Brittni, I forgot to mention in the previous Gazette about your unhappy time with Clay Boy. That can be pretty devastating when you try everything and nothing works. Finally, you somehow hit on the stuffed puppy.....and voila! it worked. I hope it is still working. We went through something like that with Kenny. He never shut his mouth for the first year! We nearly went insane! Juanita's milk did not agree with him and we tried all diffferent formulas until finally we tried Similac which stayed down. He was born on Oct. 5 and on his first Christmas morning he and I were sitting under the Christmas tree and both of us were crying! Juanita had had him until midnight and then I had him from midnight until 6AM an he never shut his mouth for either of us. Kim was so different...but we were still up all night checking to see if she had died of SIDS, she was so quiet. I hope the puppy is still working for you. Did you get that idea from the Baby Whisperer Book you mentioned in your blog?

I had a really nice phone call on Saturday night from Opal and Talmadge Crosser in Payson who are hosting the Stevenson School reunion. They loved my letter I wrote them about my life since 1935 when I attended Stevenson School. They did a lot of arm twisting but I still declined. I don't think it would be worth my time or $$$$ as I am sure I would not know many there. So I declined as gracefully as I could.

Well, when those geeks in Congress finally make up their mind to do something they get it done. I accessed my checking account at the bank very early this morning and lo and behold my SS check had been deposited! It made my day and I am sure it did so for all the rest of the old fossils like me who were hoping, hoping, hoping!!!

Yesterday I had a call from my friend Librado Renteria telling me that his nephew, Alex Renteria, had died of cancer at age 54. I met Alex when he was 5 years old at the wake of his Father, Procopio Renteria, who had been murdered. The visitation for Alex will be in the morning at 8AM and the funeral immediately afterward at the same location, St. Catherine's Catholic Church. After the funeral we will proceed to St. Francis Cemetery which is only a few blocks from my house. I will not go to the visitation as St. Catherine's is a long distance from me and I would be driving in all the morning traffic of all of those going to work. But I will be there for the funeral at 10AM and then there will be the procession to the cemetery escorted by motorcycle policemen and after the burial I will be only a few blocks from my home. There is an interesting story about Alex but at this point in time I am hungry and tired and will leave the story of Alex until after the funeral tomorrow.