About this time of year I start to get antsy about starting the garden but long experience gardening here has taught me we can expect killing freezes at least into mid-March and frequently into April. There's nothing I like better than fresh-from-the-garden salad so a few years ago I decided to scratch the early planting itch and make some raised beds that can easily be set up as "hoop houses" so I can grow those early salad…

• State lawmaker proposes $30 million to fund National Guard posting along the Mexican border. National Guard knew nothing of the proposal.
• Big government wants to rob you of the right to drive on I-40, citing "safety."
• ABQ VFW assisting snowed-in…

Today I went for a little walk in my Huning Highlands neighborhood (East Downtown). I was walking by the corner of Coal and Edith and thought, too bad that boarded up structure looks so sad and forgotten.

I immediately thought of the possibilities, the 'what could be'.

Luckily I brought my camera and shot a few of the dilapidated

buildings. I decided to do a little amateur architectural rendering of

that shabby looking corner on Coal and…

2/7/08 UPDATE: POOF! It's gone. Wonkette becomes most annoying website on earth and biggest fraud since evolution by deleting shameful bullying story about Nuevo Mexico. Did Journal sue for its removal? Does Brian Colón's strong arm reach to D.C.?

"There is much tension in Mexico, the New one. According…

• Those popularity contest problems continue and should probably be grounds to revoke New Mexico's statehood.
• What can Brown steal from you?
• ABQ Sunflower Market workers among chain employees due overtime wages.
• Alibi has a piece…

For whatever reason, I'm still irritated by the whole Jessica Alba comment. So I'm hoping this post will help put my frustrations at ease.

Back in the day, when I was much younger :), my choices of dining out included places like Chili's, Applebees, Bennigans, you know, the regular chains where servers have pieces of flare. Hell, my first job was at Black Eyed Pea and the second was at Applebees. So I've spent a good many years supporting chain restaurants, but now I say no more of…

Well, it was bound to happen. Between working lots of extra hours at my new job and then getting very sick, I don't have a post! Although I have many stories waiting to be written, they all require research that I haven't gotten to yet.

So to make up for not having a post this week, I have a little gem on my page for your viewing pleasure. I'll be back in a couple of…

The New Mexico Legislature's Senate Finance Committee members showed true colors this week. They axed half a million from the Energy and Minerals Department budget in order to disable enforcement of environmental laws. Nice shade of industry hack with highlights of

I-hate-the-governor.

Here's more 'bout it from Kate Nash. Today's…

• National Guard deployed to snowed-in Chama, Rio Arriba County.
• Ballot shortages in popularity contest.
• Wynton Marsalis tonight at Kiva Auditorium.
• Water main break…

5TH & McKNIGHT NW--For the last 10 years I had been hearing about a neon graveyard maintained by the Zeon Sign Co. It was said that every old neon sign that was torn down ended up there. What a comfort to know that these signs were safely sequestered somewhere north of downtown.

I moved back to Albuquerque after spending several years in the northern Rockies, and it was partly because I get pretty tired there of moving snow – shoveling it, snow blowing it, even snow plowing it – it could be fun for a while, but those times when you had to deal with it nonstop for a day or three became just too much.

I still like to play in snow, though, and I…

GOOD MORNING!

Happy Demo-Caucus Day! Hope everyone has a good day exercising their right to vote!

And, if you don't know where to go - the NM Democratic Party site is much more helpful than the Berno county site.

and if you want more info on what the NM Republican Party is doing - their site is pretty helpful too!

• Weather information.
• APS status information.
• Strep outbreak hits county.
• Juvie hall hasn't reported escapee information to the public. Eight escapees…

In case you’ve been vacationing on Mars, the New Mexico Democratic Party Presidential Preference Caucus will be held TOMORROW, February 5^th, 2008.…

• Bloomberg takes a gander at Bosque del Apache.
• ABQ police, smelling unemployment blood in the Rust Belt, target Michigan for applicants to fill their ranks.
• Agrarian folk…