Saturday August 8th & Sunday August 9th, 2009

Here I sit at my kitchen table (still the one too big), it’s 4:45 pm and I am on my first glass of wine. We got up quite early as Dick, our new friend, came over to take a look at our house electrical. We are going to get another service put in just for the air conditioning (when we get it) and we are going to get everything grounded in the house. Our electrical is not grounded! Only in Mexico! Ross is waiting for more power conditioners (they are in Guadalajara right now, they were originally mailed from New York, and they sent Ross a bunch of papers to fill out, of course in Spanish via e-mail) We sent the e-mail to Christie to have Zac let us know what they want) because our power fluctuates soooooo much and they are for brownouts and blackouts and surges and anything else the power throws at us.

We are listening to one of the satellite radio stations we get with Star Choice (Hello Marylou good bye heart is playing right now) and getting a few things accomplished today. Ross is still not feeling well and is laying down right now cause we are going out to dinner with some other gringos to “The Best Argentine Restaurant in Bucerias” (ok so it’s the only one, but that’s what the sign says) at 7:00. I got another load of laundry done, its Saturday so it’s sheet day, and I added a few towels and dishcloths. It’s so cute, it takes about 3 hours for one load of wash cause the water pressure is soooooooooooooo low. I hung them up on the line (again Little House) and took them down when they were dry, about 1 hour.

I tidied a bit, squished the wine glasses with the other ones (I’m still waiting for my shelves to be put in my buffet for all that, Monday I’m told) so now my kitchen table is now free of stuff, of course it does have my computer, wine, mouse and a bowl full of Werther’s (I love those, I haven’t seen them here, I might have to stock up when I go to South Carolina to see my new granddaughter in October). I wiped down the buffet and Ross helped me hang up my “Life’s too short to drink bad wine” plaque right at the back door so you can see it every time you go outside with your wine!

The animals seem to be acclimatized kinda sorta, they seem to move around more in the daytime, where before they were all under our bed just wiped! They are still losing a lot of their undercoats, we have hair everywhere, yes I know Pam we had it before, but this is just ridiculous, Lily just shakes her head.

We were thinking about going to Vallarta today to take a look at the shed at Sam’s we want to buy, but we thought about driving there last Saturday and the highway was a parking lot, most of the way, so we shook our heads and said, not today. We will probably go on Monday, and pick up a few things at Costco also.

I am assuming we are going to go to John and Christie’s after supper so I can post this...............I guess we will have to see!

Sunday......We didn’t get to John and Christies, we went out for dinner at the Argentine place and just as they finished blending our Margarita’s the power went out! Whewwwwwwwwwwww, it’s a good thing they got our drinks before, one of the best Margarita’s I have had for a very long time. We sat for a while hoping that the power would come back on, but alas, not. So we apologized to the wait staff and told them we will come see them next time, we took off and ate at a restaurant on our side of the highway, I think called Fumar, and had a wonderful meal. Ross had grilled fish in hot sauce, it was very good, a bit dry but that’s probably because it was grilled and I had garlic shrimp, to die for! I had rice and veggies and Ross had fries and veggies with our meals and with a glass of wine for me I think it came to 310 pesos a bit on the expensive side but the food was good.

We got up this morning, had our coffee and watched corrie street, wow some stuff is happening. Rosie has been kidnapped by John and Liam has been killed! You really don’t want to hear about that do you? I didn’t think so.

It is now 7pm Jalisco time (6 pm Edmonton and Bucerias time) (everyone goes by Jalisco time) and Ross is sitting outside, still not feeling very well and I’m sitting at the kitchen table getting the blog ready for...........are you ready for it..............posting. As soon as Ross is feeling up to it we are going to John and Christie’s for interneting (sp) then for a quick dip in the ocean and back home to have something to eat. At least that is the plan right now, it is of course subject to change at any time!

Bandit is telling us that it is time to do something so I will say goodnite and hope everyone has a great Monday!

Peace Love and Hugs
Ross and Kim