Author Archives: Patrick Lamb

You might remember an earlier post I wrote about an Albuquerque RIDE (municipal transit system) bus which was involved in a collision when its driver, noshing on a breakfast burrito, failed to notice the stopped car in front of him and rear-ended the vehicle. And you may remember all of the drama which has surroundedContinue reading “Albuquerque transit — bringing dangerous moving objects to you…”

This story showed up on our neighborhood “Nextdoor Digest” last week, which triggered some long ago memories of growing up in Ruidoso. This sighting happened in metropolitan Rodeo, NM, about as far in the southwestern corner of our state as you can get. It seems that the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Department — apparently short onContinue reading “Law enforcement on the cheap…”

I’m sure you’ve all read about this incident in Albuquerque during the past week — a drone with an offending sex toy dangling below buzzes around a candidate’s rally. If you haven’t here’s the synopsis: The controversial sheriff of Bernalillo County, Manuel Gonzales, was holding a campaign rally for his run for mayor of AlbuquerqueContinue reading “It’s not the first time for titillations in the air…”

For more years than I care to remember, I’ve been able to take out my frustrations about not having a gold medal trout stream in my back yard by traveling up to the Rio Penasco, an unexpected spring-fed trout fishery on the eastern slopes of the Sacramento Mountains just two hours away. The water hereContinue reading “The big splash…”

June 5, 2020 — my first blog post on my website. I was thinking that it was sometime in the middle of June, so I decided to look it up this morning. So since that date, I’ve posted 146 blogs. I hope a few of them were entertaining to you and I really hope noneContinue reading “I missed the anniversary…”

Our rambunctious and always happy goldendoodle, Chester, got into something that gave him an allergic reaction on his left hind leg a week or so ago. And of course, he started licking it and ripping out his fur to stop the itch. As all parents know, kids’ maladies always get worse right at the startContinue reading “Not “in the zone,” but “in the cone”…”

You may remember an earlier post about my discovery that “buttload” was a legitimate measurement term. Well, another story has popped up about the use of someone’s posterior region for potentially holding a measurement of something. A few years ago, police in Demining spotted a man near the local Wal-Mart repeatedly clinching his buttocks. NeverContinue reading ““Buttload,” version 2.0…”

My late brother once told me about a controversy at the then new baseball stadium for the Los Angeles Angels when the concessionaire decided that it would be “California appropriate” to serve quiche to fans. I’m not sure you remember it, but there used to be a Chevrolet advertising campaign with an all-American spin andContinue reading “Let’s call it what it is…”

Almost anyone in southern New Mexico who has driven from Alamogordo to Cloudcroft has marveled at the old Mexican Canyon railroad trestle just below the summit of the Sacramento Mountains.  Built in the early 1900s, the trestle was the crowning achievement of a steep mountain railroad called the Alamogordo and Sacramento Mountain Railway. Work onContinue reading “So I’m a bit of a steam train nerd…”

Our daily morning walks around the Mesilla Park neighborhood frequently yield pleasant surprises and discoveries. Earlier this spring, we noticed a century plant starting to sprout up in the yard of an historic old adobe home adjacent to an irrigation ditch that we frequent. Many weeks after spotting it, it has now grown to beContinue reading “Proof that patience is a virtue…”

On occasions when I’ve had maybe one more glass of wine that I should have, I have been known to break into embarrassing (for my wife) songs. There are usually three of them that fall into rotation: “Deck us all with Boston Charlie…” from the comic strip Pogo, which I have written about in anContinue reading “Give the bear a break…”

One of the reasons why hot air ballooning is such an adventure is that you almost never know exactly where your flight will end. You may have a general idea of an area where you might land, but subtle variations in wind direction, changes in winds at different altitudes during your flight, landing site restrictionsContinue reading “With no particular place to go…”

In case you missed it, last Friday, May 7, was “No Pants Day.” It was the last in the rush of truly significant events — Star Wars Day (May the Fourth be with you), Cinco de Mayo (when maybe a ship carrying a load of mayonnaise was sunk), and then on Friday, “No Pants Day.”Continue reading “I think I know who invented this…”

New Mexico is frequently confused with our neighbor to the south. In fact, the New Mexico Magazine has a regular column entitled “One Of Our 50 Is Missing” in which readers offer their stories of being told they can’t ship items to a foreign country or that they’ll have to prove they have the proper vaccinationsContinue reading “Well, at least they got the country right…”