Fourth-Generation Native Californio in diaspora in Belen AKA Bethlehem, New Mexico, in the Land of Enchantment. Ich bin ein Belener. I know it's the City of David because Dave the Repo-man is my next door neighbor. Here's the Old Crandall place in the winter. My walls are 2 1/2 feet thick adobe. My front door has a deer antler for a door handle and a rifle loop for fighting off owlhoots and hostiles. I have a barn, the oldest inground swimming pool in Valencia County and and acre & a quarter with cottonwoods and Russian olive trees that my Greek sister-in-law from Athens, the appropriately named Athena, didn't believe they were russian olives until we googled it. Oh, and my house payment is $30/month less than the house I bought in Vallejo, Ca.(Shout out to Deborah Palfrey) 27 years ago.
