Terragona

How´s the snow? Heard that you were to get a good load. Sounds like fun! Our temperature the last few mornings was a low of +10c. but we know summer weather is just around the corner. Last week Tuesday it was exceptionally hot and humid but fortunately it was only for one day.

Thanks so much for the letter and nice picture. You both look fine and chipper! We only got our Christmas mail last week but it was a nice surprise to have an unexpected stack of envelopes in the mail. I´ve done hardly any emailing this year so yesterday I finally got started on my letter writing and I have many more to go. Seems like I often don´t know what to write anymore. I hardly think people are interested in just hearing about sick people which I know there are many out there too.

Good to hear that you had a great Christmas with your clan. We had no plans for the holidays but in the end we got 3 different invitations and also a number of visitors, some very unexpected, so we felt blessed.

Sounds like you´ve been pretty busy with quilting and embroidering, very good pastime. I found it interesting to hear that Lisa is also making blankets. Guess we can´t let Grandma Wiebe´s trade die! Seems like out here I´m always too busy to get to that kind of work though I´m still wanting too. I gave some of my fabric and scraps to one of the poorer Salamanca ladies. She makes blankets too and will maybe try to sell a few. I´ve been busy with all kinds of other stuff, if not this than that. We finally finished painting on the inside which feels so good to have that done. I had two young girls helping me and we had a good time together. Doing cement walls is so much work and then they´re still far from perfect but... I´m glad it´s done though there´s still a lot of other stuff that needs to be done. Abe is still puttering on putting up the frame for our veranda. I´m really looking forward to getting our "shade roof" because the afternoon sun is very bright and hot in front of the house. I know at first it will seem very dark inside especially for sewing but I guess we´ll have to get used to it.

A few Sundays ago we enjoyed visiting with some of our church people from back home. They came to help out at the Mexico Mennonite Aid in Hopelchen, Campeche. This is a mission run by Amish type people from the US. They have a Christian bookstore and help out the Mennonites in Campeche. Our friends invited us for lunch and faspa which we had together with the MMA people. We´ve met the MMA people before and they seem like very nice Christian folks.

Before I sign off I have to tell you about the good laugh we had the other evening. Abe was sitting outside, bareback, enjoying the weather when all of a sudden he saw that one of his "chest buttons" was flashing on and off! He

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