Scott’s Adventures in New Mexico
Charlie’s Birdhouse Back Yard ready
I didn't get a builder's tour but this birdhouse comes with a sturdy shingle roof, spacious front porch, and a back door that can be opened to clean inside. The home's front door is a round hole, big enough for a small sparrow to enter but small enough...
Love Machine Squeeze the Handle
In the lobby of the Albuquerque County Line Barbecue, there is a special love machine for testing your love potential. This " Love Machine " costs a quarter for its diagnosis, and, for your quarter, you can see how you measure up on the love chart by...
Lucky Chair Horseshoes for luck
Under the " Home of the Big Rib " rib, as you walk towards one of several back dining rooms at the County Line Barbecue, is a lucky chair. We all have our favorite chairs. Yours might be an old recliner that you found on the sidewalk with a ' Take Me "...
Barbecue Blues County Line Barbecue
In the shadow of the Sandia Mountains, the County Line Barbecue is packed this Friday night. The entertainment tonight comes from the "Radiators", who are singing and swinging with an upright bass, mandolin, lead guitar and vocalist, playing...
Albuquerque’s E scooters Albuquerque's newest transportation
Albuquerque has just introduced E-Scooters to the Downtown Civic Plaza, Nob Hill, Old Town, and, eventually, other well frequented locations in the city. These scooters are lined up across from the Albuquerque Museum of Art, chatting up a storm and...
Playing the National Anthem LifeQuest Fundraiser Golf Tournament, Tanoan C.C., Albuquerque, 2019
The National Anthem is one of the most played songs in America. If you have played in school bands, military bands, marching bands, or are a musician who has performed at any sporting or public event, you have played the familiar melody since you were...
Turtle Rock Albuquerque's Embudo Canyon
Indian School is an east- west Albuquerque boulevard that ends at the Embudo Canyon Open Space at the far east side of the city.. The parking lot, at the roads end, is the beginning of a city Open Space area that moves into the Cibola National Forest...
Heckle and Jeckle Talking over the watercooler
https://youtu.be/TZfMGEEjLEU These two questionable birds remind me of cartoon characters us kids watched on black and white television in the 1950's, most often perched on a tree limb talking about crazy humans. They were, as they appear here,...
Mineshaft Tavern Local Watering Hole
State Road 14 takes you to Madrid,New Mexico, and to Cerrillos,New Mexico, if you stay on it. All the way to Madrid we are passed by overweight motorcycle riders wearing pony tails and Bandito Leather jackets. Madrid is an old New Mexico mining town that...
Cerrillos, New Mexico Road Trip
New Mexico, before statehood, was an American territory wrested from Mexico in one of America's many wars. In 1912, we became a state and were lucky to do so.There were plenty of critics, then, as now, who suggested New Mexico has more in common...
Weather Report one of those sunless days
On the average, Albuquerque sees the sun 280 days a year.The U.S. average is 205 days. This morning the Sandia Mountains are hidden behind low lying clouds and visibility is limited. The clouds have no substance yet they hide the towering rugged peaks on...
Strawberry Shortcake Just before movie night
Movie night is a Friday night extravaganza. Charlie and Sharon host and we often watch what Hollywood has cooked up to modify our behavior, influence our thinking, stir up emotions, entertain, or put us to sleep. This evening we watch Spenser Tracy in "...
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