January stuff!

On Christmas afternoon, Jany and Bill and Don and I went to Cortez and visited with Happy for a day. En route we stopped and visited a landmark I had not seen in all these years, we went to the Blue Hole in Santa Rosa. It is a remarkable sight. Probably 40 feet across it, and eighty feet deep. I guess it is great for divers who want their certification, beyond that, it barely qualifies as an oddity.
By the time we reached Rio Rancho, pit stops were badly needed, and open stores were in short supply! We found a Circle K, and as I bailed out of the Toyota, my purse handle snagged my right foot and I hit the cement with 170# at full throttle. I was not so damaged I couldn't walk, and the amazing thing is that I did not wet my jeans. It retrospect, I can't see how not, but I didn't.
We had a wonderful visit, drove out and prowled around Battlerock, went by the old homeplace--then drove home on Sunday, because Bill had to be at work Monday.

We always make it a point to have a quiet New Year's Eve, and this was no exception. Soon the year got in gear, and we were up to here in grandsons and their activities.

Since this was not addressed since Thanksgiving, Samuel Aiden Bertrand put in his appearance on December 2, about fifteen minutes after his mom and Stephen got to the hospital! He is by now fat and sassy and will smile at you like you were the focal point of his world. That makes millions of points with grandparents, believe me! His Mommy is going back to college next week and he will be hanging around here with us even more, alas!
Jacob took a vacation this week and stayed here with us. He brought his Wii, and played with Grandad some, and then spent a great deal of his time playing it alone. He also painted a couple of little wooden toys, and kept up his school work, and en general enjoyed feeling like an "only child" for a few days. The tooth fairy's sister (he determined) left him five bucks. That is a far cry from the quarters we got as kids, but he said a classmate told him she was paying Albuquerque kids twenty bucks a tooth........whew.
As we go into the weekend, it looks like we are going to have to have a new sewer tap put on the alley, and that is a pain...the jury is still out, but I need to unload the washing machine and take it to a laundry!