[AT] Why not New Mexico Hello out there

[charliehill]

Nothing wrong with New Mexico Beal but our winters here in coastal NC are 
probably nearly as good as your winters in New Mexico.  I was jokingly 
speaking in terms of escaping winter all together.  If you leave the US in 
the fall and go south of the equator it is spring when you get there.  Not 
looking to move permanently,  I live in paradise now,  if I was New Mexico 
would be on my list of possibilities.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Beal Gleason" <farmerbeal at aol.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 10:55 PM
Subject: [AT] Why not New Mexico Hello out there


>I hear you talking about going to South America or Australia because
> you are getting to where you don't like the winters.  Why not consider
> someplace closer to home like New Mexico?
>
> I was raised in Iowa and got tired of the winters and I was looking
> for a place to move during WWII. I never considered New Mexico, even
> though my wife was from there.  I was working for New Holland at the
> time and they wanted me to go back to California for the winter. Well
> I didn't want to go back to California, so I quit New Holland and
> started looking for a place to move. My father-in-law talked me into
> looking at a place out east of Lovington New Mexico.  At first I
> didn't think too much of it at the time, and just kept looking.
>
> Then one night in Kansas while looking for a place when my wife asked
> me,  "Do you realize what you are  doing?
>
> I said "What are you talking about?"
>
> She pointed out to me that every place I was looking at I was
> comparing it to that place out east of Lovington, New Mexico.  She
> wanted to know why I didn't just go back there and buy it?
>
> So I did and I never have been sorry.  I most certainly have never
> been sorry to leave the Iowa cold winters far behind me.  But I just
> want to remind you that you don't have to leave the USA to have
> wonderful winters.  While we have some bad days here, tomorrow again
> the sun will probably be shinning.
>
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>> On Nov 14, 2009, at 6:30 PM, charliehill wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'd just as soon go to South America or Australia or somewhere for
>>>> the next
>>>> 3 months if I could.
>
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