Mora County

Oh! Look! It is a bird, no...it is a plane. No it is a helicopter in our hay field across the road from my house. And this isn’t the first time we have had a helicopter land in the field.

This “bird” was a Medivac helicopter, called in by both our state police and our fire department responders to pick up the driver of a wrecked car, down our road about a mile or so.  

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

Saturday
8 am. — Mora crosscountry, Santa Rosa
1 p.m. — Mora Rangerette volleyball vs. Santa Fe Prep, home, junior varsity and varsity
Monday
5:30 p.m. — Mora Rangerette volleyball vs. Peñasco, home, junior varsity and varsity
Wednesday
11 a.m. — ECHO food distribution, Helping Hands Inc.
5:30 p.m. — Mora Rangerette volleyball vs. Pecos, away, junior varsity and varsity

SENIOR LUNCH MENU

On Monday a large group of women who belong to the Mora Mountain Mamas converged on Hatcha’s Restaurant.
They had a great meal and the business taken care of by Peggy Meeks. They also heard other announcements concerning the group.

The main speaker for Monday’s meeting was Gascon resident, Editha Bartley, who kept the Mountain Mamas spell-bound as she told the story of her life and her life experiences. She is not really a stranger to those who have read her column in the Optic every Friday, normally just below this column.

So what do you do on a ranch? It must be really boring way out there in the middle of nowhere. I don’t think this old ranch fits the definition of boring in any way.

For example, in the span of one midweek afternoon here (the first week of October) our ranch yard was busy. Now yards in ranches need to be utilized for whatever comes along.

Son John was baling hay way out there in our big meadow when the shear bolts broke on the baler, and this bent some major working parts of the machine, way in the impossible bowels of this mechanical wonder.