chapter_six_big_momma   For my new visitors to this site, I hope you will view my downloads available for you. My favorite is, Chapter Six, Big Mamma from my Cousins novel. This one is almost all true, with a few changes here and there to protect the innocent. I hope you will check it out along with the other stories available there. By the way, March 2010, was the sites busiest month so far…like 1500 visits from all over the world. Thanks ever so much…Pete Hester

Have you been following the stories coming in from southern New Mexico and Arizona? It is scary. Does the nation of Mexico not have any people to patrol the borders? Mexicans came into Columbus, NM lately and tied up an elderly couple and stole their car. They were later caught and they did not hurt the elderly couple, thank goodness. Then day before yesterday, a rancher on Arizona’s southern border was killed. He had just callled his brother on his cell phone stating he had encountered some illegal aliens and needed help. When help arrived, they found the rancher dead. Today’s paper stated Governor Richardson had sent in some National Guard Troops…The paper did not state how many, but I certainly hope it is enough to protect our citizens in that area….I know our Border Patrol people are doing everything they possibly can to deter illegal entry across our southern border…..  It is miles and miles of isolated territory but once the Apaches were rounded up in 1888 things have been safe for our citizens in that area…..  Now, maybe we need some more Buffalo Soldiers assigned down that way, reckon?

The San Juan River is New Mexico’s renown trout stream…The first two miles downstream of Navajo Dam is a catch and release area. The next seven miles are catch and keep and fly fisherman come from all over the world to fish these waters. I saw today on the news where Fish and Wildlife were placing boulders in various places in the river on this seven mile stretch to make for some “quiet waters” to improve the fishing. That has been places I have looked for while fishing, places where the fish wait for bugs and little creatures to come over the rocks and swirl round and round, but I never thought about hauling some big rocks in to make these pools. Wonder if we will be allowed to make our own fishing holes provided we can push some boulders into place?…well, it was just a thought….on second thought, one boulder could damn up the Pecos in several locations, huh?….

Number 2 grandson has bought a house….a beautiful house sitting on about 1/2 prime acre….a beautiful view of the Sandia’s. The lot falls away to the back, leaving only the roof top of that neighbor’s house visible from his patio, giving him an excellent view of the mountains…It is going to be a neat place when he finishes with it…He is a plumber and he is doing a complete re-pluming job. Both no. 2 grandson and no. 3 grandson’s are plumbers, and no. 3 is going to live with him, etc and  both are working on it…I did not know that plumbers knew so much…they can tear into walls, tear up floors, dig under houses….then put them all back together…correctly and make it look good. They had their dad and their grandpa over today and dared us to keep up with them(we couldn’t)…..Well sir, my old butt is dragging…I can truly say my no. 2 son did an outstanding job raising those boys…What a work ethic they have…I met their boss Sunday and he was bragging on how hard they work….I am truly proud to call them both GRANDSONS…..They make me feel good…and blessed….

Well, the health bill hasn’t even cooled yet and now our President is being urged to reform the immigration system….Now, just what does that mean?….If we can process more green cards and have legimate immigrants come into our nation, I don’t have a problem with that…But if it means our President is trying to ok all the illegal that are here already and bring in all of their families, then it is not ok….We are broke…We Americans are the poor, the tired and huddled masses….We don’t need any more poor folks or any more people on our already bulging welfare rolls or on our new and improved healthcare system…..Mr. President, give it a rest….take a break…work on our economy for a spell….Other than that, don’t improve anything else for a while, ok?….

Well, I heard from a classmate from, eh, class of a long time ago, yesterday. It is always nice to hear from those classmates. Interesting to hear about their life, what all has happened and bring each other up to date on present activities…Anyway, this fellow was one or two grades in front of me, but he was always very nice and kind of treated me as an equal, not as an under classman, so I thought very highly of him……so it was very good to hear from him and I hope to hear more about his life  in the near future….We always, I should say, I always like to share the good things that have happened, not the sad or bad things…I guess that is normal, huh….Anyway, if some more of you graduated from PiCoHi, whatever class, let me hear you …..    pete@hesterbooks.com will work…..

Ok, it has happened…In this mornings paper, the Williams sisters have bought into the Miami Dolphin’s organization, owners if you will. You remember the tennis ball and the bad call from the line judge and where the tennis ball was going to be placed and then me saying that Brian Urlacker had been injured and that Serina could make a good replacement? …You remember that post, huh?… Well, now she has a chance….Linebacker for the Dolphin’s….Visualize this, Romo is calling out the signals….Omaha, sixty-four, hut, hut….Sernia has the tennis ball out, showing it to Romo and shouting across the line of scrimmage just where she is going to stuff that ball….That boy is gonna run, probably a guaranteed loss as he hurries over to the biggest Miami tackle, quickly embracing his tackle so he will not face the fury of the ex-tennis player….I think it will work…..(if this writer turns up in the hospital for tennis ball extractions, you will know what has happened, ok?)

I have got to get back to writing my novel. My main man is out in the middle of the desert chasing a bad guy…he needs some help…he needs some food…But out in the middle of the desert, there is not much out there, oh, well, let me see…now his horse could throw him and drag him for  a way….then a beautiful Apache squaw finds him and is nursing him back to health…then her warrior boy friends finds them together and now he is fighting a battle on two fronts….the bad guy  finds the warrior and the good guy fighting and if he can get a lucky shot and kill the good guy and blame it on the warrior…. But the rest of the tribe rides up and see all this going on and….well..ok, back to the drawing board ’cause I don’t think that will work out…Anyway, I need to get back to the book get the plot plotted and the bad guy trapped and the good guy remaining the good guy…He will get the girl, but right now I am not sure which girl….Wow, lots of work left to do….I better get started…

This is one of the paintings that I did from a mental picture. I originally wanted to paint a donkey pulling the wagon, however, it dawned on me that I could not paint a donkey, so I have the wagon and driver going away from the painter to fix that small problem. We have a lot of the pink and orange colored soil, especially up toward Farmington/Bloomfield on Highway 550. I like that drive and I always enjoyed driving up that way. The time of day and brightness of the sunshine always changes the colors. So, here is another of my earlier paintings…Going Home..

If the next presidential election were to be held tomorrow and Sarah Palin was running I would vote for her. I like what she has to say, I like how she says what she says and I like her demeanor…..Now, that being said, the next thing I would ask Mrs. Palin is, “Do you really want that job?” After one year, the running of the nation takes its toll on a person, they age more rapidly than the rest of the general population. Some get down right ugly,…. well, that may be little harsh, but you get my drift….So, Mrs. Palin, I ask you, do you really and truly want that job?…..Do you want your family in that gold fish bowl?…Have to get a face lift after a short time in office?….It is a life changing deal, Mrs. Palin, a lot to put on your family and, that said, I would still vote for you if you run…May God Bless you with wisdom and discernment about your future…Pete Hester