

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - poles

Monday, September 10, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 57 degrees and mostly sunny to 91 degrees and sunny.

We (The Ranch membership) had a work party (about eleven workers showed up) to rake the pine needles behind the ranch house this morning. Pulling weeds and cleaning up before it got too warm to work in the morning sunshine. I helped loading the "big stuff" in the yard wagon as Lucy drove the golf cart pulling the wagon around and helped clean the "small stuff" behind me.

Behine the ranch house (old laundty clothes drying pole & lines)

Greg and Mike went to the water treatment next to well one and repaired some water leaks and installed a water meter the measure all treated water delivered to the park.

Wally and Gil drilled holes in the steel pipe (clothes dryer) Dennis got us for the new cloths drying lines we will be putting up these pipes near the new laundry.

I continued to work on the supplies cabinet in the work shop.

the cabinet will go un the corner

This afternoon we had a board of directors meeting

At four o'clock Bonnie and I went to happy hour at the ranch house, Bonnie is the ding-a-ling today.

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - Sun

Sunday, September 9, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 59 degrees and light rain to 82 degrees and sunny. A very nice day even with the light rain early in the morning, just barely puddles

I did some maintenance around Buster today, playing a little catchup after working all summer building the laundry room. But of course there is NFL football that comes on here at eleven o’clock.

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

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - race

Saturday, September 8, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 62 degrees and cloudy to 77 degrees and partly cloudy. Last night before sunset the wind came up enough that I rolled in the large awning, and noticed rain or dust in the east. Well over night there was enough rain here to male some small puddles.

There was a small light shower in the morning. More work on the cleaning supplies cabinet this morning. A nice cooler day today. This afternoon we went to Artesia Walmart gasoline $3.449 using the shopping card.

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

Saturday night NASCAR, too late for me. First there was a tow hour rain delay at the start of the race. Even here in mountain time zone I could not stay awake for the end of the race. My eyes closed just about the time the red flag (fifty- three minutes) came out for rain. If the DVR got all the race I will see it later today.

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - Merry

Friday, September 7, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 70 degrees and mostly sunny to 102 degrees and sunny and windy late.

I filled in one of the three holes for new water pipes at three lots that were dug (John & Jerry) and had the new standpipes installed (Mike & Jerry). Then worked on the cabinet some. Too hot to work in the shop without air conditioning after shoveling dirt.

At four o'clock I went to happy hour at the ranch house Bonnie was doing someone's hair.

Our cat Merry was playing with Bonnie as she was trying to make the bed last night.

 

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - MEWS

Thursday, September 6, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 73 degrees and mostly sunny to 101 degrees and sunny. Started out mostly cloudy but cleared quickly, a front moved down and west overnight.

Sunrise

MEWS - (Men Eating Without Supervision) three of us car-pooled to The Paddock restaurant about five miles east of Artesia, NM. The population here at The Ranch is very low now in the summer. Richard and I went with Al the first time since July.

Bonnie and I went into Carlsbad for a late lunch and some shopping for meat at Albertsons.

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

Sunset

 

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - supplies

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 72 degrees and mostly sunny to 103 degrees and sunny.

Working on a cleaning supplies cabinet that will be installed inside the bathroom. But I needed some trim and wood from Lowes, we also needed plumbing fittings to install the water meter and repair some water leaks in the water treatment room at well number one.

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

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - water

Tuesday, September 4, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 69 degrees and mostly sunny to 102 degrees and sunny.

Mens coffee, doughnuts today thanks Greg and water committee meeting. While at mens coffee I observed nature doing it’s natural course of survival out on the front porch, a spider had caught a baby snake in it’s web.

  Nothing new in water, the new water meter should be here latter this week and we will shut down the water and install the meter and make some other small water leak repairs in he well house. While the water is off the repair coupling will be replaced on one site.

Returning lease holders telling is where they have been

At four o'clock Bonnie and I went to happy hour at the ranch house. I have been the din-a-ling at happy hour last night and tonight. Bonnie and I went to dinner in Carlsbad with Richard and his wife Johnnie.

Some members  at happy hour

 

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - holiday

Monday, September 3, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 72 degrees and mostly sunny to 101 degrees and sunny.

Sunrise

Bonnie and I hope everyone had a nice labor day holiday.

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

Grill in front of the Ranch House

After happy hour we had a having a throw-on-barbeque at the ranch house. Bringing our own meat and sharing the side dish’s. About eighteen of us pushed tables together for a nice meal together. (no pictures, the camrea stayed safe in my pocket)

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - rest

Sunday, September 2, 2012

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 62 degrees and mostly sunny to 92 degrees and sunny.

Sunday is a rest day and NASCAR tonight from Atlanta.

At three o'clock Bonnie and I went to the ranch house for a birthday celebration for the parks third oldest member Russ, happy birthday. We stayed for happy hour at the ranch house.

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - cut edge

Saturday, September 1, 2012

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 62 degrees and mostly sunny to 94 degrees and sunny. Notice in the sunrise the sun is no longer coming up by the tree. I got some pictures of the locals passing by the entrance on their way to feed in the arroyo.

Sunrise

Sunrise July 27

Arroyo behine the ranch house

Richard and I completed the installation of the computer desk in the new laundry. We also cut the large table top by four inches to provide more room for the passing of people the table and washers going to the dryers. The back or wall edge was the cut edge.

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

The Original Ranch, Lakewood, NM - water leak

Thursday, August 30, 2012
The Original Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 59 degrees and mostly sunny to 92 degrees and sunny.

 

I got a complaint the barrel was a little shake so a brace was added today. Richard and I cut these counter tops to make a computer table for in the laundry.

Computer table will go here

 Jerry was digging on a lot because of a leak and created a gusher. The park water use has been good since we fixed the old laundry leaks and slowed down the leak on a lot. The gusher was a pipe and fitting not properly glued. That was repaired and is tight with no more leak.

　

Elbow on the right the pipe going down blew out

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

There was a nice Blue Moon coming up in the east