Our Big Move

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If you don't mind my asking, approximately where in NM did you move to? I get out that way every few years since I have family in western Colorado and in Albuquerque. Don't tell us if you don't want to - it's just a curiosity thing anyway.

No worries Terry.  We moved to Alamogordo New Mexico.  That's about 3 hours south of ABQ...  The White Sands are some 16 miles from my driveway.

forgot the link.. oops
white sands national park - Google Search

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I had to buy another shelving unit    and I had seen someone on the web got one of these long but narrow units with 5 "levels" and they used the middle level as a work bench - this I thought was a great idea, so I tried to copy it.  And this completes clearing all the totes and boxes from the floor!  There are still some in the trailer but now I've gained some floor space and can sort as I go.  Here are some pictures - I "decorated" a bit and this helps get things off the shelves as well and makes a new hole to fill!   

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And a couple more -

[TerryWerm]

Alamagordo is a nice area and White Sands is on our list of national parks not yet visited. I used to pass through there from time to time on my way in or out of El Paso, but haven't been there now in 25 years. We thought about making a trip down there for the September motorcycle rally at Ruidoso, but we have not yet figured out when that might occur. That rally used to be called Aspencade but is now called the Aspen Gold Rally.

Thanks for posting the photos of your new shop! I must admit that I am a bit envious of your horizontal mill cutter collection. I have a horizontal mill that I picked up a few years back. I do not have many cutters for it yet, but have used it for a couple of things, purchasing the cutter needed at the time. I think I have three or four cutters for it now, nothing like what you have.

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Alamagordo is a nice area and White Sands is on our list of national parks not yet visited. I used to pass through there from time to time on my way in or out of El Paso, but haven't been there now in 25 years. We thought about making a trip down there for the September motorcycle rally at Ruidoso, but we have not yet figured out when that might occur. That rally used to be called Aspencade but is now called the Aspen Gold Rally.

Thanks for posting the photos of your new shop! I must admit that I am a bit envious of your horizontal mill cutter collection. I have a horizontal mill that I picked up a few years back. I do not have many cutters for it yet, but have used it for a couple of things, purchasing the cutter needed at the time. I think I have three or four cutters for it now, nothing like what you have.

Thanks Terry. Of course we think it's a nice place to be.  Really grown up over the 20 years since we last lived here.  I've attended that rally ( 20 years ago!) and if you are interested I'll keep an eye out for the next happening.  The vast majority of those cutters are for cutting gears!  I bought them after a local machine shop was getting out of that line.  I think there was 150 or 160 of them and I paid 65 dollars - I went to school with the guy and he just wanted them gone.  They had an old Browne & Sharpe machine that went for scrap.  What you see in that picture is about half of what I still need to put up.  I smile when putting them on a peg when I read some of the dates, the earliest one is 1881 as a patent = Browne & Sharpe. How about the posters? Remember these? They came from an estate sale up on Cape Cod along with that board the cutters are mounted on.

[TerryWerm]

WOW!!!  Those posters are fantastic!!  I am now truly envious!  

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A bit of an update, coming down to the last few boxes of "garage stuff" to be put away ( or tossed out?)    Today was also a good day to wash the coupe..     

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Been  a while since an update - but I've been plugging along. Mostly I have been busy in "honey-do's" around the place. So far the biggest project has been trying to remove all the weeds from the lawn in the backyard so we can replant  and we'll try and grow some bermuda grass - everyone says it'll be expensive due to the water required. We'll see what happens. Then out front there is a small "circle" that used to have a tree with a lawn. The tree is long gone and just like the back the lawn died off and weeds took over.  We'll try local plants that flower over there so it shouldn't need as much water.  I have learned that the ground here is literally hard as rock! I can see why only weeds seems to grow! I've been tilling in sawdust as an amendment so it should help hold in moisture. We had some bushes ground down after cutting so I recover it from the ground. I did make some time in the shop doing a bit of lathe setup, when I discovered the top drive pulley received some damage, at first I only noticed a bend in the sheeve sidewall.  But during removal I found the whole thing has a nasty bend.  I just bought a replacement so soon we'll have some forward progress. 

[4GSR]

I heard that Cactus grows real good there. Possibly Aloe Vera, too.

[chips and more]

Have a similar problem at my place. Most plants get eaten by the deer. Planting deer proof plants at my place is a joke! Also, very little water and a lot of wind kill what is left. The only plant that thrives is rosemary.

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I heard that Cactus grows real good there. Possibly Aloe Vera, too.

Oh Yes. it's one of the few things that seem to just take off and grows on it's own. We planted a tiny cactus here back in 2000,  it got simply huge over the years. We had it pruned and cleaned up a few weeks back.  A neighbor has one in her backyard that has to be 12 to 15 feet wide and 6 feet high! Lambs tongue I think it's called... amazing plant. We had some ice plant given to us and we set that out front. So we're off and running I guess.  Agave does real well here.. I could make some mescal??  LOL 

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Have a similar problem at my place. Most plants get eaten by the deer. Planting deer proof plants at my place is a joke! Also, very little water and a lot of wind kill what is left. The only plant that thrives is rosemary.

I know all about being over-run by deer. Our last house was fronted by 5 acres of cranberry bogs, with another 10 acres a short distance away.  One night I counted 30 deer on the bog out front! They were eating the crop right off the bog! We had a friend that was native indian and they could harvest deer year round. So between him and his friends and us surrounding the 5 acres with electric fencing we had a bit of control. barely.   Out here the very little water and winds strikes close to home. We just had a crew out replacing a length of the roof peak cap from a recent dust storm.  Gusts 70, 80 mph and north of us a gust was recorded at 101 mph!  But yesterday was 82 degrees and single digit humidity.  I'm in Tee Shirts non stop.  8-)

[4GSR]

Yeah, we go some of the high wind down here, too. Not near 80 plus mph. Now, we went from extreme dry to very wet! I'm guessing 4 inches of rain the past two days.

[chips and more]

Winds of 70-80 mph is very common at my place. You can face the wind and lean into it at a 45° angle and not fall over. The wind is strong enough to help you keep that pose!

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Yeah, we go some of the high wind down here, too. Not near 80 plus mph. Now, we went from extreme dry to very wet! I'm guessing 4 inches of rain the past two days.

Oh, I wish we could get some rain ( Not 4" tho! )  The rains seem to go around us somehow.  We had some sprinkles this past saturday but not enough to wet down the driveway.  But in the evening I could watch the rains pour down into the Cloudcroft area east of us.