By Stanley G. Crawford
Irrigation ditches are the lifelines of agriculture and lifestyle in rural New Mexico. This award-winning account of the author’s adventure as a mayordomo, or ditch boss, is the 1st list of the lifetime of an acequia via a neighborhood player.
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They file past me, sound of shovel blades dinging as the metal brushes against twigs. A canopy of dry brown willow branches, old growth standing dead in place, arches over the ditch. This first day of spring sees nothing in green beyond the occasional trefoil leaf of clover or alfalfa peeping out from beneath dry leaves. At the edges of fields and along fencelines the new-growth willow twigs have deepened in orange, and on cottonwood and native plum, buds are begin- Page 7 ning to swell. The landscape ripens, glowing, toward spring; following the next storm, whose currents will assist the vultures on the last leg of their soarings up from Mexico where they winter, the wind, that great seed-dispersing machine, will blow for days on end from midmorning until dusk.
No. I stayed in college. " And the doctor who presided over my birth also helped, exaggerating my childhood asthma. And there were other reasons I never had to go, coming as I did from an area in California where there were numerous military bases and a ready supply of service-family recruits. I was too young for Korea, too old or clever for Vietnam. "Many people went from here,'' Reynaldo observes, almost scolding. He adds that nobody went to college then, except a couple of men and women who became the village schoolteachers.
We stop for breaks usually where there is water, back of a house. " I shout after a moment, prolonging the vowels. The piones know I won't inspect this section. The younger boys bound away across a field where apple trees were uprooted a couple of years ago by an irascible absentee landowner, a logger in the Northeast who has become intolerant of standing trees. The hulks of his apple trees, their bark dark red, now lie prone amid dry grass. The boys vault over and crawl under a fence toward a grey mo- Page 22 bile home set amid its own apple trees freshly pruned.