11.   In the rustic kitchen of the adobe house where she grew up, her mother is busy making soup and chopping vegetables.

12.   Loeffler, who lives with his wife in an adobe house on the outskirts of Santa Fe, talked about his friend while driving east in the high desert.

13.   Martinez is visiting his sister in Colonia Independencia, a collection of drab one-room, adobe houses without running water, sewer service or other basic services.

14.   Now the oldest village in Colorado, this quiet town still boasts a few adobe houses.

15.   Rising real estate prices and taxes have forced old Hispanic families to trade their adobe houses in the center of the city for trailers on its edge.

16.   She is building up credits for the time when she is ready to build her own adobe house.

17.   The additions were done in sympathy with the original structure, the only territorial-style adobe house on the street.

18.   They were thrown up on the edge of farm communities of small adobe houses and rutted dirt streets, in effect converting them into company towns.

19.   This week, it announced plans to open her adobe house in Abiquiu, N.M., to the public.