It's great to have the sun back - blue sky - no clouds and its WARM - life is back to normal although when we were in the village yesterday we met up with Patti and she said she heard there is another tropical storm doing its stuff out in the ocean so we're hoping we don't have to go through that rain again. None of us have winter clothes any more!
The kids and I went into the garden centre again yesterday - and came home with a van-load of new stuff - vines, cactus, succulents and something tall covered in buds of beautiful pink flowers. It's all so new, all this tropical stuff but we're having fun deciding where it's all going.
Shelley started painting the walls inside the courtyard this morning - they're going to be a mustard colour. Much better than the current white and dark blue. They look quite shabby at the moment, but we'll fix that.
While we were out yesterday an old Mexican guy came to the gate and asked Colin if he had any work, which we don't of course, as we have Jose and Maria. He was also hungry and asked if he could have something to eat. Colin wasn't sure what to do but asked if he would like some tangerines - he would - so he went and picked some from the tree and the guy was very grateful and started to eat them straight away. I felt so bad when he told us, not that there's anything we could do, but its sad that there are people out there who can't find work and are hungry.
Yesterday in the village we had lunch at a lovely restaurant in the square - Jardin - as usual you eat out in the courtyard under umbrellas and watch the world go by. It was lovely, as was the food, and of course there was the obligatory dog looking for a handout - this one was part sheppherd, part greyhound by the looks of his rear end. The street dogs here are very gentle though and never snatch the food out of your hand. Once the food was finished, he moved on to greener pastures, ie. the next table.
This morning Trevor and Colin went into Ajijic to look at another roll top desk - Colin is on a mission to find one. There is one in Alfredo's, but it's quite expensive (7,000 pesos ($700 US). We found one yesterday for only 1600 pesos but he didn't like it, so he's now thinking of breaking down and buying the other one. It's huge and very nice and he's wanted that style forever. Also picked up some extension cords and power bars - there's not a whole lot of outlets in this house and its quite difficult to put them in as the walls are all concrete so we'll have to make do with extension cords for now anyway. Maybe when we get the contractors in to work on the cassita we can price out some extra outlets here in the main house.
It's amazing how fast we run out of time here - considering we're basically not doing anything. We start off each day with a list of 'to do's' and by 6pm, we've maybe done 2 or 3 things and it's time to think of dinner. Oh well, life is still wonderful and for now, so is the weather again.
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