Author Archives: Patrick Lamb

We spotted this on our recent foray into Catron County on the western side of the Gila Country. It’s an old school bus, converted into a “condo” with the obligatory wood burning stove and… a solar panel. The bus, which appears to be solidly anchored in old flood debris and concrete barriers, is located inContinue reading “Off the grid, in a high-tech sort of way…”

On a trip to the Gila Country earlier this week, my wife and I ran across this run-down, apparently abandoned home just outside of the ghost town of Mogollon. From what we could see, it didn’t look like the place had been inhabited for a long time, judging by the overgrown weeds and trees, aContinue reading “Well, you can’t say the Census counters aren’t trying…”

If you’re not familiar with the Darwin Awards, you should take the time to look at the website https://darwinawards.com/, which gives you details about incredibly dumb things people have done that ultimately result in their elimination from the gene pool. The theory, like Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, is that the really bad genes of anyContinue reading “Darwin “Lite” awards. We have a nominee…”

Several years ago, before there was an explosion of social media in which people began posting really incriminating things on their Facebook page, a police officer somewhere in northern New Mexico accidentally captured a truly memorable moment on video. It seems the officer, hopefully just off duty but still dressed in full official police uniformContinue reading “Wow! How’d you get a shine like that on the hood of your car?”

Right on cue with St. Swithin’s Day (see previous blog), we got a nice thundershower yesterday afternoon that dropped almost one-third of an inch of rain on us. Hopefully, it’s the beginning of our monsoon season in New Mexico. It was an especially typical rainstorm for New Mexico, with full sunshine streaming down along withContinue reading “They must be from New Mexico — they stand outside in a storm to watch it rain…”

Hooray, hooray, it’s St. Swithin’s Day!!! It falls on the calendar every July 15 and helps you predict the weather. So here’s the story on St. Swithin, who you probably never heard about unless you are from England (or had a mother born in England, like me). Swithin was an Anglo-Saxon bishop of Winchester andContinue reading “What’s more important than the federal income tax deadline tomorrow???”

In September of 2015, an Albuquerque bus driver rear-ended three cars while carrying passengers along a busy street. Talking while texting? Well, no, he was simply looking for the breakfast burrito that he had dropped while munching away at the wheel. Apparently his frantic search for the wayward burrito forced him to scour the crevicesContinue reading “What’s more dangerous than texting while driving???”

Because of a glitch involving e-mail settings, the aero-cordero.com website was out of commission for three or four days. The problem has been corrected and everything seems to be working okay now. The only blog I wrote during that time was posted yesterday and you should be able to see it immediately below this message.Continue reading “Oops…”

Yes, that’s a real word. I found it on a “Word-A-Day” calendar many years ago and immediately stored it in my twisted memory. It’s something that applies to J.Lo’s famous posterior. What brings up the subject is a sign that I spotted many years ago in front of a home on far North Fourth StreetContinue reading “The callipygous need not apply…”

In December of 2016, a young woman delivering a pizza to a Las Cruces home was unpleasantly surprised when a man inside opened the door completely nude. He explained to the mortified young woman that he had just stepped out of the shower and didn’t want to miss getting delivery of his snack. The youngContinue reading “Now where did I put that change???”