Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Pic-of-the-Week for May 23, 2017

Hola Amigos,

Welcome to another POTW from sunny Baja.  Ben returned home on Sunday afternoon with his new toy, and has already been "playing" with it yesterday!  The carburetor definitely needs work.  It's hard to start, and hard to keep it going.  It was a trick getting it off the trailer!  But he succeeded, with George's help, and has it parked in the carport in the shade. He and our friends George and Carolyn helped yesterday to get the little black cab off of it.  We certainly don't need that cab here in Baja!




It took most of the afternoon unbolting bolts, unscrewing screws, cutting a breaking a few bolts and screws, disconnecting wires, removing seats, and crawling underneath with the proper tools; then some muscle power to get the thing off, but we got 'er done!  




Ben wants to have a roll bar cage built for it, and then we'll have a cloth top attached to the roll bars for some shade.  We'd also like a bit more comfortable seats, and the gas tank needs to be modified a bit (or maybe a lot!)  Anyhow, should be an interesting project.  It would be nice to use it this season, but hemay not get that far.  We'll see!  Won't I look cute boppin' to town in this to go grocery shopping or lunch with friends?  ;-) 

Ben is thankful that they had an uneventful trip coming back here to Baja.  No problems along the way, and he even found a nice new hotel in San Ignacio that he'd like to visit again when we travel north.  Hopefully, that will work out for us.

I don't usually get up for sunrises, but I noticed the pink glow in my bedroom windows one day last week, and just had to get up and take some pictures.  I took and few with my phone camera from the veranda just outside the bedroom door, then I had to grab the good camera and head upstairs for some more photos.  Wow!  It was gorgeous!






In preparation for grand-kids visiting soon, I moved some sand from an old sand pile (left over from some construction project) to an area under the Neem tree where it is shady most of the day.  I think they will like this!  And yes, I'm willing to move more sand if needed, but they might also like to play in the little mound of sand that's left and flatten it out for us!  Or, we can just go to the beach!  Plenty of sand there!


Ryan and Rebecca and David, Aaron and Eleanor will all be arriving on Saturday; Ryan in just a bit later flight.  Rebecca and kids are flying from the Middle East today to Chicago (to Tim's parents) where they'll catch their breath, and then fly down here on Saturday.  We sure are looking forward to having them here.  Their Grandpa Purkey even bought them a very nice looking inflatable wading pool, so if the weather starts heating up while they're here, they'll have a nice place in which to cool off.  They'll be here until the 13th of June.  (You can be sure the next POTW will have lots of pictures of cute kids!)  In preparation, here's a recent one from their vacation to Jordan in April.


I finished the main part of the latest quilt project, and Ben bought some fabric for finishing the border while he was in Oregon, so I hope to get that done very soon.  I made this one for Ben; I had the center piece printed a couple summers ago, and finally got around to using it in a special quilt for Ben.  I think it turned out pretty neat!  What do you think?  (Projects like this keep me out of trouble!)

George has a drone he's been flying around, and when I get my hands on his photos, I'll add some to the May 2017 album.  He flys it from our roof deck to out a mile over the water.  Today he found a bunch of Manta Rays and a turtle.  Very cool watching those videos!

Hasta la proxima vez (if I have time!)
Tus amigos en Baja

Harriet, Ben, Sam & Zoey  




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