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Well, I have a lot to blog about again. For those of you who have not yet heard, my father's mother died recently, and I am in New Mexico for the services. The way I hear it, everyone's been doing pretty well, though I can't imagine how my grandfather is coping.

From all the pictures I've seen, and the way my father, aunts and uncles talk about them, my grandparents were so very deeply, passionately in love with each other. They have a wonderful story, and I wish I knew more than the fact that they married when he was 21 and she was 19, fresh out of high school. They had five children together. My uncle Dick, my aunt Pat, my father, and my aunts, Sally and Leesa. Now, Dick has a son, Tommy, Pat has a son named Ben (who also has a son) and two daughters, Megan, (who has two sons, Danny and Tyler) and Elise (who has a son named Aden and two stepdaughters). My father has my brother and me, Sally has a son named Jesse and a daughter named Melanie, and Leesa has two daughters, Joanne and Sarah.

It's good to see all of them again, especially so soon after the last time I saw them back in March. We'll sit and talk, and go through all the old photos and reminisce.

Went to Crown List, last weekend, too. Sir Havordh won...again. This will be the third time he's been king of Gleann Abhann alone. He's been king of Atlantia, too. Hopefully, this will be his last time. Don't get me wrong, I like him, and all, but there are others I like also, who I think would do very well on the throne, like Sir Elazar, whose squire Ashi was just informed that he will be knighted soon.

I didn't do much, this event. I watched, and I talked, and I helped where I could, but everything was already so well taken care of. I did get to do a bit of drumming, though, and I've missed that.

Oh, I almost forgot. The reason for the new picture is that being out here means being roughly 400 miles closer to Lanelle. I'm hoping to convince my parents to let me borrow the Yukon and spend a few nights with her and her parents, especially since we'll be staying here more than a week, unlike last time.

At the moment, my lady is troubled, and I would ask for prayer on her behalf as well as mine. Thank you, everyone, for keeping us in your thoughts.

I'll be posting more later, but it might be a bit angsty, and the pic might change, too, so maybe I should save it for tomorrow. In the meantime, God bless.