Author Archives: Patrick Lamb

My wife and I went to our first college baseball game of the year this week. It was an almost perfect game — not in the sense of a pitching gem, but in the overall experience. The weather was perfect, there was a loud enthusiastic crowd and the home team won. The game was entertainingContinue reading “That first game smell…”

It was an almost instantly regrettable impulse buy. I stopped by the local Walgreens earlier this week to buy some over the counter medicine. On my way to the cash register, I passed a display of Peeps marshmallow candy. “Well, how long has it been since I had some of those,” I wondered. “I’ll buyContinue reading “A science fair project???”

On our daily walks with Chester, our dog, we often let him off the leash to run along the roads which border the large irrigation ditch which threads through our semi-rural neighborhood. It’s great place to walk with only a few other people and dogs and lots of things for Chester to sniff, explore andContinue reading “Marketing sticks it…”

The TV hit series “Breaking Bad” aired its last episode 13 years ago. Although a cult favorite which my wife and I watched and enjoyed, I always thought it portrayed Albuquerque and New Mexico in a bad light, given it focused on illegal drug activity. More than a year ago, the Albuquerque home of fictionalContinue reading “The bloom is off…”

In last week’s Albuquerque Journal, there was a sad (to me) story that the Gallup Independent newspaper was ceasing operations. The long-time daily newspaper on the far west edge of New Mexico had been struggling financially, like many other print publications around the nation, and finally faced the realization it could no longer continue. AsContinue reading “The Truth Well Told…”

Yes, Chester our dog got it right for the second year in a row. He picked Seattle to win the Superbowl and the Seahawks came through. With his winning streak, I’m wondering if Chester next year can come up with a way to communicate the points spread for betting purposes. Maybe I can paint eachContinue reading “He’s on a roll…”

Yesterday, I chronicled my faithful readers (all four of you, possibly including me) about our faithful dog Chester’s conflicted pick of Sunday’s Superbowl winner. In my annual highly scientific “toss out two different colored balls and see which one Chester picks” method of predicting the Superbowl winner, it was kind of a tossup. Chester firstContinue reading “The final bark…”

I’m sure you’ve been waiting with “baited breath” for our dog Chester’s annual Super Bowl pick. But before we go into that, I looked up “baited breath” on the internet and discovered that the phrase was first used in the Shakespeare play “Merchant of Venice.” Here’s the line from the bard, although he spelled theContinue reading “Chester picks… a tie???”

This morning on my daily walk with our dog Chester, I spotted the first daffodil in bloom this spring. With all the bad weather that many people have experienced lately and bad news from around the country, I thought this cheery flower might make people feel better about things. Spring is just around the corner.

The street where we live is kind of like a red-headed stepchild. We live within the corporate limits of the Town of Mesilla, but really have little in common with the historic community to the west of us. We seldom see the town marshal’s vehicles patrolling our streets or any maintenance crews showing an interestContinue reading “Potholes followed soon after…”

The professional golf season has started, even though as I write this, large swaths of the United States are under severe winter storm warnings. In Las Cruces, we’ve been getting rain since last Friday and have now received more than one and two-thirds inches — a rare event for our high desert climate. The OrganContinue reading “You ball will disappear just as fast as it did in 1899…”

Last weekend was pretty gloomy in Las Cruces. We got more rain in a three day period than I have ever experienced in our 40 plus years of living here. We decided to get pizza for the evening and as I was driving down a street right at dusk, I passed a brightly colored displayContinue reading “You’ve got to admire his dedication…”