Hola Amigos,
We had some repairs done on our casa last week ... our palapa roofs needed some TLC, so we hired Miguel from San Bartolo to do it for us. We'd seen examples of his work at the casa of our friends Sandy and Debi, and thought it looked very good. He added a few palm leaves to the holes in the palapa downstairs, but did some major repairs on the one upstairs. The cow hide wraps had been damaged by water leakage and were falling apart, and some of the leaves were in bad shape, too. You can see were they had removed the leaves in the corner. Of course, he told us the whole thing needed to be replaced because the Palo de Arco sticks have holes in them, and are too puny and the leaves are in bad shape. We told him "just fix it" for now, and we'll repair everything AFTER hurricane season. He told us that the Palo de Arco and palm leaves should be cut when the moon is full, because they're much stronger then. He told us ours were too "puny" (my translation!)
We really like this contractor...he brought his own ladders and tarps to do the work, showed up when he said he would, and cleaned up as he finished the work! He also brought us a neat cactus. Not sure what you call it... "distressed" maybe? We had one years ago that didn't survive our summer's absence. Hopefully, this one will take root and make it ok. The "distressed" part is that lower branch on the left.
I gave him some plants from our garden for his wife; a succulent plant that reproduces like crazy, and some dark red Cannas. Plants do tend to propagate easily here. That's how I've gotten most of the plants in in our garden. We just take cuttings of what we like, and voila! New plants that are taking over the garden!
Ben had another car show in La Paz this weekend and again took top prize with his '28 Martin Parry. He says he's starting to get embarrassed about winning so regularly, but everyone appreciates the car and the work he's put into it. I elected to stay home this weekend...it's getting HOT in La Paz! I think part of the reason he goes to these is the Quaker State girls...what do you think?
Um-hummm. Just as I thought! :-)
In the meantime, I stayed home under a fan, and started a new little quilt project for a Mexican friend who is expecting a baby this fall. I love getting my creative juices flowing! (And checking out my fabric stash. I'm always surprised about how much I have). No photos yet...maybe it will be done enough next week.
I've also been making Sam some little "tank top" t-shirts for this summer. We found out a couple years ago that he has contact dermatitis with grass! Now that is a miserable thing for a low-slung Dachshund, poor guy! He ends up with no hair on his chest by the end of a summer in Oregon. So hopefully, he'll be stylin' this summer in his macho shirts, and have hair on his chest in September.
I leave you with a Baja sunset that we enjoyed from our veranda the other day while eating dinner...
More photos are in our May 2013 Picasa Album.
Hasta la proxima semana, when we'll have more stories to tell...
Tus amigos de Baja,
Harriet, Ben, Ryan, Sam & Zoey
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