Tuesday, October 24, 2017

When we first arrived in Alamogordo, we made a trip to the pistachio and wine shop near by.  We bought pistachios for all of our children and shipped them off.  They were a surprise, and Lynn's were the last to be delivered, on Monday.  I guess she must live the farthest away, or the postal system isn't as effective.  They are in NJ, but our daughter in VA got her pistachios on Saturday.  Anyway, I can post that now.  We always buy from the Eagle Ranch, and the Heart of the Desert.  They harvest their pistachios from September to October, so they are fresh, and wonderful.  We also stocked up on their Chardonnay wine and did buy 3 bottles of a Pistachio Rose'. 

We have learned that it takes less water to grow grapes, for wine making, than it does for pistachios.  They plant mostly female trees with a male tree in the middle of a section.  The female trees are the only ones that produce edible nuts.  The male tree is only used for pollinating.

This bronze statue is to all my quilting friends.  It's titled, 'Crazy Quilt' and it's a cowgirl wrapped in a Crazy Quilt.  This was at the beginning of the River Walk Trail that we did yesterday in Ruidoso.

Today we mainly geo-cached and found 30 caches, which took us over 5,000 finds!  Our weather is beautiful, and it looks like we will continue to have 70 degree temperatures for a few more days.  I'm sure we will geo-cache again tomorrow.  There is a section south of Alamogordo that we want to check out and also, the White Sands area has some new caches since we were here last.  We have time.