Re: [CH] On the Road Again
David Cook (zebcook@cox.net)
Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:57:32 -0700
Welcome to the border states and watch out or I'll drop in on the way
to see my sister in El Paso!
Zeb Cook (Long time lurker and AZ resident)
At 10:39 AM 3/18/2007, Dave Anderson wrote:
>Only if they are willing to sit on the back porch, eat chile
>cheeseburgers, drink beer and watch the sun set behind the Robledos :-)
>
>Dave
>TLCC
>>Do you accept visitors???
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> *From:* Dave Anderson <mailto:chilehead@tough-love.com>
>> *To:* chile-heads@globalgarden.com
>> <mailto:chile-heads@globalgarden.com>
>> *Sent:* Saturday, March 17, 2007 11:21 PM
>> *Subject:* [CH] On the Road Again
>>
>> We took off to get out of the worst weather on January 20th and
>> ended up
>> purchasing a home about 12 miles north of Las Cruces New Mexico
>> just off
>> the road to Hatch (self proclaimed) Chile Capital of the World. Can't
>> wait to go the Hatch Chile Festival on Labor Day weekend. The
>> house is
>> on the Rio Grande River which you could walk across without
>> getting wet
>> when we were there and has enough land to support a pecan orchard
>> and a
>> decent sized chile patch. We'll have to order plants from Susan
>> because
>> we won't be moving till June and they're direct sowing in the Mesilla
>> Valley as we speak.
>>
>> The seed biz will continue and I've already made contact with one
>> chile
>> farmer a couple of miles south who gave me a bottle of his family's
>> salsa, invited us for a beer and has a U-pick area and two roasters
>> going during the harvest season. The seed biz will continue and
>> we'll be
>> closer to one of our sources and the Chile Pepper Institute at New
>> Mexico State University.
>>
>> Will continue to root for the Nevada Wolfpack through this month's
>> madness, but next year will be rooting for the AGGIES!
>>
>> Dave
>> TLCC
>
David "Zeb" Cook
zebcook@cox.net
617-803-1672