Author Archives: Patrick Lamb

My wife and I have been ordering food items online from Wal-Mart since the pandemic. We pick up what we’ve ordered at a special drive-up section at the side of our nearby store, avoiding mingling with lots of people and dodging those expensive impulse buys that double your shopping bill. The pick-up routine requires youContinue reading “You’re nobody, unless you have one…”

Our daughter and our two grandchildren visited us earlier this month and we made the most of their time here by traveling to various sites around the region. We stopped at City of Rocks State Park, the Catwalk near Glenwood, the Organ Mountains and other places in Las Cruces to keep them entertained. Our biggestContinue reading “No zombies…”

About three years ago, out of the blue, I was contacted by an individual wanting to know if I would be willing to allow an oil company to acquire drilling rights from a piece of property near Pecos, TX, that I had inherited. WHAT???!!!??? I never even knew this piece of property existed. After discussionsContinue reading “Just coincidence?”

The City of Albuquerque recently decided to re-implement speeding cameras on several of its high-trafficked streets. The city had used the speed cameras several years ago, but ultimately took all of them down after a series of complaints, legal challenges and questions about their effectiveness. Apparently some drivers still aren’t warming up to the ideaContinue reading “Big Brother is watching!!! — um, well, not any more…”

My good friend Cheryl who doubles as an additional research assistant and fact checker for my blog (I need to increase her salary) came up with some new information about the infamous “Motel Boulevard” that I mentioned in one of my blogs last week. It turns out that a short section of that road southContinue reading “Well actually there aren’t any motels on Motel Boulevard…”

A story in last Sunday’s Las Cruces Sun-News announced that Louisiana had named a section of highway in honor of legendary New Mexico lawman Pat Garrett, who killed notorious outlaw Billy the Kid. The Louisiana Legislature designated a section of Louisiana Highway 9 from the towns of Homer to Junction City as “Sheriff Pat GarrettContinue reading “Only one run down motel on Motel Boulevard…”

A CW Network TV show currently airing is yet another attempt to conjure up stories of space aliens who arrived in Roswell, NM, in 1947. I confess that I’ve never watched it, and at this point don’t really plan on it. What I found amusing in the promotions for the TV show is the pictureContinue reading “Um, that’s not really anywhere near Roswell…”

Police in Albuquerque say a man wandered into a Bank of the West branch last month and verbally demanded a teller give him the money in her drawer. What was distinguishing about him was that he was carrying a red gas can at the time he committed the crime. Police, who have now dubbed theContinue reading “Gimme your cash, and by the way, can you top off my tank?”

I stumbled across a social media post recently in which New Mexicans’ passion for green chile was on clear display. It seems a young woman and her boyfriend had broken up, and in the ensuing split, the subject of her frozen green chile stash became a point of contention. “At one time I went throughContinue reading “But would she fight for Mexican bologna?”

With the early monsoon rains we’ve received in the last couple of weeks over most of New Mexico, the raging wildfires in the Gila and Santa Fe/Carson National Forests have likely been doused by enough rain to be controlled or extinguished. When reading a blow-by-blow of the travesty of the Hermit Peak/Calf Canyon Fire inContinue reading “Really dumb things people said…”

Let me start by saying that stories about people conspiring to hire someone to kill a family member they don’t like isn’t funny. It happens too often. However, a case which was reported in Las Cruces recently was just too full of ridiculously fragmented planning to pass up comment. Luckily, the hit job never happenedContinue reading “Discount Hit Jobs “R” Us…”

New Mexico is on a big learning curve about consequences of legalization of marijuana, put into motion this year by the state legislature and implemented April 1. Sales boomed during the first month of legalization, then have dropped back significantly since. Who knows what demand will be like in the long run? That should makeContinue reading “If it looks like candy, smells like candy and tastes like candy…”

We’re fortunate to see red tailed hawks flying and soaring around our neighborhood on a daily basis. They roost in some tall Afghan pines nearby and always put on an entertaining show when they began their skillful riding of thermals in the afternoons. What’s especially amusing is how quickly the flocks of white wing dovesContinue reading “Raptor’s Rapid Rescue Ride Receives Reprimand…”

Our church, St. James’ Episcopal in Mesilla Park, is located just across South Main Street from the heavily trafficked north-south BNSF Railway. Trains passing through this part of town and blasting their horns have always interrupted church services — sometimes funerals — at totally inappropriate times because of the numerous street crossings in the neighborhood.Continue reading “Whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on…”