Bad odors. Heating and cooling systems sometimes smell when you first start them for the season. Those smells should be minor and dissipate quickly. Any serious smells—such as burning metal, melting plastic or noxious odors—are a sign your system is in trouble.

As the sun stretches across the turquoise skies of New Mexico, the unmistakable summer scent of barbecue fills the air. From backyard gatherings in Artesia to impromptu picnics in the Zuni Pueblo, grilling becomes a quintessential activity during summertime.

For the past few months, our evening skies have been entirely devoid of bright planets, but that comes to an end during July.

Our evening skies are almost totally devoid of bright planets during May and June. The planetary action has shifted entirely to the morning sky. The first planet to appear is Saturn, well up in the eastern sky during the pre-dawn hours and rising around midnight by the end of June.