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I found a school of them (pardon the pun) at White Mountain Elementary in Ruidoso last Friday. They’re excited and ready to watch tiny trout hatch and grow in their classroom this coming spring semester and then be transplanted as fingerlings into rivers or lakes near them in the Lincoln National Forest. Here’s what’s happening:Continue reading “Fishing for Third Graders…”

After a 14-hour day working the polls on election day, Tuesday, Nov. 7, I am finally recovering. This year’s experience as a poll worker was much less intense than last year’s election. I first worked as a “Same Day Registration” and “Sample Ballot” clerk for two weeks beginning Oct. 21 through Nov. 4. On electionContinue reading “Recovering from the election…”

I just finished reading what I considered to be a really entertaining and engaging book by a retired New Mexico State University economics professor. And no, it’s not some scholarly tome analyzing micro economic impacts of locust infestations on eastern European wheat farms. The book, by long-time friend, neighbor and distinguished NMSU professor Jim Peach,Continue reading “International intrigue, Oklahoma and the Cubs…”

My readers may be tiring about recent posts regarding my father, but I hope you’ll forgive me for writing one more. The posts are the result of me acquiring some documents, drawings, letters and other memorabilia in a box given to me by a step sister who I had not seen for years. I recentlyContinue reading “Snooping around…”

I was driving to the auto parts store last week when I spotted this gem rolling through the parking lot. I walked over to the vehicle when the owner was getting out and asked if he minded if I could take a picture of it. He was proud of his ride and proud to haveContinue reading “Just in time for Halloween…”

As I think I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I’ve been going through a stash of personal papers and memories of my father that were given to me last month by my step-sister. One that caught my eye was photograph my father took when he was editor and publisher of the Ruidoso News of artist PeterContinue reading ““The ugliest thing I ever saw…””

You can always tell a true New Mexico resident by these three behaviors: In Tuesday’s Albuquerque Journal, there was a story that Texas has erected a razor wire barrier in southern Dona Ana County to keep people in New Mexico from entering the Lone Star State. For years, many of us in New Mexico secretlyContinue reading “The irony of it all…”

Sometimes, you get weird inspiration while you’re tossing and turning in bed trying to go to sleep. This is the story of one such inspiration. In 2018, a total solar eclipse passed directly over my wife’s family farm in Nebraska. We had thought about going there to view it, but making the trip became somewhatContinue reading “Corona, corona, Corona…”

What follows is important journalism, loyal readers! It may take a while to read and digest it all. As I think I’ve mentioned several times in my blogs, I grew up in the southern New Mexico mountain community of Ruidoso in the shadow of Sierra Blanca peak. Sierra Blanca is the tallest mountain in theContinue reading “We’re missing 22 feet, and I have a plan to get it back…”

A relative stopped by our home last week to drop off a box containing historical items from my father, Vic Lamb. The box included memorabilia, artwork, old newspapers, business papers and other things his second wife had kept over the years. There were some things that I expected to find in the box and someContinue reading “Wishing I could talk to him…”

While looking through some old issues from 1967 and 1968 of the Ruidoso News — the newspaper that my father and mother ran for almost 20 years — I’ve run across many interesting things. I’ll post a longer article about the newspaper and my father soon. But in the meantime I’ll pass along some thingsContinue reading “They just don’t make ’em like they used to…”

Last week, we took our dog Chester to be groomed. Because he is half poodle, he grows hair, not fur, so he needs to be trimmed every two or three months to not become overly shaggy and matted. He also gets a bath from his groomer when he is trimmed. When he gets back, heContinue reading “Not a Tarheel but a Tarfoot…”

For my wife’s birthday, I purchased her a new purse. Now I understand that men buying personal things for spouses, such as purses, can lead a guy into a dangerous minefield. However, I was fairly confident on this acquisition, since it was basically the same purse she had received as a gift from her daughterContinue reading “The fishing vest conundrum…”

The first time I went with my family to visit Santa Fe in the late 1950s, we ate at a restaurant on the south side of town called Bobcat Bite. It was in a former trading post on the old Las Vegas Highway. According to legend, the restaurant was named for bobcats in the areaContinue reading “Bobcat bites…”