Volume 14 - Day 192/173, 2022 - Monday

The Organ Mountains originated about 32 million years ago, in the middle of the Tertiary Period. Look it up. At that time, magna began to ooze up, pushing up the overlying layers of rock. Some of the magma was forced to the surface ejecting vast quantities of ash, rock, and lava over an area of 100 square miles. Most people accept they were named by passing Spanish colonists who thought they looked like a pipe organ. They were first documented in 1598 when Don Juan Onate mentioned them during his first trek over El Camino Real. In 1935, the New Mexico School of Mines published The Geology of the Organ Mountains. They are truly spectacular, and just about everywhere you go in Las Cruces, you can see them. I was awestruck for the 48 hours (or so) that we spent visiting Dan and Nancy. Beautiful! So...it was back to the more mundane today. I got up at 3:30 this morning, and apparently Mike couldn't sleep and he had been up most of the night; about 1:30 in the morning to his recollection. We left the house at about 3:45 and we made good time to the airport, and we got him to the airport at about 4:30. He had a 6 o'clock flight, and he reports he made it back with no problems. Always great to visit with him. The office was quiet for a Monday, we are still dealing with HVAC issues, but I guess that is to be expected when it is 110 degrees outside. We all do the best we can.