Rural Gardening: Weather Report, 1 by

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We got started on all this with a weather report, so here's a shot of what we got going here today. This is NOT normal, and it is supposed to snow all night!

Does Portal ring a bell? That is the town that is tucked up into the Chiracauhua's, just on the AZ/NM border. The stretch I was talking about runs along the westernmost border of NM, through a very mountainous stretch. In fact, if you keep heading north I believe that highway runs through Show Low.
It's kind of ironic, I learned all that stuff, then married a man who doesn't need me to do anything around here but the regular housewife stuff. It drives me nuts. The 'homesteading' won't start till he retires, and since he is a lineman his days are so active that when he comes home he just wants to relax. No country chores around here. So I'm making it as farmy as I can, with a LITTLE garden, a pot-belly pig, a pygmy goat, a duck, and two dogs. We got adopted be a pigeon, just to complete the strangeness. The poo and used straw go into the garden, so that makes me feel like I'm making progress anyway.
The water situation sounds a little dire over there! We have our own well here, and as long as we pay the electric bill for the pump, nobody cares how much we use.