Living on the edge

- Hobbs, TX sunset -

Sometimes it's not so easy living between counties, between states, between states of mind, heh, heh.

The  name of this community here on the west side of the county is Hobbs, but if I'm trying to find any news online, I can usually only find information about that other Hobbs. The one that's not in Texas.

And the Fisher County Hobbs isn't the only Texas one. There's another one out by Temple. I bet they can get delivery pizza there. That's the one thing I wish I could have out here. I'll pay mileage! Oh, it's probably better that I don't, I'd weigh 500 lbs. before I knew it.

Looking at weather, the forecast for Rotan (San Angelo area with the National Weather Service) talks about I-10, north and south, 350 some-odd miles south of here. Snyder forecast will peer way over the mountains to the west and north, referencing the four-corners: Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado. That's a little ways from here (650 miles or so). The local news is mostly Abilene-centered - that's about 60 miles south east of here. So, to live in this little outback, it's best to have a few radars and a few forecasts and to look out the door to keep up with the weather. 

It is pretty funny that if I want to go to that other, non-Texas Hobbs, I just take a right out of my driveway and keep driving west for 160 miles. There may be a few jigs here and there, but mostly west.