Hola, Amigos!
First, Happy Birthday today to my much older sister Sharon! Hope you can blow out all those candles!
Phew! The busy weekend is over, and now we have the next events on the list! The Ladies Conference put on by our church was great! We had over 40 women attending (that's a BIG number for this area) and a great speaker all the way from Tennessee, worship singers from California, and a wonderful local restaurant to serve us lunch. As Emcee, I managed to remember most everything (I think!) and didn't flub up too often. We had a couple fun games, and here is the result of one of them!!! Aren't they cute???
In case you can't tell, the winners were the team with the lady in the blue dress. They managed to blow up balloons and stuff them in the panty hose faster than any of the other tables. (I think they got the most balloons in there, too!) We got more laughs from this game than anything else! We used it to wake them up after that delicious lunch!
I didn't have to do the music for this one, so I got a bit of a break there! Now, the OK Chorale, our Community Choir, will be performing at the Saturday Market here next weekend, so I'll be practicing for that. The next weekend is Easter and our churches Sunrise Service, and that will keep me hopping. After that.... maybe I'll start a new quilting project!!
Our dogs always make life interesting. Zoey found an old coconut shell somewhere and she and Sam have been carrying the silly thing around and chewing on it for several days. You buy them toys, but this is what a Baja dog ends up treasuring! Sam has it firmly in mouth. I told him to take it outside, and he got close... but there are no rugs outside to lay on, so he stopped there by the kitchen door.
The first day of spring was last Friday, and although we aren't on Daylight time yet, the days are getting longer. We had to use our shade screen when we ate dinner on our veranda last evening. But even more of an indication that it is warming up is the sight of Iguanas on top of cactus. I spotted this one on one of our Cardon cactus yesterday afternoon. (He was kind of hard to miss!) He was soaking up the sun for several hours up there! It is usually the White Wing Doves and other birds who perch on this cactus, but they gave this guy plenty of leeway yesterday! He probably lives in a hole in this cactus or one nearby.
Pictured below is the newest pair in the barrio. She is much darker than our typical burros, and the youngster with her is darker, too. They were very polite and stepped aside when the dogs went by. Dogs on one side of the road, burros on the other! The dogs didn't even bark. I always wonder if they're listening to me when I tell them not to bark...they really did very well, kept quiet and showed proper respect to the burros and their kicking legs.
The local community has been putting on Shakespeare plays since we moved down here, and this year's play is Robin Hood. I'm looking forward to it as we've heard some good things. By the way, this isn't one that Shakespeare wrote. Several talented people here write the plays, and they do them in Shakespeare style. Our Community Choir director is very involved in the music side of it, and she is quite talented, so I expect great things.
Since Ben finished and installed the cabinets, he's been cleaning up his shop (and organizing his screw collection) and hanging some cute signs he has purchased at various car shows (or maybe on the internet...he's always got something coming from EBay!). It wasn't just a simple matter of hanging the tin signs. He cut out and glued together some nice wood, finished it to perfection, then mounted the sign on the wood. If you ask Ben to do something for you, it is going to be done very nicely! And then there's the fact that these walls are concrete block and plaster. Not an easy medium on which to hang things! Get out the impact drill for this one!
OK...it isn't blooming quite yet, but it's almost as tall as it's going to get. You can see from the size of the wheelbarrow at the base that it is one BIG agave stalk, all grown in about 2 months. We might need a chain saw to cut this thing down!!
There are a few more photos in our 2015 March Picasa album. Wow, one more Tuesday in March, so these aren't the last photos I'll add.
Hasta la proxima semana
Tus amigos de Baja,
Harriet, Ben, Ryan, Sam & Zoey
First, Happy Birthday today to my much older sister Sharon! Hope you can blow out all those candles!
Phew! The busy weekend is over, and now we have the next events on the list! The Ladies Conference put on by our church was great! We had over 40 women attending (that's a BIG number for this area) and a great speaker all the way from Tennessee, worship singers from California, and a wonderful local restaurant to serve us lunch. As Emcee, I managed to remember most everything (I think!) and didn't flub up too often. We had a couple fun games, and here is the result of one of them!!! Aren't they cute???
In case you can't tell, the winners were the team with the lady in the blue dress. They managed to blow up balloons and stuff them in the panty hose faster than any of the other tables. (I think they got the most balloons in there, too!) We got more laughs from this game than anything else! We used it to wake them up after that delicious lunch!
I didn't have to do the music for this one, so I got a bit of a break there! Now, the OK Chorale, our Community Choir, will be performing at the Saturday Market here next weekend, so I'll be practicing for that. The next weekend is Easter and our churches Sunrise Service, and that will keep me hopping. After that.... maybe I'll start a new quilting project!!
Our dogs always make life interesting. Zoey found an old coconut shell somewhere and she and Sam have been carrying the silly thing around and chewing on it for several days. You buy them toys, but this is what a Baja dog ends up treasuring! Sam has it firmly in mouth. I told him to take it outside, and he got close... but there are no rugs outside to lay on, so he stopped there by the kitchen door.
The first day of spring was last Friday, and although we aren't on Daylight time yet, the days are getting longer. We had to use our shade screen when we ate dinner on our veranda last evening. But even more of an indication that it is warming up is the sight of Iguanas on top of cactus. I spotted this one on one of our Cardon cactus yesterday afternoon. (He was kind of hard to miss!) He was soaking up the sun for several hours up there! It is usually the White Wing Doves and other birds who perch on this cactus, but they gave this guy plenty of leeway yesterday! He probably lives in a hole in this cactus or one nearby.
When the dogs and I took a walk the other day, we came home down "Burro Alley"... there were 5 of them hanging around this neighborhood. (You've trained them well, Marsha...I think they're missing you and your treats). The little one on the ground is the newest baby. Mom is smart enough to stand in the shade while baby is doing his (her?) morning nap.
Pictured below is the newest pair in the barrio. She is much darker than our typical burros, and the youngster with her is darker, too. They were very polite and stepped aside when the dogs went by. Dogs on one side of the road, burros on the other! The dogs didn't even bark. I always wonder if they're listening to me when I tell them not to bark...they really did very well, kept quiet and showed proper respect to the burros and their kicking legs.
The local community has been putting on Shakespeare plays since we moved down here, and this year's play is Robin Hood. I'm looking forward to it as we've heard some good things. By the way, this isn't one that Shakespeare wrote. Several talented people here write the plays, and they do them in Shakespeare style. Our Community Choir director is very involved in the music side of it, and she is quite talented, so I expect great things.
Since Ben finished and installed the cabinets, he's been cleaning up his shop (and organizing his screw collection) and hanging some cute signs he has purchased at various car shows (or maybe on the internet...he's always got something coming from EBay!). It wasn't just a simple matter of hanging the tin signs. He cut out and glued together some nice wood, finished it to perfection, then mounted the sign on the wood. If you ask Ben to do something for you, it is going to be done very nicely! And then there's the fact that these walls are concrete block and plaster. Not an easy medium on which to hang things! Get out the impact drill for this one!
OK...it isn't blooming quite yet, but it's almost as tall as it's going to get. You can see from the size of the wheelbarrow at the base that it is one BIG agave stalk, all grown in about 2 months. We might need a chain saw to cut this thing down!!
There are a few more photos in our 2015 March Picasa album. Wow, one more Tuesday in March, so these aren't the last photos I'll add.
Hasta la proxima semana
Tus amigos de Baja,
Harriet, Ben, Ryan, Sam & Zoey
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