As summer arrives, our days are settling into a rhythm. Up at 7 or 7:30 and take Shadow to the beach for his swim. This is usually lovely, not too hot, stand in warm water up to your knees and watch the birds and the water, and throw the ball for Shadow.
Then we come home, change into suits, and go for our swim.
Down to the pool at the Baja Cantina. We swim and exercise for about 40 minutes, then back to the car and back home. Sometimes they charge us 60 pesos for the swim, but you get a bracelet to allow you back in and two drink tickets, so on those days we try to come back around 5 and have a dip and a couple of beers at the swim up bar.
Then it's a shower, a light breakfast and work. Maybe a few errands in the late afternoon, might visit the Sandbar and shoot a little pool, maybe go for that swim, then home for supper. All in all, these are very nice days.
We're getting out, meeting a few more people. This is my friend Rosie who I do the paper with:www.rockypointnewsonline.com
Here are just some random shots around town:
A couple kayaking off the Malecon:
The sombrero and mustache restaurant:
The beach on Memorial day weekend:
Our street on a crowded day
Carl gets to take a swipe at a pinata at the next-door's birthday party
Mel enjoying her marg
Cheryl came down to whip her new house into shape, joined us at JC's
There's a little circus here in town, there are trucks with loudspeakers driving around advertising it. One is towing some llamas, goats and ponies. At first I thought they were selling them, but nope, it's a circus. Today we saw a cage with three or four leopards. They looked like they were very healthy, by the way.
It's now grape and watermelon season here (uvas and sandias). Very good, very juicy and fresh. Tomatoes seem to be in season as well, they're very flavorful. And we got some great green beans today. I remember being very disappointed with the produce last August, but as I think I said in an earlier blog, it's all about the seasons here, and August-September are bad seasons in this location.
Here is Diana, who invited us to her birthday. I am attempting in my lame way to teach her English, Saturdays at one. My cousin Sharon is an ESL teacher, and she's been sending me tips. I also bought her a book that should help. Diana's great, a smart girl and fun!
And here's her brother, Andreas, who's pretty good with the old devil sticks!
Later, gator!
Mel
7 comments:
Yaaay!!! The blog is back!
Glad you're happy about it. I'm going back over your blog, which is great fun!
And that's a great picture of Rosie. I love the assortment of stuff in her drink.
Nice to see you back, the link in your email contained too much stuff (http://http//carl-n-mel.blogspot.com/) and I had to modify it to get to your page.
Sounds nice there, and looks like a really tough schedule to keep too, those twice a day swims are gonna catch up to you, lol. We are having a rather cool summer so far, which followed a cool spring. High here has made it to a grand total of maybe 22C so far, not exactly burning up.
Strawberry season is just finishing off here, made 17 liters of jam over the weekend, and froze 40 or so qts of berries too. The Jam will be supplying at least 2 other families (Diane's and Carl's, lol).
Ta for now and hope things are well.
Dave
Yummmm strawberries. Our season ended a few weeks ago but we're well into the good grapes now.
Yeah it's a tough schedule but we try to keep it up. Actually, it's getting warm enough now that we're thinking of taking Shadow even earlier. When we got here in late August last year we were getting up at 5:00 a.m. to get him in the water before sunrise. Probably have to go back to that pretty soon (yawn). All is well here, you guys too?
Things are OK here, James is going to NSCC next fall, and right now appears to be staying at home, he has mentioned moving into Yarmouth, not sure if that's still being looked at or not.
Just finished mowing the lawn, which from the photo's I've seen of your hacienda, does not appear to be something you guys have to spend too much time on, lol.
And from the looks, you are not missing too much in Calgary this year any way, http://www.calgarysun.com/news/alberta/2009/07/14/10123766-sun.html
Ta
Dave
Glad your back. Saw your old room mate Geramine on the news yesterday. It looks like she's promoting or working for Fortress Louisburg in Cape Breton.
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