My wife, Adinete (the sequel)

Well, my sweet wife, Adinete, did it again!

Since November she had been telling that she was going to give me a great, wonderful Christmas present but she would not give me a hint of what it might be.

Christmas came and went, but no Christmas present.  I asked her about it several times.  She told me to be patient, that it was coming.

Then one day we went to the Golden Corral restaurant in Pharr for the senior early bird special.  After we ate we started home to Alamo.  Adinete, who was driving, however, took an unusual route to Alamo.  In San Juan, which is between Pharr and Alamo, she turned off the street going to Alamo. Then she made another turn and pulled into the circular driveway of a huge brick house.

After stopping, she turned toward me and said, "This is your Christmas present.

My mouth must have dropped open.  Adinete told me later that she had never seen me look so surprised.

As I wrote earlier, she closed on other houses in Alamo during December with funds from the sell of our house in Olinda, Brazil.  Consequently I had no idea that she would buy another one.

My sweet Adinete is a astute business women.  The house had been repossessed by the Bank of America and she made a cash deal for about two thirds of its market value

It is a two story house with three bedrooms and two baths upstairs.  Downstairs we have a formal living room, a formal dining room, a kitchen, a breakfast/dining room, an office/computer room, a very large, informal living room, the master bedroom and master bathroom.  We have all this plus a large two-car garage and a detached storage and workshop.  All this sits on a double lot with a patio, deck with benches and brick barbeque grill on the west side of the house.

All I can say is that I have a wonderful, loving wife who is full of surprises.