Chile Time

After our fill of cold weather, including snowshoeing our property in Angel Fire,NM, Stan and I have moved farther south in New Mexico to Silver City. It is a good sized town that sits on the southern edge of the Gila National Forest. We plan to spend a week here, biking and hiking the area and checking it all out. At first glance, it appears to be a really cool town. We are at about 6000 feet here so it is still cold at night but the day time temps are in the low 50s so that is a welcome change. The highlight of our trip today was a stop in Hatch, home of the hatch chile. This is Stan's favorite chile in the world so he was in Heaven. We stopped and had lunch in a little cafe. I swear we were breathing fire when we left town.!!! When we got here we settled in to our site at the Rose Valley RV Park and walked over to the local market. While perusing the salsa isle for (naturally) Hatch chiles, we were amazed to see an array of Santa Barbara Salsas. You can't leave home without it. Stan did find some verde chile cerverza, which he is currently enjoying while he fires the bbq. Happy January 5th everybody!