Wednesday Aug 5th & Thursday Aug 6th & Friday Aug 7th, 2009

Hi all, we got home last night and watched a bit of TV then said goodnite. We were woken up at about 5ish with a thunderstorm which cooled us off a little.

Didn’t get up til 11:30 this morning, wow that was a good sleep!, and we had coffee, as per our custom now, outside on the patio. Today is Lily’s day to come and clean my house (did I mention I pay $5.00/hr?) so we stayed home and I got the bedroom and computer room slightly more organized!

I forgot to mention that we were given the name of a handyman (Fransisco and friend) and they are coming to do some work we need for $3,000 pesos (approx 300.00 cdn), they are going to build me a roof above my backdoor and over my washer and dryer, they are going to install a propane tank on our roof so we can have the stove and dryer working, put rubber paint on our roof for better protection and they are going to fix our skylights so they do not leak! How we are going to get all this stuff in the convertible, if the stores we go to don’t deliver, I’ll never know. I am so looking forward to a roof over my washer and dryer.

It’s Thursday now and Ross is sick, he has a bit of a fever and is very tired and his joints are sore. I think personally that he just wanted a down day, but no, he can’t make up a fever, can he? All along the highway on the laterals there are dozens of restaurants (3 or more tables) that look cozy, so Ross and I ate at one of these last night, I wonder if his taco’s are to blame.

I got a call from Liverpool and Baby won’t be delivered until tomorrow between one and four. I’m disappointed as I was really looking forward to getting her today. Liverpool was to call me today for delivery, which they did, but guess what......no English! We both got frustrated that neither one of us could understand the other so I said adios and called Zack. I asked him if he wouldn’t mind calling them to see what the scoop was. He called back to let me know that it won’t be delivered until tomorrow.

I did another wash and hung it up on the line, I feel like Little House on the Prairie. It is hot and muggy again today; I think it rained a bit last night as the ground was wet, and Gracie brought in some muddy wet paws after her walk this morning. It’s a good thing I have ceramic floors it just wipes right up. It is such a different way of living down here, outside of the house is just a continuation of the inside. We have never once closed the big front door, we just have the screen closed, the back screen door has never been closed, let alone the big door. My kitchen window is quite big (it looks out onto the back yard) and I just have the screen closed. I was putzing around in the kitchen wiping counters and spilled some water onto the floor, back home I would have sworn and made a big deal out of it. Here you just get your mop, and wipe it up, no big deal.

I went into the trailer and got another box out and found out it was more of my good china and Dena’s tea tray she gave me. They all came out in one piece, hurray. I am really surprised on how much did not get broken. We were one some pretty rough roads and it didn’t help that the trailer was packed twice at the beginning of this adventure and some boxes got shoved in quite roughly!

We were going to go get the stuff we need for our house repairs today but with Ross in bed it’s not going to happen. If we don’t get them tomorrow we will have to wait to have the stuff done next week. There is also a shed we are going to buy from Sam’s club for about $13,000 pesos, it is fairly large and is made of plastic (I think) and we are going to put it at the end of our property to store stuff in. We have more stuff than house, go figure! It kinda looks like a little house with a door and windows, we could also use it as a guest house, well maybe not, once we have our stuff in it I don’t think a bed would fit!

Well today (Friday) started out with a phone call from Liverpool that baby will be at the Oxxo at the De Cameron in 30 minutes. I was soooooooooooo excited, Ross still feels like shit but he drove me down there. In the meantime the rain started coming down, we had a really nice thunderstorm, so instead of unloading her at the store the delivery guys followed us home. Now you have to remember that we are living in a Mexican neighbourhood, so the roads, because of the rains, are bumpy and in some places impossible to drive through, so here we are with a fairly large truck following us home. Once we got here they brought her down and started to unwrap her and her rear view mirror is broken. Now as you know I am an Aries and Arians really do not have any patience, I have been very proud of me to be able to calmly wait for internet, phone, baby, but she’s broken! Ya just want to scream. My shorter dresser was to be here today along with my smaller table and shelves for my buffet but there was a problem with the dresser so they won’t be here until Monday. Aggggggggggggggggggggggggggg. I’m much better now, thank you.

A new friend Dick came by to let us know that all the gringos meet at a different restaurant every Saturday night to help the local economy. We are meeting tomorrow night at an Argentine restaurant across the 200 from the Telmex office, (these are the people we had to go to get our phone and internet from) right by the pharmacy. Don’t you love our directions! He also wanted to know why our garbage was piling up. I told him that it hasn’t been picked up since last Saturday, he let me know this happens to someone he knows so he will call to get it picked up for us as he is married to a Mexican and she can call as there is no English spoken there.

Ross is still in bed but feeling better, his fever is gone so I’m hoping he is on the mend. It sure is quiet around here with him out of commission. Well gotto go and get some housework done.

Talk to you soon
Ross and Kim