It’s a bit windy but quiet day out here at Plateau Hame De Colquhoun . We like to wish everyone a happy Valentine’s Day!
Like always we start our morning working on emails, contacting those that need contact, working on the website and organizing events.
We have so many ideas for events we’d love to do. But like with every idea you are not sure it’ll work. But we do have the April Fool’s Open Mic a day and night of Music and vendors. We still have spots open if you’re interested in vending and it’s FREE. Camping is available for $10.00 for Friday and Saturday night.
We also have the Nomad Gathering in the Desert in May a whole weekend of activities. Music, vendors, bonfire, talent show, camping all for one entry fee $20.00 for the whole weekend! Anyone under the age of 10 is free.
We also have openings for vendors for the Nomad Gathering it’s free to vend with a registration.
For more information visit our website, Facebook or contact us!
Nomad Gathering in the Desert will be a 2 night 3 day private party of nomads coming together for food, fun, festivities, and fellowship.
Future New Mexico Nomad Gatherings in the Desert will be planned, organized by all participants. The first meeting will be held Saturday May 20th at noon.
The weekend will include a bonfire, Karaoke, Talent No Talent Show, Music, movie, Star gazing, Vendors and more
Friday Night:
4 PM Nomad Opening meeting. Come together and get to know each other. If you’d like to host an event, this is the time to add it to the schedule.
Open Talent no Talent Show
Outdoor Movie “Off The MAP” Sequestered on a ranch deep in the recesses of rural New Mexico, a part-Hopi woman (Joan Allen), her catatonic depressed husband (Sam Elliot) & their precocious 11-year old daughter (Valentina de Angelis) live off the land…
Bonfire S’mores makings (S’mores kits can be purchased at the Plateau Hame De Colquhoun Booth).
Saturday:
Vendors – Free to Vend with Registration: Contact us to register your booth.
Noon Topic Conversation, Come together ask questions, plan the next year’s Gathering, start organizing for next year’s Gathering!
Saturday night:
Live Music TBD
Bonfire (S’mores kits can be purchased at Plateau Hame De Colquhoun booth Stargazing.
Sunday:
11 am Nomad closing meeting time to say our goodbyes, exchange information with new friends.
If you would like to Host an activity or Vend your goods please let us know. Vending is free for all attendees.
All are welcome to attend the April Fool’s Open Mic a Free event.
Please visit our website and Facebook page for more information. Feel free to contact us for any questions.
You can now book an RV or tent campsite for the April Fool’s Open Mic on April 1st starting at noon.
RV and Tent campers are allowed to stay 2 nights, gates open 3 pm March 31st 2023 (For Campers only).
General admission Gates open for April Fool’s Open Mic on Noon April 1st .
Campers may not come in during the event.
RV sites are for one RV, all extra vehicles must be parked in the parking lot during the event. 10 person max per site.
Tent sites are for 2 tents max 10 people per site. Extra vehicles must be parked in the parking lot during the event.
Entry to April Fool’s Open Mic is FREE. BYOB and 420 friendly no sales allowed on site. Must be 21 + to drink or have 420. We will ask those choosing to serve anyone underage to leave.
Last Saturday we had a nice little music night out here at Plateau Hame De Colquhoun . Listened to some Amigo The Devil (Amigo the dog even hung out with us) , Tuatha Dea and Brent Colquhoun from our very own JAFO Productions ! It was a beautiful night to sit out by the fire and enjoy some music in the Desert!
We still have openings for this year, if you have an event idea, like to host an event or just want to come out and camp. Check out our website for more information!
View of the Snow top mountains from Plateau Hame De Colquhoun . This morning the 6th of January most of that snow is gone. But still very beautiful views. When we looked at the property before purchasing the views were the selling point. 75% of the views are mountains, we can see Mount Taylor by Grant, Sandia by Albuquerque. We do get military aircraft traffic, a lot of refueling practices, maybe even a few UFOs.
If you’d like more information about us visit our website!
Recently we’ve had people ask what it’s like living in the middle of the desert off-grid. Well I’m not sure how to answer that question, it’s not much different than living pretty much anywhere. There are hardships and joy. We have all or most of the modern conveniences, lights, water, heat, TV, computers.
I would have to say not having a shower is probably the biggest difference . Building the shower is not a priority and has been put on the back burner for awhile. Not because we couldn’t use it, but we can easily take long hot showers in town. Whereas with the shower we are building you will be required to do military showers, due to having to conserve the water.
Another is the solar, we aren’t able to run electric heat or AC on it. We don’t use many electronic devices like air fryers, coffee makers, and toasters to name a few. It’s not that we can’t but they tend to draw a lot of electricity so it’s easier not to have them. We do however have a microwave and it works but it is used for storage.
If you have a continuous cloudy days you do need to conserve your electric. Meaning no TV, fans, even small things like charging phones can cause too much of a drain.
If you are wanting to experience this way of life. You are welcome to come out and camp or attend an event here at Plateau Hame De Colquhoun and see for yourselves!
Cloudy Saturday with rain in the forecast. We need the rain but it makes passage through the desert roads more of a challenge. Most areas of the roads that get under water have drive arounds. But there are a few that don’t.
The morning cloudy sky made for some beautiful photos of Ladrone and sun rise towards the Manzano Mountains.
Days have been quiet, Thanksgiving day we had 9 campers which all stated they enjoyed their time. The hardest part for us hosting campers is that we want campers to come camp to enjoy the beautiful views and the land. We get campers that come late at night and leave early in the morning. Maybe it shouldn’t matter, they paid to camp, but that’s not the idea of camping here.
But I have to realize that they are probably getting to experience the land even in such a short period of time. The peacefulness and the ability to relax, hopefully get a good sleep before heading out for another drive.
The community is now offering tours of the Mesa, for all campers. Come see the views, learn some of the history of bombings, aliens and more!!
Living out in the desert one of our issues is trying to socialize the dogs. To do this we take them to parks and the occasional dog park. Dreugan loves dog parks that have the agility stuff..
When we go to a dog park we usually go in when it’s empty. Dreugan has a lot of anxiety towards other dogs as he has been attacked multiple times by other dogs (Not in a dog park, but while walking him on a leash).
We took Dreugan and Amigo to a dog park in a town near us, it had been empty when we got there, so we took the opportunity. Just as we let the boys off leash a man comes with 4 Boston terriers, as he’s walking to the gate his dog barks and charges the fence at Dreugan which sets him off. Right away we go to put the leash back on Dreugan, the guy with the Boston’s doesn’t slow down at all to give us time to leash Dreugan. But we luckily got him leashed up and started to walk to the opposite side of the park (This is a pretty good size park). While walking I told Brent this could be good for Dreugan (Thinking the guy would take his dogs the opposite direction) as the Boston’s would play, and Dreugan would realize they wouldn’t hurt him.
But no the guys walk through the gates and let them go, never saying anything to them. The dogs beeline it straight to us. 2 of them pouncing poor Amigo and bigger one coming for Dreugan. I was pulling Dreugan back as I envisioned a dead Boston. Remind you Dreugan is over 100 lbs… But Dreugan didn’t do anything he kept backing up. Brent and I stepped between our dogs and the Boston’s, at which time they head back to their humane (their humane never called them back). We try moving further away as the only way out is where the Boston’s and guy is standing. But the Boston’s were only gone a few seconds before heading right back at us.. Again the one went right for Dreugan and the other 2 after Amigo. This time though Dreugan wasn’t taking it as the one trying to bite me, but I was able to keep Dreugan under control long enough for Brent to pull the Boston away and yell at the guy to get his dogs before they got hurt. At which the Boston owner replied “this is a dog park”… He had called them back at that point and we had hoped he would move away from the gate so we could leave, but nope..The Boston’s made one more attempt to come towards us.. But this time Brent told the guy if he didn’t get them under control, and they came back again they will get hurt.. At that point the guy leashed them up and left all the while saying we had no right having an aggressive dog in the park.
If he would have given us a chance we would have left, ours were leashed, we gave him plenty of space. But I do have to say I was impressed with Dreugan, he could have hurt the Boston, but didn’t even try or threaten until the Boston tried to bite me, that’s when he snarled.
It really upset me, I was hoping for a learning experience for Dreugan, even though he handled it okay, I feel it did not help his anxiety.
Mornings have been a bit chilly here at Plateau Hame De Colquhoun , It was 17 outside when we got up this morning… Since we run a buddy heater for our heat, we only tend to run it at night before going to bed and in the morning when we get up. This morning when we got out of the warm bed, it was 30 degrees inside. The dogs wanted out, but Weillow met me with her teeth chattering.. Weillow wears a jacket and crawls up on the couch at night under blankets.. Like us she was probably warm until she had to go to the bathroom.
We can run the heater all night and probably will if we feel it’s going to get cold. Cold to us is when it doesn’t warm up during the day. Usually our days warm up enough to warm the inside of the RV nicely, we open windows and doors to get the heat in, but before it starts to cool off we shut everything down to trap in the warmth. We tend to stay at an even temp (depending on outside temp) until around 9-10 pm.. If we plan on staying up a bit we kick on the #buddyheater until we are ready for bed or it warms up. We do this as we feel safer, and save on propane even though we have smoke and Co2 detectors, sleeping with the heater off.. In the morning the first to wake up turns on the heater.
We had talked about doing wood, but if you’ve ever seen any of our photos trees are pretty sparse, and the cost of wood isn’t worth it.
What have you used for heat. Comment below and let us know.
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