Moody Monday

Good morning!

I made it. 

I have to write something because we are going to Costco or somewhere to waste a lot of money.  But perhaps we won't. We are traveling again soon so I hope we don't buy any jereboams of food.

 I have been thinking of Laredo the last couple of days. It's funny, that romantic border town comes into mind every now and then, and lingers for a while...then it evenesces back into childhood memory.

Did I ever write about the Mercy Hospital in Laredo? I visited there a few times in the year we lived in Laredo, or on trips.  The hospital was a rectangle of a few stories (two?) that was in the midst of downtown Laredo.  It was owned by the Sisters of Mercy, who ran a tight ship there at the hospital. 

The hospital was surrounded by a plaza full of large leafy trees full of little birds (who were probably full of little germs), and at twilight their twittering was something to hear as they finished up their housekeeping for the day, and settled down to their sleep .  All the windows of the hospital were wide open, there being no A/c of course.  The life of the trees and the life of the hospital were one in regularity and peace.After the hustle and bustle of the border and downtown Laredo, this place was an island of quiet and tranquility and music. 

There is a place on the web where you can read the comments of the locals, now in 2011, as they remark on the Old Hospital which is now thought to be haunted.  If it is, I am sure that some of the ghosts at least are very small and that they fly around looking for their nests before they settle down for the night. YAZZYBEL