Hola Amigos!
It is a beautiful morning here in BCS! The sun is shining, the birds are singing, the temp at almost 8am is 70.3F. The doors are open, the dogs are fed, Ben is on his second cup of coffee (I'm on my first), the garbage can is out waiting for our twice a week pick-up, and it can't get much better than this!
We had a lovely Easter Sunrise service on the beach again this year with our local church, East Cape Community Fellowship. Ben is in charge of the audio equipment, and the service started at 6:15AM, so he wanted us up out of bed at 4:30, and there on the beach by 5AM. Sigh..... I set the alarm, but it didn't go off. I did wake up at about 4:50, so we scurried around and got there by 5:10, probably. (The clock was on AM instead of PM when I set it the night before, so even though I set the alarm correctly for 4:30AM, it didn't go off at 4:30PM, like I wanted it to!) Anyhow, with willing helpers we were able to get everything going on time; amp, piano, mics, speakers... It was lovely. Probably 150 or more folks were there; Americans, Canadians, Mexicans. And we had breakfast afterwards at the home behind the beach, even though Don and Lynn are currently in Alaska, they let us use their courtyard patio for the occasion.
In the photo below, you can see Richard giving the Easter message and Fransisco translating to Spanish, along with the sun rising behind the Bass and piano.
The sun came up on schedule, too! It is a rather busy beach that early in the morning. Several boats were hauled by and launched during the service! We were smart enough to set up the equipment just out of their path! There were also many Mexicans camped on the beach for Easter week, and when we got there first thing, someone still had loud music playing, that must have gone on all night long! They did turn theirs off before our service started, muchas gracias!
Another nice thing about Easter week is that the construction project near us stopped for 4 days (hooray!) Peace and quiet in the barrio for a few days was wonderful. They've been working pretty much non-stop (Saturdays and some Sundays) for several weeks now. They've almost got all the second story walls up and will be starting on the bond beam soon. It will probably be as tall as Mary and Craig's house to the left of it when it is done, so we will be losing some ocean view from our veranda. Oh well...life goes on.
The local birds are giving me lots of photo opportunities, and we have a pair of the Pyrrhuloxi
I thought that was very cooperative of them!
Sam and Zoey like this time of year because the lizards are coming out, and the chipmunks are scurrying around collecting the seeds the birds might have missed (or getting them before the birds do!) I got a really nice shot of them on one of their hunting trips...wondering "which way did he go?"
That one is good enough to use for the 2015 Dachshund Calendar, don't you think?
We went to Peter's birthday party last week. His parents always put on a good party, and their place is beautiful; they have a pool that they let us use and a putting green, too! And the flowers are beautiful, which I enjoy.
And in our garden, we had the first bloom of our giant Nopal cactus. We'll have hundreds more, according to the buds!
More photos are in the April 2014 album. Be sure to watch the video of our friend Mark singing at the Easter Service. I didn't get the whole thing, but you can get a nice sample.
Ryan is coming back tomorrow, and it will be good to see him again. The dogs will be thrilled, I'm sure! He's their designated "petter"!
Hasta la proxima semana,
Tus amigos de Baja,
Harriet, Ben, Sam & Zoey
It is a beautiful morning here in BCS! The sun is shining, the birds are singing, the temp at almost 8am is 70.3F. The doors are open, the dogs are fed, Ben is on his second cup of coffee (I'm on my first), the garbage can is out waiting for our twice a week pick-up, and it can't get much better than this!
We had a lovely Easter Sunrise service on the beach again this year with our local church, East Cape Community Fellowship. Ben is in charge of the audio equipment, and the service started at 6:15AM, so he wanted us up out of bed at 4:30, and there on the beach by 5AM. Sigh..... I set the alarm, but it didn't go off. I did wake up at about 4:50, so we scurried around and got there by 5:10, probably. (The clock was on AM instead of PM when I set it the night before, so even though I set the alarm correctly for 4:30AM, it didn't go off at 4:30PM, like I wanted it to!) Anyhow, with willing helpers we were able to get everything going on time; amp, piano, mics, speakers... It was lovely. Probably 150 or more folks were there; Americans, Canadians, Mexicans. And we had breakfast afterwards at the home behind the beach, even though Don and Lynn are currently in Alaska, they let us use their courtyard patio for the occasion.
In the photo below, you can see Richard giving the Easter message and Fransisco translating to Spanish, along with the sun rising behind the Bass and piano.
The sun came up on schedule, too! It is a rather busy beach that early in the morning. Several boats were hauled by and launched during the service! We were smart enough to set up the equipment just out of their path! There were also many Mexicans camped on the beach for Easter week, and when we got there first thing, someone still had loud music playing, that must have gone on all night long! They did turn theirs off before our service started, muchas gracias!
Another nice thing about Easter week is that the construction project near us stopped for 4 days (hooray!) Peace and quiet in the barrio for a few days was wonderful. They've been working pretty much non-stop (Saturdays and some Sundays) for several weeks now. They've almost got all the second story walls up and will be starting on the bond beam soon. It will probably be as tall as Mary and Craig's house to the left of it when it is done, so we will be losing some ocean view from our veranda. Oh well...life goes on.
The local birds are giving me lots of photo opportunities, and we have a pair of the Pyrrhuloxi
I thought that was very cooperative of them!
Sam and Zoey like this time of year because the lizards are coming out, and the chipmunks are scurrying around collecting the seeds the birds might have missed (or getting them before the birds do!) I got a really nice shot of them on one of their hunting trips...wondering "which way did he go?"
That one is good enough to use for the 2015 Dachshund Calendar, don't you think?
We went to Peter's birthday party last week. His parents always put on a good party, and their place is beautiful; they have a pool that they let us use and a putting green, too! And the flowers are beautiful, which I enjoy.
And in our garden, we had the first bloom of our giant Nopal cactus. We'll have hundreds more, according to the buds!
More photos are in the April 2014 album. Be sure to watch the video of our friend Mark singing at the Easter Service. I didn't get the whole thing, but you can get a nice sample.
Ryan is coming back tomorrow, and it will be good to see him again. The dogs will be thrilled, I'm sure! He's their designated "petter"!
Hasta la proxima semana,
Tus amigos de Baja,
Harriet, Ben, Sam & Zoey
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