New growth

I’ve been negligent in writing my blog this year. There has been a lot of socializing and I tend to forget.

It took about three weeks but then there was some new growth in our plants. Both of the banana plants had new shoots about three inches long, that quickly turned into new leaves. This is the one I’m most excited about. There are several other plants with new shoots, but we have no idea what most of them are.

The lime tree didn’t recover so I replaced it with a nice little orange tree. When Dan and Linda brought some other seedlings over, they laid them on the tub that the orange plant is in. The next day, the orange plant started to shrivel up. I removed the seedlings and it popped up again. weird!

Between Christmas and New Year, we have been to the beach for a glass of wine on a few occasions. We met Bill and Connie there the other day and had a great hour or two with them. Afterwards, we strolled uptown to see if we could get a Churro. Unfortunately, they weren’t there yet so we will have to wait until next time.

The lot next to ours is being cleared over a period of a few weeks. They brought in a living breathing lawn mower which scared the life out of us when we first heard it.

A ‘orse’ with the cute one looking on

Rosalie needed a new light for the kitchen so we decided to go to Home Depot in Manzanillo. Big mistake! Because it was the holiday break, the place was loaded with Mexican tourists. Buses and cars lined up along the beach and partly blocking one lane. Luckily the traffic wasn’t too bad so we arrived there okay. Some of the other stores were so busy it was decided to just go to Home Depot. The lamp we found needed four bulbs but they told us it came with one, so we went and bought four more. When we got home I found that there were three in the package with the lamp, not one. There obviously should have been four so one was missing. However, there were four spares which I decided to use instead of the originals so they all matched up. Nope! one of the ones we bought was kaput so I just hope nobody looks up.