Happy Anniversary!

It was our one year anniversary here yesterday, and he had a beach day, then watched the Stamps game at Latitude 31. However, I was on these muscle relaxants and well... too stoned to watch the game. They make drugs strong here! I have a bone chip floating around by my tailbone which I apparently fractured at some point in my life. So it's anti-nflammatories (I'm not taking any more of that muscle relaxant!), heating pads which are fun in this heat and a donut to sit on.

We're having more birds than ever show up here, including cormorants, swallows, what looked like a loon to me, and of course our ever popular pelicans. Pelicans fly up about ten feet, then pause, fold their wings and crash into the ocean. But only their heads go under, the rest of them stays above water. Looks painful.




The birds we were watching the other day that I thought looked like loons dive straight down and go under, then a few seconds later they pop up like corks.

Here are a few pictures of pretty Sadie, who Shadow plays with most mornings. AJ who hangs out at the sandbar owns her, and she's a great little dog.





Every single morning except Wednesday which is his day off, we gate a cheerful, "Good morning! Shower time!" from the Mexican guy who runs the 4-wheeler rental down by the beach. Shower time!!

When we get back, Shadow walks around to the hammock which is his new scratching post. You can hear him growling and sneezing and generally sounding like he's having a great time, but if you peek around the corner, he stops and looks at you like, "What? I'm not doing anything!"

We are still disappointed in the fish here, I guess there's not much you can do when you're eating fish from warm water. But we did a shrimp-and-mushroom stuffed flounder the other night that was quite good. What was even better was that I had stuffing left over, and bought a bunch of poblano peppers, roasted and peeled them, stuffed them with the mixture and served it with a fresh tomato-garlic sauce. YUM!!

Our friend Rose had to go back to Canada, and she took her dog as a carry-on. In her words: 10 min into take off she chewed her way out of her bag and spent a very satsifying nap time on the seat beside me. Airline people everywhere (yikes, customs!) were disgruntled, but what could they do? Take me back?

Independence Day is coming up soon, and there are flags everywhere. Time to put ours back on the car. We'll have to try to get down for the festivities this year, speeches and such. As I recall, it was very early morning.

The pool I've been going to every morning is great, but lately it's been very very waspy. I get in and clean out maybe 20 wasps before I can swim, and on Friday there were at least 30 live ones swimming around. That's about 25 too many for old Mel. There's another pool at the Playa Inn- Cheryl, you know where that is, right? I checked it out today, and it's wasp-free! So that's the pool for me.

My Spanish lessons were canceled last week, and I have to study up in the hopes that we start up again this week. My teacher texted me about the last cancellation, and I don't think she understood me when I said it was a landline, not a cellphone. I'll have to call her tomorrow.