Rest and Recovery Day

We got back from our trip to New Mexico last night and we're ready for a day of relaxing at home. It was a good trip and one we needed to take, but like trips to the old hometown, a little bittersweet. We moved away from southern New Mexico back in 1976 and have lived primarily in Texas since then, with a break of 7 years when we moved to northern New Mexico. We love Texas and really consider it to be home now.

It was good to visit with my husband's family-we ate lots of good New Mexican food (a whole different thing from Tex-Mex), spent time with siblings and cousins and played 42 (a domino game) for the first time in years. We also visited cousins that are the oldest left in the family. We don't know if we'll get to see them again this side of Heaven, so it was definitely a visit we wanted to make-they are all close to 90. We laughed a lot at their stories-they got up to some shenanigans when they were at New Mexico State University together in the early 1960's! My husband graduated from NMSU in 1976 and we spent one morning just going to the buildings where he went to classes, driving around our old neighborhood in married student housing and reminiscing. It was strange to think that we now have a grandchild at university here in Texas! Guess that's why all of the students looked like "little kids"! 😄 We drove by our old schools and we drove by our old houses where we grew up-a little depressing for me to see how run down the house and neighborhood are-and made a trip to the cemetery where our parents and many of my husband's family are buried. We did a lot of just driving down old roads and revisiting familiar places. Southern New Mexico is a beautiful place of desert, mountains, and miles of pecan orchards.  (These are photos from the internet-they are in the middle of a bad drought and it's all brown and dry, plus it's winter.)

It was a busy week but we're glad we went. Now to get back to "normal"! Getting the inside of our house painted is next on our list, but not just yet!

Happy Groundhog Day!

 

 

Not Sure...

 ...what to call this post. Nothing big going on, just day to day life which is pretty quiet around here. (Which is how we like it.)

My husband designed and made this beautiful hall tree out of reclaimed wood! (The top isn't really wider than the bottom. I'm just a lousy photographer.) 😄

When we are in our daughter's neighborhood and see a nice piece of solid wood furniture sitting out on the curb, we stop and pick it up! This was once a dresser and captain's bed. I'm so proud of him!

We met with our church small-group last night. We live almost an hour away, so we don't always get to both of the twice a month meetings. They are a great group and at 68 and 70, we are the youngest, though not by a whole lot! We enjoyed it.

Other than that, not a lot to talk about. Guess we will make a trip to New Mexico next month. We haven't been in 2 years, and we really need to go. We love our family there but we're not crazy about southern NM. I was born and raised there, but I have never really liked it. It's not a place I have ever felt at home like I do here in north Central Texas. I didn't enjoy our 7+ years in northern New Mexico, though it was a beautiful place. Oh well. Sorry to sound so whiny. It's the time of year when I have a hard time really wanting to do anything. It will be better the closer we get to Spring!

Anyway, that's about it. Have a good week!

Today is the Day!

 

Snow Day!

It's not much compared to places up north, but for Texas 2-3" is a good snow! Schools are closed and most businesses. We lived in the mountains of northern New Mexico back in the 80's and got used to having deep snow on the ground all winter, but I never learned to really like it. I'm glad to be back in the land of snow that is here today and gone tomorrow. It will be in the 60's for high temperatures next week. 

It's just 31F now, but it's expected to be colder overnight and the roads will be icy tomorrow. Anyway, the snow is sure pretty and I'm glad to enjoy it from the comfort of my recliner inside the house! My husband got out and took the pictures.

"We Now Resume Normal Programming"

Guess that phrase shows my age! I remember when I was a kid, hearing that on TV after the news had broken into a show for a news bulletin. Not sure what passes for "normal" these days. At our age, it's Dr. appointments, hobbies, grandkids and puttering around the house! (Have I said lately how much we love being retired!?)

Christmas is all put away and the house is back to semi-normal. We sent a steer to be processed last month and we picked up the meat last week. The house is now filled with the lovely aroma of a roast in the crockpot for tonight's dinner! 

I don't make New Year's resolutions anymore, life is too short and things change too quickly. If I can take each day as it comes and use the opportunities God gives me to His glory, that will be more than enough. I do make plans,  but with the knowledge that He knows best and his timing is always perfect.