Thursday, March 30, 2017

Pic-of-the-Week for March 30, 2017

Hola Amigos!  

Si, si!  Yo estoy un poco tarde esta semana;  lo siento!  I think I'm finally getting into the Mexican mañana mode, where time isn't so important any more! It has been a rather busy week...lots to do and places to go.  However, we are enjoying it here at home.  Our shaving brush tree is blooming again, and it is prolific!  And there are as many or more blooms on the ground as there are on the tree.  The blooms last less than one day, then fall off, so the ground is littered with these beautiful bright pink blooms.



In the tree, they look like this....

On the ground, like this....

And for our friend John, the Cannas you gave to us (or at least their great-grandchildren) are still blooming.  We finally found a bug spray so that the leaves are not eaten as soon as they unfurl, so they are looking better all around.  You don't mind them sideways, do you?  In real life, these are redder.  

Another plant blooming in our garden is our Cardon Cactus.  Not real impressive, but the bugs and birds like them!  (Notice the little black ant on one of the petals.)



This is the same cactus, and our view to the FINAL garage construction project on this side of Vista del Mar park.  That should keep the crew busy for several months. 

I finished my quilt piecing for the latest quilt I'm making.  Now I need to get it to our friends who do the quilting for me.  They happen to spend 6 or 7 months here in Baja, so they live close by.  They'll take it home with them and quilt it for me, and I will add the binding.  I like how it turned out.  Very colorful!  This is for a new Wick baby.  No, not Rebecca, but her brother-in-law and sister-in-law, who are expecting this spring.  We'd better put a nice warm batting in it, because they live in northern Minnesota! 


The boat is coming together nicely.  It does start now, since the starter has been repaired, and the local electrician has rewired everything as well.  Evidently the connections were not "marine", so many were corroded.  That may be the trouble with keeping things for so long....they start falling apart on you!  For instance, about a month ago, we heard a big bang at our house.  Ben walked all around looking for a garden hose or air hose that blew, and couldn't find anything.  Then he noticed that his 1973 pickup had a blown tire.  He says he's never seen a tire blown as badly as that one, just sitting there!  The problem is, the tire is 15.5".... and that size is impossible to find anymore.  He even searched online and could find nothing.  So, now we need to change 4 wheels and tires or at least 2 of them.  Ugh!  (He probably put these on the truck before we drove it down to Baja in October 2000.  Not much wear, but how much longer will the other 3 last???  Best to replace the lot of them!


Oh!!  Here's a good tire story!  Last week we went to Costco to 1) return my hearing aid for a different kind and 2) check on tires for the 2006 Red truck.  Ben had bought the tires at Costco in Bend, Oregon, and they were wearing on the edges badly.  He showed them to the manager there, and he offered to replace all of them for full price!!  Wow!  They hadn't gone their full 70000 miles (maybe half that), so he said he'd refund the whole thing.  It took some time and about 3 clerks working the cash registers with their magic codes to get the money back (in the form of a Costco cash card).  We went back out to the tire department, turned it in, plus $110 pesos ($5 US) and we had a new set of tires.  Pretty cool deal!  

On that particular trip to Costco, we'd stayed the night before in San Jose with our friends Sandy and Debi, who'd just returned from a trip to the states, at their time share, Coral Baja.  Very nice place, and I got a couple pics of this "picture opportunity"... a family posing in their Mexican finery next to a cute burro.  They told me I should do it, and I told them I have my own personal burros at my casa!  This burro came with a poop bag attached, which I thought was pretty clever!  

Here's a view of the beach in front of Coral Baja....not recommended for swimming with the pounding surf (it rattled the doors in our rooms!)


Weather is warming up nicely, and the wind is not blowing so hard (usually!)  

Hasta la proxima semana,
Tus amigos de Baja,
Harriet, Ben, Sam & Zoey

1 comment:

  1. I always enjoy the pictures and stories... even though you are a 'stone's throw' away. Thanks for taking such good care of me while I'm still laid up! "Above & Beyond' the call!! Seriously, how many friends can you invite over for dinner, that bring the dinner with them, along with all the fixin's?? <3 You two are the best! <3

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