Hola Amigos,
Happy November! It has been another quiet week here at Casa Purkey. The weather has been pretty nice, although we did have cloud cover all day Sunday, with some rain showers, as Tropical Storm Sonia passed over us. There was not much wind associated with this storm, and the rain was warm, so it wasn't too bad! I thought about taking photos of the storm clouds, but those of you in the north have seen enough of that kind of stuff!
I have been going through old family slides and photos, and having fun finding some of my favorite old pictures! I didn't realize how many of them were slides...we must have made prints out of them because I still have some of these prints on display! Here's one of them; Ryan in the front yard of our Eugene home washing our 73 pickup (which we still have....it is becoming a "collectible antique vehicle"!)
Ben just had some excitement this morning! He was taking out the garbage can from the garage and noticed a strong spider web attached to it, and a newly dead scorpion stuck in the web. He looked around some more (with a can of bug killer) and found a nice fat Black Widow spider, which he sprayed with the bug killer and "fried". And last night as I was going to bed, I noticed Zoey sniffing a bug on my rug as she went by to her dog bed. Fortunately, she pretty much passed it by this time, because it was a little scorpion! I stomped on it (with my shoes on), then used bug spray on it, and deposited it in the garbage. You always have to be on the look-out here. After I killed it, I thought about all the times I get up in the middle of the night with no light on and walk around barefoot here. Maybe I'll be turning the light on more often!
We've also been doing a lot of pruning. We have that same old blue pickup filled with palm leaves, banana leaves, weeds, Hibiscus prunings, etc. One of these days we'll have to take it to the dump, but so far, we just keep piling things on! Things have grown amazingly well here this past summer. It can be a real jungle if you don't keep on it.
I pruned the hibiscus there on the right, and Ben pruned the bush straight ahead, so we can get in our front door!!
Other pretty things are blooming around the house. This one is called a "Bird of Paradise" plant. It's not the same as the big leafed plant the the big exotic flowers (we have some of those, too), but this is a little bunch of flowers on a leggy bush. It adds a nice splash of color to our place, and the bees and butterflies love it. Those exotic looking blooms pop out of those little balls! Pretty amazing, isn't it?
Sam always manages to find the shady spot to sit! His back is doing very well, and seems to get better every day. His favorite thing to do in the afternoons is to remind me that he is starving to death, and that his dish is empty...and look! Zoey's dish is empty, too. He'll rattle the dishes around until I feed him (or pick up the dishes!) The little stinker! (He did lose some weight when he was taking steroids for his back injury, but I think he's putting some of it back on!)
For those who might be interested, here is a link to an article about the swearing in ceremony of the new governor of Baja California (the Mexican state to the north of our state, BC Sur), Kiko Vega. Kiko is from Tijuana, but has had a vacation house down here in our neighborhood for many years. His place is just a quarter mile or less from our house. He was elected governor in the elections early this summer. He also won a fishing tournament put on by the hotel Palmas de Cortez this fall (he's friends of the family who owns it) and won a bunch of money AND a brand new pickup! Hmmmmmmm..... Anyhow, here's the link: Gov Kiko Vega
We are getting ready for our first guests in a few weeks. Our daughter Rebecca and family are coming! Hooray!! Now, we're working on killing all the spiders and scorpions before they get here with those two little boys! They'll just have to avoid the cactus plants around here. They'll be here for a couple weeks and for Thanksgiving so we're excited about that. (She's a really good cook! :-) )
For a few more photos, check out our November Picasa Album.
Hasta la proxima semana,
Tus amigos in Baja,
Harriet, Ben, Ryan, Sam & Zoey
Happy November! It has been another quiet week here at Casa Purkey. The weather has been pretty nice, although we did have cloud cover all day Sunday, with some rain showers, as Tropical Storm Sonia passed over us. There was not much wind associated with this storm, and the rain was warm, so it wasn't too bad! I thought about taking photos of the storm clouds, but those of you in the north have seen enough of that kind of stuff!
I have been going through old family slides and photos, and having fun finding some of my favorite old pictures! I didn't realize how many of them were slides...we must have made prints out of them because I still have some of these prints on display! Here's one of them; Ryan in the front yard of our Eugene home washing our 73 pickup (which we still have....it is becoming a "collectible antique vehicle"!)
Ben just had some excitement this morning! He was taking out the garbage can from the garage and noticed a strong spider web attached to it, and a newly dead scorpion stuck in the web. He looked around some more (with a can of bug killer) and found a nice fat Black Widow spider, which he sprayed with the bug killer and "fried". And last night as I was going to bed, I noticed Zoey sniffing a bug on my rug as she went by to her dog bed. Fortunately, she pretty much passed it by this time, because it was a little scorpion! I stomped on it (with my shoes on), then used bug spray on it, and deposited it in the garbage. You always have to be on the look-out here. After I killed it, I thought about all the times I get up in the middle of the night with no light on and walk around barefoot here. Maybe I'll be turning the light on more often!
We've also been doing a lot of pruning. We have that same old blue pickup filled with palm leaves, banana leaves, weeds, Hibiscus prunings, etc. One of these days we'll have to take it to the dump, but so far, we just keep piling things on! Things have grown amazingly well here this past summer. It can be a real jungle if you don't keep on it.
I pruned the hibiscus there on the right, and Ben pruned the bush straight ahead, so we can get in our front door!!
Other pretty things are blooming around the house. This one is called a "Bird of Paradise" plant. It's not the same as the big leafed plant the the big exotic flowers (we have some of those, too), but this is a little bunch of flowers on a leggy bush. It adds a nice splash of color to our place, and the bees and butterflies love it. Those exotic looking blooms pop out of those little balls! Pretty amazing, isn't it?
Sam always manages to find the shady spot to sit! His back is doing very well, and seems to get better every day. His favorite thing to do in the afternoons is to remind me that he is starving to death, and that his dish is empty...and look! Zoey's dish is empty, too. He'll rattle the dishes around until I feed him (or pick up the dishes!) The little stinker! (He did lose some weight when he was taking steroids for his back injury, but I think he's putting some of it back on!)
For those who might be interested, here is a link to an article about the swearing in ceremony of the new governor of Baja California (the Mexican state to the north of our state, BC Sur), Kiko Vega. Kiko is from Tijuana, but has had a vacation house down here in our neighborhood for many years. His place is just a quarter mile or less from our house. He was elected governor in the elections early this summer. He also won a fishing tournament put on by the hotel Palmas de Cortez this fall (he's friends of the family who owns it) and won a bunch of money AND a brand new pickup! Hmmmmmmm..... Anyhow, here's the link: Gov Kiko Vega
We are getting ready for our first guests in a few weeks. Our daughter Rebecca and family are coming! Hooray!! Now, we're working on killing all the spiders and scorpions before they get here with those two little boys! They'll just have to avoid the cactus plants around here. They'll be here for a couple weeks and for Thanksgiving so we're excited about that. (She's a really good cook! :-) )
For a few more photos, check out our November Picasa Album.
Hasta la proxima semana,
Tus amigos in Baja,
Harriet, Ben, Ryan, Sam & Zoey
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