A Quick Trip to New Mexico
We had meant to visit Albuquerque and Santa Fe a month ago, just a year after I retired, but Marolynn was not sufficently recovered from her foot operation. So we went down at the beginning of the week. We stayed in Albuquerque with the Behlings who were nice enough to invite ward friends of ours over to a dinner, so that we could meet them.

On Tuesday I drove up to Santa Fe to visit the Finance office where I worked before I retired. Everything is much the same in the office, but no so in the County where the county manager suddenly resigned a month ago as scandals were beginning to pop up around him. The Board of Commissioners advertised the position and Katheryn Miller who was the Finance Director who hired me and 2 years later left to work for the Governor, was chosen as the new county manager. She doesn't start until September, so I'll have to go back down to see her.

Helen, the accounting manager is about to have her second child, as is Sharon (not pictured) who worked for me. Pat is feeling better now after grieving for the sudden loss of her teenage granddaughter last spring. All in all, the office is in pretty good shape.