Roswell Adventures

We love Road Trips! It is refreshing to go new places, meet new people, experience new...well...experiences. It has been a few years since we have had an opportunity to do a real road trip. We didn't expect to be able to fit one in this year, but Chuck has a couple of speaking engagements, so here we go! Day One - we left Roswell at 7:15 AM, anticipating a travel time to Denver of about 8 - 9 hours (depending on stops and such). Well, it didn't quite work out as planned. We did take the route we had mapped out - through Santa Rosa then cut north to Las Vegas, NM. It was a nice drive, and we were able to avoid the freeway most of the way. We had an early lunch at in Las Vegas, NM. They make their own tortillas (I cant indulge because of the gluten-thing, but they smell great)! We had green chile cheeseburgers (I brought my own bread along) and fries. The food was really good, the service excellent, and it's just a neat place to hang out for a while. The trip went smoo...

When we purchased our Roswell home last spring, we moved into a beautifully re-done house built in 1955. The yard, however, looked every bit like a construction site. Odd pieces of construction debris lying around - or lying in wait for us to dig a hole to plant something. Hard pan ground that laughed at us when we tried digging it up...alternating with sections of pea gravel as deep as 6 inches. Crab grass moving in from under the fence. After a while we discovered there was more to the yard than we thought. Springing out of this seemingly lifeless dirt were scores of baby elm and locust trees, springing up from the roots of trees, most of which were long dead. So, we began a program to remove roots from our yard. I think the roots were laughing right along with the hard ground. Earlier this week I decided to dig up a root that had been sending up little ones on the side of the house. I uncovered the offending root rather quickly. However, just as quickly I discovered t...

My adventure in Roswell started on Memorial Day in 2011 when I moved here from Tucson, AZ. A lot has happened since then... A job at new Mexico Military Institute... A new house...and all that goes with it... Expanding my cooking repertoire to include green chiles and jalapenos... And I will be sharing this and more in the weeks to come :)