Hola, Amigos!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! What a great start to the new year, when the University of Oregon Ducks WHOMPED the Florida State Seminoles 59 - 20 in the Rose Bowl! If you didn't know before, you know now that I'm a staunch UO Duck fan, especially football. One more game for them next Monday, when they play Ohio State for the BCS Championship! GO DUCKS!
We watched the game at our friends Ellis' & Marsha's home with about 20 other folks (they have a nice big house with a big screen TV) and we not only enjoyed the game, but enjoyed Ellis' roast beef for sandwiches and countless other goodies he and the rest of us supplied. He is also hosting the BCS Championship game next Monday. Those of us without TV are happy he is such a sports fan when it comes to these important games!! Unfortunately for Ellis, his wife Marsha is in the US for several months, since she needs some serious back surgery done, then rehabilitation; hopefully it will be scheduled before the end of this month, because she's ready to come home NOW!
Other than that, it has been a pretty quiet week here, and not many pictures got taken. Ben and I took a quick trip into San Jose to do some furniture shopping. Ben decided it was time to replace the gate leg table he's been using as a computer desk for 10 or more years with something a little bigger and more "foot spacious". (This was after he spilled a drink all over his new computer keyboard...he and Ryan got it blown out, cleaned out, dried out and covered in rice right away, and it did work just fine the next day). We found a used table at a store called "Tienda 17", which sells on consignment. They don't take credit cards, so we scrambled a bit to find sufficient cash for our purchase, and happily drove home with a big enough new table with a small drawer for pencils and such.
We did take time to have lunch in San Jose at a restaurant right next to the plaza downtown, which still had Christmas decorations up, including a really nice, life sized manger scene.
This is the church next to the plaza.
Ben took the 2001 truck to La Paz yesterday to a reliable diesel mechanic, and the only thing he found wrong was the cam position sensor, which he replaced. Ben said it is running fine now, and it didn't need a new turbo, like another mechanic here told him. Phew! That's always nice, when car repairs take less fixing than you were imagining!!
While he was gone to La Paz, I finally got his Christmas present made; a new bathrobe. I bought the fabric and pattern last summer, and was going to make it one of those days he spent in La Paz, but I wasn't feeling well before Christmas, or more likely, wasn't in the mood to sew!! I finally got around to it yesterday, and kind of surprised myself by getting the thing completely done. But I don't think Ben will let me take a picture of him modeling it, so you'll just have to take my word for it that it turned out nice. He's appreciating the slightly heavier fabric than his old robe, since it is still fairly cool in the mornings here.
We've had quite a few mornings with low temps in the 50's, but this morning the low was 60.4F. And looking at the weather forecast, we might get some rain today. Windy days are the norm this time of year, and next week is the 3rd or 4th annual Lord of the Winds Showdown here in Los Barriles. These folks LOVE this kind of weather! The windier the better! And it seems that this time of year is when the most people are in town. (I borrowed this picture from the Lord of the Winds Facebook page). How do they do these races without getting their kite lines completely tangled together???
I have NOT started a January 2015 album yet. I have to take a few more photos before I do that!! So, I'm going to go back in history for your final photo. This was in Cancun Mexico (here on Baja.... a VERY remote fishing village on the Pacific with wonderful clamming beds at low tide). We went there with friends Jim and Pat for a camping trip in December of 2009, 5 years ago. We came home with lots of clams and shrimp, and were happy campers! As you can see from the pic, the pelicans like it there!!
Hasta la proxima semana,
Tus amigos en Baja
Harriet, Ben, Ryan, Sam & Zoey
We watched the game at our friends Ellis' & Marsha's home with about 20 other folks (they have a nice big house with a big screen TV) and we not only enjoyed the game, but enjoyed Ellis' roast beef for sandwiches and countless other goodies he and the rest of us supplied. He is also hosting the BCS Championship game next Monday. Those of us without TV are happy he is such a sports fan when it comes to these important games!! Unfortunately for Ellis, his wife Marsha is in the US for several months, since she needs some serious back surgery done, then rehabilitation; hopefully it will be scheduled before the end of this month, because she's ready to come home NOW!
Other than that, it has been a pretty quiet week here, and not many pictures got taken. Ben and I took a quick trip into San Jose to do some furniture shopping. Ben decided it was time to replace the gate leg table he's been using as a computer desk for 10 or more years with something a little bigger and more "foot spacious". (This was after he spilled a drink all over his new computer keyboard...he and Ryan got it blown out, cleaned out, dried out and covered in rice right away, and it did work just fine the next day). We found a used table at a store called "Tienda 17", which sells on consignment. They don't take credit cards, so we scrambled a bit to find sufficient cash for our purchase, and happily drove home with a big enough new table with a small drawer for pencils and such.
We did take time to have lunch in San Jose at a restaurant right next to the plaza downtown, which still had Christmas decorations up, including a really nice, life sized manger scene.
This is the church next to the plaza.
Ben took the 2001 truck to La Paz yesterday to a reliable diesel mechanic, and the only thing he found wrong was the cam position sensor, which he replaced. Ben said it is running fine now, and it didn't need a new turbo, like another mechanic here told him. Phew! That's always nice, when car repairs take less fixing than you were imagining!!
While he was gone to La Paz, I finally got his Christmas present made; a new bathrobe. I bought the fabric and pattern last summer, and was going to make it one of those days he spent in La Paz, but I wasn't feeling well before Christmas, or more likely, wasn't in the mood to sew!! I finally got around to it yesterday, and kind of surprised myself by getting the thing completely done. But I don't think Ben will let me take a picture of him modeling it, so you'll just have to take my word for it that it turned out nice. He's appreciating the slightly heavier fabric than his old robe, since it is still fairly cool in the mornings here.
We've had quite a few mornings with low temps in the 50's, but this morning the low was 60.4F. And looking at the weather forecast, we might get some rain today. Windy days are the norm this time of year, and next week is the 3rd or 4th annual Lord of the Winds Showdown here in Los Barriles. These folks LOVE this kind of weather! The windier the better! And it seems that this time of year is when the most people are in town. (I borrowed this picture from the Lord of the Winds Facebook page). How do they do these races without getting their kite lines completely tangled together???
I have NOT started a January 2015 album yet. I have to take a few more photos before I do that!! So, I'm going to go back in history for your final photo. This was in Cancun Mexico (here on Baja.... a VERY remote fishing village on the Pacific with wonderful clamming beds at low tide). We went there with friends Jim and Pat for a camping trip in December of 2009, 5 years ago. We came home with lots of clams and shrimp, and were happy campers! As you can see from the pic, the pelicans like it there!!
Hasta la proxima semana,
Tus amigos en Baja
Harriet, Ben, Ryan, Sam & Zoey
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