September 16

Thank goodness my sweet Mary Ann finally came over and showed me how to get back in to my blog.  I hope I haven't lost all my followers because I haven't been able to let you know what has been going on.  It was a problem with the password/log in thing but now I'm back in business.  There have been lots of  hours with Judge Judy, Hoarders, Forensic Files, and my new favorite Animal Hoarders.  And I finished my painting of the flowers, the huge one for the entryway.  And I'm almost finished with Mary and Baby Jesus.  But the big news is Chris has finally come home, thank goodness.  I missed him so much and it was awful because the phone in Ruidoso is in the front room which is piled high to the ceiling with beds and all the stuff from upstairs that you can't get to it.  And the cell phones don't work up in the canyon, so we couldn't talk on the phone until he came into town....to eat usually or play golf.  But we did email back and forth, Carol said I should IM him but I don't know how to do that, but he doesn't either, so he'd send me an email and I'd send him one back.  I should have flown to Roswell or El Paso, but after Carol left we had the hurricane, actually a tropical storm, but hurricane sounds better, and then it was almost time for him to come back, but still I should have gone.  I'm just so glad he's home.

I started my Bible study yesterday next door at Sonya Kelly's with some of our neighbors, her Mom and sister, and I think it will be good.  You know on my mind always is our son Patrick and how much I love and  miss him and his family.  My prayer is someday things will be better.  Chris and I will never really be whole again until we have him back.

I have decided I am a crummy poker player and don't know the first thing about the game.  I don't understand half of what Mary Ann says about it on her blog.  But the thing is it's so much fun, and I do win alot, well occasionally, and I love it when people get mad and say stupid things.  I love to beat the mouthy ones.  I love to beat anybody.  I just love to play poker.

Gabriel called last night and told Chris all about his big hunt and he shot something.  It looks like a big giant deer with horns, but he called it some kind of goat.  He's having the head cut off and going to have it mounted or whatever and wants to hang it on the wall in Ruidoso.  I said 'sure, we want the place to look like Clayton Williams' house in Midland.'  I said 'you don't have anyplace to hang it at your house, or Carrie doesn't want it in the house?', and he said 'sort of' and I couldn't tell if the timidness in his voice was fear of me or of Carrie, he is such a funny sweet man, so we'll hang it with the fish he caught and the one Jackson caught and the one Chris caught.  Now I think we are going to need something like a turkey or some kind of birdishness or a bear or something to compliment this menagerie we are going to put in our newly remodeled home in Ruidoso.  Actually I think it will be nice to have dead animal heads, and dead fish hanging all over the place, because just think of the stories they will be able to retell, every time someone asks about this one or that one.  It will be so much fun!!

Back to the painting.  Chris is out hiking.  Mary Ann left after her oatmeal.  Another day in paradise.