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You have to feel sorry for alligators who have to live in New Mexico. They really couldn’t make it through our cold winters if it wasn’t for artificially heated water for them to swim in. Take, for example, Wally, the Clovis Zoo’s long-time resident American Alligator. Last month, Wally’s heated pool became a little tooContinue reading “Temporarily kicked out of Wally World…”

A story out of northern New Mexico last week reported that a man had absconded with a $150 bottle of French Champagne that he had snatched from the back of a golf cart at an upscale resort near Santa Fe. The bottle of “Beau Joie curvee Champagne” was en route to a guest at theContinue reading “It’s not that bad…”

My wife and I first visited Slot Canyon north of Radium Springs more than two years ago. I talked about it in a Dec. 14, 2020 blog, saying I felt like I was on the set of an Indiana Jones movie when we trekked through the steep-walled canyon carved out by years of rushing floodContinue reading “Slot Canyon revisited…”

I’m sure you’re getting tired of this from me by now. Four posts this year about smuggling bologna into the United States from Mexico. Well, it seems other edible items have been on the list of things you shouldn’t smuggle into New Mexico. Yep, chile. When looking for articles about German submarines coming up theContinue reading “If not bologna, how about chile?”

Las Cruces High School battled Albuquerque’s Volcano Vista High School last Saturday in the quest for New Mexico’s 5A high school basketball championship. Unfortunately for us southern New Mexico residents, the Bulldawgs lost an overtime contest 66-55 in what was described as a thriller of a game between the state’s only two undefeated top basketballContinue reading “Couldn’t touch him with a seven-foot pole…”

I’ve owned and driven BMWs for almost 50 years. I know — expensive to buy, expensive to repair and a bit obnoxious. But great to drive. I gained a little more respect for the brand when I spotted this on the internet Monday. It’s a story about two guys in the Ukraine who retrofitted theirContinue reading “Better than a James Bond ride…”

Who says the federal government doesn’t have a sense of humor. Well me, for one. This blaring headline showed up in the Albuquerque Journal last week: “Officials: ‘Nothing funny” about bologna smuggling.” The story quoted an official of the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol from El Paso as saying that smuggled balogna could bring inContinue reading “I guess I touched a nerve…”

New Mexico and Texas have suffered years of hostile legal wranglings about water rights involving the Pecos and Rio Grande rivers. Virtually all of the Pecos River water originates in New Mexico and a good splash of the Rio Grande comes from New Mexico watersheds. It’s our (New Mexico’s) water, damn it. Texas thinks it’sContinue reading “Sailing Putin’s yacht up the Rio Grande to El Paso…”

–Millard Hunsley, veteran copy desk editor My wife recently spotted the following puzzling first paragraph of a story in our local newspaper: “A judge dismissed a motion Friday that would’ve held a man accused of shooting at a woman in jail.” So was the man shooting at the woman while she was in jail? IContinue reading “Throw over the fence the horse some hay…”

Police in Clovis arrested two men recently for attempting to sell a stolen set of aluminum bleachers at a metal recycling facility. After receiving a report of missing bleachers at a city park and a tip from the metal recycling company, police concluded that the two men had swiped the bleachers in an attempt toContinue reading “Does parking your car next to a dumpster mean it’s free?”

On my way to the Las Cruces city dump, I found this unusual recycled school bus parked along the route.   It may be hard to see in this photo, but much of the bus has been “re-engineered” with sheets of plywood that blocked out some windows and were attached on top to support whatContinue reading “Expect less than excellence…”

We’ve finished watching the 2022 Olympics with less enthusiasm than we have watched the event in past years.  There just wasn’t an “it” factor in the games, with lots of irritating distractions on so many levels. One thought that occurred to me as I watched what seemed to be an overload of TV coverage ofContinue reading “Does curling reinforce bad stereotypes?”

The circus has come to town in Las Cruces. It is the Do Portugal Circus, which I understand is based in Mexico and travels around to smaller markets in the United States. It will be here for about a week and one-half. The large purple and white tent started setting up two weeks ago inContinue reading “I want a hippopotamus for Christmas…”

A Santa Fe couple on vacation last month returned to their home to discover a man who had been living in their house while they were gone. While staying in the home for an unknown number of days, the man helped himself to food in the refrigerator and some beer. He had been sleeping inContinue reading “It wasn’t listed on Airbnb, but he left a security deposit anyway…”