NOVEMBER 2016 ALAMODOSO MAGAZINE

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Well, Hello Willy!

Let me tell you how I first met Willy.

Actually, let me tell you how Willy made me aware of him. This would've been back in the 1990's, just before the Alamogordo Centennial was coming about.

Well, okay but that lamp kept turning on and I had enough. One day a friend of mine and I were here and early one morning, and we both walked through an extremely cold, cold spot in the shop.

At the front of the shop, there is a small window, a show window. I had a big red lamp, I wanted to call it a whore house lamp because that's what it looked like , a big red shade with fringe hanging down.

That spot is exactly where the outhouse is now, so when you come in here, you're going to stand in front of the outhouse and that is where I met Willy.

She turned to me and said, '' Alice what was that?" I walked through it again and said, " I don't know, but run!"

Everybody has a picture of those big red lamps in their mind? Okay, I am a tight wad and everyday when I leave the shop everything is turned off but a ceiling light.

Well I did a lot of walking in the desert, years and years ago to clear my head. I was walking the desert one morning shortly after feeling “the cold” and a thought came to me.

Well from time to time, the red lamp would be turned on. I know I had turned that lamp off, so I'm thinking some of my family members who have a key to the shop were fooling with me.

At that time Mr. Bill worked for Alamo Fed and several other daughter, son, son-in-law and grand kids had keys to the shop. I thought it was them so I was all over their case and they swore , "Mama, grandma we are not turning that lamp on".

“Well, it's an entity, it's a spirit, it's a ghost. He doesn't like the word ghost, but I thought ghost.”

Sure enough I came back later on and my friend said, "I know what you've got down there!"

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She and I had come to the same conclusion, then she let's me know that she had the ability of channeling. (Channeling is a means of communicating with any consciousness that is not in human form by allowing that consciousness to express itself through the channel or channeler).

So we made an appointment, came in one early morning, made and had coffee and interviewed Willy.

That is exactly how he made himself known to me. And for those who are really interested, Willy is buried under my floor in the front near the outhouse, so it is truly, he's been here a lot longer than I have.

Thank you, Willy, he tries to keep things in order. He also gets upset with customers or with anyone who picks on Mrs. Alice. Picking on Mrs. Alice is one thing, but being maliciously oh no. YOU BETTER WATCH OUT. So that is how Willy met Mrs. Alice.................

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Grill-Roasted Turkey

Ingredients 1 12-14-lb. turkey, giblets and neck removed, brined , at room temperature for 1 hour 1 apple, cored, quartered 1 orange, quartered 1 red onion, peeled, quartered 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper Special Equipment A charcoal chimney; 2 cups wood chips, soaked in water for at least 2 hours (optional) Preparation Place a large disposable aluminum pan in the bottom of a charcoal grill; add 2 cups water to pan. Fill a charcoal chimney with charcoal; light. https://issuu.com/alamodosomagazine

Pat turkey dry with paper towels. Place apple, orange, and onion in cavity. Tie legs with kitchen twine. Rub bird inside and out with butter. Season skin lightly with salt and pepper.

When coals are covered with ash, spread half on either side of disposable pan.

Set top grate on grill. Place turkey on grate over pan (do not allow any part of turkey to sit over coals).

Cover grill. Insert stem of an instant-read thermometer into hole in hood. Maintain temperature as close as possible to 350° by opening vents to increase temperature and closing vents to reduce it, lifting grate with turkey to replenish coals as needed using charcoal chimney.

If using wood chips, scatter a handful of drained chips over charcoal every 30 minutes.

Cook turkey, rotating every hour for even browning (lift the grate with the turkey on it; rotate grate 180 degrees), until an instant-read thermometer inserted into thickest part of the thigh without touching bone registers 165° (juices should run clear when thermometer is removed), about 2 3/4 hours.

Transfer turkey to a platter. Tent with foil and let rest for 1 hour before carving.

Grilled Bread Dressing with Cranberries & Leeks Makes 8 to 10 servings 16 to 18-ounce loaf rustic bread, dayold 2 tablespoons olive oil 1/2 cup (4 ounces) dried cranberries 1/4 cup unfiltered apple cider vinegar or sherry vinegar 4 thick bacon slices, chopped 3 large leeks, white and tender green parts only, chopped (about 4 cups) 3 large celery stalks, thinly sliced (about 1 cup) 1 Honeycrisp or other firm apple, peeled, cored, and diced CONTINUED ON PAGE 59

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Kitty City NM & Classy Cats a Rescue Duo

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gainst all odds, rescuing cats unexpectantly becomes a reality and then slowly grows into a passion.

In 2006 Ed Denton, the owner of Pueblo Pipe and Steel was approached by his CPA, Harold Bruckner about a cat rescue that he founded. Mr. Bruckner told Ed that he maintained this cat rescue at his home in his garage.

Mr. Bruckner had incorporated the rescue, obtained a 501c3, and named it KATO Foundation, an acronym of his wife’s name. Mr. Bruckner loved the cats.

Months after their initial conversation, Mr. Bruckner approached Ed and told him that he was at the end of his rope and sadly he was being forced to take the cats to animal control and have them euthanized.

Ed was concerned over Mr. Bruckner appearance of extreme distress over this decision. He felt compelled to help in some way. After much dialogue with his One day Mr. Bruckner shared with Ed wife Kathy, Ed made a life changing the fact that he was looking for someone he decision. Ed told Mr. Bruckner he would could trust to take over the foundation. Mr. take the 28 cats and try to find homes for Bruckner explained to Ed that his health them. And that is how it all started. Kitty was failing him and that he could no longer City NM was born. financially afford the rescue.

He had 28 cats in his garage. Mr. Bruckner asked Ed if he was interested in taking over the Foundation. Although Ed had two personal cats of his own, he had never given a single thought to running a cat rescue. He was in the pipe and steel business, selling angle iron and sheet metal.

And it was a time when he was enjoying a successful business.

And he was spending time with fun hobbies such as RC planes, motorcycles, computers, guitars, Xbox and other fine pastimes. Ed declined the offer.

Mr. Bruckner was ecstatic and assured Ed that in addition to the cats and their cages, he could have everything in the checking account to help get started. He gave Ed the paperwork for the foundation, they loaded up the cats in travel crates and off Ed went to the desert without even a place to put the cats.

Ed remembered there was an old dilapidated single wide trailer that was on the backside of his property. He had planned on having it hauled away. Now he was glad he had put that chore off. He would need it to

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temporarily house the cats. It wasn’t pretty but it was dry and safe. He took the 28 cats to the trailer and got them set up with food, water and beds.

Then without wasting one minute he started planning. He would need to read everything he could get his hands on about cats and cat rescues including how the to build a shelter and how much all this was going to cost him. It was days later that he found out

there was only $28.00 in the checking account that Mr. Bruckner had turned over to him.

One dollar per cat.

All of the sudden, no time for motorcycles, RC planes or Xbox. Being a welder and being in the steel business turned out to be Ed’s biggest blessing. He decided he didn’t want the animals caged and he quickly laid out a design to build a small cattery out of steel which he could get at cost.

His design would allow the cats freedom to choose to be either inside or outside in safe enclosures. He would donate the steel and build it himself to save money. Money was something he was going to have to address and quickly.

While plans to build the cattery were set in motion, the word had already spread that Ed had taken over Mr. Bruckner’s home rescue. He received a call from the Lincoln Country Sheriff’s department about a cat hoarding case in Hondo Valley.

The case involved a man who was living in a very small travel trailer with over 80 cats. In desperation from being overrun by the cats, many of whom were sick and diseased, the man had pitched a

pup tent in the living room. He was living and sleeping in the tent and was tossing food to the cats as best he could.

The strong were barely surviving and the sick and diseased were slowing dying.

When the sheriff’s department arrived to confiscate the cats they found the trailer filled with cat feces, urine and many dead cats. Mr. R.D. Hubbard, owner of the Ruidoso Downs Race Track agreed to allow the sheriff’s department to use a horse stall to temporarily house the cats until local rescues could assess the situation and provide assistance.

The next day Ed visited the cats at the race track thinking he might add just a couple of rescues to his new colony.

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Scorpio Horoscope November 2016, the awakening of the passions .

Even those singles will manage to impress thanks to a nice gab. You will express with gentleness and elegance, captivating your audience. You may want to be careful before you open yourselves to others. Make sure the person you are interested are on your wavelength.

Otherwise not be able to understand the intensity of your emotions and your feelings. Talk to them as much as possible to create a deep affinity.

The combined energies of Saturn and Mercury will enable you to develop a winning strategy in this month. Forecasts suggest you to reflect and to act behind the scenes.

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ovember 2016 will see introverted and focused on your feelings. The emotions become stronger and you become more susceptible. During the first week you will have no way to share your thoughts with others. You will not find the words to explain to you, and your friends will not be able to understand you. Hold on until the day of 12 November.

Reveal your plans only when appropriate. The presence of the Sun in your sign gives you an unbeatable charisma and makes you absolutely brilliant in the eyes of others. Those involved in business or public relations will have a lucky month.

Even the professions related to agriculture, to construction, to history and to the real estate sector will have much success.

There will be much romance in love, especially in couples with a dramatic past.

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22 There were several other rescues from Lincoln and Otero Counties there to give assistance. What Ed saw there, on that day, would be forever etched into his heart and soul. Starved animals, some so weak they could barely stand. Some blinded from long term under nourishment. Eyes encrusted shut with puss from upper respiratory infections. Sores and fleas. Fur stuck to their bodies with feces. The stench was overwhelming. And fearful sad eyes‌.so many fearful and sad eyes.

That was the day that Ed realized his calling. He saw his destiny. He saw his own cat rescue. The case detailed here became known as The Hondo Valley Cats.

Ed left the race track that day with 30 cats in tow. Twenty eight became fifty eight.

Many of the cats were not social as happens in many hoarding cases. In countless cases there are so many cats that no one cat gets the proper attention, love

and affection needed to make it want to be with a human companion. There was much work to do. No time for guitars or computers.

The initial plan for a small cattery was scrapped and a two building plan was quickly laid out. Work on the cattery began immediately and most evenings were spent burning the midnight oil as studying about cat rescue and how to get funding was a priority. The family was brought in to temporarily help house some of the cats.

There were cats in back bedrooms, cats in bathrooms, cats in garages, cats in offices, cats were everywhere.

One day a man who worked for Otero County road department pulled into Pueblo Pipe and Steel to buy some metal. It was July and the temperature was over 100 degrees. The man told Ed he had been hearing a cat meow under the front fender of his County vehicle but couldn’t get it

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out. It had been there all day in the scorching heat. Ed got a water hose and turned the water on at a gentle run and flushed the cat out of the fender well. The poor kitten had burn marks from the intense heat on the metal and was covered in grease and road grime. It was frightened and thirsty. After selling the man his metal, Ed gave the kitten a bath, water and food and put antibiotic ointment on its burns. It was so grateful it purred and rubbed all over Ed. Being a guitar enthusiast and due to where the kit had been riding all day, he named him Fender. Fender got a great forever home within days.

In a very short period of time the cattery which was built on Ed’s property next to his home, was completed. The cats were moved to their new home.

Sadly some of the Hondo Valley cats had died from disease and other medical conditions. But many had been socialized and gotten forever homes from various compassionate people who had read about them in the news.

Many of Mr. Bruckner’s cats had also been adopted out to forever homes. All seemed well and blissful in the world of cat rescue.

Late one night Kathy came home from work. As she pulled into the compound with her head lights illuminated the desert landscape, she could see dozens of sets of eyes in and around all the greasewood and mesquite bushes staring right at her.

into action and yelled for Ed who came running. They started trying to coax the cats in, but they were so terrified and frantic they would not let anyone approach them. They would only run to the next bush and try to hide.

Their escape had put them in such unfamiliar surroundings they were too frightened to come to Ed or Kathy. Ed and Kathy had to crawl on their bellies to coax many of them in. They bloodied their arms reaching into the mesquite bushes to pull the hiding cats out.

By sunrise, only Guinevere, a very shy and beautiful long haired red cat was left. The family was called out to scour the desert for Guinevere. She wouldn’t last long in this harsh environment with coyotes, snakes, hawks and owls.

The family gave up shortly before noon, thinking there was no hope of finding her.

But Ed didn’t give up. He continued to walk and walk and look and look. Finally by mid-afternoon he spotted her with her long hair entangled in a mesquite bush.

She was too tired to move.

He gently untangled her hair from the thorns, cradled her in his arms and walked her home. A long 18 hours of panic, but everyone was home and safe. A volunteer had accidentally left the door to the cattery unlatched. Lesson learned.

“Build it and they will come” is an understatement in animal rescue. Word quickly spread of a new cat rescue in town So startled it took her several minutes to and in a very short time, Ed with his process what she was seeing. She looked compassionate nature had taken in to many rescues. It was so hard to say no. to her left and could see the door to the cattery was open.

All the cats were loose! Kathy jumped

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Three Rivers Post Office And General Store Circa 1950

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APACHE INDIAN POWS RETURNED TO MESCALERO Story by Joe Ben Sanders, 2016

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treat all cultures with kindness, as is my t is a sad commentary--the Indian Wars. Sadly, might makes right and to nature, and with respect, and an open-mind. the victor goes the spoils, the land, and I love my Apache brothers and sisters and a manicured history. Life is hard, and life is Tularosa has many ties to Mescalero and we not fair. are a community filled with family and love-n Earth, these are two important and the usual hardships and times of laughter. concepts one must realize and The past is remembered and revisited on understand and they are hard to occasion and lessons are learned. swallow for most Earthlings have a moral conscience; we expect and strive for In 1886, the Apache Wars that had raged fairness, equality and justice. for centuries ended. Some 383 Apaches were

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ut we have to make laws and rule of law and then try to implement them. In some cases, one has the upper hand and only time and morality can make it right. In the case of the Chiricahua Apache, that took 27 long years.

I will not digress, the facts are out there for those who want to pursue this story in more detail. I know as an archaeologist my job is to

sent to Fort Marion, Florida and some 502 were eventually placed there.

In 1894, due to unhealthy living conditions and the high rate of mortality, the remaining Apaches, Geronimo included, were moved to Fort Sill, Oklahoma and then in 1912, legislation was initiated to move the remaining prisoners of war to Mescalero.

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The bill was fought by those special interests groups who wanted to graze the Indian reservation lands but the bill was finally passed.

In 1913, seventy-seven Apaches chose to remain in Oklahoma while one hundred and eighty-seven chose to make Mescalero their new home. In 1913, the train pulled up to the Tularosa depot and the 187 Apaches started to load up their possessions on the wagons as seen in the photo with this story.

The Tularosa depot is seen in far background. The scene was recounted later by eyewitnesses as loud and raucous as there were many dogs barking and much rejoicing as loved ones reunited --some after 27 years of separation. Most of the Chiricahua settled near White Tail, and went into cowboying and taking care of the tribal cattle herd.

The decision to allow the Chiricahaua back was the right one and the Apaches donated much money and many soldier-warriors in the last two world wars and have made very worthy neighbors and great citizens.

I am honored to know many Apaches and call them my friend and to have lived with them all my life. This post honors the Chiricahua people who suffered horribly and did not have the protection of the Consitution as they should have.

I am happy that we can all get along a lot better than we did a century and half ago and that the Mescalero and Chiricahua Apache have had such worthy leaders that have made a big difference in their children's lives.

God Bless all who arrived at that decision in 1913, and too, the patience of the Apache people.

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History of Thanksgiving

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The tradition introduced by European Americans of Thanksgiving as a time to focus on God and His blessings dates back well over four centuries in America.

For example, such thanksgivings occurred in 1541 at Palo Duro Canyon, Texas with Coronado and 1,500 of his men; 1 in 1564 at St. Augustine, Florida with French Huguenot (Protestant) colonists; 2 in 1598 at El Paso, Texas with Juan de OĂąate and his expedition; 3 in 1607 at Cape Henry, Virginia with the landing of

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the Jamestown settlers; 4 in 1619 at Berkeley Plantation, Virginia; 5 (and many other such celebrations). But it is primarily from the Pilgrim’s Thanksgiving celebration of 1621 that we derive the current tradition of Thanksgiving Day. The Pilgrims set sail for America on September 6, 1620, and for two months braved the harsh elements of a storm-tossed sea.

Upon disembarking at Plymouth Rock, they held a prayer service and then hastily began building shelters. However, unprepared for such a harsh New England winter, nearly half of them died before spring. Emerging from that grueling winter, the Pilgrims were surprised when an Indian named Samoset approached them and greeted them in their own language, explaining to them that he had learned English from fishermen and traders.

A week later, Samoset returned with a friend named Squanto, who lived with the Pilgrims and accepted their Christian faith.

Squanto taught the Pilgrims much about how to live in the New World, and he and Samoset helped forge a long-lasting peace treaty between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians.

Pilgrim Governor William Bradford described Squanto as “a special instrument sent of God for [our] good . . . and never left [us] till he died.”

That summer, the Pilgrims, still persevering in prayer and assisted by helpful Indians, reaped a bountiful harvest.

As Pilgrim Edward Winslow (later to become the Governor) affirmed, “God be praised, we had a good increase of corn”; “by the goodness of God, we are far from want.”

The grateful Pilgrims therefore declared a three-day feast in December 1621 to thank God and to celebrate with their Indian friends – America’s first Thanksgiving Festival. Ninety Wampanoag Indians joined the fifty Pilgrims for three days of feasting (which included shellfish, lobsters, turkey, corn bread, berries, deer, and other foods).

Pilgrim and Wampanoag men engaged in races, wrestling matches, and athletic events), and of prayer. This celebration and its accompanying activities were the origin of the holiday that Americans now celebrate each November.

However, while the Pilgrims enjoyed times of prosperity for which they thanked God, they also suffered extreme hardships. In 1623 they experienced an extended and prolonged drought.

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38 Knowing that without a change in the weather there would be no harvest and the winter would be filled with death and starvation, Governor Bradford called the Pilgrims to a time of prayer and fasting to seek God’s direct intervention.

Significantly, shortly after that time of prayer – and to the great amazement of the Indian who witnessed the scene – clouds appeared in the sky and a gentle and steady rain began to fall. As Governor Bradford explained: “It came without either wind or thunder or any violence, and by degrees in abundance, as that ye earth was thoroughly wet and soaked therewith, which did so apparently revive and quicken ye decayed corn and other fruits as was wonderful to see, and made ye Indians astonished to behold; and afterwards the Lord sent them such seasonable showers, with interchange of fair warm weather as, through His blessing, caused a fruitful and liberal harvest, to their no small comfort and rejoicing.”

The drought had been broken; the fall therefore produced an abundant harvest; there was cause for another thanksgiving. The Pilgrim practice of designating an official time of Thanksgiving spread into neighboring colonies and became an annual tradition.

And just as those neighboring colonies followed the Pilgrims’ example of calling for days of thanksgiving, so, too, did they adopt their practice of calling for a time of prayer and fasting.

The Thanksgiving celebrations so common throughout New England did not begin to spread southward until the American Revolution, when Congress issued eight separate national

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America’s first national Thanksgiving occurred in 1789 with the commencement of the federal government. According to the Congressional Record for September 25 of that year, the first act after the Framers completed the framing of the Bill of Rights was that Mr. Elias Boudinot said he could not think of letting the session pass without offering an opportunity to all the citizens of the United States of joining with one voice in returning to Almighty God their sincere thanks for the many blessings He had poured down upon them. With this view, therefore, he would move the following resolution: Resolved, That a joint committee of both Houses be directed to wait upon the President of the United States to request that he would recommend to the people of the United States a Day of Public Thanksgiving and Prayer. . . .

Elias Boudinot (born Gallegina Uwati, (1802 – June 22, 1839), was a member of a prominent family of the Cherokee Nation who was born in and grew up in present-day Georgia. His Cherokee name reportedly means either 'male deer' or 'turkey.'

That congressional resolution was delivered to President George Washington, who heartily concurred with the request and issued the first federal Thanksgiving proclamation, declaring in part:

“Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor. . . . Now, therefore, I do appoint Thursday, the 26th day of November 1789 . . . that we may all unite to render unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection.” That same year, the Protestant Episcopal Church announced that the first Thursday in November would become its regular day for giving thanks, “unless another day be appointed by the civil authorities.”

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42 Much of the credit for the adoption of Thanksgiving as an annual national holiday may be attributed to Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale, the editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book, a popular lady’s books containing poetry, art work, and articles by America’s leading authors. For nearly three decades, she promoted the idea of a national Thanksgiving Day, 20 contacting president after president until Abraham Lincoln responded in 1863 by setting aside the last Thursday of that November.

The Thanksgiving proclamation issued by Lincoln was remarkable not only for its strong religious content but also for its timing, for it was delivered in the midst of the darkest days of the Civil War, with the Union having lost battle after battle throughout the first three years of that conflict. Yet, despite those dark circumstances, Lincoln nevertheless called Americans to

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prayer with an air of positive optimism and genuine thankfulness, noting that: “The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the Source from which they come, others have been added which are of so extraordinary a nature that they can not fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever-watchful providence of Almighty God. . . . No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, Who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.”

That remarkable Thanksgiving Proclamation came at a pivotal point in Lincoln’s spiritual life. Three months earlier, the Battle of Gettysburg had occurred, resulting in the loss of some 60,000 American lives. It had been while Lincoln was walking among the thousands of graves there at Gettysburg that he first committed his life to Christ. As he later explained to a clergyman: “When I left Springfield [Illinois, to assume the Presidency], I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian.

But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ.”

Over the seventy-five years following Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation, presidents faithfully followed Lincoln’s precedent, annually declaring a national Thanksgiving Day (but the date of the celebrations varied widely). In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt began celebrating Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of each November, and in 1941, Congress permanently established that day as the national Thanksgiving holiday. https://issuu.com/alamodosomagazine

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Grilled Bread Dressing with Cranberries & Leeks Continued from page 59 Stir in the thyme, sage, salt, pepper, and celery seed. Fold together with the torn bread. Stir in the cranberries.

Add the beaten eggs to the bowl and mix well. Pour 1 cup of the stock over the top and toss well. The mixture should be evenly moist, but not wet. Add more stock if the mixture is dry. Spoon into the prepared dish. → Make ahead: At this point the dressing can be covered and refrigerated overnight.

To bake, let come to room temperature for about 30 minutes, then proceed with baking.

Cover with foil and bake 20 minutes.

Uncover and continue baking until the top is browned and a little crunchy, about 20 minutes more.

Immediately add the greens and stir them into the hot dressing. They will wilt down quite a bit.

Serve warm.

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NATIONAL SOLAR OBSERVATORY At SACRAMENTO PEAK

The National Solar Observatory at Sacramento Peak welcomes visitors during the daytime. The Observatory offers various kinds of tours, including a virtual tour. The observatory lies in the Lincoln National Forest in the Sacramento Mountains, near Timberon which offer hiking trails, views of the Tularosa Basin including White Sands National Monument.

The Observatory is open to the public between dawn and dusk.

Visitors may want to take one of the on-site self guided tours. The weather at Sunspot is generally between 10 and 20 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than in the Tularosa Basin, so be prepared.

During the summer there is a chance of rain in the afternoon. The winter months bring snow. Public restrooms, educational exhibits, and a gift shop are located in the Visitors Center open most days of the year from 9 am until 5 pm. (Please call ahead to (575) 4347000 during the winter months for the schedule.)

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Grilled Bread Dressing with Cranberries & Leeks CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 2 tablespoons fresh thyme leaves 2 tablespoons chopped fresh sage leaves 2 teaspoons coarse kosher salt 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1/2 teaspoon celery seed 2 large eggs, beaten 1 1/2 cups chicken or turkey stock.

2 packed cups bitter greens Preheat oven to 400°F. Butter or lightly grease a 9- x 13-inch baking dish.

Heat a gas or charcoal grill to high heat.

Slice the bread in 8 to 10 thick slices and brush both sides of each piece lightly with olive oil. Grill the bread for 1 to 2 minutes on each side, or until it's lightly toasted and has distinct grill marks. Remove and let cool.

Use your hands to tear the bread into rough pieces about 1 1/2-inches long. Set aside in a large bowl.

Stir together the cranberries and vinegar in a small bowl. Microwave on HIGH for 30 seconds or until the vinegar bubbles; let stand until the cranberries plump. Do not drain.

Cook the bacon in a large, deep skillet over medium-high heat until very crisp, stirring often, about 15 minutes. Add the leeks and celery and stir to coat; cook until tender, 5 to 7 minutes, stirring often. Add the apple and cook until almost tender, about 3 minutes more.

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