I don't want to lose my old blogger so I'm going to update a bit.

My sisters and I have not been able to get in touch with our 86 year old mother. I have tried calling and calling but no one is answering the phone.

She lives in Mexico. Only one cousin has a working telephone. She lives across the yard but if they don't pay the bill on time the service is disconnected straight-away! But that is not the case now because the phone rings. I wonder if the volume is turned off. It could be. Or maybe the phone is not plugged in? My cousin has little kids in her house at any given time and one of them could have accidentally unplugged it.

My mother must be wondering why the three of us forgot her on Mexico's Mother's Day, May 10th and then again in our Mother's Day this past Sunday.

It is frustrating here too. We have no other way to get in touch with anyone.

They live right behind a famous hotel. I was wondering if I could call the hotel and ask them to send an errand boy to let them know we have been trying to call. A tip could be paid with Paypal?

I do not have a passport. I can't just run down there to see if everything is fine. There was an earthquake about a month ago that hit Mexico City. They live an hour away and did feel it. But there had been one before the reported one in their area which was stronger. We did not hear of it because it is not Mexico City.

Maybe there was damage to the telephone line due to another earthquake?

No way to know.

My sister says I should not worry because if anything bad happened we would have found out. How if they don't have a working telephone? (I just thought of this. Ok. Now I really won't be able to sleep.)

I am not really a worry-wart. I just know my mother is quite sad thinking we have not called her. My poor mom.

"People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy." ~ William Faulkner