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WELP HERE IT IS MONDAY AGAIN! PICTURE THAT. EASTER WAS INTERESTING WE WENT TO THE VIGIL MASS AND WE HAD TO LEAVE AT 715 BECAUSE IT STARTED AT 800PM WELL, IT DIDNT START UNTIL ACTUALLY ABOUT 830PM AND A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE CAME IN FROM OUTSIDE THEY WERE THE ONES TO BE BAPTIZED OR CONFIRMED TO THE CATHOLIC FAITH, AND THERE WERE SO MANY!! DAD AND I WERE EXHAUSTED BY 930PM SO WE WENT OUT TO THE CAR TO NAP WE HOPED , BUT NO, NO NAPS , SOEM PEOPLE HAD LOCKED THEMSELVES OUT OF THEIR SUV AND ALTHO IT HAD A NUMERIC ENTRY LOCK THEY FORGOT THE CODE AND THE KEYS WERE INSIDE.
WELL,THEY WORKED ON IT FOR 2 HOURS BEFPORE THEY FINALLY OPENED IT I OFFERED OUR AAA SERVICE BUT THEY CLAIMED TO BE OK AND ONE HOUR AFTER OUR OFFER THEY FINALLY GOT IN. THEY HAD A BUNCH OF KIDS WITH THEM AND HAD BEEN RUNNING IN AND OUT OF CHURCH TO QUELL THE CRYING LIL ONES AND THATS HOW THEY GOT LOCKED OUT.
THE MORAL OF THIS STORY IS... NEVER BUY A NUMERIC LOCK SYSTEM CAR USED BECAUSE YOU WILL NEVER KNOW THE CODE.
ALSO DONT PUT YOUR KEYS IN THE CAR WHEN YOU ARE JUST VISITING IT BECAUSE YOULL FORGET THEM IN THE IGNITION.
DAD LIKES TO DO THAT GO IN THE CAR AND WAIT AND LISTEN TO THE RADIO, WELL, A COUPLE OF TIMES HE HAS LOCKED THEM IN GOOD THING I ALSO HAVE A SET OF KEYS.
ANYWAYS I DO NOT RECOMMEND EASTER VIGIL MASS TO ANYONE NOT BEING BAPTIZED IT IS A LONG LONG TORTUOUS EXPERIENCE.

OF COURSE CHRIST SUFFERED WORSE BUT... I AM NOT INTO DELIBERATE SUFFERING.
I AM NOT A PENINTENTE LIEK THE ONES IN SANTA FE. WHEN I WAS A CHILD WE HAD A PROCESSION FROM ST. FRANCIS CATHEDRAL TO THE OLD CEMETARY CHURCH AND WE CARRIED A STATUE OF MARY ONE SUNDAY TO THE OLD CHURCH AND BROUGHT HER BACK THE NEXT WEEK.
I USED TO LOVE PROCESSIONS I WORE MY FIRST COMMUNION DRESS AND CARRIED A CANDLE AND WHITE ROSARY AND SANG ALL THE WAY THERE. IT WAS BEAUTIFUL AND FUN. I THINK IT WAS IN MEMORY OF TAKING BACK THE CITY FOR CATHOLICS AFTER A CERTAIN WAR WE HAD IN THE OLDEN DAYS WITH THE SPANIARDS AND INDIANS POPE I THINK.
WELL, I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ON POPE'S SIDE BUT I DIDNT KNOW ANY BETTER THEN. I PROCESSIONED F0R THE HISPANIC PARTS OF ME.
POPAY ITS PRONOUNCED.
WELL ANYWAY TO GET BACK TO MY ORIGINAL TALE... ON THOSE DAYS THERE WERE THESE ANCIENT MONKS WHO LIVED WAY UP THE MOUNTIANS AND HAD A MISSION THERE AND DURING EASTER THEY WOULD WALK ALONG THE MOUNTAINS AND HAD THESE LEATHER WHIPS WITH STICKERS ON THE ENDS AND THEY WOULD WALK TO THE OLD CHURCH AND BEAT THEIR BACKS BLOODY WITH THESE THINGS ALL THE WAY TO THE OLD CHAPEL AND BACK AND SINCE IT HAPPENED DURING OUR PROCESSION I THOUGHT IT WAS FOR EASTER BUT I CANT REMEMBER FOR SURE IT WAS SO LONG AGO. 63 YEARS AGO IN FACT.
BUT MY PAST IS SO FULL OIF HISTORY REAL HISTORY, THE KIND THEY WRITE BOOKS AND MAKE MOVIES ABOUT NOW ADAYS.
MY LIFE IS A HISTORY BOOK. SO IF YOU WANNA HEAR ABOUT MY HISTORY FEEL FREE TO ASK.
MY GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER WAS THE TREASURER OF THE NEW MEXICO TERRITORY BEFORE IT BECAME A STATE , THEY OWNED A BUSINESS LIKE WELLS FARGO THEY TRANSPORTED GOODS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. WHEN I WAS A CHILD THERE WERE STILL A FEW HORSES AND BUGGYS BUT TRUCKS WERE TAKING IT ALL OVER I REMEMBER. DURING SUMMER MONTHS THE OLD FARMERS WOULD DRIVE THESE WAGONS FULL OF PRODUCE TO SELL IN THJE NEIGHBORHOODS WE WOULD BUY FRESH SQUASH AND GREEN CHILIS AND RISTRAS OF RED CHILIS FROM THEM IT WAS WONDERFUL THE PEACHES WERE THE SIZE OF A CANTALOUPE AND THEY WERE SWEET AND RIPE AND DELICIOUS UNLIKE THE CRAP THEY NOW SELL IN GROCERS. THE APPLES WERE HUGE AND IN STORES THE ORANGES WERE GIANTS AS WELL. ONE ORANGE WAS ENOUGH FOR A FAMILY.
THE GOOD OLD DAYS WERE REALLY REALLY GOOD. AND TASTY THE TOMATOES WERE LARGE AND JUICY AND RED AND TASTED GOOD NOW THEY TASTE LIKE SAWDUST. ITS SAD WHAT HAS BECOEM OF OUR FOOD. OUR CHILDREN WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO TASTE THE GOODNESS OF REAL FOOD LIEK WE HAD WHEN PEOPLE PICKED FRUITS AND VEGGIES WHEN RIPE NOT GREEN WHEN FLAVOR IS NOT SET IN YET.

TOLDYA I WAS HISTORY. MY HUBBY AND I USED TO HAVE WONDERFUL GARDENS WE LIVED IN THE COUNTRY AND GREW TOMATOES SO MANY I HAD TO CAN THEM AND FRUIT TREES WHERE YOU PICKED RIPE FRUIT AND IT TASTEED SOO GOOD. THE CORN WE PICKE D DAILY AND HAD ALOING WITH FRESH SQUASH AND TOMATOES AND IT MADE A WHOLE MEAL. ALSO I FROZE CORN FOR TAHNKSGIVING AND MADE PLUM PIES TO EAT THEN TOO. OUR THANKSGIVINGS WERE SOO TASTY FROM OUR OWN HOME GROWN CANNED AND FROZEN FRESH FOODS.
I LOVED CANNING WE WOULD GOTO THE ORCHARDS AROUND THE COUNTRY AND GATHER FRUITS WHICH I CANNED PEACHES AND APRICOTS AND PEARS COST 5.00 A CRATE 50 LB CRATE . AND THERE WAS OUR WINTER FOOD MAINLY. WE JUST NEEDED FRESH SALAD MAKINGS ALL ELSE WE HAD.
THE ONLY THING WE COULD NOT DO WAS EAT OUR PET CHICKENS . HAHAHHA