chrissy...spoke with wallace last night. he had just gotten in from church. he will be here close to the 20th. since that is jim's birthday, i asked him to make it here in time to go with us to kilgore as we go to the rib place there (best in the country and where pres. johnson had ribs flown to the white house on one of his big dinners....j.r. ewing on dallas is one of their biggies....plus many other celeberties) just old barn like place but the food is wonderful....not high...not fancy...just the best ribs around. told wallace to tell you, have your bed made with clean sheets...we will have some pretty good food, linda and brenda are coming over one day...and we are going to just forget the world is around us. so come on...on top of that, mother's little house is still not being used and we haven't stayed there since the ice storm. when i told wallace we had almost been rained out here in texas, he said i just might wait another month before i get down there. anyway, we have plenty of room....good pillows....get yourself down here gal...you will missing all of the fun if you don't take me up on this opportunity to come to texas. get your drawers on and just come on. took the flowers out of the hot house today so we are waiting and ready for you....are you ready for us.................. love, hugs and blessings, me....oh...got my computer back today and had 47 messages on it and it has been gone just about a week.