Hola Amigos!
It's Tuesday, and 2 weeks has rapidly passed us by. Can you believe we're already in the 2nd week of December? Wow. Thanksgiving was celebrated, another car show in La Paz was attended, and we are both finally getting healthy. Life goes on! We are still occasionally eating dinner on our veranda. This was the evening before Thanksgiving, and you can see by our attire that it was not in the least bit chilly! It was a very enjoyable evening out there!
Hurricane Sandra did come by a few weeks ago (Thanksgiving weekend), but we didn't get much wind, just a lot of rain! Things are still very green here, and we had another opportunity to see where our roof, and in Ryan's case, our walls leak! You get enough rain for enough hours, and it's gonna get wet somewhere inside!
Ben spent the last weekend in November in La Paz at another car show, and the Quaker State girls were again very happy to pose with him in front of his pickup (you can see the pickup, can't you?)
I went up to the car show on Sunday after church on the bus, and it was a pretty enjoyable trip, although the bus was very full. They even showed a Disney movie (in Spanish) of Rapunzel. I got to practice my Spanish again!! It was a cloudy day in La Paz, and pretty windy when I got there, so we left early and skipped the prize presentation, although Ben did take home a certificate for Oldest Vehicle. His cars are always quite popular, and he has prepared signs to put on the back to explain their history (he's owned the pickup since he was 13!) and that it was restored here in Baja.
Our garden was progressing pretty nicely; the lettuce leafing out, zucchini starting to produce, and then one morning I noticed the lettuce leaves were non-existent! Yikes! Turns out a pretty green lizard had made a home in there and completely stripped it! This is a week later, and it is TRYING to send out some new leaves, but I imagine the lizard is lurking somewhere nearby waiting for just the right moment... (even though my dogs are trying their hardest to catch him and all his brothers!)
Our spindly Agave stick Christmas tree is up and decorated. Sigh.... I had to unstring all the lights because one string wasn't working properly, and then re-string what was left! I went easy on the decorations this year, since I seem to do it all;if the rest of the family isn't happy with it, they can put on their favorites! More photos are in our December 2015 album.
It's Tuesday, and 2 weeks has rapidly passed us by. Can you believe we're already in the 2nd week of December? Wow. Thanksgiving was celebrated, another car show in La Paz was attended, and we are both finally getting healthy. Life goes on! We are still occasionally eating dinner on our veranda. This was the evening before Thanksgiving, and you can see by our attire that it was not in the least bit chilly! It was a very enjoyable evening out there!
Hurricane Sandra did come by a few weeks ago (Thanksgiving weekend), but we didn't get much wind, just a lot of rain! Things are still very green here, and we had another opportunity to see where our roof, and in Ryan's case, our walls leak! You get enough rain for enough hours, and it's gonna get wet somewhere inside! 
I went up to the car show on Sunday after church on the bus, and it was a pretty enjoyable trip, although the bus was very full. They even showed a Disney movie (in Spanish) of Rapunzel. I got to practice my Spanish again!! It was a cloudy day in La Paz, and pretty windy when I got there, so we left early and skipped the prize presentation, although Ben did take home a certificate for Oldest Vehicle. His cars are always quite popular, and he has prepared signs to put on the back to explain their history (he's owned the pickup since he was 13!) and that it was restored here in Baja.
Our garden was progressing pretty nicely; the lettuce leafing out, zucchini starting to produce, and then one morning I noticed the lettuce leaves were non-existent! Yikes! Turns out a pretty green lizard had made a home in there and completely stripped it! This is a week later, and it is TRYING to send out some new leaves, but I imagine the lizard is lurking somewhere nearby waiting for just the right moment... (even though my dogs are trying their hardest to catch him and all his brothers!)
There was an Art Fair here in town this last weekend, and it was a beautiful sunny day, with lots of vendors present. I found a pretty new skirt and some snack food. There was also plenty of jewelry and paintings and woodwork.
I finally got a good picture of what I call the "Fuller Brush Man". This is the truck of the vendor who goes door to door selling all kinds of brushes and brooms and mops and buckets and chairs and pots and pans and whatever you might need for your casa. He has a loud speaker on the front, constantly advertising his wares, so you can hear him coming and be out front waiting for him to come by! After studying the picture, I think he has it decked out quite festively! Notice the white and yellow dusting brushes sticking out at an angle from the back! And things don't fall off, so he knows how to tie things down. Hmmmm... I wonder what's buried deep inside there....?
Our spindly Agave stick Christmas tree is up and decorated. Sigh.... I had to unstring all the lights because one string wasn't working properly, and then re-string what was left! I went easy on the decorations this year, since I seem to do it all;if the rest of the family isn't happy with it, they can put on their favorites! More photos are in our December 2015 album.
Hasta la proxima vez!
Tus amigos de Baja,
Harriet, Ben, Ryan, Sam & Zoey
Always nice to see Ben getting mileage from all the work restoring the old cars.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading this blog and looking at all the pictures. Thanks, Harriet
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