We are over the holiday festivities and looking forward to the new year. It’s already been interesting, just a few days in.
It rained. How dare it! We had a fairly heavy downpour a few days ago and it was great. It made a nice change from continual sunshine. We also got a kick out of people running by who got caught in the deluge.
Me in my rain gear buying my camaron
Little Camila next door thinks it’s great fun to sneak up and watch us through the gate. She doesn’t say anything just stares. I think we should be worried. Her big brother Ivan has a three-wheel plastic contraption that he rides outside our place and makes a whole bunch of noise. Mostly he’s a real good kid and it is his country after all. But still…
An iguana who thinks he’s a squirrel amused us for a while by walking along the cable tv lines. I was expecting him to fall off but he seemed to realize his mistake and reversed his course and went home.
Our local squirrel was not impressed.
We went for dinner a few nights ago with Linda, Art and Art senior to their casa in west Melaque. We took a taxi and asked for it to pick us up again at eight-thirty. We knew we were taking a chance on this but what the heck. Eight forty-five came around and we decided to walk.
We got a block away and there was another cab sitting in a side street with a bunch of guys hanging around. One of them was pretty well drunk but the taxi driver was sober so we squeezed by and got in. Before we left, the drunk guy climbed in the front seat and away we went. When we got home a lot of ‘Feliz año’ and handshakes were exchanged but we arrived safely.
Just watched the local tourist cops drive by on their quads. The first one was driving with one hand and texting with the other. Such is Mexico.
Rosalie was also not impressed
I finally signed up for a VPN service today. I’m having trouble getting hockey games lately so this was very important.
I thought things would be a little different this year, but no. The f**king rooster still makes a racket during the night and the ice cream truck still drives by with his insidious music playing. I would be tempted to blow the thing up but he does have good ice cream.
We still use our charcoal BBQ quite a bit. I have to be sparing with the starter gel, not because we are cheap, which we are, but the stores seem to run out quickly and it’s hard to light it with dried-up tortillas and coconut husks.
I’ve just been trying to delete a period on the computer until I realized it was a bit of dust. I really need to stop drinking.
I’ll catch up again soon. I’m waiting for some other exciting thing to pounce. I just hope it’s not in the form of a spider.