Today we are spending our last night on the road in Deming, New Mexico.  I am looking forward to seeing my little home and all our winter friends.  Most of the people don't arrive until next month.

Today we traveled through Hatch, New Mexico.  David likes to stop there for lunch but today went we went through town we couldn't find a place to park the truck and 5th wheel.

Hatch is a village in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 1,648 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Las Cruces Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town is experiencing moderate growth, along with its outliers of Salem, Arrey, Derry, and Rincon. Hatch is widely known for its famous Hatch Green Chile.

Lots and lots of chilis.

This area also has lots and lots of pecan trees.

Today we made a lot of headway.  We left Kansas and went through Oklahoma and Texas.  While in Texas we saw Feed lots and it reminded me of the movie An Officer and a Gentlemen.  "Boy there are only two things that comes out of Texas.  Steers and  xoxoxox and you don't look like a steer.  Don't know why I was thinking about that I guess I have been in the car too long.  So we finally arrived in Vaugn, New Mexico for the night.  We do have internet but can you believe my Verizon phone has no service.  We did gain a hour today so what should I do with the extra time?????

September 19, 2012

We left Iowa and headed to Kansas.  We spent the night in Lyndon, Kansas.  These trees were at our campground.  David said they were Hedge Apples or Monkey Balls!! 

Maclura pomifera, commonly called Osage-orange, hedge-apple,^[1] Horse-apple, Bois d'arc, Bodark, or Bodock^[2] is a small deciduous tree or large shrub, typically growing to 8–15 metres (26–49 ft) tall. It is dioecious, with male and female flowers on different plants. The fruit, a multiple fruit, is roughly spherical, but bumpy, and 7–15 cm in diameter. It is filled with a sticky white latex sap. In fall, its color turns a bright yellow-green. It is not closely related to the orange: Maclura belongs to the mulberry family, Moraceae, while oranges belong to the family Rutaceae.^[3]
Maclura is closely related to the genus Cudrania, and hybrids between the two genera have been produced. In fact, some botanists recognize a more broadly defined Maclura that includes species previously included in Cudrania and other genera of Moraceae.
Osajin and Pomiferin are flavonoid pigments present in the wood and fruit, comprising about 10% of the fruit's dry weight. The plant also contains the flavonol morin.
It was once thought that placing an Osage orange under the bed would repel spiders and insects. This practice has declined with the rise of synthetic insecticides. However, scientific studies have found that extracts of Osage orange do repel several insect species, in some studies just as well as the widely-used synthetic insecticide DEET.^[4]