Drove to Houston area yesterday morning, making good time, two hours, never exceeding the speed limit. Just lucky with traffic I guess as it took 2.25 hours coming home today in the heavy Easter eastbound traffic. Went to youngest granddaughter's fifth birthday party yesterday morning in Kingswood and enjoyed watching 20 kids try to bust a pinata that my son could barely break with a ball bat. Kids had great time and all of my grandkids but one were there but the one at work had his lady and my greatgranddaughter there so we got plenty of baby on us. Peaceful afternoon at my daughters in Splendora that Saturday afternoon checking out the work that's being done on her house preparatory to putting it on the market on 1 May. New roof and a totally new paint job will help as will some new tile flooring in the bath, kitchen and hallway. My eldest grandson did the tile laying and it looks good. I tightened screws and bolts here and there, the little stuff that gets left till last, plus a little electrical repair work and a new inside phone line that one grandson and I ran. Me doing the technical work and the grandson pulling wire and grunting. B-) Had a lot of help from Miss Sleepy Dawg and my greatgrand Miss Zoe Robertson. Zoe squatted and asked a lot of questions and Sleepy stayed busy trying to keep me from smooching on Zoe when I got the chance. Sunday I baked a ham with a crust recipe I took from FoodTV and Alton Brown's show "Good Eats." Wasn't that impressed with the ham coating and the whole thing seemed a lot of work to just cook a ham. Daughter fixed baked asparagus with lemon cream sauce, green beans with new potatoes, and broccoli with sprinkled fresh grated parmesan. I also baked a loaf of bread in the daughter's bread machine. A good time was had by all visiting and eating and laughing at the antics of the baby who, by the way, has become quite the chatterbox since she turned 2 yo last November. She has memorized the words to one of her children's books "Dinosaurrumpus" and quickly corrects you if you leave a word out or put one in. The ladies were all dressed in their Easter best including hats and gloves and this includes Miss Zoe for the 9 am Mass today. I got some neat pictures of "My Girls" too. Life is bery bery good. George