These guys made 2025 better. Tom Harmon, left, and Tim Coder, right, fellow Albuquerque Journal retirees, at the Barelas Coffee House, November 18, 2025.
These guys made 2025 better. Tom Harmon, left, and Tim Coder, right, fellow Albuquerque Journal retirees, at the Barelas Coffee House, November 18, 2025.
Great to meet Roger Bergmann for breakfast at The Range in Bernalillo today, 50-some years after our Inyo Ecology Center days In California, where we learned the food was better in fire camps and spike camps than our mess hall 10 miles north of Bishop. I didn’t have any trouble recognizing the cheerful, Montana-raised Crew …
My birthday here at the Fortress of Platitudes would have been incomplete without pinto beans and party animals. Notes: — All party animal photos by Izzy and Molly owner Lori.
Cowboy 2, center, with neighbor pals Molly and Izzy on the lookout. Placitas horses minding their own business below. Also at the neighbors: Cowboy2 after the season’s first thunder rumble; Izzy and Molly just normal. .
Busy Izzy and Cowboy2.
Izzy and Cowboy2, December 2023
I give up on names. I keep calling the new guy Cowboy, like his predecessor. Except this guy for the record will be Cowboy2, without the pretentious Roman numerals. I say Cowboycito to myself but that seems too cute for public consumption. I worried about dishonoring the other Cowboy, who I had to put down …
Jim Belshaw obit by Ollie Reed in today’s Albuquerque Journal: https://www.abqjournal.com/2541425/journal-columnist-championed-underdogs-knew-how-to-make-readers-laugh.html
I resort to taking pictures with my iPhone when I don’t have much to say. It happens more often these days. Here I am again. Don’t get me wrong. I’m reading plenty and I watch many hours of news and punditry on TV. I have rewarding conversations via email with several friends. Cowboy is always …
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