Tastes Changing?

Thanksgiving at Grandma's will be interesting.

Dad

Dad getting a trim after cataract surgery. The plastic was to keep hair from getting into his eyes.

Dad was almost like the man on the horse after his surgeries..Arms up, celebrating triumphantly! He is seeing so much more than he had been. After getting the second surgery done, he wanted to read EVERYTHING, just to practice.
We hadn't spent much time together in quite a while and really enjoyed each others company over the past few weeks. Mark has been in Korea and Jeffery is a teenager so it was just he and I most of the time. Nice to be together.

Surprise!

So, I'm doing dishes and I look out the window and think to my to myself, "is that a watermelon"? I dried my hands and walked outside to the edge of the lawn and YES, it is a watermelon! And YES, it was this big the first time I saw it.
I have thrown a watermelon into the desert instead of the trash, to see if the animals would eat it. I never realized it would grow. I guess we got just enough rain this year.
Dad convinced me to pick it. I don't know if it was quite ready or not but I picked it and cut it open. It tasted just okay and had TONS of seeds. I threw the seeds back out into the desert. Lets see what happens????

CAJFW- Sorry you missed the experience

CRAZY AUNT JUDY FROM WISCONSIN
She is definitely and "experience", lol! She can remember so many funny stories. And if you ask her a question, she says, "That's a long story." and of course, it is....it doesn't matter what the question is. She is a nut! She NEVER stops talking. We had a great time. She went with me to pick up dad in Hobbs. It made the trip go by really fast!

James and Nanny after dinner. It just hit my how truly lucky I am to still be in Alamogordo. I've have thought so much of leaving after the kids are gone and maybe someday I will but for now I realize how nice it is that when everyone comes back home, we get together at Lily's, Nanny's or my house. I think the kids may want that some day.

We all loaded up in the motor home and took an overnight trip to Albuquerque. Here is Lily, Mel, Dad and James with Robert and his family. We ate at this restaurant that reminded us so much of how we grew up. It was eery...a song came on the juke box and I could feel tears running down my cheeks. When I looked up at Lily, she was also teared up. Happy Memories!

Lily was Elk hunting when Judy arrived. We went to pick Lily up in the mountains and this is Judy, all dressed up for Lily. Acting CRAZY!