Hobbs School back on the market

According to the big For Sale sign out front, the school is once again for sale. Keller Williams Realty has the property listed at $2,000,000. The cafe and rv park are open and thriving, making for a good investment opportunity.

View Oil & Gas Completions on the RRC

View Oil & Gas Completions on the Rail Road Commission website. Some experimentation is necessary. Searches need to be narrowed down to just a few months or a month at a time. Fisher County is in district 7B. Clicking "Search", "Tracking No.", "W-2" reveals interesting information.

I get an error message when I try to "View Form/Attachment". I "Click here to activate the Adobe Acrobat plug-in" and it brings it right up.

I had sort of figured this out myself, but Wade Caldwell on the Mineral Rights Forum for Scurry County explains it well.

Unraveling the house

I am in both of these photos and both were taken in the same spot in my front yard. The pretty lady in white is my mother. Yeah, I've been here a long time.

My connection to Hobbs is insular, consisting of memories and the knowledge that I am at the site of my history. I sometimes wonder why I'm still here. It might be because I feel like the memory keeper of those who have come before and after me, and because I feel some sort of obligation to be where my family expects me to be, here in Hobbs. Or maybe it's because I got a sweet deal on the house and I would have never had the opportunity to own my own home, otherwise.

Speaking of the house, I went to paint a room yesterday, and uncovered a hornet's nest. Well, actually, many, many dirtdobber's nests, which seem to be all that is holding the place together. I decided to pull off some trim, and that led to me knocking a hole in the sheetrock, which led to me realizing that in some spots there's no sheetrock beneath the many layers of paint, and behind that no insulation but many of the aforementioned dirty, larva-filled nests. Then I decided to demo a little and now I know that I need a new house. The man who takes care of these things (the husband) is evaluating the situation, which is probably not so dire. You should see what he made happen when I decided to pull up the living room carpet. He's a magician with the hammer and nail.

I'm off to paint the kitchen cabinets, because I'm hell-bent on painting something. I'm trying real hard not to pull a thread. Just paint. But I did notice a hole in the baseboard under the sink...

Jody Nix and the Texas Cowboys play Hobbs Feb. 22

The date is marked "tentative" on the Jody Nix website, but I heard it directly through the grapevine that the band would be playing at the Hobbs gym next month.

If you go up around the school, you'll see that the grounds are overrun with equipment, rvs and people. An electric company has taken up residence for the next couple of months.

I was driving east of Camp Springs the other day and spotted a beautiful pheasant rooster. The photo doesn't do him justice. It's funny because I was just talking to someone the other day about how long it's been since there was one up by the school, near the McCombs heifer pasture. This dude was cool as a cucumber, just like the other one I saw. He didn't take any notice of me making big u-turns so I could snap his picture. He's probably used to the paparazzi, being so glamorous and all.

A country party

- Black-eyed peas fans -

Here are a few photos from the Hobbs New Year Dance. It looked like there were about 150 people there all at once, maybe more with coming and going. Ages ranged from little bitty babies to people who have been adults for quite a while. People were rarin' to dance and the music was accommodating. Greg Maldo's band was really good, and a local talent Kyndra Vaught sang two songs, with the band accompanying. Howard and Judy served black-eyed peas and cornbread in the little annex building connected to the gym. You could also buy soft drinks, water and coffee in there. The band stood on a stage that has been built where the visitors side bleachers used to be. It was a good set-up and the crowd flowed in and out of the spaces. Maybe more of these events could be coming?