Thursday, December 30, 2010

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!
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Saturday, December 25, 2010


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!
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Thursday, December 23, 2010

Snow on the mountain.....skiing soon! Not me....Jimmy!
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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!
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Friday, December 17, 2010

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!
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Thursday, December 16, 2010

Shadow in his new pink sweater and new little red tennis ball!
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Saturday, November 27, 2010

Jimmy, cleaning up the pine needles!
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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.
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Sunday, November 21, 2010

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!
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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!!!
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Monday, November 15, 2010

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!!!
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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!
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From our seats in "Burn Out Alley" where friends DeAnn and Kelvin hae a motorhome spot right after turn 2!
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Wednesday, November 03, 2010

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!

Wednesday, October 27, 2010


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

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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.
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Sunday, October 24, 2010

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.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010


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.....
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