Pic-of-the-Month for February

Hola Amigos!

It's February already, and so far it has been a cool, wet, brisk month!  (For Baja, anyhow!)  Today it is not going to get up to 70 degrees.  Even though the sun is shining, the wind is whipping from the north and we have had our little heating stove going most of the day.  I'm waiting for the daily temps to be in the 80's, but I'd be happy with mid 70's if the wind wasn't blowing so hard!  I even delayed my walk this morning for about 45 minutes hoping it would warm up a bit... I did bundle up before I left and I was warm by the time I got back, thanks to the exercise.  

Sunset in Mazatlan

We are very glad we added this stove to our house plans!  We just found out that the window company is coming this afternoon to install our new bedroom windows.  We are replacing the old ones because they've always leaked so badly when it rains.  Doesn't matter if it's a windy hurricane or just a gentle rain...they leak!  So, they picked one of the windier days of the week to do it.  When they get here, we're going to close the bedroom door to try and keep the heat in the rest of the house.  Our bedroom is on the northeast corner, and that north wind is fierce there today.   

No windows right now!  Sure is bright!  

We were able to take a fun short trip to Mazatlan on the mainland to celebrate our 52nd wedding anniversary at the end of January.  We flew on a small jet from La Paz on a quick one-hour flight.  We were invited to stay with friends Doug and Marcy who have a very nice condo there, and they were gracious enough to give us some sight-seeing tours, too.  Mazatlan is getting ready for Mardi Gras towards the end of this month, and they have many large statues (Mogotes) built and placed around the city and on the Malecon.  Each one represents a different American country.  Here's one we saw downtown for Cuba that had a platform where you could pose for pictures, so of course we did.

One of the reasons we went to Mazatlan is because our friend Francisco Zepeda has started a new restaurant there.  Those of you who have visited us in the last 12 years or so probably ate at his old restaurant with us here in Los Barriles, El Barrilito.  He moved on about 3 years ago, and ended up in Mazatlan.  His food was delicious in the new restaurant, as usual, and we will be going back to visit again next year!  If any of you are going to Mazatlan, be sure to visit his restaurant Currican on the Marina at the north end of town.  You won't be disappointed.  

Karrie & Bruce

We've had some company, and are expecting more.  Karrie and Bruce spent a couple days last week.  I worked with Karrie at Vocational Rehabilitation in the 90's.  Two of Ben's brothers (John & Greg), one sister-in-law (Cherlene) and one niece will be arriving tomorrow for a few days.  Mid-month, our friends the Sackingers will be here for 10 days or so with George's brother.  Then, my brother Rich will be here for a couple weeks the first part of March.  (He would have been here sooner, but realized his passport was expired when he tried to get tickets!  Oops!  Don't forget to keep your passport updated if you want to come see us.)   

In the meantime, Ben is working very hard organizing our NEXT Fashion Show.  Another one, you ask?  Yes, we're moving our fall show to the spring for several reasons, and didn't want to wait a year and a half for the next one, because the people we  help are very needy in the summer.  This show will be March 20.  We have all the presenters lined up, the location and have designed the posters and tickets.  Ben is anxious to get them printed (in La Paz) and start posting them.  I'm looking forward to warmer weather and longer days at that time of year.

The garden is growing pretty well.  Some of the corn I planted didn't sprout, but some plants are waist high. I planted some more rows today.  I'm hoping that this planting comes up better.  The pole beans are doing fantastic.  I think every single old seed sprouted, so I've got them strung, and they're growing up the strings.  We ate our first cucumber the other day, as they recovered from the bug infestation, thank goodness.  Now I've just got to keep up with them!  The lettuce and spinach are doing great, as is the cilantro.  Yum!  The tomato plants are big and healthy looking, and I just saw one little tomato.    

I was fortunate to take another water color painting class last week from Herrera Gallega, a famous Mexican water color artist.  He is so good, and it is so fun!  I'm refreshing my drawing / sketching abilities, and the water color painting is a real adventure!  You wouldn't believe what colors we used to make those face tones believable.  

And I just have to post this final pic... I saw this on the beach the other day on my morning walk.  The truck is our old 73 Ford, now owned by our good friend Chuyito (remember...he said it runs like a Cadillac now!)  He was out fishing for Grouper.  I'm so happy he is using that truck, and enjoying it so much.  (Of course, he had the music going while he was fishing...that's why the door is open! 😉)

  

I have some more pictures in our 2020 February album, but most new ones are in the 2020 January album.  Enjoy!

Hasta la proxima vez,

Tus amigos de Baja,

Harriet, Ben, Sam & Zoey

Pic-of-the-Month for January 2020

Hola Amigos!

Happy new decade!  Here we are, almost 1/2 way through January already.  At least I didn't wait until the very end of the month to get this letter out!  

Our daughter Rebecca's family came to visit us for a week, and they returned to the cold Chicago area yesterday so the kids could get back in school.  It is cold there (Rebecca sent me a picture of snow on the ground, but she said it's melting and the temp was a "balmy" 35!)  It was typical January weather here last week.  Coolish (for us) and windy.  Temps were in the 70's and several days the wind was really whipping, but we found some fun things to do.  Unfortunately, I had a nasty cold, so wasn't good for too much, but we did get some Christmas cookies made, and some Mexican Train games played.  I also got to play some piano duets with David, which was a lot of fun.  He is progressing very nicely with his piano playing.  We kept our Christmas tree up until they left, and there were gifts under there for them (really cool Lego sets), so they were happy.  

Here, the kids are watching the kite boarders on a very windy day.  They also managed to drink down a delicious Mango smoothy!  

I made sugar cookies, and Rebecca brought down her decorations.  Yum!  The kids were great at putting on LOTS of frosting AND decorations!  I must admit that I enjoy eating Christmas cookies, too!  

It was very nice having them all here and seeing how they are growing and what they are doing.









Before they got here, we took another Jeep adventure with friends Sandy and Debi and Ed and Marla.  We decided to go the our favorite hot springs, but when we got there, there were more cars than we've EVER seen there.  Of course, it was a Saturday, so many people who normally work were there enjoying the day.  We didn't even get out of our rigs, but just headed back down the hill (the pool is not THAT big!)  Again, Ben had some problems with the engine / carburetor.  Ugh.  So, we cut that trip shorter than we would have liked and headed on home.  

On Monday, our friend Chuyito tore the carburetor completely apart, cleaned and rebuilt it.  Ben has decided he will never go back to the mechanic who put the "new, rebuilt carburetor" in for him!!  Chuyito said it was filthy; there was even a palm seed in it!  We are very grateful for Chuyito's help, now and in the past.  By the way, Chuyito has Ben's old 1973 Ford 4x4 pickup, and absolutely loves it.  I asked him how it was running, and he smiled and said "like a Cadillac!"  He has a stereo system in it with USB and bluetooth and 2 speakers in each door, and had some great music (70's and 80's US Rock!) going while he was working!  

We have some guests coming soon, and it looks like February will be pretty busy.  

Ben's painting slowed to a halt while the kids were here, but he's made great progress so far, and we are getting used to the brightness of that yellow.  He just needs another gallon to finish the work in our bathroom.  We have a fellow coming this week who will repair the drainage problem on the upstairs bathroom roof.  It got pretty wet in there during the heavy rains we had last fall.  Ben also claims he's going to start seriously pruning our Mesquite tree any day now.  The bad thing about that tree is that it is full of thorns, so any way you do it, it's a bloody job!  Ouch!  He does have a brand new chain saw to use to help him, though.  

I've got myself a new quilting project.  I've never made Rebecca a quilt, so I offered her one I had made previously that she really liked.  However, it wasn't the best size for her, so I will make a new one to the size and colors she requested.  I've got to start digging through my stash to see what I can find!  Thankfully, she requested a twin sized quilt, so I should be able to get it done by this summer.  

The garden is growing, and the bugs are arriving.  I've got an infestation of some bugs on my cucumbers, so I need to be more proactive to try and get rid of them.  And I need to plant my pole beans very soon since my stash of canned beans is getting down there.  Corn is coming up, and we've been enjoying radishes, lettuce, spinach and cilantro.  I even planted some flower seeds this year, and am anxious for them to grow a bit more and start blooming.  

I have started a 2020 January album with a few more pictures.  Enjoy!

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

Pic-of-the-Month for December 2019

Hola Amigos,

Can you believe another year has gone by so quickly?  Just a few more days before it's 2020, and it seems like just a little while ago that I was working on the computer systems so things would work when we went to 2000.  (Now I'm just aging myself!)  We hope 2019 was good to you; we had lots of good things happen, and of course, a few bad things.  But we survived to see what 2020 will bring our way as the sun rises on the New Year!  (I love our sunrises here in Baja over the Sea of Cortez...can't get much prettier than that!) 

One of our adventures this month was to take the Jeep on a longer than normal trip, and it worked very well.  We joined our friends Debi and Sandy in their Toyota and drove south to Los Frailes to visit our friends Mel and Katie, whose camp is 4 miles up a canyon from the beach.  The road was in pretty decent shape (many miles are not paved), and the "trail" up the arroyo to Katie and Mel's place had actually been graded!  

We had to get a pic of all of us before we left their lovely camp and headed to lunch at Cabo Pulmo. Mel and Katie are in the middle. When we got to La Palapa restaurant for our tacos, we noticed the cutest little puppy!  She was a mix between a Chihuahua and a Dachshund, we think.  Anyhow, she got some snuggling from both Debi and me.  She was the pup of the owner, Angeles, who sat and visited with us for quite a while.  Sweet little thing!  Anyhow, a few days later, after I posted a couple pictures of the pup on Facebook, Katie told me the pup was available if I knew anyone who wanted it.  (Me?  Debi?)  Both of us said no, but our friend Dalia fell in love with her immediately, and after several attempts, finally was able to connect with the pup and now has her at her home in Los Barriles.  We were able to puppy-sit the day she picked her up while she cleaned house for us.  She took her to the Vet, and she does need some extra special care for a bit, but she seems to be in pretty good shape.  We believe she's 2 months old. 

I haven't decorated our "Charlie Brown" Baja Christmas tree for several years, but our grandkids are coming to visit in early January, so I decided we needed it up this year until they leave.  Fortunately, Katie said she needed a Christmas Tree decorating fix, so I let her do it all.  She loved it!  


There won't be too many gifts under the tree when they come, but maybe enough to keep them happy for a while!  



I'm hoping it will be warm enough for them to go swimming in a heated pool while the kids are here.  Temps have been pretty low (for us!) in the 70's during the day, and 60 or lower at night.  Just remember that most homes here have no heating system; we're more acclimated for warm weather, so pile the blankets on at night and snuggle with the dogs!! (Ha! The dogs are on their own at our house.  They get 2 blankets a piece!)  

We had a lovely Christmas Eve service at our church.  I was asked by Pastor Gregg to do live music for it, so we had a nice group of Karen, Mary K, Stephi K and Craig H to sing the familiar Christmas carols, and I played the piano while Ray did the bass.  It was much appreciated by everyone, since we have only had video music for almost a year.  Hopefully, we'll be able to do more live music in the new year.  

Both Ryan and Rebecca send us wonderful pictures of their children.  Little Olivia is BIG, compared to most of the kids around her.  She is 16 months, and Ryan says she's bigger than most 2 years old children.  And her hair is definitely looking red.  They are currently living and working in Hong Kong. 

Rebecca and Tim and kids are living in Wheaton, Illinois this year, and the kids are attending public school for the first time.  They are loving it, and all the activities that go with it, including singing in the school choir and their church kids' choir.  David is continuing with piano lessons and making great progress.  I think Aaron is doing guitar, and Eleanor did some violin earlier.  

They are coming to visit in just over a week, so we're looking forward to their visit.  Lucky kids get to be out of school a bit longer than normal, but I think they can catch up just fine.  (I told them they can study Spanish while they're here!)  

I have created a 2019 December album with several more pictures, and some cute videos.







Our expanded garden is growing nicely, and I've already harvested some radishes and spinach.  The corn is coming up, and I'll plant my pole beans soon.  Meanwhile, the cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, onions and cilantro continue to grow.  I love my winter Baja garden!  

Ben has decided we need some fresh paint in and out of our casa, and he has started in our master bathroom.  We selected a pretty yellow, and it is WAY brighter than what we've had in there almost 18 years.  It should help wake us up in the mornings!  When he's not working on painting, he's pruning trees around the house, or working on the Jeep, or finding some other project to keep himself busy.  (I just try to stay out of his way, or hold his ladder!!)  😉

We wish you blessings for the New Year, and hope to be able to see many of you in 2020!  God Bless you and keep you in His hands!

Hasta el proximo año,
Tus amigos de Baja,
Harriet, Ben, Sam & Zoey

Pic-of-the-Month for November 2019

Hola Amigos!

Whoa!  Where did the time go?  We have been so busy, but today, after the Fashion Show and before Thanksgiving, I thought I'd take a bit of time to catch up.  

This is a  heron fishing on the beach during my sunrise walk with Zoey.  

Zoey and I have been walking most days, and we came across this in the road a few weeks ago.  Thankfully, they were both dead.  I moved one over so you could see them together.  They're each probably 3" to 4" long.  We also found a few of these around our house, and a couple Tarantulas, and lately, big old centipedes.  It may be the rain, or the fact that our neighbor replaced his palapa roof (at least for the centipedes).  

There are a lot of other, prettier things on my walks, including many flowering plants.  With all the rain we've had this fall, things are blooming very nicely.  This pretty yellow flower grows on a bush, and we finally found it in our Baja Plant book; it is a wild cotton plant!  We also have beautiful blue Morning Glory, trees blooming, wild flowers galore, like the Datura (Jimsonweed) below.     

I've only been up to the Flag Monument a few times, but now that the weather is starting to be cooler in the mornings, I think Zoey and I are up to going the extra mile.  Right now, we're going 2 miles most mornings.  

Ben and I were both very, very busy organizing our Fashion Show for Feeding the Hungry.  With the proceeds from the show, we buy food vouchers from the local grocery store and give them to Chuy Castro, who administers the food program for our church.  He gives these vouchers worth about $14 US weekly to families who need a little extra help.  They can use them to buy meat, vegetables, fruit or whatever the family needs that week. (No alcohol or soft drinks).  We had a nice crowd of people attending, some great presenters, a lovely venue with delicious food, some hard working helpers, and did a pretty good job raising some money for this next year.  We were very surprised when we got there and found that the owners of the restaurant had a runway installed for the show!  Fantastic!!  The show was held on the 21st, and we both breathed a big sigh of relief that it was over for another year!  Now, we need to get our supplies organized and wrap it up to see what we need to do for the next time.  Here's a link to the pics the photographer took that night.  FASHION SHOW

We invited our friends Janet & Tony K to come and present at this year's show.  Janet owns a dress shop in Sisters, Oregon, and used to have a very popular one down here in Los Barriles.  She was a hit with the ladies, and did a great job helping us here.  We're sorry to see them leaving today!  

Los Barriles held the Revolution Day parade 2 days late this year, because of the huge rainstorm (Tropical storm Raymond) that came through on the previous weekend.  The freshly cleaned streets were covered with sand and mud!!  City crews feverishly worked to get the streets cleaned again, and had the parade on Friday, the day after the Fashion Show.  So, Ben and I got up early, and with our friend Sandy helping to drive, took all three Model A's  to Los Barriles for the parade.  I drove the '29 pickup, Sandy drove the '28 Woody, and Ben drove the '30 Roadster.  We each had "royalty" in our vehicles.  

These are kindergarten kids on a float. 

And this guy is just too cute!  









The next day, Saturday, Ben loaded up the Roadster for a trip to La Paz and a 2-day car show!  (You think we have a relaxing lifestyle down here??)  First stop in La Paz was at Majalca's Repintado, where we had the body work and painting done earlier.  They wanted to "show it some love" for the show!

We enjoyed the time in La Paz at a cute little "boutique" hotel.  Boutique means that you've got to call the hostess (there's no desk) and meet her to get your keys.  You need a key to the front metal gate, a key to the door of the hotel, a key to your room, and the garage door opener that works the huge doors where we have secure parking for the Model A across the street!  

Ben won a prize again, this time for "Best Ford".  I think Hector Manuel made up that prize, and gave it to Ben in spite of him asking to not give him any more prizes!  (He's running out of wall space in his garage!)  Anyhow, it was fun to see all the other cars and people there.  That's Edgar Majalca standing next to Ben; he owns the paint and body shop.  (The gals are the "Quaker State" girls).  

This car, like our others, is a popular place to get your picture taken!

I think we can start to take it easier now, other than we've got guests coming for Thanksgiving Day dinner!  

We expanded our garden space, and just about have it ready to plant some things, but we had that huge rainstorm a week ago, and another one is coming this way tomorrow!  When things get dried out a bit, I hope we can plant some more things!  

Ben has been trying to get our Jeep in good shape, but it still isn't running quite right.  He had Tony look at it while he was here, and Tony (an excellent mechanic) found some screwy things with the carburetor and automatic choke. Ben took it back to our mechanic (with Tony) and questioned the mechanic about the very used "new" choke.  (Like, new in 1966!)  Needless to say, he is working on it again, hopefully wiring it correctly and putting in all the correct parts.  We have plans for this Jeep and places to explore around here, and need to have it running CORRECTLY soon!  

We have a few other projects we can start thinking about now, like clearing more limbs from trees on our new lot, and doing some serious pruning on the Mesquite tree behind our veranda.  In fact, Ben has purchased a small chain saw to help him with the project.  Hopefully it will work well.  We've enjoyed visiting with our new neighbors, who have cleared the lot next to us, and are thinking about starting to build part of it (garage and casita) within the year.  With the heavy rain storms we've been having, we're finding some "leaky" places in our house, and will try to see what we can do about that (more buckets, maybe?)  We would also like to add a new opening in our fence to get in and out of our new lot easier.  Of course, we'll need a gate for that, as I don't think we can afford a cattle guard at this time. 

Our neighbor Peter, on the other side, replaced his palapa (palm leaf) roof a few weeks ago.  Sam and Zoey were very happy about that, because the old roof had a lot of leather straps holding things down.  Sam harvested as many of those as he could find and brought them home!  (All great except the ones with nails in them!)  This one is still in the shape of the log it was wrapped around, but clamped securely in his jaw!  It was interesting to watch them put on the new roof as it was a wrapped style, and ended up being a double layer, at least.  Very pretty and smooth from the inside, and nice and fluffy on the outside! 

More pictures are in our 2019 November album.  

We hope you are all staying warm and dry.  We're warm, but probably won't be very dry tomorrow when the next storm comes through!  We wish you a Happy Thanksgiving, and thank God for all our blessings this year.  

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

Pic-of-the-Month for October 2019

Hola Amigos!

Ben, I and the dogs are back home in Baja, safe and sound after our busy summer and another 2000+ mile road trip from Oregon back to Mexico!  We're sorry if you missed reading about our adventures.  We really didn't do much of anything "new" or "different", so you didn't miss much!  We are all very happy to be back in our spacious house (after living in a small travel trailer for 3 months!) and things are in pretty good shape here.  

After we posted our last update, we visited friends in Salem,  went camping with friends, visited doctors, went to the Pendleton Roundup, visited doctors, I had a colonoscopy(!)  (results were good), visited friends, ate out a lot, tried to get a flu shot (they were out of the good stuff!), and went camping with friends!  There!  Is that enough detail?  Oh, you probably want a picture or two.   (None of the doctor visits, though!)

We saw this Osprey while camping on the Crooked River with Katie & Mel.  Short time, but nice and relaxing.  

 The next camping trip was with Gary and Debbie at some of our favorite camping spots in Oregon.  They hadn't been there, so we were their guides.  
This picture is of the little old school house by Summer Lake on Hwy 31 on our way to our camping spots.  

We stayed the first night at Juniper Reservoir RV park in Lakeview, one of our favorite summer resting spots.  They were setting up "glamping" tents for the weekend (the county fair was going on in town).  I think the cost for staying in one was $250 per night! I'll stick with our trailer for $40 for the night at the park!!  

From there, we went east to Hart Mountain Antelope Refuge.  Big open spaces, but not too many antelope were spotted this year.  I'm sure Gary and Debbie's dog would have loved to try to herd some of them!  

After a few days at Hart Mountain (and enjoying the hot springs there), we packed up and headed to the east to the Steens Mountains.  Unfortunately for Gary and Debbie, it was a gravel road, and they found their trailer completely full of dust when we got to our campsite near Frenchglen.  Ugh!  Fortunately, we had electricity and water, so they were able to clean up.  Seems the bottom of their newer trailer wasn't sealed as well as it could have been, and they left a few vents open (oops!)  We enjoyed doing the tour of the rim.  It was sad that a hunter had fallen to his death at one gorge the day before we got there.  We came across many search and rescue and police vehicles.  

We had some time back in Bend after that trip to give Shirley a ride in the Model A Roadster.  We had bought it from her two summers ago.  She was duly impressed and enjoyed the ride!

(It does look quite a bit nicer now than when we bought it!)  

We missed going to the Pendleton Roundup last year, so were happy to get over there again for this year's show.  I have a whole album of the Pendleton Roundup here.  Most photos are captioned.  Needless to say, we had a grand time and will be back next year.  It's nice that my niece has a nice place for us to park our trailer and a fenced yard to keep our dogs while we're gone.  Thanks again, Anne! 

We left Pendleton and the Roundup excitement for our last gasp camping trip with George and Carolyn from Salem.  We met them in Burns, after waiting out a few very rainy days in Eastern Oregon.  Yes, it does rain over there!  We did some touring of Burns, including the local museum, ate at some good restaurants, and filled the time.  After they joined us, and the rains slowed down, we went out to The Narrows, toward Frenchglen.  There's a pretty nice RV park there, and Ben and Carolyn were ready to look for rocks.  We also spent one drive looking for the Kiger Mustang horses.  Never saw any, but it was a neat drive in a part of the Steens we've never been before.  

Since more rocks was on Ben and Carolyn's agenda, we headed for Glass Butte near Hampton, Oregon.  We found a neat camping spot in the midst of the area and they found lots of obsidian.  They're talking about going back next year now that they know where to camp and what to look for!  I ask the question "what are you going to do with these pretty rocks", and he says "I'll figure something out!"  We had no room to bring them home with us, so they'll be waiting for him at his brother's house in Bend!!  

We packed our truck between rainstorms (we can't believe how much it rained in Central Oregon this summer), and got the trailer put away again at our friends' place in Tygh Valley (bless you Chris & Ed!).  We again managed to get all packed up a day early, so left Oregon on September 30, leaving behind several inches of snow in Bend!  We decided to go through Klamath Falls this time, and stopped for breakfast at the Mohawk restaurant in Gilchrist, Oregon.  If you get a chance, stop there.  The food was good, but the decor was amazing!  It was full of commemorative liquor bottles lining most of the walls, plus a bunch of stuffed wild animals and birds.  Wow.  

We hurried on down through California and Nevada and California again (Hwy 395 meanders a bit!) but managed to stop and visit Mike and Mary in Reno, who had more baggage for us to carry down, and to have breakfast with old friends Michele and Don in Minden.  We've known them since the 70's when they were poor students at University of Oregon.  Now they're retired!  How time flies! 

Crossing the border at Tecate was a piece of cake.  They wanted Ben to start the engine on the Model A we were towing and show them the registration.  After that was done we were free to go!  We had a truck load of "STUFF", so were very happy to be on our way.  Plus, we managed to avoid the corrupt police that like to stop tourists as they go through town to and from the border.  Good all the way around!  We decided to take our time driving through Baja and took 4 days, (remember, we did leave a day early!)  Ben wanted to be at the Oasis Hotel in Loreto for their Saturday Night Clam feed, so we had a few short driving days, which is just fine with us at our advanced age, and siestas are a good thing!  We were able to get to Catavina early enough in the day to get reservations, since there was a road rally that ended there that day (motorcycles).  That happened when we went through last year, and their was no room at the Inn!  Phew.  If you're in Catavina, there are not many choices of places to stay, and you'll have to travel at least 3 more hours to get to the next city large enough to have a hotel.  Plus, there is no cell service, nor internet (unless you pay big pesos for it).   
We had no trouble getting through San Ignacio this time; their construction around the plaza was done.  The clam feed at Oasis was as good as we expected, and he's already planning his next trip back!!  

The roads were in pretty good shape, as they've repaved many long stretches that had more potholes than was decent.  They are also working hard on the Santo Thomas grade, which will be beautiful when they're done. Now, it's generally a 1/2 hour wait while construction goes on, then one lane of traffic at a time through the construction areas.  They are moving rocks the size of houses here! 

Now that we are home, we've unpacked everything and most things have found their "place".  The dogs are happy to be back to their normal haunts, and we're waiting for some of the local restaurants to open back up.  We have had very hard rain showers for the last several days, but today is sunny and beautiful, with a southerly breeze to dry things out a bit.  We are almost ready for company, when our summer house sitter moves out, so get ready to buy your tickets!  

For more pictures, I've created a September / October album.

Not sure when the next issue will be ... we're going to be getting busy with our Fashion Show organization.  If you want to hear from us, just send us an email.  We WILL answer you!

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