Hola Amigos!
What a great week! Party! Party! Party! My birthday was abundantly celebrated! On Tuesday evening some neighbors invited us to their Cinco de Mayo party at Rancho Buena Vista. It was a catered affair (pig roast) planned for about 100 folks, but about 175 showed up! (Happens about every time for parties like that here, it seems.) We had live music and good food (as long as it lasted) and dancing and visiting with friends. Lots of fun!
Wednesday was my birthday party at our favorite restaurant, El Barrilito. There were 30 of us, and even though that was his normal closed day, Francisco put on a party for us, and WOW! The decorations were amazing, and the food was fantastic. Again, we had to send some folks away (including a few we knew) because we were only planning for the 30 of us who were there.
Ben "surprised" me with a really nice rustic stool from Miraflores leatherworks. It even has my name on it. I used it the other day at my kitchen counter, and it worked great!
We took a ride out to the little settlement of El Chorro to pick up a handmade doll for our granddaughter, but the seamstress was in San Jose that day. We had a nice drive and visit with Jeanette, our community choir director, at her home there in that little town. She brought the doll to me a few days ago, and I immediately fell in love with it! I gave her some fabric that I used to make a dress for Eleanor last year, and a picture of the dress, and she came back with a duplicate dress, even to the tie in the back! Pretty cool. I asked for the red hair. Most of the dolls she makes look a bit more Mexican, with dark hair and long dresses.
What a great week! Party! Party! Party! My birthday was abundantly celebrated! On Tuesday evening some neighbors invited us to their Cinco de Mayo party at Rancho Buena Vista. It was a catered affair (pig roast) planned for about 100 folks, but about 175 showed up! (Happens about every time for parties like that here, it seems.) We had live music and good food (as long as it lasted) and dancing and visiting with friends. Lots of fun!
Wednesday was my birthday party at our favorite restaurant, El Barrilito. There were 30 of us, and even though that was his normal closed day, Francisco put on a party for us, and WOW! The decorations were amazing, and the food was fantastic. Again, we had to send some folks away (including a few we knew) because we were only planning for the 30 of us who were there.
Ben "surprised" me with a really nice rustic stool from Miraflores leatherworks. It even has my name on it. I used it the other day at my kitchen counter, and it worked great!
Ben had everything planned except he didn't know that our friend Duke was going to bring his accordion to play some music for us! He is great with it, and that got us up dancing (the women, anyhow). Then Duke said he was playing a song for just Ben and I, and miracle of miracles, Ben actually got up and danced with me through the whole song! You can see him smiling in this photo, like he actually might have enjoyed himself a little bit (he'll deny it, I'm sure!)
I've posted a bunch more photos in our 2015 May album, so you can check it out for the party pics.
We took a ride out to the little settlement of El Chorro to pick up a handmade doll for our granddaughter, but the seamstress was in San Jose that day. We had a nice drive and visit with Jeanette, our community choir director, at her home there in that little town. She brought the doll to me a few days ago, and I immediately fell in love with it! I gave her some fabric that I used to make a dress for Eleanor last year, and a picture of the dress, and she came back with a duplicate dress, even to the tie in the back! Pretty cool. I asked for the red hair. Most of the dolls she makes look a bit more Mexican, with dark hair and long dresses.
Today we're going to the airport to pick up a friend of Ryan's, and tomorrow we're going in to pick up Ryan! His friend made the trip arrangements before Ryan got his new remote job, and it turns out that Ryan is in Florida for several days at the company's annual meeting. We'll take advantage of the trip to town and visit Costco and Home Depot, and we're taking our friend Pat to do a bit of shopping, too.
Ben is getting ready to go to another car show in La Paz this weekend. The fender that got dented several times by our swinging suicide door is at the body shop, and hopefully it won't happen again, since Ben has installed the leather straps to limit the door swing (from the leatherworks in Miraflores!) So, hopefully it will be done in plenty of time. He is also finishing up some other things on his "Honey do" list. Pretty amazing all the things that got done this year!
We have lots of birds here, and we can certainly tell it is spring as far as they are concerned. We have seen many nests, including another one in a banana tree, and quite a few Oriole nests in our large palm. We have one or two Orioles that land on our bedroom windows every day at about 7am and sing and sing. It drives my dogs crazy! (I told Ben that the bird sang "Happy Birthday to you" to me last week! He had a hard time believing it, but it's true!
This is a White Wing Dove nesting under the palapa at Jeanette's. Notice the pretty turquoise blue around its eye. Their nests never look too comfy! Hopefully there are some fluffy things in the middle.
For your flower picture this week, here's one that's interesting, but not too pretty, and it smells pretty bad, too! These are the buds on our little cactus. And here's an open flower. They are kind of little fly catchers, as they are fuzzy and trap the bugs that go in to investigate. (Yummy!)
The weather has been fairly cool for May. Lows in the 70's and highs in the 80's, and we've had lots of cloudy days. Gives us no excuse for not working in the yard!! (Which I did yesterday....got a lot done!) Our dogs have been knocking down our corn stalks, and we find them (especially Sam) with at least one cob a day. The little stinker! We've been able to keep the cows and burros out, but we forgot about the dogs! I pulled out my bean crop and harvested a few volunteer tomatoes.
OK. Places to go and things to do!
Hasta la proxima semana
Tus amigos de Baja,
Harriet, Ben, Ryan, Sam & Zoey
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