December 15th

we sort of got out of pocket.fri. night we went to cruces. i was planning on sleeping in my favorite bed. at any rate tim and cathygot there before us and hung their undies and nylons drooled on the pillows . it was gross. cathy redeemed herself with a wiggle and a smile [she also put together burgers] and we were in party mode.yep , celebrating getting another of those stinky kids into the work force to pay for obamacare. built afire and down a glass of wine or 2. paul and terry came home to rescue their house and work on the 2nd bottle of wine. when it came time to go to bed one didn't much care where you slept [still harassed cathy] morning came and we got out to clean the yd after paul did his best sundaymorning imitation . he even asked how we wanted our eggs. yep, warmed up the tortillas and everything.sent tim and cath and scott  to make sure the little twerp made across with a paper. paul lee ann me and "grnma" sandy, killed time. finally cathy got back and put a direction to all this. folks started coming in!!! had to laugh . i did my best gran pa G move loaded up and headed to carlsbad.

  now ,we had planned to go cause we were down there any how. we tortured ourselves by driving through el paso [ not the bypass] sun was down by the time we got any where to see. so we cruised in to sara s.  sara looked good . we met a bunch of her friends. they stopped by when hey saw new activity.sunday we got up and brushed our teeth and went to church. now , i'm pretty conservative  .a couple hail mary s and the lords prayer and i'm good to go. there was a lot of clapping and shaking , amens and such. no one got down and rolled and the message was all the same ,so it was good. got back to saras she threw her mom out of the kitchen and began making breakfast burritos, then french toast. so we were properly stuffed. we took our leave and about vaughn, jamie calls to stop to pick up xmas cookies. the exchange was a success . i marvel at my siblings talents[ along with sib inlaws adopted riffraff and such] busy wk.  gene closing in on a 100 tomorrow.