Critters and stuff

Eventually, things started to settle down and one of the first things I had to do was have a fight with a huge spider. I slapped him against the wall, so round one to me. This seems to be an annual occurrence so I have to be on my guard, the bastards are everywhere.

Later on, while Rosalie was having a nap I saw a huge cockroach on her stuff in the bathroom. I couldn’t find the super dupper Mexican-style Raid that I keep on hand, this is the one that sends up a small mushroom cloud when used, so I chose the regular kind and attacked. He was tough and sneered when I first sprayed him but eventually even the Canadian toxic fumes got to him and when he passed out I was able to apply the Coup-De-Gras with the toidy brush.

Some of the things that we are always fighting are the tiny little sugar ants. They don’t do any harm and don’t bite but can become a nuisance when they decide to try your margarita.

We have discovered over the years that they love Ant-B-Gone. I think they take it back to the nest, share it with their buddies, sit back and declare “Wow dude, that’s awesome shit” and then die. Maybe I’m just a drug supplier to the millions of ants living in our yard.

Not trying to be negative about Mexico but there are a few things that we have to put up with, like running out of water. I went to water the garden today and found that the well wasn’t pumping water. There hasn’t been much rain here for a while so that adds to the problem.

What do we do in these situations? We did what any normal sane human being would do, we went to the beach for a margarita and hoped the landlady would sort it out. (After writing this it rained overnight just to make me look silly.)

The next day, Castulo showed up and castigated us for contacting Blanca instead of him. Then he went ahead and started to fix the problem.

The Melaque Hotel which was damaged 25 years ago in an earthquake is finally being demolished. Let’s hope they don’t put another monstrosity in its place.

We have a brand new main street as the flood eradication project is underway. It looks very impressive and from what I’ve seen it should work just fine.

They should help to carry some of the water away.

The roads are still a mess though as the main street is partly closed as well as some of the one-way side streets. So now it seems that all streets are two-way which adds to the usual chaos. Most of the streets are so narrow that two vehicles can’t pass each other. Anyway, as always, Mexicans adapt and it all works fairly well.