Hola Amigos,
We have had a quiet week at home...no guests right now, so we have some time to get some chores taken care of around here. Ryan has been painting our outside walls; over the years we seem to have accumulated a number of colors on our two tone house. Paint fades, of course, but there is also the fact that the paint store can never seem to exactly match colors! Anyhow, it is looking much better as Ryan goes around the casa with his paint roller and cans of paint.
Another chore that got done yesterday was to hire someone to spray for mosquitoes. This has been a terrible mosquito year, and I wish we would have known about this guy a while ago! He comes out of La Paz a couple times a month, and it was a bit windy for spraying yesterday, but we had it done anyway. He drove his truck right through our neighboring lot and sprayed our "jungle" in the front of the casa (towards the beach). If you need your mosquitoes sprayed, you now have all the information you need there on his truck!
Our weather has been great for February and early March. There are fewer windy days than normal, and the temps are higher than normal. We may be in for a HOT summer here! Good thing we'll be in the Pacific Northwest! We're leaving here at the end of May this year, so I've determined that there is not time to plant my corn crop and have it mature in time for us! Phooey! That wasn't very good planning on my part. At least my green bean crop is doing well. Ben took good care of the watering while I was gone, and we should have some beans to pick in a few days.
We are very thankful for friends here in our community. We were invited to Ray and Karen's for biscuits and sausage gravy breakfast last week! What a treat. Ray has been experimenting with his recipe faithfully for years, and it is a challenge here; you can find ground pork, but not "sausage spiced" ground pork. We have another friend who supplies the spices, and you have to experiment to determine how much spice to add to your pork. Anyhow, Ray has it down very well, and we were the benefactors of his hard work.
Karen sets a beautiful table on their "mountain view front door" deck.
And if you stay long enough, you can also sit in the shade of their "ocean view deck" and have another cup of coffee.
That's about all the excitement for this week. We're looking forward to visiting friends who are spending the winter just over those hills in the distance in the photo above (at Los Frailes) this week for lunch before they head back to Oregon. I've started a March Picasa Album. Someone told me that my link took her to Google Plus, and that she had to sign up for Google Plus to make it work (which she didn't want to do). I'm hoping that's not how it works for everyone. Here is the direct link to our March 2014 album.
https://picasaweb.google.com/105471094228418480553/201403March#
Hasta la proxima semana,
Tus amigos de Baja,
Harriet, Ben, Ryan, Sam & Zoey
We have had a quiet week at home...no guests right now, so we have some time to get some chores taken care of around here. Ryan has been painting our outside walls; over the years we seem to have accumulated a number of colors on our two tone house. Paint fades, of course, but there is also the fact that the paint store can never seem to exactly match colors! Anyhow, it is looking much better as Ryan goes around the casa with his paint roller and cans of paint.
Another chore that got done yesterday was to hire someone to spray for mosquitoes. This has been a terrible mosquito year, and I wish we would have known about this guy a while ago! He comes out of La Paz a couple times a month, and it was a bit windy for spraying yesterday, but we had it done anyway. He drove his truck right through our neighboring lot and sprayed our "jungle" in the front of the casa (towards the beach). If you need your mosquitoes sprayed, you now have all the information you need there on his truck!
Our weather has been great for February and early March. There are fewer windy days than normal, and the temps are higher than normal. We may be in for a HOT summer here! Good thing we'll be in the Pacific Northwest! We're leaving here at the end of May this year, so I've determined that there is not time to plant my corn crop and have it mature in time for us! Phooey! That wasn't very good planning on my part. At least my green bean crop is doing well. Ben took good care of the watering while I was gone, and we should have some beans to pick in a few days.
We are very thankful for friends here in our community. We were invited to Ray and Karen's for biscuits and sausage gravy breakfast last week! What a treat. Ray has been experimenting with his recipe faithfully for years, and it is a challenge here; you can find ground pork, but not "sausage spiced" ground pork. We have another friend who supplies the spices, and you have to experiment to determine how much spice to add to your pork. Anyhow, Ray has it down very well, and we were the benefactors of his hard work.
Karen sets a beautiful table on their "mountain view front door" deck.
And if you stay long enough, you can also sit in the shade of their "ocean view deck" and have another cup of coffee.
That's about all the excitement for this week. We're looking forward to visiting friends who are spending the winter just over those hills in the distance in the photo above (at Los Frailes) this week for lunch before they head back to Oregon. I've started a March Picasa Album. Someone told me that my link took her to Google Plus, and that she had to sign up for Google Plus to make it work (which she didn't want to do). I'm hoping that's not how it works for everyone. Here is the direct link to our March 2014 album.
https://picasaweb.google.com/105471094228418480553/201403March#
Hasta la proxima semana,
Tus amigos de Baja,
Harriet, Ben, Ryan, Sam & Zoey
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