Pic-of-the-Week for June 20, 2017

Hola Amigos,

Yes, we are still in Mexico....enjoying the quiet!!!  This cactus flower bloomed in the quiet of the night last week while we were sleeping.  It only blooms at night, and only one night, so you've got to watch them closely so you know which morning to get up early to see it still in bloom!

The grand kids are gone, and peace and quiet has returned to our home.  We love 'em to pieces, but they sure make life interesting, sometimes more interesting than we can imagine.  Anyhow, we all survived, and had some great times and hopefully made some great memories for them all.  

We all enjoyed going out to eat, and the kids appreciated their chocolate milk in tall cool glasses!  With straws, of course, so you could also blow bubbles and get into trouble with Mom.

And sometimes we had little accidents, so had to have a pretty pink ice pack wrapped in a soft towel to put on our heads.  (Let me see that picture, Grandma...see if I'm looking sufficiently hurt, but still pretty!)  

Anyhow, they are now in California, and will be migrating to Illinois soon to spend the rest of the summer there.

Ryan is getting ready to head back to Shanghai, China.  He seems quite content there, and has become quite the continent hopper! 

We will probably leave for Oregon next week sometime.  The Jeep is not driveable right now, (no gas tank yet, and a fix to re-position the radiator needs further modification), but Ben is hoping to be able to get it ready for body work and paint before we leave (he'd like that done by our reliable body-man Caliman this summer).  We'll see!  Also, the 2001 white truck is in the shop.  The electronic accelerator is not working, so the shop ordered the needed part from Arizona.  Time for the part to arrive?  7 to 10 days, business days, probably.  That makes it maybe this Saturday, but probably early next week....we hope!  We put in some new windows in the house, and now our old hurricane shutters will not fit properly, so Ben went to La Paz today to get plywood to modify the necessary shutters.  He's also been going around cleaning out all the "bee goop" in many of the anchor holes, and putting in the bolts to keep the bees out!  

I did some closet cleaning today, and discovered that termites had done a number on some of my picture files; nice cardboard boxes that were quite tasty to those nasty termites, and many of the pictures were ruined, too.  (SAD FACE).  I did find a nice picture that I haven't seen in a long time of me and my three sisters, and it was in good shape.  This was probably about 1998, back when we were all much younger!  Sister Alice has been gone since January 2004, so it was nice to see her typically smiling face.  

I have finished my latest quilt (or at least as far as I can go), and it is ready to haul up to Oregon and mail to my friends who will put on the backing, insert the batting, and quilt it for me.  It has been a fun project, and I enjoyed working in all the bright colors.  I'll put on the binding after I get the quilted blanket back from Quiltmasters.com.  This is obviously one for Ben, since it's his antique car featured on it. 

We hope to see many of you this summer.  Let us know if you want us to visit, and we'll put you on our list of "places to go and people to see"!  

This will probably be the last Pic-of-the-Week from Baja this spring (Happy first day of summer manana!)  You'll have to rely on Ben for news of our summer fun.

More pictures in our June 2017 album.

Until the next time (who knows when?)

Harriet, Ben, Sam & Zoey