April 20th - 2014

breakfast was disjoint.because some of the cooks were wounded there was no pressure.we fell out of bed hosed our smoky bodies down got dressed and went to see why jemma was hollering .there was no murder she was just greeting the sun.we did sausage bacon potatoes red chili and any egg not previously boiled.ashley and her bunch went for a hike. they tooksalma and shelby. logan got a new gun,so he and joe and anthony and  i went to checkout prarie dogs. chris ike and zach rode out to ranch where paul and terri ,tim and cathy were holding fort. don't know any specifics about eating there.do know bikes were involved with the work . around noon the russels showed then zach and carmen. zach and anthony logan and jesse dug up the meat. we had lamb and pig and cow and a lowly turkey with a pot of beans.family started dribbling in. niki,jay and the beauties were there to represent our oldest sister. she was fleamarket shopping some where up north.we missed her. gene came. [supplied grand ma s' goodies ]carmen , zach ,lish and girls[ long dresses and earing s ] tim and cath  [ with danno crying over phone ] rich janie brandon ,megan , and kids. paul and terri .marie gary reggie,miloand odin, ike,dhanniell ,kyler ,and weed,mando,nita, and izaiah. pat and al marquise,hondo josh crystal and annalieze. no toni except in heart. chris and pam. maggie, wade and jordan ed ,kota.ed and mardee. ed and cindy and kitty. ashley tate and theo. that old pit did its thing and those girls our sisters ,wives daughters, cousins friend and lovers did the rest. we celebrated the rising of christ. maybe not in so many words . but we did and we shared that one more time together.special because who we are ,when we are and what our parents want us to be

  490 eggs and facsimiles there of were placed on less than an acre of land. skilled finders of the ovum age 6 mo to 12yr attacked the yrd with zeal. 16 hunters in all. marie did her best grand ma gutierrez imatation  gina played marie, and they handed out treasures to the approval of the hunters.as always time runs out a nd friends and and family retreat to their own world.

                  karl

April 6th - 2014

 sunday here again. beth and her 2 arrived yesterday. so we brought them out to feed . gary was in high gear by the time we got there . he and marie had spent the night .[ swimming around the hot tub ] after a day of cleaning and watering and such. chris and zach were there trying to figure what tags were on what cows. and excited to be in the 60's. grub was on, corn tortillas, green chili, sausage ,bacon and eggs. a little smattering of sandys' red. silly kids ate cheerios . lilly gabby, and jax took the side by side for a cruise . while beth and zach saddled  .chris and i rotated my daughters tire s. cheash!  think she needs an alignment.

   pretty soon beth riding in with calf over her saddle.  she left the calf and head back to help zach.  after some cowboying , a decision to bring in the heard was made and once in the corral calf and mom were reunited. chris worked his magic and told the calf where t suck and how. no amount of deterrent  was going to keep the calf away now. cow boys head back out to check the big herd.  when we caught up  beth and zach  were like cats in the hen  house , grinning ear to ear.  they had tagged 4 . 2 too wet to stand.they were pretty proud of themselves. zach only got almost eaten once .and not by the mamma but some bystander cow that came to the rescue. 

  we got beth home[to ranch house] and baby sally had put herself asleep after a fashion. did not think milk should be in a bottle. we headed back to grants zach and chris headed back to the pasture. in an effort to find one them new dangle communicators that "fell" from zachs pocket.

  all quiet, from plischs. erin and jammer, went to madison for the weekend. jim put in his week and mary into the breech. then the florida crowd in a week . deanna got her back  injected haven't heard any results yet.

              karl

April 13th - 2014

we are still waiting for that rain we are suppose to get. made our way to the ranch today  knowing marie was up north[ again] gpa atencio had never seen hulk odin in action. so this was the time. word has it he got his first pin last week. guess that practice with uncle chris paid off. got to the ranch and carmen had the fire going . sandy chimed in and did sausage and some green chili. zach and crew showed and while carmen and sandy cooked we split to feed critters. then gathered round coffee pot for gossip. seems ikey bought a new bike that all but pedals itself, uncle chris has new cleats , carmens new dog did in 2 chickens brought one in the house to give to carmen. it was pretty proud to protect it master.bro pat has ingrown toe nails ; had to put him in the hospital to get things tuned up some. may have bought himself the green bottle. certainly not happy as his reward for trying to clean up seem s to be punishment. janie and rich are up in chicago . nelia couldn't stand to have him limp by himself she wore a hole in her heel be fore they left. put a little spit and band aide and off she went.  toni has decided to celebrate sibling day.  thought that was good, lord knows we need a reason to celebrate .

  speaking of siblings where were you guys today? couldn't find a sib or child or niece or nephew. [ or indian or wet ] had to throw my bride into  the pit. 2 burns worth! made sure we didn't tamp those bags too tight. was thinking of ways to low rider the truck.  we managed.  will pit sat  night .ashley and crew want to  come throw sticks in the fire. cann't fool me i know her dad its an excuse to drink wine. beth and joe plan on stirring coals too.  more important only 1 week left to show your kid what an egg looks like.[ zach has to wear a blindfold] I've counted up 13 hunter s and a goose egg. hope grand ma sends the right stuff!

    of major importance is newborn quilt . as you know the first born to a family is to be the recipient of this here quilt . we are starting to push for squares for tanyas munster.some expedience would be appreciated as the puter together person gets stressed  [ and i have to live with her].

    plisch bunch keeping grand ma going. marysent me pic s of red feet i thought they were moms . no hers with all her runnig around mary got some stasis. barry will get there at the beginning of the week.mom stillhaveing feet aches . her wrist cleaned up but she is not wanting to treat cheek or temple . and she is pretty sure about that! hey guess if i screw along  long enough any thing can happen ; its raining

                    karl

March 31st - 2014

 branding last weekend in may. sorry , all those months look alike.

      kg

March 16th - 2014

well had a sat. from hell.wind 100 mph half of nm in the air.sunday was calm and quiet to start. chris was out before we got there. had his horse gathered and was heading out to check the heifers. i did chickens and cats and feeder calf and snuck the the horses a flake or 2. sandy went in to start breakfast. marie up north cheering odin on in his wrestling. zach took his girls ed and kota grandma carmen to denver to visit michael and family. here after will be known as saint zach. ike stayed home to his wifes' aging . mag and jordan showed and finished the eggs and sausage. we did a baby pot for the diminutive crowd. chris going to check the rest of his flock 34 on the ground .3lost calves one mamma he did a miracle graft  with a mamma that lost hers and the calf that lost the momma.

  at kgbar we have one calf . it is the fence crawl ingest  ever. she comes and goes at will. cassie brought a casey home big nice ole boy. it is his bday today along with dhanielle. cassie and casey are on spring break . they may show up wherever .

   up in wausau grandma was doing left over spagetti. that kathy making her clean the fridge. erin busy keeping all the boo boos clean .jim recooping from his surgery better.up and walking sharing meals with mom and kath. mary making sure all the holes are plugged. jim going to do 1st week between kathy and barry mary and dennis the 2nd.  so those bases are covered.  easter will be at my house the 20th. haven't heard any plans other wise . mom appointed gene to get chocalate bunnies.[i will remind him]  haven't talked about it but what is easter without a pitt. will try to order leaves on the trees for then . o, branding 31st of may.

         karl

March 9th - 2014

a brisk nm morning. painfully early cause of daylight savings. we drove in behind the bikers. as chris and zach knocked icicles from their beards ike did frozen boogers . they started out with h2o bottles and got here thirsty cause the bottles froze. now those boys are tuff! marie was off do her penace for us [income tax]. thanx wee! carmen and sandy manned the stove . breakfast enchilada and sausage and bacon made up main coarse . blueberry muffins for the sweet. lish was with plague ,so the little girls were the entertainment.

   woodenberrys' showed,jordan got 1st for her division science fair in regionals. mag pissed bought income tax cause wade pretty well roping this year.[thats mag all her children doing good]. rana got best  teacher in her school district. and better late  than never i missed phoenix s' 2nd place in jr quad for his age group. ike and zach saddled and went calving .pushing 20 on the ground.  ed and friend rode 4wheeler[ on the road] to check pasture. chris and kota ground hay for supplement. jordan and kota took side by side to feed. wade and chris hooked up truck to pick up riders and preg check a heifer.

  granma plisch has kathy jumping through hoops. wants to quit this or that or eat only this and not so much of that. thank god i have erin up there or we would never get those sores dressed. grandma sounded good or at least in control . the mean daughters make her eat to much. need to thank bill felix . susan  brought her hand me down furniture for beth. they made a day of it. bill out boredom and knowing my patience put in sandys' new dishwasher. we could n't run it for a week cause it might leak. finally got a load through, it worked! small pleasures.

                             karl

Feb 23rd - 2014

 good breakfast, marie and gary nita and isaiah were testing houses. they decided the big house was where it was at. gary and and isaiah did the chickens checked the horses  fed a cow . sandy and marie  started eggs found green chili stew made burritos . lish and girls wandered in. geranium apparently  got best player award. lish said she played yesterday and it even looked like basketball game! eddie wrestled at state  gary  said he did well but  didn't get out. gpa atencio is his geatest fan. jordan had a game friday and looked good , but most importantly at science fair  won her division, got a letter, won the maxwell award, and a few bucks on the side.

    the biggest thing however is chris and ike got zach back on his bike. took them an hour and a half , but they made it in. of coarse there was significant whining about not having enough protein for breakfast. chris went and raided the bacon factory.  chris working hard at working hard! 

  o, the san antonio part of the family shelby [and her cousin jade] had their hair cut and donated them to " locks of love ". an organization the makes wigs for cancer survivors . both girls had 10 inches cutoff. they sent post pics and they look good. and they are very proud of themselves. sandy and i went out and fed the cows. she went with me to mass and went in to coma, i had to wake her to carry her out. didn't even make the homily!

                    karl

Feb 15th - 2014

dinner at ranch tomorrow 2/15. post quad celebration to collect our boston family and los lunas crew. about 1730 tacos beans and chili.

Feb 9th - 2014

today we wandered out at the butt crack of dawn. my bride did not want to be late . she thawed her green ,and pulled out pig, and knew marie was up in farmington. we got to ranch with no one there . started sausage , found those chickens , took their  eggs and started up.i went out to scatter hay far enough apart to prevent major horse fights.  salma wrote to make sure i gave negro extra so when she comes she will  have a good rideing  buddy.

    shortly carmen showed with yuppy tortillas [ flax , sesame , and god knows what else] lish and her girls came on . zach showed off his new windshield  in his truck of many colors. chris now released and reinvigorated on his goal of normalcy  , showed . the girls presented the spoils, and it was good!

    house chores done , we ruminated some of mw issues need some painters . lance has been doing the technical  stuff.

    word has it that sister toni  is in farmington. she will eventually migrate to grants to acclimatize before the big race. we are anxious to see her and mo wish she had brought them all. strange how it is without the whole.

Feb 3rd - 2014

from another end of the world. 23 " of snow out side ,-5 bran muffin in oven glass of OJ. while waiting p bell whipping around sandy lounging in the shower. ibraveed the porch to gather up the news paper for grandma .the ritual of morning paper coffee,bran , date ,apple .good for you and taste good too.the breakfast extended into the rest of the day.they started wrapping dates in bacon , thawing shrimp, prepping chicken wings, making guacamole, salsa, roka blue, and the last thing out of the fridge the Wild cat. i had picked it up at zillmans yesterday.

   the 4 of us started playing cards [sheepshead] at 3:30 g ma s 1st glass of hooch for happy hr. the girls did wine and i coors light.we eased into to our preparations. after abit i could see my luck with cards was worse than usual, certainly didn't want to bet on game.[ thank god] . sandys nephew jammer and wife and elly showed to help us out . mary and dennis came for wildcat . all else were  other wise detained.  we did hurt dips. we didn't have enough folks to finish the wild cat. them bacon things and chickens got put back . probably get the for lunch. 

   now the commercial s were better than the game . i really don't mind one team loosing ,but this was  sad. now the important things , grandma kicked my butt playing sheeps head  and laughed and lecture sandy bought her plays. does my heart good to see her brighten up with the competition . she may not rember whose who but she does her cards.. her skin is healing in spotts. erin is doing a wonderful job cleaning and nursing.

Jan 26th - 2014

really getting spoiled . zach was first out did all the scut. marie and gary a few minutes ahead started afire and a pot of coffee .sandy and marie went to work on eggs and sausage.. there was discussion on how cooked the sausage needed to be. my sister is afraid of echinococcus. so she took our paddys away from us and proceeds to burn that poor pig. i should have threatened her with raw tuna or some such. chris got there and went through the day before . it is safe to say he is recovered.  the green chili on the mc muffin makes it great. little meeting to revamp MW house. plan to sell washington house. slum lording not our strong suit.

  lish and munsters showed up. going with their dad to check stuff. oh, by the way the geranium scored her first basket! her parents were dully impressed. i missed the game but managed to catch kotas game. let me tell you , those girls play for keeps. they led most of the game but the other team had a 7'er .[ sl exaggeration , but she was 2" shorter than me when stood beside her]

   we ran off to hosp ,did quickie rounds. went to farm to feed. great fun . all those bales that the buyers rejected and threw to the side we are putting down our 5 cows.and they like it . sort of like recycling . makes me think i should invest in a few more and pay more attention to farming. me and my buddy we celebrated with an ice-cream cone on the way home.

Jan 19th - 2014

got called in this morning. marie went to farmington. chris went to  oklahoma. i hope the boys got out to feed the chickens. got home in time to hear the church bells ring. sandy and i walked to church. we hadn't been to SR in a while. been doing the nite time quickie. had forgotten how special our little church is. every one knows every one all are families related. the stained glass windows no organ but untrained voices offering up what they have. reigna en la cielo,  and the regular  renissance stuff.noorgan just guitars. priesty still weak on the homily but to a full house.

    after mass we were off to do our house calls. grandpa elias was released from the VA with a perforated tic. just last night alfred was over saying he thought the cruising days were over. so when we opened the door loraine and a crew of women were scrubbing the place. no grandpa insight we assumed the worst . low and behold he loaded up and went cruising with his pamper. the ole fart is tough. we headed up to see tater. she came down  withRSV. couldn't put in the hosp , , no beds.so marie stole oxygen  zach cough up his nebulizer and got some meds set up hospital at home.she is doing well O2 requirement is going down.

   then went to farm fed the cows . then dumped the pig feeders so it doesn't rust out the bottom .sandy came home knocked the hay out of her hair and did beans and chili.we looked up to the mountain noting we are half way through jan . with little or no snow  the top of the mountain could be the hard part of the race!

Jan 12th - 2014

hey , big crowd this morning . think paul threat of pig heart brought them out of the wood work. toms' crew well reped carmen, zach ,lish ,lilly and gab, amanda, looney tunes ,and thomas lee.marie and gary ,anita and izaiah.mag[ rest of her family entertaining outlaws] chris. sandy an  I.

   zach was skying , lilly had first ball  game. true to her genetics she was a defensive animal no one she was guarding  got with in 40 ft of the basket. both zach and lish said she shot once and it was the most beautiful miss ever! after zach calmed down he went on to tell of eddies' wrestling match. guess it was for consolation bracket. but the story has it was for championship of the world. guess ed is a crowd favorite with mutiple family members. apparently worked himself in and out trouble . when he was absolutely beat, brute strengthed himself to a 2 point win!  they then had to do CPR on uncle tim, who had come out of the mountains to watch.

   the chickens did their thing [ i got to crack eggs and stir the bowel] paul started charcoal  and grilled sausage. [the old gas grill took a dive]. gary warmed tortillas on the wood stove. paul cooked up his heart. and marie fried bacon and brought her green chili. pretty fine fixings! during all this eating we had the ranch board meeting. pleasantly, we were generally all on the same page.paul wants to crunch numbers,we all are plussed with heard fertility general agreement in what it takes to do that. being done with that .we decide we need 3 bull s with genetics // to our herd. go out get them.

Jan 5th - 2014

cold, cold, cold, but still haven't heard from tonette. sounds as if the north pole may be migrating down. hope they have fire.pretty un eventful week new years and all.got to ranch late this am only to find we were on time. zach had already done the hard work.marie had made an egg casserole. green chile and warmed up tortillas. yes, heaven!gary brought his biscochitos, and we had breakfast desert. jaxson and izaiha kinda shared the cookies. uncle [ g pa] got a rush out of the extreme appreciation shown his handi work. not to mention the sugar rush. the atencios' were headed to abq.we to hosp then home. big day in wengert house hold . beth thinks she is going back to work and sally is going to take up the bottle. well it started pretty well , about 4oz in. and sally looks up and says "what is this shit ?"after a minor realighning  of authority she gets her tit back and falls asleep. 2nd try maybe an oz before she lets beth know the bottle is not acceptable.by then i think the mother was in more need than the child.

   but day couldn't get any worse when the beloved packers gave the game to san fran.  gran ma plisch is probably suicidal.

December 29th

well this week is in total disarray . we will start with tues. this is a pagan holiday[winter solstice ] borrowed by the church at the time of constantine. all the gifting, trees, dudes in red jackets thats the pagan stuff. church decided they needed to cool the jets on those savages and chose to celebrate the birth of christ during this time period.  really and truly for a people made choice it isn't a bad one. it place families and other like thinking intimate groups together to share love  and good fortune and peace.

      we tried to do that. i do have a confession. i invited ashley and crew. she accepted .i forwarded her acceptance to marie never acknowledging it. marie went into action readying their place but did not acknowledge . forgetting she was not born into this mess called gutierrez family, she was unsure what todo.  i do apologies this once. that being said you are daughter enough to dispense with niceties and get your hinder over here at any time.

    now setting that aside we had rug rats and curtain crawlers to beat the band. mind you it was n't wild it was beyond control.decibels at an all time high , i feared for the the mortar in the bricks. folks packed off food like there was no tomorrow. heres where we missed grand pa G. there was left over sweets. impossible ! when the dust settled, i was santa by default .elves were frances ,marie, cota, lilly, and kylee.they did great. they did get hung up  on couple of new ones. .the night was a success .

   the ole timers stood around and cleaned up, those with younguns rounded them up . trying to make sure they had theirs and not others .as we finished off the remaining wine we dried dishes and packaged leftovers. everything kinda back in place santa got a hug and a kiss and all was well.

  as with all things sunday came. we knew we were going to be short handed, cause marie and gary were and are nannies for ike and danelle. some one scored cardinal tickets with 49ers. so it was drown the children or bribe a nanny. chris better but under threat of grievous consequences he was not suppose to overdo.  so sandy and i arrived to find zach diligently at the ranch stuff. scary thing is he likes it .growing a people phobia ,likes listening to nothing. the more nothing the better! sandy scrambled i toasted and we warmed up green con carne. we wolfed it down, swept the floor,and pointed zach to the spring.

   we went to the farm, and worked on corrals . we had a couple jailbreaks. after we got the pipes welded up and cables re hung it looked respectable. patched the pig pen. too. have been playing farmer ,excited about re seeding. went to church to save my soul, took sandy with so she could take a nap during the homily. the high point of the day was taking a cross sandy made to harry lee .we asked him how things were going his mom is recouping from pneumonia , floyd his having back surgery,his wife is finish chemo . harry is health is best this the bionic man from multiple broken parts. count our blessings!

December 22nd

well, we will start with what we didn't share. jordan was selected all tourney at LA jv tourney,eddie was first place in his match, and cotas team won! 

  this week we are winding down some for xmas or more correctly winter solstice . marie went to abq to have dinner with out laws, chris is recouping from body  adjustment and achey back. me i'm on call for all 3 services. surg, ob  c sect, med.we are hanging close and staying sober. did make it out to feed the pigs.

  sandy pretended we  at the ranch.eggs sausage muffins . 4hr rounds, and she had me making frames for her.

  next week should be fun