Ruidoso Live Web Cam

Ruidoso Live Web Cam

This is the live webcam of downtown Ruidoso, N.M.

After talking to his uncle, Jimmy had to try The Big Green Egg! It's a really neat ceramic grill. He got so carried away, that after he cooked his beer-butt chicken, he cooked some bratwurst......then when I was going to bake some cookies....he decided to cook them on the grill, too!

Merry Christmas!! My brother Bill and his wife came up from El Paso and we went to the Inn of the Mountain Gods, Casino and Resort for a HUGE buffet at Wendell's (restaurant). Boy am I stuffed!

Snow on the mountain.....skiing soon! Not me....Jimmy!

Well...no snow, but we took a drive through downtown Ruidoso and saw some really great lights! But...they're talking snow on Thursday night, maybe we'll have a white Christmas!

IT'S DONE!!!!

After 5 weeks....it's finally done! The walls are all peach colored (the lighting makes it look yellow) with pewter faucets and accessories, veined, mocha marble fireplace and mocha shower, brown glass vessel sinks with sand colored onyx countertops and a "brainstorm bronze" (grayish bronze) paint around the mirror and door frames. Then, for color, I decided to do dark olive green towels for accent! I went and picked out the tub...a new Jetta with 7 jets. It is guaranteed not to lose a degree in temperature in 30 minutes.....and they mean it! No more adding hot water to your bath!!

Now that it's done, of course, Jimmy wants to head West, to New Mexico, for Christmas and New Year's. Talk to you soon!

Shadow in his new pink sweater and new little red tennis ball!

Jimmy, cleaning up the pine needles!

Been enjoying a nice vacation in New Mexico, beautiful sunsets, a couple of days of snow.....but it didn't stick, because it warmed up to 50 in the day.

Had a nice Turkey dinner at the Kokopelli Country Club - buffett with one of my brothers and his wife, then started packing up and cleaning up getting ready to go home on Saturday.

For those of you who have known me for years......You'll know that Ty, one of my brothers, used to play drums for Ricky Nelson, in the 70's. Ricky had precious twin little tow headed blond sons in 1967. The Nelsons came to the Spencer theater in Alto, New Mexico and we went to see them, last night! Ty couldn't be here, but my other brother, Bill and I got our picture taken with them.....kinda felt full circle! Very nice young men.....great to meet them!

Here is my nephew Sean, with Matthew Nelson in 1992! Matthew doesn't look like a Swedish chick anymore......he cut his hair, he's now 43 years old!!!

Next is the guest bathroom,
the countertop they made.....was in the wrong color!

The good news is that it went with the cabinets well, so I am changing the color of the tile floor. The shower pan in the master bath was the wrong measurement, then the drain in my sink was bright chrome, instead of pewter.....so it will be changed...there have been several "uh-ohs" that have been caught.....I can only imagine what it will be like when Jimmy decides to start building the house in New Mexico!

Speaking of which, we are going to spend Thanksgiving there again, this year.....but dinner courtesy of Kokopelli Country Club. I'M NOT COOKIN!!!

After the weekend at the races, we had to hurry home to meet the remodeling people at 9am, Monday morning. These pictures are of the master bath....I'll put in finished pictures when they finish!

From our seats in "Burn Out Alley" where friends DeAnn and Kelvin hae a motorhome spot right after turn 2!

Going to Texas Motor Speedway, tomorrow, to meet our race buddies for the NASCAR race this weekend. Then starts the remodel of the 2 main bathrooms of my house, next Monday! Pictures soon!

Buster got a new swing!
We have hung it in the "living room" of the Deck in Alto, NM. He loves being out in the big room with us, the dogs, cat....etc. After all it IS the "family room"! lol

It was time for Nikki's nails to be trimmed, yesterday, they are too thick
to be cut, so Jimmy gets out his dremel tool and files them down...hahaha.
She is actually very good and doesn't mind , except, like all dogs, she hates
when you mess with her feet.

Just finished Breakfst at Pena's, my brother and his wife left to go back to El Paso and we headed back to the deck to watch the NASCAR race. On the way ....we saw a whole herd of deer, (not an unusual sight) BUT...they were all sleeping and resting in our neighbor's yard!! Chexk out this Buck's antler's! We'll probably be here for another 5 or 6 days, then head home to vote and get the remodel started on my bathrooms at home.

While we were here, we decided to take a drive up the ski run road in Ruidoso and watch the color changing of the trees!
It is gorgeous!
The aspens are gold! and the pine trees are still deep green.

We also decided to carpet our deck.... it is now enclosed completely with glass doors and windows and our pellet stove to keep us warm. All ready for the snow for Jimmy to go ski and I can stay inside and stay warm!

I'll put up a picture or two, in a few days.....

Nothing like waking up to pounding on your head..... 2 days in a row! 7 am wake up call!!! But it is amazing.. 20 guys attacked my house on Thursday morning (yesterday), had the old roof removed by noon, and now will be finished with the new roof by noon, today!

Last weekend was the Fall Nationals for the NHRA (National Hot Rod Assn.) for 2010, in Ennis, Texas.....just south of Dallas. The weather was wonderful and much cooler than last year, except a heck of a rainstorm on Saturday afternoon. Luckily, most of the cars had already run and qualified. Besides the amazing, LOUD top fuel and funny cars, it's always a rush to FEEL the earthquake, when they roar by! I will be posting a short clip, next! My brother drove in from El Paso, for his birthday and my friend Jan came down and spent the rainy Saturday with me. It was a real enjoyable weekend! John Force was his usual self and did very well, his daughter Ashley Force Hood just missed the finals by .3 tenths of a second! Ron Capps, who wins a lot, got beat, so that's the picture of the Napa car getting loaded back into the hauler. more later.......

This weekend was Aspencade, in Ruidoso. They were expecting 30-40,000 people.....a small Sturges, but not nearly as far to drive! The natives stay home this weekend and all the restaurants and bars get taken over...The bikers have a parade the first day, it was eleven minutes long!!

On Sunday, there was a terrible wreck in our neighborhood....apparently, one of the bikes back wheel dropped off the pavement, lost control and flipped....heard later that 2 people went to the hospital, one careflighted out. Anyway, it's all over on Sunday, so the bikes are slowly leaving town..
We're headed to the Fall Nationals - the drags in Ennis, Tx. seeya!

We decided to come to the cool mountains, after it hit 107 in Texas, so we've been here for a couple of weeks. It's been very peaceful and entertaining just sitting on the deck, in the afternoon, watching the Turkeys with babies, the deer with babies, and the myriad of hummingbirds! While we have been here, we have been having the deck enclosed so we can keep it warm in the winter. Jimmy has been painting and cutting wood getting ready for the glass doors. They came and put in the windows, then the HUGE glass doors, custom made so that we can access the bay doors of the bus arrived.......really beautiful!

Saturday night was the Cup race, beautiful sunset, weather was perfect.....the only bad thing was that brat "shrub" the baby Busch,Kurt's little brother, Kyle, won. I was even rooting for another driver, not my favorite, to win....just so it wouldn't be him! All in all, it was a nice time! Headed home on Sunday, Jimmy has a driver applicant on Tuesday and I have a doctor's appointment on Thursday.
I'm not sure how long, I enjoy my house.....then, off we go to our place in Alto, N.M.

Friday night was the Nationwide race, and that brat Kyle Busch won again..! YUK! I wish him car troubles for the rest of the year!!! Saturday night will be the Cup race....the big boys....I'll post more, tomorrow. Gotta go!