Fish, Bills and Local traffic laws

Well, bill-paying was interesting- it took the two of us, a Spanish-speaking Mexican lady we hired, a lot of documents and a pile of money to get our electrical bill in our name and paid up. The water bill won't be in our name until we get the bank trust back notarized. You'd think four months would be enough time, but no..... but at any rate, we're paid up, now we know how to do it, and the dates to pay are in my calendar. And we can go online to see some of the bills as well!

The lady, Kesia, was nice and very interesting, born and bred here. She started talking about how much we'd enjoy clamming, and that she and her family do it all the time, so I took the bull by the horns and asked if next time, she'd mind dragging along a couple of gringos. She said sure, she'd call us, so I guess we'll see if she meant it or was just being polite.

Someday you may see this on a shelf somewhere. Don't buy it.


Yesterday on the beach, Shadow got a little lesson. He was sniffing butts with a dog, and as the dog turned to go, Shadow started chasing it, which he does. The dog let out a huge caterwauling- as it turns out, he was calling his pack, and all of a sudden Shadow was running full out back to us, being chased by a pack of dogs. All they did was nip his butt, but hopefully that broke him of that particular bad habit.

Traffic rule here: The red line indicates where the train tracks run. Depending on which side of the tracks you're on, you have the right of way in the direction of the arrow, as long as you're not at a stop sign. I have a feeling this is the kind of law that could change, oh, I don't know, on every second Tuesday, so I am yielding at all times. That seems safest.



Here are some shots of the fish stand at the local market. It was a little embarrassing taking them, but I wanted to know what some of this is!

Cochina de Cazon is dogfish. Bagre is catfish. Watch out!! They're right next to each other!!


Cochita is trigger fish.


Dogfish again


Mojarro is.. mojarro. I think its a type of tilapia, which I don't normally like, but the web says it's a good eating fish, so we might give it a try.


We think Lobina is bass. Sierra we have no idea, but it looks mackerel-esque, no?


That's all for today- we're off to have shrimp quesadillas and catch the sunset. Sorry, Shadow, no port for you tonight!!