Living rurally in New Mexico, with an adobe house, acequias, gardens, and community
My family lived here, in rural New Mexico, south of Albuquerque, from 1992 to 2016. We had a back-to-the-land lifestyle, heating our adobe house with only a woodburning stove, gardening, and enjoying our horses, space, and peace of mind.
Favorite cottonwood 
Back patio 
Garden Bounty 
The Big Chical 
Back Pasture 
Flower beds
Why New Mexico?
My ancestors had homesteaded in New Mexico in the 1800’s, but moved back to Missouri around 1920. My mom was born in NM, did some exploring after my father died, and found people in NM who remembered her grandfather (who was the territorial doctor). She moved back to New Mexico in the 1980s. I’d grown up on the East Coast, then attended school in Ohio. When finished there, I went further west than I’d ever been to visit my mother, and never left –New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment, had gotten a grip on me!
I enjoyed Albuquerque as a single young woman – great dating scene 😎- then got married, and had 2 daughters. I couldn’t handle the idea of my girls going to the big city high schools, so we moved to this more rural area. It was a great place to raise kids, make wonderful friends, and feel part of a great community of neighbors. I felt so fortunate to be able to be a stay-at-home mom. I gardened, cooked, rode horses, and volunteered in the community, mostly with Girl Scouts.
The soil here can be pretty rough; at Merrymet, it was clay, and across the road it was pure sand! My flower bed and veggies were grown in raised beds that I built; but these types would be much easier to deal with…
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