Casa Update 19

Friends,

It has been a beautiful two weeks. Temperatures have been in the mid 80's cooling down into the mid 60's at night. Humidity has been hovering between 13-30 percent. RV John finally got the right part and our refrigerator is back up and cooling. We watched the workers continue on the wall, went into town a few times and spent an afternoon at the pool. One afternoon while we were reading on the back porch, a little lizard wandered up. The same kind that we had back in Benicia. He was watching the flies landing on the tile and every once in a while he would take off after one. Cautious little one. We had an idea and I swatted a few flies and we placed them around for him to eat. He eventually attacked two of them and then scampered off. Another night at dusk, we were visited by 2 coyotes. A very skinny one and a plump (pregnant?) one. We were still, they were cautious. The skinny one got within 40 feet of the back wall. They hung around for that seemed to be ten minutes and then left. Well, I got to pull the dumb thing with the generator this time. We were getting ready to eat dinner Saturday night when the thing quit again. Went outside and again, oil was everywhere. This time the dip stick was loose. Guess that I didn't get it inserted all of the way after checking the oil that morning. Didn't think that it could look any worse after sitting next to the cement mixer and sand pile. Wrong, will include a picture of it. They didn't finish the wall on Saturday either. I did not know that they were going to add an additional 4 inch concrete cap to the wall and columns. Unless they do some more creative construction they will surely finish this next week. We had another adventure with lizards Sunday afternoon. We found two of them having a feast on the dead flies on the front porch. The workers called them chameleons. I would call them a grey desert lizards. Their bodies were about 6-8 inches and same for the tails. These two feared no humans. After they had just about devoured all of the files, I thought that it was time for them to leave. I yelled, stomped and finally charged them. All to no avail. Finally I had to sweep them along to the gate. Once they got to the hot sand, they beat a path for the desert and disappeared under the cement mixer. Have a feeling that they will be back. This past week has been very quiet. Regina and I came down with an intestinal thing. We think that we brought it on ourselves. Something went bad in one of the coolers while we were waiting for the refrigerator to get fixed. That slowed us down till about Wednesday. The cement guys packed up and left on Tuesday. Guess that they are waiting for the concrete to dry as no one has been back since. Paint, gates and the cleanup, that is all that is left. We had Kaaren and George up for dinner on Friday. We attempted to play a game of Wineopoly but it just got too late. Saturday brought us to two last events. This morning was the last "Swap Meet" till late September. We stocked up on veggies. Looks like when they run out, we will have to trek into town. The vegetable lady is always at the swap meet and has a stand in town that is open only on Tuesdays. Fresh produce has always been a problem at the local Mercados. Always hit and miss. Saturday afternoon was the Annual "Club de Pesca" Chile cook-off. We had a great time. I personally tasted well over a dozen different recipes. The two that I liked most were "Oso Chile" and Beach-N-Chile". Hey, I didn't pick the names. But they were good! Best thing was that it was Free! I bought 100 Pesos worth of drink and food tickets and we spent a very relaxing afternoon at the beach drinking tecates, eating chile and hot dogs while the local rock band "Blue Agave" played all of our favorite oldies. That was the last event of the season. Things will start slowing down here now. The snowbirds have been leaving in droves over the past 2 weeks. They will be replaced by the Mexicalies till June. Then San Felipe will once again become a quiet little fishing village, except for the 4,000 or so Ex-Pats that will brave the hot summer that is. Well, that is it for a while. The punch list is back up into the low teens and Lupe promised to be here Tuesday to get started. I think that was a couple of Tuesdays ago. I will send out another update when the wall and punch list are finally finished.

Larry and Regina


p.s. For up to date San Felipe information please browse to: http://www.sanfelipe.com.mx/. The best is under the news tab. Select "Kat's Corner."

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