Cowboy Days

March 14, 2009 The New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum hosted Cowboy Days. Cowboy breakfast at the stagecoach, gunfights, dutch oven cooking lessons, boot-stomping music, classic cowboy movies, western arts and crafts. You name it, it was there, along with open barns where visitors could tour the facilities, check out the donkeys and cows, pet the sheep, see a horse fitted with new shoes.

The museum itself is chock-full of artifacts inside and out, but among our favourite features were the photos of old west life:

A poor photo, but an excellent example of a pit house inhabited by natives back in the day:

Outside, a pioneering lady makes corn husk dolls for the kids while the Ol' Dutchmasters cook up sourdough biscuits. Lloyd was happy to sample. :)

A youngin' gets his chaps strapped.

We settled in for a bar brawlin' gunfight, after a gun safety spiel for the kiddies, of course.

We both tried a new-to-us Mexican food, gorditas, vegetarian versions. Gordita means "little fat one" in Spanish. We didn't know that then. Anyway, a gordita is a small tortilla made of masa harina (corn flour) which is baked and split then stuffed with filling - beans, cheese, lettuce and salsa in our case. Messy, but yummy!

Lloyd followed up with a course of roasted corn on a handy husk handle before we headed back to the present.

-P