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Mills Rim Campground
By Patty Wilber About an hour eastish from Wagon Mound, NM, is a little (6 sites) campground on the rim of Mills Canyon, above the Canadian River. It is about six miles in on a gravel road. It is in … Continue reading
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Back to “Normal”
By Patty Wilber May was a little crazy with our gone every weekend (Delaware, Hawaii, Horse Show, Illinois) schedule. This week, we are getting back to “normal”.
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The Written Directions Adventure
By Patty Wilber In these days of electronic everything, my indefatigable amigas and I did a 10+ mile ride based on written directions. I wanted to say “based solely on written directions”, but we are not total risk takers. We … Continue reading
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Gette’s First Beer Run
By Patty Wilber Last Friday, Deets went home for the weekend, and Gette came home for the weekend. What fun to have her here! On Sunday, before she went back to Christy’s, we took her for a beer run.
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Wait…It’s Winter?
By Patty Wilber It had been a mild fall and winter, it is February now, and it is light until nearly 6 pm, so shouldn’t it be warm(ish–like highs in the 40’s or something?) during the day?
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Feels like Fall
By Patty Wilber Over the last few days, the weather seems to have taken a turn towards autumnal, without the polar vortex prewinter plunge that resulted in snow on Sept. 9th, last year!
The Weeds I Hate the Most
By Patty Wilber We have had the best monsoon weed growing season in about 20 years, according one source. Even so, NM is still a droughty state.
A Polar Vortex Event
By Patty Wilber On Saturday 2/13 in the afternoon, it was 50 degrees F, and I rode Joey and pushed some cows while Heidi rode Lucy so Joey had a mentor (and she practiced other stuff on Lucy). Then, I … Continue reading
Pecos before the Storm; H going to World Show
By Patty Wilber Mary Ann E., with unerring insight, wanted, before it got too late, to gallop around Hamilton Mesa in the Pecos Wilderness (like we did last year). We went last Friday, and not a moment too soon, because … Continue reading
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Repost: Camp Kingsbury, Part II (2014)
By Patty Wilber The sun was just suffusing the sky with light when two cow elk stepped out of the golden-leaved aspen grove into the meadow above the East Tank. They were 300 yards away and didn’t hear us. The … Continue reading
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