Hola Amigos,
Can you believe it is April already? We have 3 more months here at our home base in Mexico before we go north, and these are some of the most pleasant months, weatherwise, during the year. The wind isn't blowing like crazy, the sun is shining, the days are longer...it is just downright pleasant now!
On Sunday, we celebrated Easter with a Sunrise Service on the beach. Ben and Ryan were in charge of the set up of all the sound equipment. That meant dismantling it from the church on Saturday, storing it in secure vehicles overnight, unloading it and setting it up on Sunday morning, starting at 4:45am on the beach!!! Yes, that is a flashlight strapped to Ryan's head. Ben was wearing one most of the time, too!
With help from a bunch of people willing to get up very early, things got set up in time, and more than 200 people arrived to celebrate with us, both English and Spanish speaking. Our choir did songs in both English and Spanish, and we had a lovely solo of Via Delarosa by a lady whose musical family is visiting the area right now. Here is a link to most of her song (I didn't get my video started on time...) Via Delarosa.
And here are a few other photos from the morning service.
I'm always pleasantly surprised by how many people attend this early morning service. We also had a potluck breakfast after the service, and saw everyone who came was well fed!
I mentioned last week that I might have enough beans to can, and I do! I probably need to pick and can another batch today. I can't believe how well they're doing, especially after the cow did her work on that first crop. It is wonderful to be eating fresh Blue Lake green beans, and having enough to can for eating next fall, when we don't have the garden in yet. (The Oregon Farm Girl in me survives, even in Mexico!)
The Cardon cactus are blooming now, so we are not seeing quite as many Hummingbirds at our feeders. When we do see them, they often have cactus pollen on their heads! The birds and the bees do love these flowers when they bloom.
Easter vacation is one of the biggest Mexican holidays. The weather is not too hot yet, and hundreds of Mexicans come to Baja and camp on the beaches. In some places, they even set up vendor booths and Tecate tents (with Tecate girls to advertise and entice the beer drinkers in, like they need enticement to drink beer on a holiday!) You'll see sound trucks with nightly entertainment, volleyball tournaments on the beach, all kinds of things. When I walked the dogs on Monday, this is the first thing I saw! And let me tell you, this is a vast improvement over how it used to be! Yes, that is a large garbage bag... the remains of a camping trip to the beach. I guess they didn't have room to haul it away with them. I saw several more bags like this in another place. This will be fine, until the cows or dogs get into it and spread it all around! I just wondered what they were thinking????
Anyhow, the weather is warming up, Ben is thinking about fishing(!), company is coming in a couple weeks. The dogs have their new bark collars (we've only used them one day), and they are doing better about the barking after just one day's use. The day they wore them was the quietest day we've had in a long time. It seems like they knew something would happen if they barked!
I've started a new April Picasa Album, but the Easter photos are all at the end of the March Picasa Album.
Hasta la proxima semana,
Tus amigos de Baja,
Harriet, Ben, Ryan, Sam & Zoey
Can you believe it is April already? We have 3 more months here at our home base in Mexico before we go north, and these are some of the most pleasant months, weatherwise, during the year. The wind isn't blowing like crazy, the sun is shining, the days are longer...it is just downright pleasant now!
On Sunday, we celebrated Easter with a Sunrise Service on the beach. Ben and Ryan were in charge of the set up of all the sound equipment. That meant dismantling it from the church on Saturday, storing it in secure vehicles overnight, unloading it and setting it up on Sunday morning, starting at 4:45am on the beach!!! Yes, that is a flashlight strapped to Ryan's head. Ben was wearing one most of the time, too!
And here are a few other photos from the morning service.
I mentioned last week that I might have enough beans to can, and I do! I probably need to pick and can another batch today. I can't believe how well they're doing, especially after the cow did her work on that first crop. It is wonderful to be eating fresh Blue Lake green beans, and having enough to can for eating next fall, when we don't have the garden in yet. (The Oregon Farm Girl in me survives, even in Mexico!)
The Cardon cactus are blooming now, so we are not seeing quite as many Hummingbirds at our feeders. When we do see them, they often have cactus pollen on their heads! The birds and the bees do love these flowers when they bloom.
I've started a new April Picasa Album, but the Easter photos are all at the end of the March Picasa Album.
Hasta la proxima semana,
Tus amigos de Baja,
Harriet, Ben, Ryan, Sam & Zoey
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