Cooler Weather and Poker

Carl's been having his morning swim in the ocean the last few days, floating with his back to the beach, contemplating his toes and the horizon and watching the pelicans fish. Tomorrow I'll join him. I've been sticking to the pool for weekdays, because it's easier for me to keep to a workout schedule there. Driving home this morning, we saw a horse and rider coming down the street. I'll never get tired of that. It's so cool that after leaving Alberta, we ended up in the beef capital of Mexico, complete with cowboys (vaqueros).

Busy day for a 'day off'. Shadow and Carl's swim at 7:30, then my swim, a haircut, wash the car, go to the new butcher shop (got two filet mignons, two ribeyes and a bunch of pork ribs). This shop is great, the gentleman speaks English and it's inexpensive- all that for 248 pesos. Broken down, that's 90 for the filets($7.50), 84 for the ribeyes($6.87) and 74($6) for the ribs. He only asks, "how thick?" If they are good, then we've found our butcher. After only a year.

Work for a couple of hours, then off to the Burrito Express mail guys, stopping on the way at a Ferriteria to buy a gate latch and some drawer pulls. Got lucky and got both at one place.

Home and install the gate latch- ended up driving a longer screw into the wood on the left piece, but it works so much better than the old one. I have a new and more intense respect for people who work outsde in this heat and humidity. Within five minutes, I couldn't get a grip on the screwdriver and sweat was pouring off my chin.


Tomorrow we have to get more restaurant information and add more to our website. It's getting a very positive response, and if you search Rocky Point Restaurants we're on page one already.

Tonight we're off for a poker game at the Parrot. So in a little down time I thought I'd update the old blog. Did you know it was a blog that inspired the movie Julia and Julia? Yep, true story. I can just see this becoming a movie...who will play Carl, me and Shadow? You vote!

I was just about to start writing this when a knock came at the door and Diana wanted me to drive her somewhere. So off we went, after her family indicated I was taking her to a church over 'that way.'

I've found a way for Rosie to be able to put up the newspaper on her own, without needing me as an intermediary. We're both really happy with it, but remain good friends and of course if she needs any technical help I'll be there.

We're into August already tomorrow! Holy smokes. We'll have to do something to celebrate our one-year anniversary of arrival on August 28. This past few days it's cooled off a bit, 34 instead of 39, and those 5 degrees help a lot. At night it's about 32 in the house after we turn the AC off, but that's comfortable for us. It got down to 29 in here last night and we both decided that was on the verge of being too cool. A month ago that was WAY too hot.

Holy smokes, it's quarter to six! Let me wrap things up.

In two months it will be cool enough for us to have visitor again, so start planning now! In case you've forgotten: