Hello campers.

Sunday afternoon, Krl and I made the trek to the grocery store. She had not been since I left for South Texas the thirtieth of July. If she needed anything, either she would have to call Trace or wait for Ollie to come in to run errands for her.

I had been to the store, almost everyday since my return. We were out of almost everything. I made preparations for our joint trek, I went out and moved my truck, then loaded Krl's wheelchair in the back of her SUV (I didn't think it was a good idea for her to try to walk through the store with her air boot and post op shoe, although she sure does look stylish).

When we arrived at the store, we walked (O.K., I walked, she rolled) toward the entrance, noticing they were having their annual Hatch Chile Pepper promo. They had case after case stacked about and had two big roasters. The aroma was spectacular! The girl doing the promo and Krl are friends so Krl told her to roast us a case of the peppers and we would pick them up on our way out. We did our shopping and on the way out picked up our green chiles along with some recipes they were handing out.

We arrive home and dealt with groceries, then I began reading about freezing the peppers. It said you could remove the skin or stem prior to freezing or after they have been frozen and thawed. I decided it would be easier to do them prior to. Krl and I began to peel the skins off and pull the stems. Almost four hours later we finished. We have green chilis running out of the kaz-zoo! I had no idea how much a case was, but when I took the box out, I learned that a case is a bushel. I still don't know how much weight that would be.

Yesterday, Krl asked what I wanted for supper and I told her home-made enchiladas! So we put our new supply of chiles to good use. Instead of making the flat enchiladas, we rolled them and put them in a pyrex dish, but we still topped them when we served them with lettuce, tomatoes, and two fried eggs. It was delicious. I even played a little and stuffed three of the larger green chiles with a concoction that appealed to me.

We may get a wild hair and fix chili rellenos.

I had planned on going West to St. Lawrence today, but I had forgotten that Krl has a doctor's appointment. All I know is that the appointment is after lunch.

Maybe tomorrow I can make the westward trek.

I talked with E.T. yesterday and for the first day since we left South Texas, it wasn't raining. He told me he had picked up a thousand bales to be hauled from Laredo, but he was thinking the harvest crews can't return to the field until the first of next week.

That would work for me. I could do the Stephenville show this Saturday, then hopefully go South and complete our work there before we return to do the Wichita Falls show.

This morning when I woke. I walked through the house, poured me a glass of Diet Coke, and retrieved my phone from the charger. It showed new voice mail. Over a year after the call from Pat early in the morning to tell me about TJ, I can recall that message word for word.

Needless to say, my stomach was in my throat. Thankfully, it was a day old message that came while my phone malfunctioned yesterday.

Hope things are going well for you. Some are back at work teaching, others at school learning. The cycle begins anew!

Have a day.

FATHER, thank YOU for home, thank YOU for memories. I pray that we will receive a good report from Krl's doctor today, and I ask that YOU continue to bless her with YOUR miracles of healing.