Sunday and Monday November 29th and 30th, 2009
Our Grey Cup party was fun; we had a lot of people show up. We took the couch and love seat that we had in the living room and put it outside on our patio (now we have another living room) and we put a TV on the table and they watched the game outside. Ross made his famous hot wings and I heated up some spring rolls I bought from Costco, both were delicious!
The weather has been kinda crummy yesterday and today, it’s actually raining here today, they tell me that it never rains in November/December!!! We got up early and was at Brett’s hotel at 11 this morning and he wasn’t there, we would have called but the business card that had the phone number is missing. We left our towels and suits outside his door and went downstairs to the lobby to see if we could find him, Ross went out to the beach and there he was, listening to Frank Sinatra on his iPod. He loves his iPod!
We went back upstairs and got our suits on and Ross and Brett went into the ocean to swim and I stayed on a lounge chair and read my book. When the boys were finished in the ocean we sat in the hot tub for a bit then had lunch by the pool. The first hot tub we went in was soooooo hot that we couldn’t stand it (Ross stayed in longer) so Brett and I got out and went into another that was just right! I sound like Goldilocks! Both Ross and I had the club sandwich and Brett was still full from breakfast so he had some buffalo shrimp. Everything was great, they had some little jars of ketchup, mayo, mustard and something else that were so cute that I took them home with me, I’m not quite sure what I’m going to use them for, but they are so cute!
After lunch we went back upstairs to change because Brett, Ross and I went for a massage! The lap of luxury or what! After walking into the main area we were shown to a change room where we had a locker for our clothes and shoes and we put on a dressing gown. We walked into another room and there was a hot tub and lounge chairs where you could either, well, go into the hot tub, or laze on one of the lounge chairs while drinking a champagne glass of green tea…………….ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Once 2 pm came along my masseuse (I think she said her name was Brittany) came to get me and helped me down some stairs where the rooms are. I was a little wary on how she would handle my ankle but she was very good. Every time she touched it she touched it in such a way that it didn’t hurt. I would tense when she got near it but there was no pain, bonus! I had 80 minutes of sublime bliss, I think I fell asleep at one point (I didn’t sleep much last night so I was scared I would do this) and I hate sleeping through a massage, what a waste of money! When she told me she was done, I knew it because I could hear her prepare for my departure, I almost cried. Once my robe was back on I opened the door and she greeted me with another champagne glass full of green tea and showed me to the shower room. I got my clothes out of the locker and had a hot shower, ok I have to repeat myself, I had a hot shower in Mexico. This is the first hot shower I have had here, cause, my hot water is still not working (I have the name of a plumber that Sue gave me today so I’ll have to call him) washed my hair with the shampoo and cream rinse they provided and combed my hair with a brush and a comb they provided and met Ross and Brett in the lobby. We all had the funny look on our faces, we just got a massage and I’m in seventh heaven!
We let Brett have a snooze and we got home (I posted my Saturday blog) and I’m now writing this one while Ross and Brett are at a meeting. We are going to Taco Itzel (sp) for supper (this is the restaurant we have to blind fold all our guests when we drive there so only the locals know where it is (we want to keep it small)) this is a family owned restaurant that you can feed 8 people on 10 bucks, the food is very Mexican and is great!
Nick dropped by just after Ross left to borrow some speaker cables, the brand new speakers Ross sold them aren’t working right and they think it might be the cables. We have lots of those. He just moved into Oscars studio this week (Oscar moved to Arizona) and as he was driving away, he said, we are neighbors now, don’t be strangers! We like Nick, actually his wife is a house keeper and I’m going to try her maybe next week and I’ll see if I like her, Lily is good but not “Kim good”. I hear Nick’s wife is “Kim good” (I’m sorry I can’t remember her name, I only met her once), for example after she cleaned Ross’s bathroom I went in there for something and when I went to turn off the light I noticed the switch plate was very dirty, so I cleaned it.
Well, it’s 6:09 pm now and I’m sitting in the dark typing, I haven’t turned a light on yet, and I’m just about asleep, so I’m gonna say bye for now, I hope everyone has a terrific day and week! Remember tomorrow is December 1st……..only 25 more shopping days until Christmas!
Adios from Mexico
Ross, Kim and Brett in Paradise
Monday, November 30, 2009
Saturday November 28th, 2009
25 degrees (12:50am Sunday) Feels like 35, Wind N 9 km/h, Humidity 83% Overcast
Brett got us up at 10am this morning, which is good because we needed to get up a little early cause I needed to take Jake to the vet. He feels hot, is very lethargic and has diarrhea. We had a couple of delicious cups of coffee then did our showers, and since its Saturday I changed the sheets on the bed (I love getting into bed with clean sheets)! We tried to get a hold of Brett via his cell phone but it went right to voice mail, we knew he was going to walk down the beach to Bucerias and go down to Centro to do some market shopping, so we decided to wait until later in the afternoon to call his hotel.
I got to the vet shortly after 1pm (need to get there before 2 or they will be on siesta until 4) and he asked me a lot of questions, what colour is the diarrhea, does he run wild, etc etc., he took his temp and it was 40.3. We think he has what Gracie has (it’s called Erhlichia, it’s a tick disease) he gave him a shot of medicine and told me only to give him rice (very little protein) for supper and keep him on a leash so he doesn’t eat anything he finds on his walks.
I got home and we putzed, trying to start getting things organized for our Grey Cup party tomorrow. Harold and Sue popped by (with the dog cage we gave them when they were to pick up Maggie from the vet) and we sat and chatted for a bit, we talked about Amigos de Bucerias, what they used to be and what they have become now. After they left we got a hold of Brett at his hotel, so we went and picked him up to go “The Sirloin Stockade”.
We drove to Costco first and what did we do as soon as we got there???????????? We bought the couch we were looking at, now please remember that the couch, chair and love seat we bought down here are very Mexican, very orange and red and very uncomfortable. We were told by Christie that once we get down here to live she would give us 6 months before we bought another one, more comfortable)(she didn’t tell us this before we bought it though!)) So we did, the couch is made of micro-suede has 3 cushions but the last one is double the length of the other two and has an ottoman that it sits on so that it looks like a lounger, quite sophisticated! We also bought my new plates (white square with red lines and dots on it) and a sealer for Ross, oh, and a pot for my palm tree……………..I’ll have to do pictures!
After spending way too much money at Costco we drove to the Galleria Mall so Ross and Brett could pig out at the buffet. Wow was it busy, it’s good that it’s busy, but it’s nice when it’s slow because you can get seated right away. There was a very long lineup but we eventually got in and I made a bee line to the stir fry station. I lost count of how many plates the guys had, all I can say is……..it was lots,
We did a bit of shopping for Brett (he bought some runners I think), it’s kinda neat we were in Liverpool and I noticed the guy that helped us out when we bought the scooters and he remembered me! We had a chat, he told me of a sale they are going to be having next Saturday and asked if I was coming, he said it was for all the people that have their credit cards. I explained to him I didn’t have one, and he kinda looked at me weird and said “well then get one”. When Ross and Brett got back, they went back to one store we were already in and as my foot was sore I waited for them at the car. We took off to Philo’s to hear him play a bit, and pick up my tequila barrel I had wanted to buy the last time we were there and they, ok believe this, ran out of the tequila! We stayed for a set then drove Brett back to his hotel and finally got home around midnight!
Adios From Mexico
Ross, Kim and Brett in Paradise
25 degrees (12:50am Sunday) Feels like 35, Wind N 9 km/h, Humidity 83% Overcast
Brett got us up at 10am this morning, which is good because we needed to get up a little early cause I needed to take Jake to the vet. He feels hot, is very lethargic and has diarrhea. We had a couple of delicious cups of coffee then did our showers, and since its Saturday I changed the sheets on the bed (I love getting into bed with clean sheets)! We tried to get a hold of Brett via his cell phone but it went right to voice mail, we knew he was going to walk down the beach to Bucerias and go down to Centro to do some market shopping, so we decided to wait until later in the afternoon to call his hotel.
I got to the vet shortly after 1pm (need to get there before 2 or they will be on siesta until 4) and he asked me a lot of questions, what colour is the diarrhea, does he run wild, etc etc., he took his temp and it was 40.3. We think he has what Gracie has (it’s called Erhlichia, it’s a tick disease) he gave him a shot of medicine and told me only to give him rice (very little protein) for supper and keep him on a leash so he doesn’t eat anything he finds on his walks.
I got home and we putzed, trying to start getting things organized for our Grey Cup party tomorrow. Harold and Sue popped by (with the dog cage we gave them when they were to pick up Maggie from the vet) and we sat and chatted for a bit, we talked about Amigos de Bucerias, what they used to be and what they have become now. After they left we got a hold of Brett at his hotel, so we went and picked him up to go “The Sirloin Stockade”.
We drove to Costco first and what did we do as soon as we got there???????????? We bought the couch we were looking at, now please remember that the couch, chair and love seat we bought down here are very Mexican, very orange and red and very uncomfortable. We were told by Christie that once we get down here to live she would give us 6 months before we bought another one, more comfortable)(she didn’t tell us this before we bought it though!)) So we did, the couch is made of micro-suede has 3 cushions but the last one is double the length of the other two and has an ottoman that it sits on so that it looks like a lounger, quite sophisticated! We also bought my new plates (white square with red lines and dots on it) and a sealer for Ross, oh, and a pot for my palm tree……………..I’ll have to do pictures!
After spending way too much money at Costco we drove to the Galleria Mall so Ross and Brett could pig out at the buffet. Wow was it busy, it’s good that it’s busy, but it’s nice when it’s slow because you can get seated right away. There was a very long lineup but we eventually got in and I made a bee line to the stir fry station. I lost count of how many plates the guys had, all I can say is……..it was lots,
We did a bit of shopping for Brett (he bought some runners I think), it’s kinda neat we were in Liverpool and I noticed the guy that helped us out when we bought the scooters and he remembered me! We had a chat, he told me of a sale they are going to be having next Saturday and asked if I was coming, he said it was for all the people that have their credit cards. I explained to him I didn’t have one, and he kinda looked at me weird and said “well then get one”. When Ross and Brett got back, they went back to one store we were already in and as my foot was sore I waited for them at the car. We took off to Philo’s to hear him play a bit, and pick up my tequila barrel I had wanted to buy the last time we were there and they, ok believe this, ran out of the tequila! We stayed for a set then drove Brett back to his hotel and finally got home around midnight!
Adios From Mexico
Ross, Kim and Brett in Paradise
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Week of November 22nd
(I am only going to post once a week, we are slowing down)
Temp 30/19 Humidity 58%/ Feels like 37 A few clouds
Monday - We actually got up before noon; actually it was around 10 that we woke up, hurray! Another beautiful day to drink coffee outside, I actually took one whole scoop out of the coffee machine before I started it, Ross makes way toooooo strong a coffee for me.
We got a lot done today, putzy stuff, Ross emptied Betsy’s holding tanks, and looked in the basement of Betsy and found a whole bunch of stuff he forgot he had. From now on he has to look in Betsy before he buys anything anymore! He went over to Oscar’s studio (We found out that Nick is taking it over for himself and his family) to pick up his new drums and is hoping to move everything over there once Nick moves in so we can actually have a guest bedroom! I’m not quite sure how he is going to inventory everything, but he’ll work on that when the time comes, I hope.
I found Pepper (I’ll try to get a picture of him) in my office this morning (he was hiding because he is scared of the dogs), we cuddled and he had some breakfast and went poop in the kitty litter, hurray! He is sleeping back in my office again, I thought for sure he had run off last night and I was trying to find a way to tell Carol that I had lost him.
Brett called to let us know that he had picked up a few things that Ross needed and I guess to touch base. He will be here on Thursday for a week, we are excited he is coming then as he can come to Guayabitos with us for American Thanksgiving and to hear Ross’s band play, they are great!
I did some computer stuff today, nothing exciting, I listened to ched for a while, along with 104.9. I’m looking forward to listening to 104.9 in December because they play all Christmas music. I am putting all my recipes onto an excel spreadsheet and am trying to copy it to a cd so I can keep adding to it, but it is only coping as a read only, I have an email to my son to find out why. I want to do this with my journal also; my son is in North Carolina right now so hopefully I will find out how a little later this week.
I made (that’s right I cooked…well not really) poached eggs on toast for supper tonight, now Ross has gone to his meeting and I’m writing my blog, after I’m done here I’m going to carry on with my recipes. Extreme Home makeover is on so I’m catching that too!
Tuesday – We woke up early today because it’s our day to man the office. What a beautiful day today, I can’t see a cloud in site. We left at 9 and got to the office, wow there are a lot of people walking around now, the De Cameron people are emerging. After a bit I took a walk, I talked to my nail lady, she told me of a book signing at Sandrina’s, I can’t remember the date, she is going to e-mail me the info.
I continued on to the Mini Super on the corner, wow, it’s really big, and it has my wine, not in the big bottles but the same bottles as Superstore Liquor store! I turned around as my foot (ankle) was killing me, more than my sore but sitting most of the morning. It seems to be getting worse; the bruise is now in the inside of my foot now too. I looked on the internet last night and found out the I had torn my ligaments (I thought the doctor said tendons) and I wasn’t suppose to walk on my foot at all, no wonder after almost a week it was getting worse, so after our office duty we stopped at the market and I got a walking stick.. It’s kinda cool the handle looks like a dolphin (kinda sorta) with a yellow ball in his mouth, I think it’s made of bamboo and we had to cut it down a bit cause it was way too long for me, it has a rubber tip on it too so it won’t slip. I have only used it for a few hours and my foot already feels better, go figure. I feel like a dork, but if it works, I don’t care.
We got an email from the group letting us know that Korsario's have changed their menu they now have
Wednesday - We got up quite early for us (10am) and were ready by noon to leave. We drove to PV to pick up Tigger from the vet (I’m afraid in a box just like Big Dog) and then drove to Costco to pick up a few odds and ends. Isn’t it awful……every time we go there we spend way too much money! It was kinda neat though, since my ankle is pretty sore I drove one of the old lady carts around the store, I think in the future, I’ll wrap my foot up just so I can get one of those, boy are they fun, they turn on a dime and I can shop forever on one of those things. We met Kim and a friend of hers in Costco (Kim is a friend that lives on her sailboat with her husband in Paradise Village (what a life!)) and her friend is staying a few boats down from Kim and will stay until January, then they are going farther south.
I want to let you know that there were 3 ships in the PV harbor, Oosterdam, Radiance of the Seas and Carnival Splendor (OK so I knew I wouldn’t remember them so I wrote them down (since it’s Friday nite I think I’m doing good remembering where I wrote them down)) We got to Britannia about 4ish and had a great time, not much of a crowd but the locals had a great time!
Thursday – OK…..Maggie needs to get to the vet to be spayed….we needed to get here there by 10:15, we were told that the vet opened at 10 but don’t get there by 10 cause she won’t be open yet (we love Mexico). Ross (because I still can’t drive) drove her to Dr. Marianna (200 pesos for peace to spay a dog!!) and was told to pick her up at 7pm. Now, we were going to be having Turkey dinner at Crazy Nelly’s and had to be there by 6 so Sue and Harold volunteered to pick her up and keep her overnight, and we would pick her up in the afternoon (I was going to say morning, but we don’t do mornings unless we have to…) Ross went to Home Depot and picked up a hose reel before he went to pick up Brett, then after getting Brett from the airport, they went to see how Maggie was. You are not going to believe this…………………Maggie had already been spayed! It is not uncommon that Mexican families adopt a dog, find out that they can’t afford to feed them and let them go. This family, did all the right things though, they got her spayed if nothing else. So it was a surprise to Dr. Marianna when she opened Maggie up, there was nothing there!!!! So she sutured her up, gave her her shots and vitamins and cleaned her ticks up, found out she had worms (we need to bring her back in 2 weeks) and sent her home with Ross.
Hurray, Lily is here……………it is surprising how you so look forward to someone cleaning you house for you! Since my ankle has been wrapped up, it’s surprising how the house gets yucky! It’s got nothing to do with Ross not keeping up, but with 3 dogs and 3 cats……….we need two of us to keep up. Yeah, Lily got here around 12:30 and Ross, thank goodness before Lily got here, (Close your ears….was in his undies) when he went online to find out that Brett’s (his good friend) plane was early and landing in 10 minutes, ooooops, guess we better get dressed to pick him up.
I had so much planned to do while Ross was gone, but by the time Brett and Ross got back I hadn’t gotten anything done I wanted to do. I am trying to get all my recipes on the computer to burn to a disk for the kids and I also have a photo scanning device and I’m trying to get 30 years of photos onto my computer so I can give the kids the original pictures and I can free up a whole shit load of space for other things, like books and stuff! By the time I putzed around with laundry and trying to get my HP computer ready to loan out to Ralph (his is pooched and needs parts) the afternoon just went away. I had downloaded Windows 7 onto this computer and I guess I hadn’t shut it down enough as they were a lot of updates for it to do before it was ready to loan out. I also added “guest” onto my desktop so my files would not be deleted or messed with (I trust Ralph but still need to make sure my stuff is protected). By the time I was done Lily was done so we chatted until Ross and Brett got here to take Lily to the 200 to catch the bus home.
Once Ross got back we chatted for a bit then drove to Guayabitos (I will never ride in the back again, Brett is very tall and needed leg room so he sat beside Ross, it took 5 minutes to comb out my hair (the ones that escaped my hair clip)) before I could go into Nelly’s. It is a beautiful drive and it really needs to be seen in a convertible! We got to Nelly’s and her dinner was amazing! Turkey, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes with gravy, veggies, buns, you know the drill! The only thing missing was sweet potatoes and wild rice! It’s so funny, Nelly told us that the band was not allowed to make any noise what so ever, until after dinner (no sound check even) or else the people that paid for the supper would leave. Now, we found out later that the guy that said this was the manager of the trailer court that drove everyone (from the trailer court (trailer trash)) to Nelly’s and no one, I repeat, no one agreed with him. They all said that they will be back (behind his back no less) next Thursday!
We drove home with Brett in the back seat and dropped him off at his hotel and got home around 2ish. Sunshine was caterwauling outside, so I brought him in, combed out all the outside stuff on him (twigs, weeds and god knows what else) and actually got him on the bed with Maggie on it!...and had treats. I closed the back door so at least I know that he was safe last night! It’s hard for me, with Tigger being attacked, I really, really need to know my kiddies (cats dogs whatever) are and can sleep more soundly when I know where they are.
Friday - We had to get up fairly early as we needed to be at John and Christie’s by 12:30 for our Nuevo home tour. We looked at several condos (some actually are really nice) we really liked a few, so if anyone is interested in purchasing anything please let us know. It’s 12 am right now so I’m really tired and Ross said I need to post my blog everyday! I might elaborate when I’m more awake!!! We actually saw a property at Paradise Golf Resort for approx 2 million that was to die for. 5 bedrooms, infinity pool right on the golf course, way too much to explain (again if you’re interested call us).
After the tour we drove to Brett’s hotel (very very nice, right on the beach looking down at a magnificent pool) and kidnapped him. We had go home real quick to see if Jake was there, when we left to meet up with Christie and the gang he wouldn’t come in when called. Then we drove to Paradise Village for the meeting then took Brett to Riveria. The place was packed, we are so happy for Jean-Franco, but we miss our chats with him in the rainy season when there was no one! After a delicious supper of Calamari, Tortilla soup, Mahi-Mahi, Tequila Shrimp and Arrachera we drove Brett home. We dropped by the store at the Flamingo’s (another hotel, actually it was the one Karen stayed at) and there was some wine 25% off, I thought what a great deal, until I took it to the cash register and found out it was 904 pesos. So I put that back and Ross got some Hostess little chocolate cakes and we went home.
Adios from Ross, Kim, Critters and Brett in Paradise!
(I am only going to post once a week, we are slowing down)
Temp 30/19 Humidity 58%/ Feels like 37 A few clouds
Monday - We actually got up before noon; actually it was around 10 that we woke up, hurray! Another beautiful day to drink coffee outside, I actually took one whole scoop out of the coffee machine before I started it, Ross makes way toooooo strong a coffee for me.
We got a lot done today, putzy stuff, Ross emptied Betsy’s holding tanks, and looked in the basement of Betsy and found a whole bunch of stuff he forgot he had. From now on he has to look in Betsy before he buys anything anymore! He went over to Oscar’s studio (We found out that Nick is taking it over for himself and his family) to pick up his new drums and is hoping to move everything over there once Nick moves in so we can actually have a guest bedroom! I’m not quite sure how he is going to inventory everything, but he’ll work on that when the time comes, I hope.
I found Pepper (I’ll try to get a picture of him) in my office this morning (he was hiding because he is scared of the dogs), we cuddled and he had some breakfast and went poop in the kitty litter, hurray! He is sleeping back in my office again, I thought for sure he had run off last night and I was trying to find a way to tell Carol that I had lost him.
Brett called to let us know that he had picked up a few things that Ross needed and I guess to touch base. He will be here on Thursday for a week, we are excited he is coming then as he can come to Guayabitos with us for American Thanksgiving and to hear Ross’s band play, they are great!
I did some computer stuff today, nothing exciting, I listened to ched for a while, along with 104.9. I’m looking forward to listening to 104.9 in December because they play all Christmas music. I am putting all my recipes onto an excel spreadsheet and am trying to copy it to a cd so I can keep adding to it, but it is only coping as a read only, I have an email to my son to find out why. I want to do this with my journal also; my son is in North Carolina right now so hopefully I will find out how a little later this week.
I made (that’s right I cooked…well not really) poached eggs on toast for supper tonight, now Ross has gone to his meeting and I’m writing my blog, after I’m done here I’m going to carry on with my recipes. Extreme Home makeover is on so I’m catching that too!
Tuesday – We woke up early today because it’s our day to man the office. What a beautiful day today, I can’t see a cloud in site. We left at 9 and got to the office, wow there are a lot of people walking around now, the De Cameron people are emerging. After a bit I took a walk, I talked to my nail lady, she told me of a book signing at Sandrina’s, I can’t remember the date, she is going to e-mail me the info.
I continued on to the Mini Super on the corner, wow, it’s really big, and it has my wine, not in the big bottles but the same bottles as Superstore Liquor store! I turned around as my foot (ankle) was killing me, more than my sore but sitting most of the morning. It seems to be getting worse; the bruise is now in the inside of my foot now too. I looked on the internet last night and found out the I had torn my ligaments (I thought the doctor said tendons) and I wasn’t suppose to walk on my foot at all, no wonder after almost a week it was getting worse, so after our office duty we stopped at the market and I got a walking stick.. It’s kinda cool the handle looks like a dolphin (kinda sorta) with a yellow ball in his mouth, I think it’s made of bamboo and we had to cut it down a bit cause it was way too long for me, it has a rubber tip on it too so it won’t slip. I have only used it for a few hours and my foot already feels better, go figure. I feel like a dork, but if it works, I don’t care.
We got an email from the group letting us know that Korsario's have changed their menu they now have
Wednesday - We got up quite early for us (10am) and were ready by noon to leave. We drove to PV to pick up Tigger from the vet (I’m afraid in a box just like Big Dog) and then drove to Costco to pick up a few odds and ends. Isn’t it awful……every time we go there we spend way too much money! It was kinda neat though, since my ankle is pretty sore I drove one of the old lady carts around the store, I think in the future, I’ll wrap my foot up just so I can get one of those, boy are they fun, they turn on a dime and I can shop forever on one of those things. We met Kim and a friend of hers in Costco (Kim is a friend that lives on her sailboat with her husband in Paradise Village (what a life!)) and her friend is staying a few boats down from Kim and will stay until January, then they are going farther south.
I want to let you know that there were 3 ships in the PV harbor, Oosterdam, Radiance of the Seas and Carnival Splendor (OK so I knew I wouldn’t remember them so I wrote them down (since it’s Friday nite I think I’m doing good remembering where I wrote them down)) We got to Britannia about 4ish and had a great time, not much of a crowd but the locals had a great time!
Thursday – OK…..Maggie needs to get to the vet to be spayed….we needed to get here there by 10:15, we were told that the vet opened at 10 but don’t get there by 10 cause she won’t be open yet (we love Mexico). Ross (because I still can’t drive) drove her to Dr. Marianna (200 pesos for peace to spay a dog!!) and was told to pick her up at 7pm. Now, we were going to be having Turkey dinner at Crazy Nelly’s and had to be there by 6 so Sue and Harold volunteered to pick her up and keep her overnight, and we would pick her up in the afternoon (I was going to say morning, but we don’t do mornings unless we have to…) Ross went to Home Depot and picked up a hose reel before he went to pick up Brett, then after getting Brett from the airport, they went to see how Maggie was. You are not going to believe this…………………Maggie had already been spayed! It is not uncommon that Mexican families adopt a dog, find out that they can’t afford to feed them and let them go. This family, did all the right things though, they got her spayed if nothing else. So it was a surprise to Dr. Marianna when she opened Maggie up, there was nothing there!!!! So she sutured her up, gave her her shots and vitamins and cleaned her ticks up, found out she had worms (we need to bring her back in 2 weeks) and sent her home with Ross.
Hurray, Lily is here……………it is surprising how you so look forward to someone cleaning you house for you! Since my ankle has been wrapped up, it’s surprising how the house gets yucky! It’s got nothing to do with Ross not keeping up, but with 3 dogs and 3 cats……….we need two of us to keep up. Yeah, Lily got here around 12:30 and Ross, thank goodness before Lily got here, (Close your ears….was in his undies) when he went online to find out that Brett’s (his good friend) plane was early and landing in 10 minutes, ooooops, guess we better get dressed to pick him up.
I had so much planned to do while Ross was gone, but by the time Brett and Ross got back I hadn’t gotten anything done I wanted to do. I am trying to get all my recipes on the computer to burn to a disk for the kids and I also have a photo scanning device and I’m trying to get 30 years of photos onto my computer so I can give the kids the original pictures and I can free up a whole shit load of space for other things, like books and stuff! By the time I putzed around with laundry and trying to get my HP computer ready to loan out to Ralph (his is pooched and needs parts) the afternoon just went away. I had downloaded Windows 7 onto this computer and I guess I hadn’t shut it down enough as they were a lot of updates for it to do before it was ready to loan out. I also added “guest” onto my desktop so my files would not be deleted or messed with (I trust Ralph but still need to make sure my stuff is protected). By the time I was done Lily was done so we chatted until Ross and Brett got here to take Lily to the 200 to catch the bus home.
Once Ross got back we chatted for a bit then drove to Guayabitos (I will never ride in the back again, Brett is very tall and needed leg room so he sat beside Ross, it took 5 minutes to comb out my hair (the ones that escaped my hair clip)) before I could go into Nelly’s. It is a beautiful drive and it really needs to be seen in a convertible! We got to Nelly’s and her dinner was amazing! Turkey, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes with gravy, veggies, buns, you know the drill! The only thing missing was sweet potatoes and wild rice! It’s so funny, Nelly told us that the band was not allowed to make any noise what so ever, until after dinner (no sound check even) or else the people that paid for the supper would leave. Now, we found out later that the guy that said this was the manager of the trailer court that drove everyone (from the trailer court (trailer trash)) to Nelly’s and no one, I repeat, no one agreed with him. They all said that they will be back (behind his back no less) next Thursday!
We drove home with Brett in the back seat and dropped him off at his hotel and got home around 2ish. Sunshine was caterwauling outside, so I brought him in, combed out all the outside stuff on him (twigs, weeds and god knows what else) and actually got him on the bed with Maggie on it!...and had treats. I closed the back door so at least I know that he was safe last night! It’s hard for me, with Tigger being attacked, I really, really need to know my kiddies (cats dogs whatever) are and can sleep more soundly when I know where they are.
Friday - We had to get up fairly early as we needed to be at John and Christie’s by 12:30 for our Nuevo home tour. We looked at several condos (some actually are really nice) we really liked a few, so if anyone is interested in purchasing anything please let us know. It’s 12 am right now so I’m really tired and Ross said I need to post my blog everyday! I might elaborate when I’m more awake!!! We actually saw a property at Paradise Golf Resort for approx 2 million that was to die for. 5 bedrooms, infinity pool right on the golf course, way too much to explain (again if you’re interested call us).
After the tour we drove to Brett’s hotel (very very nice, right on the beach looking down at a magnificent pool) and kidnapped him. We had go home real quick to see if Jake was there, when we left to meet up with Christie and the gang he wouldn’t come in when called. Then we drove to Paradise Village for the meeting then took Brett to Riveria. The place was packed, we are so happy for Jean-Franco, but we miss our chats with him in the rainy season when there was no one! After a delicious supper of Calamari, Tortilla soup, Mahi-Mahi, Tequila Shrimp and Arrachera we drove Brett home. We dropped by the store at the Flamingo’s (another hotel, actually it was the one Karen stayed at) and there was some wine 25% off, I thought what a great deal, until I took it to the cash register and found out it was 904 pesos. So I put that back and Ross got some Hostess little chocolate cakes and we went home.
Adios from Ross, Kim, Critters and Brett in Paradise!
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Sunday November 22nd
Temp 31/22/Humidity 55/Feels like 36 A few clouds
Hi all. I think Sundays are our day of rest…………….we woke up really, really, really late (don’t tell anyone 1pm) to a sunny day with a bit of clouds, go figure……oh yeah! We woke up in paradise!
Coffee was a bit (ok lots) strong, we really need to go lighter on the coffee (Ross), after 2 scoops of coffee mate it was still dark. I talked with Pam and Stacy, Pam was on her way to the Bay to register for her wedding and Stacy was in North Carolina with Jessie, her mom (from Costa Rica) and Jordan was visiting too! We chatted for a while and I need to call Pam later to chat.
Ross got the pressure washer out and had a gay old time washing the car, the street, the patio, the scooters and I think anything else that moved. Our pressure washer works great! Carol came over and dropped off her extra kitty to see if he will become part of our home, but he is having a hard time with the dogs so we’ll see how things go. I now have 2 cats scared of Jake! If they just didn’t run he wouldn’t chase them, we have our fingers crossed.
I finished installing Windows 7 on all 3 of our Vista computers and it seems to be working just fine. I was really concerned with Ross’s computer but it seems to have accepted the new platform quite well (I am so excited; everyone that knows Ross’s computer should also be excited)! He is definitely not computer savvy!
We are watching Holmes on Homes (HGTV) after a great dinner of pork, rice, apple sauce and sweet potatoes. We actually found them at Wallyworld. We bought Sweet potatoes Yams and they were yams, we bought Yams sweet potatoes and they were sweet potatoes! Only in Mexico! Ross is having dessert (skittles) and I think we’ll have an early night, at least I hope so. So I think I’m gonna say bye for now (oops, there goes another fire cracker….we have been hearing them all week because of the holiday) and we’ll talk again soon.
Ross, Kim and the Critters in Paradise
Temp 31/22/Humidity 55/Feels like 36 A few clouds
Hi all. I think Sundays are our day of rest…………….we woke up really, really, really late (don’t tell anyone 1pm) to a sunny day with a bit of clouds, go figure……oh yeah! We woke up in paradise!
Coffee was a bit (ok lots) strong, we really need to go lighter on the coffee (Ross), after 2 scoops of coffee mate it was still dark. I talked with Pam and Stacy, Pam was on her way to the Bay to register for her wedding and Stacy was in North Carolina with Jessie, her mom (from Costa Rica) and Jordan was visiting too! We chatted for a while and I need to call Pam later to chat.
Ross got the pressure washer out and had a gay old time washing the car, the street, the patio, the scooters and I think anything else that moved. Our pressure washer works great! Carol came over and dropped off her extra kitty to see if he will become part of our home, but he is having a hard time with the dogs so we’ll see how things go. I now have 2 cats scared of Jake! If they just didn’t run he wouldn’t chase them, we have our fingers crossed.
I finished installing Windows 7 on all 3 of our Vista computers and it seems to be working just fine. I was really concerned with Ross’s computer but it seems to have accepted the new platform quite well (I am so excited; everyone that knows Ross’s computer should also be excited)! He is definitely not computer savvy!
We are watching Holmes on Homes (HGTV) after a great dinner of pork, rice, apple sauce and sweet potatoes. We actually found them at Wallyworld. We bought Sweet potatoes Yams and they were yams, we bought Yams sweet potatoes and they were sweet potatoes! Only in Mexico! Ross is having dessert (skittles) and I think we’ll have an early night, at least I hope so. So I think I’m gonna say bye for now (oops, there goes another fire cracker….we have been hearing them all week because of the holiday) and we’ll talk again soon.
Ross, Kim and the Critters in Paradise
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Friday & Saturday November 20th & 21st
Temp 25/Humidity 69/Feels like 32 Partly cloudy
Sorry guys, I need to keep track of the weather, I should have been doing this all along but didn’t think of it!
Another day in Paradise, we got up quite late and had a great cup of coffee while sitting on the patio. We didn’t do much of anything today, went to Britannia for bingo Ross won ½ of the prizes, (110 pesos and a sandwich) which we picked up tonight (Saturday) when we went for acoustic night and a supper of fish and chips. Friday night Ross went to his meeting and then we went to Kosarios (sp) the new restaurant by Sue and Harold’s for breaded shrimp, grilled fish and extra fries for Ross.
We got home in time to call the Animal Communicator for our 9pm call. She said that Big Dog has not left yet because he feels that he still needs to be here. (Probably for Ross, he is having a hard time with Big Dog’s passing). Tigger was not ready to go yet, she said that he was in shock and couldn’t get over it. I hope he knows how much he was loved and how much I miss him, everyday! Gracie wants to be important now, she always took a back seat to big dog, and we will really have to work on that! Shadow is just Shadow; he is laid back and just taking everything in. Sunshine, doesn’t know what to do, he keeps looking for Tigger, they were so close, and can’t understand why he isn’t here. He won’t come down from the roof, he is always up there and will only come down when we bring him down, he probably comes down at night to eat though! Jake, our new addition, was not treated well from his other family (common thread in our critters) and just wants to know what is expected of him and he really wants to fit in.
We got up Saturday morning to a bit of a cloudy sky but still warm. After coffee and showers and stuff we started laundry (OK I started laundry) and we went to Wallyworld to get a few things. We got home and I started trying to get our cleaners organized (I have a lot) and outside rather than under the sink and finished the laundry. Ross got a bug under his butt and decided we needed to get our Christmas lights up. The front of our house now looks like a Mexican car! See picture!
This weekend is a party weekend (Revolution Day) but so far the only really noisy thing we have heard is a lot of fire crackers going off. Some this morning at 7am! We tried to drive home last night our usual way but because of the cock fights (yuck, but we are in Mexico!) we had to go back and go the long way around. Everyone we talked with today asked if we liked the noise (they heard lots across the 200) but we weren’t bothered at all, maybe all the noise goes west?!?!?
We went to Britannia for supper, Ross’s bingo winnings and listened to acoustic night, great fish and chips. We visited for a while then went to Philos to listen for a bit. It was Carlos’s birthday (38) he was a bit late but still got a happy birthday song from us! We listened for the first set then went to leave and Philo got Ross up to play a bit, so another wine for Kim! They played another few songs then took a break. Philo wants us to go to San Sebastian (a small town somewhere not too far away from us, I don’t know where, I have to find out!) where we take over the town and have a party! We have to see if Jennifer is back from holidays so she can babysit our menagerie while we are gone for a night!
We are now watching TV, discovery HD of course; Ross got his black light to work (we found a scorpion in our living room and you are supposed to see them with a black light) but couldn’t find any more. I made him put the one we found outside, far, far away! I gotta get my camera cable so I can download our lights so everyone can see, I hope the picture turns out! So everyone have a great rest of the weekend and we’ll talk to you soon!
Ross, Kim, Gracie, Shadow, Sunshine and Jake in Paradise (we don’t know where Maggie is right now)
Temp 25/Humidity 69/Feels like 32 Partly cloudy
Sorry guys, I need to keep track of the weather, I should have been doing this all along but didn’t think of it!
Another day in Paradise, we got up quite late and had a great cup of coffee while sitting on the patio. We didn’t do much of anything today, went to Britannia for bingo Ross won ½ of the prizes, (110 pesos and a sandwich) which we picked up tonight (Saturday) when we went for acoustic night and a supper of fish and chips. Friday night Ross went to his meeting and then we went to Kosarios (sp) the new restaurant by Sue and Harold’s for breaded shrimp, grilled fish and extra fries for Ross.
We got home in time to call the Animal Communicator for our 9pm call. She said that Big Dog has not left yet because he feels that he still needs to be here. (Probably for Ross, he is having a hard time with Big Dog’s passing). Tigger was not ready to go yet, she said that he was in shock and couldn’t get over it. I hope he knows how much he was loved and how much I miss him, everyday! Gracie wants to be important now, she always took a back seat to big dog, and we will really have to work on that! Shadow is just Shadow; he is laid back and just taking everything in. Sunshine, doesn’t know what to do, he keeps looking for Tigger, they were so close, and can’t understand why he isn’t here. He won’t come down from the roof, he is always up there and will only come down when we bring him down, he probably comes down at night to eat though! Jake, our new addition, was not treated well from his other family (common thread in our critters) and just wants to know what is expected of him and he really wants to fit in.
We got up Saturday morning to a bit of a cloudy sky but still warm. After coffee and showers and stuff we started laundry (OK I started laundry) and we went to Wallyworld to get a few things. We got home and I started trying to get our cleaners organized (I have a lot) and outside rather than under the sink and finished the laundry. Ross got a bug under his butt and decided we needed to get our Christmas lights up. The front of our house now looks like a Mexican car! See picture!
This weekend is a party weekend (Revolution Day) but so far the only really noisy thing we have heard is a lot of fire crackers going off. Some this morning at 7am! We tried to drive home last night our usual way but because of the cock fights (yuck, but we are in Mexico!) we had to go back and go the long way around. Everyone we talked with today asked if we liked the noise (they heard lots across the 200) but we weren’t bothered at all, maybe all the noise goes west?!?!?
We went to Britannia for supper, Ross’s bingo winnings and listened to acoustic night, great fish and chips. We visited for a while then went to Philos to listen for a bit. It was Carlos’s birthday (38) he was a bit late but still got a happy birthday song from us! We listened for the first set then went to leave and Philo got Ross up to play a bit, so another wine for Kim! They played another few songs then took a break. Philo wants us to go to San Sebastian (a small town somewhere not too far away from us, I don’t know where, I have to find out!) where we take over the town and have a party! We have to see if Jennifer is back from holidays so she can babysit our menagerie while we are gone for a night!
We are now watching TV, discovery HD of course; Ross got his black light to work (we found a scorpion in our living room and you are supposed to see them with a black light) but couldn’t find any more. I made him put the one we found outside, far, far away! I gotta get my camera cable so I can download our lights so everyone can see, I hope the picture turns out! So everyone have a great rest of the weekend and we’ll talk to you soon!
Ross, Kim, Gracie, Shadow, Sunshine and Jake in Paradise (we don’t know where Maggie is right now)
Thursday, November 19, 2009
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The pictures are Santa at Mega, my new gingerbread house and the trees at Liverpool, our Saturday adoption stint, we gave away our only cat. My foot. Our new palm tree with Gracie, Christmas tree at the mall and The Sapphire Princess goes bye bye
Wednesday November 18th & part of Thursday November 19th, 2009
We woke up to another glorious day in paradise, sun is shining and it’s warm. We were supposed to go with Elements Realty to do some more real estate looking but it was decided not to so Ross and I got to sleep in. We putzed around home until 1:30 then we went over to Harold and Sue’s for a bit of pool time and a BBQ. We had the church corn again (frozen corn nibblets, butter and cream cheese warmed up in crock pot delicious) with beans and Harold BBQ’d up some beef and we had tacos. I didn’t bring any wine with me (bad girl, but I just had the big one at home) so I had some of everyone else’s (Today is Thursday and I picked up a couple of bottles (71 pesos each) one to replace Sue’s and one for next time). We had a great time, so much so that when Ross went to Britannia for “Deep River” (The band Ross is in with Nick and Mike) for his 4 – 7:30 stint, I stayed behind to keep partying. We left Harold and Sue’s house at 6 to go to watch Ross play, they haven’t seen him play yet, so we all got into Harold’s pick me up truck (we pretended we were Mexicans!) and drove to La Cruz. We had a great time! They played for an extra hour just because we were there (there was 10 of us).
After they packed up we decided to go to San Jose (turn inland from Mescals’ a few kms)
I rode with Ross and we drove back to Harold and Sue’s house, I’m not quite sure why but I went pee. When I got outside I was walking back to the car and where the sidewalk goes down for a driveway my foot slipped out of my shoe (I was wearing 1” heels) and after seeing the doctor today I didn’t break my ankle I just pulled some tendons and I skinned my left knee. I didn’t want to stop the party so we followed the truck to San Jose and had some great authentic food from a small restaurant/house sitting on the street with tables and chairs. Alex (he is a paramedic and works with Harold for the Bombaros (fire department)) lives in this small town and loves this little restaurant! We left the gang to drive Alex home and Ross and I drove home. I put my foot in a elastic bandage and went to bed.
We woke up this morning and I couldn’t walk on my foot and it’s really swollen on the right side of my foot and quite black and blue. So after we had our coffee we showered and drove to Dr. Victors place about 5 minutes away from our house on the lateral. We were told that he has x-ray equipment and that is where to go if you need this service, but don’t trust him a just a diagnoses?!?!? You are not going to believe this service…..we drove up and went into the front door that a nurse helped open. We just sat down and the doctor came out and after telling him my problem he asked me if I had had an x-ray, I told him that was what I was there for, so we walked to the x-ray room and within 5 minutes he had done the x-rays and we were looking at my foot bones with another device that Ross and I can’t remember what it is called. He showed me my bones were not broken (which he said was good because if they were I would have had to have surgery) but I pulled the ligaments. We walked back to his office; he bandaged my foot, gave me a shot in my butt with an anti-inflammatory and gave me a prescription for some pain killers. It cost us 900 pesos and 71 pesos for my prescription and we were in there for a total of 15 - 20 minutes max! After seeing Dr. Victor we drove to Wal-Mart to get my pain meds (I only got 4 which was really weird and they let me keep the prescription) then we went to Home Depot to get a sprinkler for our front dirt. Yes I’m not joking, they water down the road everyday so the dust doesn’t reek havoc, and I stayed in the car because my foot was really sore. I took some pain meds (you let it dissolve under your tongue) while waiting for Ross. He came out of the store with a Christmas palm tree (one of the pictures I have added) a gingerbread house for my Christmas collection, a sprinkler and some quick connects. The pain meds didn’t help so I took some T1’s when we got home, I’m still waiting for them to work, it’s been a couple of hours now. It’s 5:30 pm now and Ross is putzing with his sprinkler and quick connects (he bought the wrong ones) and we will be leaving for Rincon Guayabitos for his Thursday gig with Ralph and Geno at Crazy Nelly’s (Juan-Ted and the Rhythm Roosters) Geno is Juan-Ted and Ralph and Ross are the roosters. I am sitting in front of the TV with my foot up (another picture) watching Ty in Extreme Makeover – home edition. So I’ll say bye for now and maybe tonight I’ll continue maybe after the gig.
We woke up to another glorious day in paradise, sun is shining and it’s warm. We were supposed to go with Elements Realty to do some more real estate looking but it was decided not to so Ross and I got to sleep in. We putzed around home until 1:30 then we went over to Harold and Sue’s for a bit of pool time and a BBQ. We had the church corn again (frozen corn nibblets, butter and cream cheese warmed up in crock pot delicious) with beans and Harold BBQ’d up some beef and we had tacos. I didn’t bring any wine with me (bad girl, but I just had the big one at home) so I had some of everyone else’s (Today is Thursday and I picked up a couple of bottles (71 pesos each) one to replace Sue’s and one for next time). We had a great time, so much so that when Ross went to Britannia for “Deep River” (The band Ross is in with Nick and Mike) for his 4 – 7:30 stint, I stayed behind to keep partying. We left Harold and Sue’s house at 6 to go to watch Ross play, they haven’t seen him play yet, so we all got into Harold’s pick me up truck (we pretended we were Mexicans!) and drove to La Cruz. We had a great time! They played for an extra hour just because we were there (there was 10 of us).
After they packed up we decided to go to San Jose (turn inland from Mescals’ a few kms)
I rode with Ross and we drove back to Harold and Sue’s house, I’m not quite sure why but I went pee. When I got outside I was walking back to the car and where the sidewalk goes down for a driveway my foot slipped out of my shoe (I was wearing 1” heels) and after seeing the doctor today I didn’t break my ankle I just pulled some tendons and I skinned my left knee. I didn’t want to stop the party so we followed the truck to San Jose and had some great authentic food from a small restaurant/house sitting on the street with tables and chairs. Alex (he is a paramedic and works with Harold for the Bombaros (fire department)) lives in this small town and loves this little restaurant! We left the gang to drive Alex home and Ross and I drove home. I put my foot in a elastic bandage and went to bed.
We woke up this morning and I couldn’t walk on my foot and it’s really swollen on the right side of my foot and quite black and blue. So after we had our coffee we showered and drove to Dr. Victors place about 5 minutes away from our house on the lateral. We were told that he has x-ray equipment and that is where to go if you need this service, but don’t trust him a just a diagnoses?!?!? You are not going to believe this service…..we drove up and went into the front door that a nurse helped open. We just sat down and the doctor came out and after telling him my problem he asked me if I had had an x-ray, I told him that was what I was there for, so we walked to the x-ray room and within 5 minutes he had done the x-rays and we were looking at my foot bones with another device that Ross and I can’t remember what it is called. He showed me my bones were not broken (which he said was good because if they were I would have had to have surgery) but I pulled the ligaments. We walked back to his office; he bandaged my foot, gave me a shot in my butt with an anti-inflammatory and gave me a prescription for some pain killers. It cost us 900 pesos and 71 pesos for my prescription and we were in there for a total of 15 - 20 minutes max! After seeing Dr. Victor we drove to Wal-Mart to get my pain meds (I only got 4 which was really weird and they let me keep the prescription) then we went to Home Depot to get a sprinkler for our front dirt. Yes I’m not joking, they water down the road everyday so the dust doesn’t reek havoc, and I stayed in the car because my foot was really sore. I took some pain meds (you let it dissolve under your tongue) while waiting for Ross. He came out of the store with a Christmas palm tree (one of the pictures I have added) a gingerbread house for my Christmas collection, a sprinkler and some quick connects. The pain meds didn’t help so I took some T1’s when we got home, I’m still waiting for them to work, it’s been a couple of hours now. It’s 5:30 pm now and Ross is putzing with his sprinkler and quick connects (he bought the wrong ones) and we will be leaving for Rincon Guayabitos for his Thursday gig with Ralph and Geno at Crazy Nelly’s (Juan-Ted and the Rhythm Roosters) Geno is Juan-Ted and Ralph and Ross are the roosters. I am sitting in front of the TV with my foot up (another picture) watching Ty in Extreme Makeover – home edition. So I’ll say bye for now and maybe tonight I’ll continue maybe after the gig.
Ok it is now 1:30am and we just got home from Guayabitos, the band, again, was a great success; they made me dance on one foot! It was fun but wow it hurts. Poor Nelly looks at my foot and says”who is gonna dance with me?” You have to understand that Nelly can’t be older than 30ish so she has a lot of energy. We are so looking forward to next Thursday, it’s Nelly’s favorite holiday (American thanksgiving) and she is all booked up for a full turkey dinner and it’s Ralph’s birthday! So we are going to have so much fun, if you’re here next Thursday, please come, it’ll be awesome. Hopefully my foot will be better next week cause it’s gonna be an awesome time (did I mention that already?)
Ross made me watch the discovery channel when we got home (he had to take the dogs for a walk as I’m laid up and I changed it to HGTV but we’ve already seen it earlier) so when he got home he changed it. We (ok I have) have our very tacky lighted palm tree on, Ross thought it would look good out our front but I think the Mexicans would think it tacky) (oh like me) and I think it will stay in the living room as my big (maybe 5’) tree will be outside in my back yard (Oh did I mention I live in Paradise?).
Well, I really gotta go now, take some pain killers and go to bed! So have a great day today and we’ll talk later!
Ross and Kim in Paradise
Ross made me watch the discovery channel when we got home (he had to take the dogs for a walk as I’m laid up and I changed it to HGTV but we’ve already seen it earlier) so when he got home he changed it. We (ok I have) have our very tacky lighted palm tree on, Ross thought it would look good out our front but I think the Mexicans would think it tacky) (oh like me) and I think it will stay in the living room as my big (maybe 5’) tree will be outside in my back yard (Oh did I mention I live in Paradise?).
Well, I really gotta go now, take some pain killers and go to bed! So have a great day today and we’ll talk later!
Ross and Kim in Paradise
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Tuesday November 17th, 2009 Con’t
I have enough time to finish today, so here goes!
We left for PV at about 5, we needed to take Tigger to the vet for cremation ($1000 pesos), we had put him in a garbage bag and put him in the freezer, poor baby, he never did like the cold! He got him there around 5:45pm and had to say bye, we’ll get him back in about a week. After that we drove to the Galleria Mall (across the street from the port) and we saw the Sapphire Princess in port, actually once we got into the mall we watched it leave, I’ll post pictures tomorrow of some pictures I have been saving up! We have actually seen this ship in twice in two weeks, it hails from Hamilton Bermuda, keep up the good work, we need more ships to come in!
We met Harold at the Sirloin Stockade (the buffet at the mall) and started eating. Now Harold and Ross are known to eat way too much and there is kinda a friendly rivalry on who can eat the most. Unfortunately Harold was late and we had to leave at 7:30 (it was actually 7:45 when we left) because Ross was to play at Britannia because they didn’t know whether or not Carlos was going to show up or not. So Ross and Harold will have to have another eat off when no one has to leave, except maybe if they close the place down! As Ross (and Harold did too) spill on his shirt we had to stop at home for him to change before we got to La Cruz.
We got mostly green lights and we got to the pub at I think 8:30 even with the stop. Karen, Grant and friends were already there so I joined them and I think they enjoyed themselves. They got there early so they went down to the new pier and walked the town a little. It’s a cute little town, they are building a breakwater by the pier because they are out of the bay and prone to some nasty weather! The guys played great tonight, Tom got there after Karen and Grant left (he’s a great keyboard player) but we never did play with him as we left early tonight, we had woken up at 7:30 to make it to the office by 9:30 so we were pooped, but we did hear Ralph play the harmonica…………….wow, he’s good!
We are now at home it’s 10:12 our time (9:12 yours) and we are watching the new NCIS (don’t know whether I like it yet) and I’m of course writing. I’m gonna go now and sit with my honey, so bye for now!
Ross and Kim in Paradise
With Gracie, Shadow, Sunshine, Maggie and Jake
I have enough time to finish today, so here goes!
We left for PV at about 5, we needed to take Tigger to the vet for cremation ($1000 pesos), we had put him in a garbage bag and put him in the freezer, poor baby, he never did like the cold! He got him there around 5:45pm and had to say bye, we’ll get him back in about a week. After that we drove to the Galleria Mall (across the street from the port) and we saw the Sapphire Princess in port, actually once we got into the mall we watched it leave, I’ll post pictures tomorrow of some pictures I have been saving up! We have actually seen this ship in twice in two weeks, it hails from Hamilton Bermuda, keep up the good work, we need more ships to come in!
We met Harold at the Sirloin Stockade (the buffet at the mall) and started eating. Now Harold and Ross are known to eat way too much and there is kinda a friendly rivalry on who can eat the most. Unfortunately Harold was late and we had to leave at 7:30 (it was actually 7:45 when we left) because Ross was to play at Britannia because they didn’t know whether or not Carlos was going to show up or not. So Ross and Harold will have to have another eat off when no one has to leave, except maybe if they close the place down! As Ross (and Harold did too) spill on his shirt we had to stop at home for him to change before we got to La Cruz.
We got mostly green lights and we got to the pub at I think 8:30 even with the stop. Karen, Grant and friends were already there so I joined them and I think they enjoyed themselves. They got there early so they went down to the new pier and walked the town a little. It’s a cute little town, they are building a breakwater by the pier because they are out of the bay and prone to some nasty weather! The guys played great tonight, Tom got there after Karen and Grant left (he’s a great keyboard player) but we never did play with him as we left early tonight, we had woken up at 7:30 to make it to the office by 9:30 so we were pooped, but we did hear Ralph play the harmonica…………….wow, he’s good!
We are now at home it’s 10:12 our time (9:12 yours) and we are watching the new NCIS (don’t know whether I like it yet) and I’m of course writing. I’m gonna go now and sit with my honey, so bye for now!
Ross and Kim in Paradise
With Gracie, Shadow, Sunshine, Maggie and Jake
Tuesday November 17th 2009
Hi all, today isn’t over with, but we are going to PV in a while then off to Britannia so I thought I would send out a short one!
We had to wake up at 7:30 (cause it’s Tuesday and it is our turn to sit in the office) well really 8 cause I reset the alarm, it’s tired out! We finally got out of bed and before you know it it’s 8:30 and time to have a shower and clean up pretty for the customers. Well I try anyway! We got to the office and Ross is reading his selling real estate in Mexico book and other books and I changed some of our business cards to our correct VoIP phone number, (Ross had it wrong when he gave it to John to put on our cards). It’s 780.669.7539, yeah! I got it right!
We left the office around one because we had to be in Sayulita (a 30 minute drive on good days) for 1 pm Nayarit time so we could pick up the safe we bought from someone there. We were early (traffic was good) so we stopped at a café beside the square where they had the best, I mean best nacho’s I have ever had. They make them there and they have sesame seeds in them! Wow! It of course also comes with some great guacamole, so good in fact we ordered another order to go. We finished lunch and the lady came by to show us where the safe was, so Ross took off with her and I had another Margareta (they are good!). I met some older folks from Vancouver that asked how the food was and they sat down and ordered some guacamole and nachos too (they heard they were good from someone, don’t know who?) and we started talking. They are actually looking to buy in Bucerias so I gave them our business card along with our personal card and told them to keep in touch.
Darn, Ross got back with the safe so I couldn’t order another Margarita…Oh well; we left and had a leisurely drive home (which doesn’t happen with Ross lots). We got home and made up a concoction of tick shampoo (not really but it kills the ticks) and we did all the dogs! Jake first, he was great, Maggie was next and she wasn’t thrilled with it then Gracie, she had one before so she knew what was happening. Ross and I are just hanging out, we are going to take Tigger to the vet for cremation in PV in a while then meeting with Harold and Alex and we are going to the Sirloin Stockade for dinner, then going to Britannia for Ross to do some playing. Karen, Grant and their friends will be there to party, we’ll have fun.
Talk to you tomorrow!
Ross and Kim in Paradise!
Hi all, today isn’t over with, but we are going to PV in a while then off to Britannia so I thought I would send out a short one!
We had to wake up at 7:30 (cause it’s Tuesday and it is our turn to sit in the office) well really 8 cause I reset the alarm, it’s tired out! We finally got out of bed and before you know it it’s 8:30 and time to have a shower and clean up pretty for the customers. Well I try anyway! We got to the office and Ross is reading his selling real estate in Mexico book and other books and I changed some of our business cards to our correct VoIP phone number, (Ross had it wrong when he gave it to John to put on our cards). It’s 780.669.7539, yeah! I got it right!
We left the office around one because we had to be in Sayulita (a 30 minute drive on good days) for 1 pm Nayarit time so we could pick up the safe we bought from someone there. We were early (traffic was good) so we stopped at a café beside the square where they had the best, I mean best nacho’s I have ever had. They make them there and they have sesame seeds in them! Wow! It of course also comes with some great guacamole, so good in fact we ordered another order to go. We finished lunch and the lady came by to show us where the safe was, so Ross took off with her and I had another Margareta (they are good!). I met some older folks from Vancouver that asked how the food was and they sat down and ordered some guacamole and nachos too (they heard they were good from someone, don’t know who?) and we started talking. They are actually looking to buy in Bucerias so I gave them our business card along with our personal card and told them to keep in touch.
Darn, Ross got back with the safe so I couldn’t order another Margarita…Oh well; we left and had a leisurely drive home (which doesn’t happen with Ross lots). We got home and made up a concoction of tick shampoo (not really but it kills the ticks) and we did all the dogs! Jake first, he was great, Maggie was next and she wasn’t thrilled with it then Gracie, she had one before so she knew what was happening. Ross and I are just hanging out, we are going to take Tigger to the vet for cremation in PV in a while then meeting with Harold and Alex and we are going to the Sirloin Stockade for dinner, then going to Britannia for Ross to do some playing. Karen, Grant and their friends will be there to party, we’ll have fun.
Talk to you tomorrow!
Ross and Kim in Paradise!
Monday, November 16, 2009
Saturday - Monday November 14th – 16th 2009
Wow, it’s been a very hard week for us. I haven’t had the desire to write but I think it’s time to breathe and smell the roses again.
I had to wake up early on Saturday morning as I had to be at Mega at 9 for the adoption! We had one cat, and guess what, he got adopted. It was so cool to be able to teach people (mostly Mexicans) to care for their pets and treat them as part of the family. That is part of what PEACE (Protection-Education-Animals-Culture & Environment. www.peacemexico.org) does including doing spaying/neutering for a very low price (200 pesos for a female dog ($20.00). It is awesome!
We got home and I took Tigger to the vet to see how he was doing, and as I said the vet liked how the incision looked, no infection! After we got home Tigger jumped up (yes he jumped!) up onto where I have a lot of blankets (it’s nice and soft) then I saw him a little while later jump down and go under the bed. That was the last time I saw him alive.
We putzed around and got all the audio equipment into the car for the grand opening of La Fronda (a great development for sale). We got there at 3:30 (as we are supposed to, as being more Canadian than Mexican we were on time) and no one was there. We took a look at the show home (it’s done now, wow!) and we are so excited! I finally called Christie to see where she was, she said there were about 15 kids at her house and she had just left, (I’ll be there shortly)! The front of the project was almost done but they had the lawn in with the hedges that are going to be the fences (things grow really fast in Mexico) and they did a great job of decorating the model home.
There was a tent at the entrance with sitting areas and we had music playing in the background. It was catered with nibblies and we had white/red wine or pop to drink. We got our “Elements” T-shirt’s (we feel part of the team now) and we basically visited with Karen and Grant and Sue and Harold as they (I think) were the ones that spoke English and we like them! There was an appetizer with a cucumber with pretend crab, shredded carrots along with other veggies. We stayed until 7pm (it started at 5) then put our speakers and stuff in Christie’s truck, then Karen and Grant and of course us…went to Riveria for supper. Karen and Ross shared the calamari and Karen and I shared the Tequila shrimp (Karen didn’t like the cactus) but we ate the shrimp and rice with onions. We dropped them off at their hotel and got home. I prepared tiggers medication and went to look for him, that’s when I found him on our patio; he had been dead for a while as he was already stiff. We got him in a plastic bag and will drive to PV Tuesday after work to take him to get cremated.
To say the least Sunday was a very sad day, Christie and her kids came over after church to drop off the sound equipment we donated for the La Fronda Opening and stayed for a bit. We took the dogs to the beach, Maggie and Jake haven’t been yet and they thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Maggie actually got right in with Ross once but was kinda shy after that, they were good until a wave came in then they ran. Gracie has been before and doesn’t like it, hopefully once the other two get used to it they will want to go in. We have to buy a tennis ball to throw, maybe that will work.
Today is Monday and we slept in until noon almost………………….I think the most we have slept since Tigger passed away. We got going and we went to Wal-Mart to get a few things then we got home, put the groceries away and Ross took off to his meeting in Nuevo. He got home and said, “I’m hungry, let’s go to Meson Bay for their shrimp and fish night, it was very busy, hurray! we had a fabulous dinner, listening to the waves breaking on shore.
I have Gracie and Jake underneath me and Ross wants to watch a bit of Corrie Street so I’m gonna say bye for now and hope everyone has a great week.
A sad Ross and Kim in Paradise
With Gracie, Jake, Maggie, Shadow and Sunshine
Wow, it’s been a very hard week for us. I haven’t had the desire to write but I think it’s time to breathe and smell the roses again.
I had to wake up early on Saturday morning as I had to be at Mega at 9 for the adoption! We had one cat, and guess what, he got adopted. It was so cool to be able to teach people (mostly Mexicans) to care for their pets and treat them as part of the family. That is part of what PEACE (Protection-Education-Animals-Culture & Environment. www.peacemexico.org) does including doing spaying/neutering for a very low price (200 pesos for a female dog ($20.00). It is awesome!
We got home and I took Tigger to the vet to see how he was doing, and as I said the vet liked how the incision looked, no infection! After we got home Tigger jumped up (yes he jumped!) up onto where I have a lot of blankets (it’s nice and soft) then I saw him a little while later jump down and go under the bed. That was the last time I saw him alive.
We putzed around and got all the audio equipment into the car for the grand opening of La Fronda (a great development for sale). We got there at 3:30 (as we are supposed to, as being more Canadian than Mexican we were on time) and no one was there. We took a look at the show home (it’s done now, wow!) and we are so excited! I finally called Christie to see where she was, she said there were about 15 kids at her house and she had just left, (I’ll be there shortly)! The front of the project was almost done but they had the lawn in with the hedges that are going to be the fences (things grow really fast in Mexico) and they did a great job of decorating the model home.
There was a tent at the entrance with sitting areas and we had music playing in the background. It was catered with nibblies and we had white/red wine or pop to drink. We got our “Elements” T-shirt’s (we feel part of the team now) and we basically visited with Karen and Grant and Sue and Harold as they (I think) were the ones that spoke English and we like them! There was an appetizer with a cucumber with pretend crab, shredded carrots along with other veggies. We stayed until 7pm (it started at 5) then put our speakers and stuff in Christie’s truck, then Karen and Grant and of course us…went to Riveria for supper. Karen and Ross shared the calamari and Karen and I shared the Tequila shrimp (Karen didn’t like the cactus) but we ate the shrimp and rice with onions. We dropped them off at their hotel and got home. I prepared tiggers medication and went to look for him, that’s when I found him on our patio; he had been dead for a while as he was already stiff. We got him in a plastic bag and will drive to PV Tuesday after work to take him to get cremated.
To say the least Sunday was a very sad day, Christie and her kids came over after church to drop off the sound equipment we donated for the La Fronda Opening and stayed for a bit. We took the dogs to the beach, Maggie and Jake haven’t been yet and they thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Maggie actually got right in with Ross once but was kinda shy after that, they were good until a wave came in then they ran. Gracie has been before and doesn’t like it, hopefully once the other two get used to it they will want to go in. We have to buy a tennis ball to throw, maybe that will work.
Today is Monday and we slept in until noon almost………………….I think the most we have slept since Tigger passed away. We got going and we went to Wal-Mart to get a few things then we got home, put the groceries away and Ross took off to his meeting in Nuevo. He got home and said, “I’m hungry, let’s go to Meson Bay for their shrimp and fish night, it was very busy, hurray! we had a fabulous dinner, listening to the waves breaking on shore.
I have Gracie and Jake underneath me and Ross wants to watch a bit of Corrie Street so I’m gonna say bye for now and hope everyone has a great week.
A sad Ross and Kim in Paradise
With Gracie, Jake, Maggie, Shadow and Sunshine
Saturday November 14th, 2009
Special Edition
Tigger went to The Rainbow Bridge at approx 5 pm Central Standard Time.
RIP Tigger 2002 – 2009
Tigger succumbed to his wounds Saturday the 14th while we were out. I had taken him to the vet around 1 in the afternoon and he said that the wound looked good and gave me some pain killers for him after cleaning the wound and putting a bandage on it to keep it clean. He had given me another, after cleaning the wound on Sunday I was to put it on. We found him on the patio beside my chair when we got home around 9:30 Saturday night and he looked like he had been gone awhile. We bundled him up and put him in the freezer and will take him to get cremated Tuesday after a stint in the office.
I got Tigger when he was 2 years old from PetSmart (they were holding SPCA animals because the SPCA was full), I fell in love with him as soon as I saw him. He was skinny with a little tail and was trying to hide in the corner of his cage. I had lost Malibu a few months previous and Tigger was so like him, I had to have him. I had gone there just before closing so I had to go home without him and come back in the morning to get him. I was told he was found on the streets of Edmonton all dirty and scared and someone found him and took him to the SPCA (thank you) so he could find a new home.
I brought him home and he was so scared, he hid for a couple of weeks. He slowly came out and would lay beside me for me to rub his tummy, he loved that. I would almost give him a massage on his tummy and he would roll over and look dreamy at me, saying more, more, more, thank you! He didn’t like men much, I think it took Ross at least a year to be able to touch him but once that happened Ross loved to pull his tail until his back cracked………Tigger came back for more. Because Tigger had been found outside and had probably been there for quite some time he had an undercoat of fur that would mat so bad, he would lay there and let me cut so close to his skin that it was scary!
He grew (as all our animals do) to become 17 lbs of pure love! I kept him as an inside cat until we moved to Mexico. With a 10 foot wall they figured out a way to go up on top and jump down to play even before we had the stairs built to the Bucerias Weather Station. He loved stalking the bugs and would tear legs off grasshoppers in the yard and would play with them. As he was a lover not a fighter he had no idea he was hurting them, but as he was not at his best weight he had a hard time running so this slowed them down some. He would catch a bug under his huge paw and would leave it there for a few seconds, looking around like he had all day, then he would lift up his paw very carefully to make sure they were still there. Sometimes they would get away, sometimes not.
I miss him coming into the bedroom at night and laying at my back, sometimes crawling over top of me, looking for a belly rub. He was one of my best animal friends and I will miss him dearly. It’s funny though, every once in a while I can smell him, just a whiff or two…then it’s gone, I just wonder sometimes that he is still with me (just like the movie ghost with Patrick Swayze and Whoopie), I sure hope so.
Well, here’s to you Tigger!
We love and miss you Mum and Dad in Paradise
Special Edition
Tigger went to The Rainbow Bridge at approx 5 pm Central Standard Time.
RIP Tigger 2002 – 2009
Tigger succumbed to his wounds Saturday the 14th while we were out. I had taken him to the vet around 1 in the afternoon and he said that the wound looked good and gave me some pain killers for him after cleaning the wound and putting a bandage on it to keep it clean. He had given me another, after cleaning the wound on Sunday I was to put it on. We found him on the patio beside my chair when we got home around 9:30 Saturday night and he looked like he had been gone awhile. We bundled him up and put him in the freezer and will take him to get cremated Tuesday after a stint in the office.
I got Tigger when he was 2 years old from PetSmart (they were holding SPCA animals because the SPCA was full), I fell in love with him as soon as I saw him. He was skinny with a little tail and was trying to hide in the corner of his cage. I had lost Malibu a few months previous and Tigger was so like him, I had to have him. I had gone there just before closing so I had to go home without him and come back in the morning to get him. I was told he was found on the streets of Edmonton all dirty and scared and someone found him and took him to the SPCA (thank you) so he could find a new home.
I brought him home and he was so scared, he hid for a couple of weeks. He slowly came out and would lay beside me for me to rub his tummy, he loved that. I would almost give him a massage on his tummy and he would roll over and look dreamy at me, saying more, more, more, thank you! He didn’t like men much, I think it took Ross at least a year to be able to touch him but once that happened Ross loved to pull his tail until his back cracked………Tigger came back for more. Because Tigger had been found outside and had probably been there for quite some time he had an undercoat of fur that would mat so bad, he would lay there and let me cut so close to his skin that it was scary!
He grew (as all our animals do) to become 17 lbs of pure love! I kept him as an inside cat until we moved to Mexico. With a 10 foot wall they figured out a way to go up on top and jump down to play even before we had the stairs built to the Bucerias Weather Station. He loved stalking the bugs and would tear legs off grasshoppers in the yard and would play with them. As he was a lover not a fighter he had no idea he was hurting them, but as he was not at his best weight he had a hard time running so this slowed them down some. He would catch a bug under his huge paw and would leave it there for a few seconds, looking around like he had all day, then he would lift up his paw very carefully to make sure they were still there. Sometimes they would get away, sometimes not.
I miss him coming into the bedroom at night and laying at my back, sometimes crawling over top of me, looking for a belly rub. He was one of my best animal friends and I will miss him dearly. It’s funny though, every once in a while I can smell him, just a whiff or two…then it’s gone, I just wonder sometimes that he is still with me (just like the movie ghost with Patrick Swayze and Whoopie), I sure hope so.
Well, here’s to you Tigger!
We love and miss you Mum and Dad in Paradise
Friday, November 13, 2009
Thursday November 12th & Friday November 13th, 2009
I am writing this on Friday cause we got home way too late yesterday to write (3am) and it’s now 10:31pm our time Friday night and I just got home from the vet! I’m going to be going all over the place on this one, so please bare with me I need to get this out. When we were leaving today to take Gracie to the vet and pick up Big Dog’s ashes we found a note on our gate written in Spanish. Because we didn’t know what it meant we took it with us for Dr. Paco to translate for us. We picked up Big Dog in his wooden box and Dr. Paco looked at Gracie. Because of all the ticks Big Dog had and then Gracie had she was suffering from a type of condition that dogs get once they have had a lot of ticks, her temp was 104 so he gave her a couple of shots and some pills for 27 days and pills also for Jake and Maggie just for preventive maintenance. After we were done we asked him to translate the note we got and it said that one of our cats were attacked by 6 dogs at 3am. We raced home, the only cat we saw today was shadow so it was either sunshine or Tigger, to see what was going on and sure enough Shadow was in the house and Sunshine came running when I called for Sunshine and Tigger. Ross and I frantically went up and down the street trying to find the person who wrote the note and to see if they had taken him to the vet. Our neighbors across Rio Lerma she speaks a bit of English and she showed me where the family was that wrote the note, they are our next door neighbors to the west of us one house. Our neighbor from across the street translated for me (she speaks a little English) letting us know she put Tigger up next to our house and he either jumped up or she gave him a push (we will never know) and he should be inside. We ran into the house calling for him and Ross found him under the bed. Our vet in PV had requested us call him when we find him so we called him and he suggested Tigger need x-rays or ultrasound and told us of a vet 1 km down from us that has the equipment we need and he was open. So we took off with Tigger in towels with a huge hole in his lower stomach. To make a very long story shorter, the vet found that there was no internal damage and gave him a local and slowly he made sure everything was ok before he stitched him up. We called Mary Carmen to come help us with translation, cause of course the vet only speaks only a little English and I needed to know what the vet was saying. She came and stayed with me the whole time and helped so much, if you are reading this Mary Carmen, thank you from Ross and I and especially Tigger. The vet had one hell of a time getting an IV in but after trying 3 paws he went back to the first one and finally got a good line in and gave in some antibiotics, vitamins and pain medications. His temp when we got to the vet was 40.6 and he would not allow us to take him home until the temp went down, which was when we got the IV into him with all his medication. I have to take him back tomorrow at 1ish to make sure everything is ok and the stitches are holding.
OK back to Thursday, thank you I feel better now venting! We had to get up at 11am cause Lily came at 11:30 to clean the house. I explained to her what was expected of her so we are doing much better now. While she did my bathroom and bedroom Ross and I had coffee then I cleaned our two tables outside (now it’s not the rainy season it is dusty!) and I had Lily clean the tiles so we were already to welcome Karen and Grant into the house. I drove Lily to the bus stop on the 200 then went to get my nails done with a new girl that is almost across the street from the office. I thought actually it was across the street, the sign said open but of course it was locked but I saw a table with polish and stuff on it so I thought it was hers. After waiting (I was of course 10 minutes early) until 3:10 I called Cheryl (because she had been there before) to make sure I was in the right spot, of course I wasn’t she was a few doors down and she said that other place has never opened. She is great, really good English and as I was leaving she informed me she is going to do funky things with my nails the next time I come. I left (I was late collecting Karen and Grant from the Oxxo I told them to have the taxi take them to) went to start the car……………….and nothing! Crap. I opened the hood wiggled the negative post of the battery and I heard noises from the dash, so I dropped the hood, got back into the car went to start it and ………. Nothing!. So I opened the hood again, wiggled the negative post and heard a noise and I told the car it better start now as I have to pick up Karen and Grant. I dropped the hood got into the car and it fired up. I guess it really works when you talk to your car. I raced up Cardenas and I saw Grant with his thumb out at the Oxxo. I picked them up and took them to the house. We showed them around had a bit of wine/beer and left for Guayabitos for his gig. We got through the 200 before the sun went down, it’s a beautiful drive, and drove to the restaurant that overlooks the bay and we had some drinks. We got to Crazy Nelly’s and had a great time, Nelly was a cheerleader at one time and pulled out her pom poms and had a grand ole time with them. Doing cheers, rubbing Ralph’s head with them, he had fun I can tell you! Once the gig was done we drove Karen and Grant back to their hotel and we got home around 3am, way too late, too early???
We slept until almost 1pm we got up and had some great coffee and we left to see the vet to pick up Big Dog and get him to look at Gracie around 3:30 (he closes until 4 for siesta), I got a map from MapQuest, wrong wrong wrong! I’ll have to try google, after stopping where MapQuest told us he was, we asked at an Oxxo and they said it was about 7 blocks north, go figure! We got back into the car, found his office and after about 5 minutes they gave us big dog in a wooden box. Now I need to tell you something that the dog whisper told us. According to Big Dog, he did not want to be buried, he wanted to be cremated to he would be close to us when we move and he wanted to be put in a plain box! And he was! I told you about Gracie, so between big dog, Gracie and tigger we put out almost 6000 pesos today. Big dog and Gracie was 5000 pesos and Tigger as 945 pesos (I was very impressed with the vet we had with Tigger because I think we brought him in at 6 something and he wouldn’t let me leave until Tigger’s temp went down and he could get some electrolytes in him and also get him to take some type of food. We tried wet food and he wasn’t interested but the vet brought out some other stuff out of a tube and he loved it! So I bought it.
In the meantime, Philo had phoned Ross this afternoon asking him to play tonight because Carlos couldn’t so we ended up Ross going to Philo’s from the vet, after bringing me my purse, because I didn’t even think of bringing it to the vet. Darling Mary Carmen stayed with me the entire time making sure that what the vet was telling me I understood and she called Dick her husband to come pick us up. We got home and Tigger went under the bed (his safe place) and I’ll have to take him back to the vet tomorrow at 1 for him to check him out to make sure everything is ok. I will go back to this vet, he was soooooo caring and he also told me he had 2 dogs and 5 cats, so he really cares. Most Mexicans don’t!
I am now drinking some well deserved wine, it’s now 11:30 and Ross is still not home (that’s ok) I am watching HGTV with Gracie and Jake around me, and I’m sure Shadow and Sunshine are with Tigger making him feel good! I’m gonna go to bed now, wait for Ross to come home to cuddle, we both need that!
Ross and Kim in Paradise (healing)
I am writing this on Friday cause we got home way too late yesterday to write (3am) and it’s now 10:31pm our time Friday night and I just got home from the vet! I’m going to be going all over the place on this one, so please bare with me I need to get this out. When we were leaving today to take Gracie to the vet and pick up Big Dog’s ashes we found a note on our gate written in Spanish. Because we didn’t know what it meant we took it with us for Dr. Paco to translate for us. We picked up Big Dog in his wooden box and Dr. Paco looked at Gracie. Because of all the ticks Big Dog had and then Gracie had she was suffering from a type of condition that dogs get once they have had a lot of ticks, her temp was 104 so he gave her a couple of shots and some pills for 27 days and pills also for Jake and Maggie just for preventive maintenance. After we were done we asked him to translate the note we got and it said that one of our cats were attacked by 6 dogs at 3am. We raced home, the only cat we saw today was shadow so it was either sunshine or Tigger, to see what was going on and sure enough Shadow was in the house and Sunshine came running when I called for Sunshine and Tigger. Ross and I frantically went up and down the street trying to find the person who wrote the note and to see if they had taken him to the vet. Our neighbors across Rio Lerma she speaks a bit of English and she showed me where the family was that wrote the note, they are our next door neighbors to the west of us one house. Our neighbor from across the street translated for me (she speaks a little English) letting us know she put Tigger up next to our house and he either jumped up or she gave him a push (we will never know) and he should be inside. We ran into the house calling for him and Ross found him under the bed. Our vet in PV had requested us call him when we find him so we called him and he suggested Tigger need x-rays or ultrasound and told us of a vet 1 km down from us that has the equipment we need and he was open. So we took off with Tigger in towels with a huge hole in his lower stomach. To make a very long story shorter, the vet found that there was no internal damage and gave him a local and slowly he made sure everything was ok before he stitched him up. We called Mary Carmen to come help us with translation, cause of course the vet only speaks only a little English and I needed to know what the vet was saying. She came and stayed with me the whole time and helped so much, if you are reading this Mary Carmen, thank you from Ross and I and especially Tigger. The vet had one hell of a time getting an IV in but after trying 3 paws he went back to the first one and finally got a good line in and gave in some antibiotics, vitamins and pain medications. His temp when we got to the vet was 40.6 and he would not allow us to take him home until the temp went down, which was when we got the IV into him with all his medication. I have to take him back tomorrow at 1ish to make sure everything is ok and the stitches are holding.
OK back to Thursday, thank you I feel better now venting! We had to get up at 11am cause Lily came at 11:30 to clean the house. I explained to her what was expected of her so we are doing much better now. While she did my bathroom and bedroom Ross and I had coffee then I cleaned our two tables outside (now it’s not the rainy season it is dusty!) and I had Lily clean the tiles so we were already to welcome Karen and Grant into the house. I drove Lily to the bus stop on the 200 then went to get my nails done with a new girl that is almost across the street from the office. I thought actually it was across the street, the sign said open but of course it was locked but I saw a table with polish and stuff on it so I thought it was hers. After waiting (I was of course 10 minutes early) until 3:10 I called Cheryl (because she had been there before) to make sure I was in the right spot, of course I wasn’t she was a few doors down and she said that other place has never opened. She is great, really good English and as I was leaving she informed me she is going to do funky things with my nails the next time I come. I left (I was late collecting Karen and Grant from the Oxxo I told them to have the taxi take them to) went to start the car……………….and nothing! Crap. I opened the hood wiggled the negative post of the battery and I heard noises from the dash, so I dropped the hood, got back into the car went to start it and ………. Nothing!. So I opened the hood again, wiggled the negative post and heard a noise and I told the car it better start now as I have to pick up Karen and Grant. I dropped the hood got into the car and it fired up. I guess it really works when you talk to your car. I raced up Cardenas and I saw Grant with his thumb out at the Oxxo. I picked them up and took them to the house. We showed them around had a bit of wine/beer and left for Guayabitos for his gig. We got through the 200 before the sun went down, it’s a beautiful drive, and drove to the restaurant that overlooks the bay and we had some drinks. We got to Crazy Nelly’s and had a great time, Nelly was a cheerleader at one time and pulled out her pom poms and had a grand ole time with them. Doing cheers, rubbing Ralph’s head with them, he had fun I can tell you! Once the gig was done we drove Karen and Grant back to their hotel and we got home around 3am, way too late, too early???
We slept until almost 1pm we got up and had some great coffee and we left to see the vet to pick up Big Dog and get him to look at Gracie around 3:30 (he closes until 4 for siesta), I got a map from MapQuest, wrong wrong wrong! I’ll have to try google, after stopping where MapQuest told us he was, we asked at an Oxxo and they said it was about 7 blocks north, go figure! We got back into the car, found his office and after about 5 minutes they gave us big dog in a wooden box. Now I need to tell you something that the dog whisper told us. According to Big Dog, he did not want to be buried, he wanted to be cremated to he would be close to us when we move and he wanted to be put in a plain box! And he was! I told you about Gracie, so between big dog, Gracie and tigger we put out almost 6000 pesos today. Big dog and Gracie was 5000 pesos and Tigger as 945 pesos (I was very impressed with the vet we had with Tigger because I think we brought him in at 6 something and he wouldn’t let me leave until Tigger’s temp went down and he could get some electrolytes in him and also get him to take some type of food. We tried wet food and he wasn’t interested but the vet brought out some other stuff out of a tube and he loved it! So I bought it.
In the meantime, Philo had phoned Ross this afternoon asking him to play tonight because Carlos couldn’t so we ended up Ross going to Philo’s from the vet, after bringing me my purse, because I didn’t even think of bringing it to the vet. Darling Mary Carmen stayed with me the entire time making sure that what the vet was telling me I understood and she called Dick her husband to come pick us up. We got home and Tigger went under the bed (his safe place) and I’ll have to take him back to the vet tomorrow at 1 for him to check him out to make sure everything is ok. I will go back to this vet, he was soooooo caring and he also told me he had 2 dogs and 5 cats, so he really cares. Most Mexicans don’t!
I am now drinking some well deserved wine, it’s now 11:30 and Ross is still not home (that’s ok) I am watching HGTV with Gracie and Jake around me, and I’m sure Shadow and Sunshine are with Tigger making him feel good! I’m gonna go to bed now, wait for Ross to come home to cuddle, we both need that!
Ross and Kim in Paradise (healing)
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Wednesday November 11th, 2009
Good morning! We are up again way too early, we have a meeting with John and Christie and the gang to talk about the new development we are selling, all I can say is wow! After our meeting we drove over there and walked through the model that is 99% done and will be done on Saturday when we have a grand opening (or whatever you want to call it) for realtors to come by and check out the new development. We are suppling the sound equipment for the event so will be there early and leave late, but Christie says we get to eat, so it’s all good. The model that is almost done is fabulous, it’s a 3 bedroom on two floors with ceramic tile, granite counters and so much more.
We got home and we’re just chillin’ out, my old boss will be here shortly, (her name is Karen, the plane is touching down at 3:06 today and she’ll be here for 1 ½ weeks with of course Grant, her husband. I wanted to pick her up at the airport but we have to be in La Cruz for 4:30 and the timing would be all off. Once she gets settled she said she is going to phone me, I’m excited to see her and Grant.
Britannia is now starting to have “Deep River” (Ross’s new band with Mike and Nick) play every Wednesday afternoon between 4:30 and 7. It’s not a paying gig right now but it can turn into one if the bar gets busy during high season (which starts about now). We had a great time, they put a tip jar out and the only people that put money in was us (the band) so after they played we had some tequila. They played some Beatles and some Elton John among others.
We got home around 8ish and watched a bit of TV then got to bed early.
Ross and Kim in Paradise.
Good morning! We are up again way too early, we have a meeting with John and Christie and the gang to talk about the new development we are selling, all I can say is wow! After our meeting we drove over there and walked through the model that is 99% done and will be done on Saturday when we have a grand opening (or whatever you want to call it) for realtors to come by and check out the new development. We are suppling the sound equipment for the event so will be there early and leave late, but Christie says we get to eat, so it’s all good. The model that is almost done is fabulous, it’s a 3 bedroom on two floors with ceramic tile, granite counters and so much more.
We got home and we’re just chillin’ out, my old boss will be here shortly, (her name is Karen, the plane is touching down at 3:06 today and she’ll be here for 1 ½ weeks with of course Grant, her husband. I wanted to pick her up at the airport but we have to be in La Cruz for 4:30 and the timing would be all off. Once she gets settled she said she is going to phone me, I’m excited to see her and Grant.
Britannia is now starting to have “Deep River” (Ross’s new band with Mike and Nick) play every Wednesday afternoon between 4:30 and 7. It’s not a paying gig right now but it can turn into one if the bar gets busy during high season (which starts about now). We had a great time, they put a tip jar out and the only people that put money in was us (the band) so after they played we had some tequila. They played some Beatles and some Elton John among others.
We got home around 8ish and watched a bit of TV then got to bed early.
Ross and Kim in Paradise.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Tuesday November 10th, 2009
Well, we are up at 8am to make our stint in the office this morning, drinking a cup of coffee outside on the patio, it was a very pleasant morning, about 24 and calm. I put 1 set of rope lights up the curricular staircase last night and it looks so cool. I’m trying to figure out how to string them up our cement pole then run an extension cord under the roof and plug it in behind the BBQ. Ross thinks it will make the patio too bright, I think not!
We got to the office and we just got settled in an some guys came by to let us know they are going to be fixing the sidewalk in front and we need to get out. We called Christie and sure enough she forgot they were supposed to be there today. In the mean time I had called the nail girl and she said she was booked up today, she called when we got to Vallarta (we decided to go there for breakfast) and she said her 10am appt was a no show so she could slip me in. Unfortunately we were in PV so I have made an appointment for Thursday at 3.
We drove to PV and stopped in the Mall (which I didn’t think was a mall but a small group of stores along an outside mall) that looked interesting. It was actually a mall that was kinda neat. It had a Mega and a whole bunch of stores (a chucky cheese!) that most were not open. We stopped at McDonalds and had a egg/ham Mcmuffin with a hash brown and an orange just, there is nothing better than comfort food! We stopped at Liverpool to see about the I-phone that was on sale for 800 pesos but they were all sold out (it was the old one) the new one was almost 1200 pesos and $80 bucks a month, ridiculous, who in their right mind would spend that much a month for a cell phone, obviously way too many people. I will buy something for 40.00 dollars a month (400 pesos).
We got home and Renee stopped by and we chatted until we had to get to Britannia for 6 (which we found out it was supposed to be 6:30) so of course Mandy wasn’t there yet so we drove to the new yacht club. We couldn’t get in but we walked around a bit, the locals are angry over it being built (it closed off some views to some businesses) and the docking fees are huge! (200 pesos per person for a boat to come into the dock to pick people up) We drove back to the club and we dropped off the cymbals we brought from home then Ross went to Philos to get the rest of his drums. I stayed there and met up with a couple of fellows from California who sailed down the coast, we moved from the bar to a table and we had a really good conversation. We had a great time there, Carlos played for a bit, then Ross played, then he handed the sticks over to one of the California guys and he played for a bit! Ralph got there around 9ish (he was coming back from his own rehearsal) and Ross, Ralph and Nick played, wow, it was great!
We got home around 10 and watched TV for a bit then hit the bed!
Ross and Kim in Paradise
Well, we are up at 8am to make our stint in the office this morning, drinking a cup of coffee outside on the patio, it was a very pleasant morning, about 24 and calm. I put 1 set of rope lights up the curricular staircase last night and it looks so cool. I’m trying to figure out how to string them up our cement pole then run an extension cord under the roof and plug it in behind the BBQ. Ross thinks it will make the patio too bright, I think not!
We got to the office and we just got settled in an some guys came by to let us know they are going to be fixing the sidewalk in front and we need to get out. We called Christie and sure enough she forgot they were supposed to be there today. In the mean time I had called the nail girl and she said she was booked up today, she called when we got to Vallarta (we decided to go there for breakfast) and she said her 10am appt was a no show so she could slip me in. Unfortunately we were in PV so I have made an appointment for Thursday at 3.
We drove to PV and stopped in the Mall (which I didn’t think was a mall but a small group of stores along an outside mall) that looked interesting. It was actually a mall that was kinda neat. It had a Mega and a whole bunch of stores (a chucky cheese!) that most were not open. We stopped at McDonalds and had a egg/ham Mcmuffin with a hash brown and an orange just, there is nothing better than comfort food! We stopped at Liverpool to see about the I-phone that was on sale for 800 pesos but they were all sold out (it was the old one) the new one was almost 1200 pesos and $80 bucks a month, ridiculous, who in their right mind would spend that much a month for a cell phone, obviously way too many people. I will buy something for 40.00 dollars a month (400 pesos).
We got home and Renee stopped by and we chatted until we had to get to Britannia for 6 (which we found out it was supposed to be 6:30) so of course Mandy wasn’t there yet so we drove to the new yacht club. We couldn’t get in but we walked around a bit, the locals are angry over it being built (it closed off some views to some businesses) and the docking fees are huge! (200 pesos per person for a boat to come into the dock to pick people up) We drove back to the club and we dropped off the cymbals we brought from home then Ross went to Philos to get the rest of his drums. I stayed there and met up with a couple of fellows from California who sailed down the coast, we moved from the bar to a table and we had a really good conversation. We had a great time there, Carlos played for a bit, then Ross played, then he handed the sticks over to one of the California guys and he played for a bit! Ralph got there around 9ish (he was coming back from his own rehearsal) and Ross, Ralph and Nick played, wow, it was great!
We got home around 10 and watched TV for a bit then hit the bed!
Ross and Kim in Paradise
Monday, November 9, 2009
Monday November 9th, 2009
You have no idea what just happened! It’s ok, it’s not bad! We drove to Bucerias Centro to go to Dr. Mauro so Ross could get another prescription for his Metforman for his diabetes and we had such a hard time trying to find his office he was already on Siesta and wouldn’t be back until 4:30, so we stopped at Juan’s place to see if he had any word on selling the trailer then off to Mega to see is their medico was open, not. So we went to Wal-Mart because we had a few, let me tell you, a few, things to pick up. After over 3000 pesos later (we got 3 sets of white rope lights, a new Christmas tree only 230 pesos and some win, pop, food and cleaning supplies we stopped in at the farmacia and they had no problem giving Ross his medication just from his old prescription bottle, go figure! I’m gonna take them my thyroid medication to see if they will give me some from the bottle from Canada!
We stopped at John and Christie’s and will be working in the office on Cardenas tomorrow from 9:30 to about 2. Maybe I can sneak out, leave Ross there and get my nails done at the new place almost across the street………………I’ll let you know!
I found a replacement to my Margarita Machine at the Margaretville website, but again I could only use a US credit card, so after another e-mail to my son, I love him to death, he has ordered it and had it shipped to my new best friends in Washington! Sue and Harold’s friends that are bringing my Microsoft 7 software! I think I owe them a Margarita or two or three……………..
It was so cool, I was on line with Carmel (I used to work with her), Leanne (I just met her, she is Sue and Harold’s friends, now ours) and Paul, (one of our very best friends from Edmonton) all at the same time via Yahoo. I love the internet!
Ross got back from his meeting in Nuevo and we have supper cooking and will be done soon, so I’m going to say bye from Paradise for now and will talk with you tomorrow!
Ross and Kim in Paradise
Along with Gracie, Shadow, Tigger, Sunshine and Jake
You have no idea what just happened! It’s ok, it’s not bad! We drove to Bucerias Centro to go to Dr. Mauro so Ross could get another prescription for his Metforman for his diabetes and we had such a hard time trying to find his office he was already on Siesta and wouldn’t be back until 4:30, so we stopped at Juan’s place to see if he had any word on selling the trailer then off to Mega to see is their medico was open, not. So we went to Wal-Mart because we had a few, let me tell you, a few, things to pick up. After over 3000 pesos later (we got 3 sets of white rope lights, a new Christmas tree only 230 pesos and some win, pop, food and cleaning supplies we stopped in at the farmacia and they had no problem giving Ross his medication just from his old prescription bottle, go figure! I’m gonna take them my thyroid medication to see if they will give me some from the bottle from Canada!
We stopped at John and Christie’s and will be working in the office on Cardenas tomorrow from 9:30 to about 2. Maybe I can sneak out, leave Ross there and get my nails done at the new place almost across the street………………I’ll let you know!
I found a replacement to my Margarita Machine at the Margaretville website, but again I could only use a US credit card, so after another e-mail to my son, I love him to death, he has ordered it and had it shipped to my new best friends in Washington! Sue and Harold’s friends that are bringing my Microsoft 7 software! I think I owe them a Margarita or two or three……………..
It was so cool, I was on line with Carmel (I used to work with her), Leanne (I just met her, she is Sue and Harold’s friends, now ours) and Paul, (one of our very best friends from Edmonton) all at the same time via Yahoo. I love the internet!
Ross got back from his meeting in Nuevo and we have supper cooking and will be done soon, so I’m going to say bye from Paradise for now and will talk with you tomorrow!
Ross and Kim in Paradise
Along with Gracie, Shadow, Tigger, Sunshine and Jake
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Sunday November 8th, 2009
Buenos Noches. It’s 8 pm Sunday night and I can truthfully say, I have not gotten out of my pajamas all day! We were going to take the dogs out to the beach this afternoon, but we didn’t seem to get up enough energy to go. So we have been putzing all day, having popcorn for supper (we introduced Jake (aka Buddy we have changed his name, the votes have been tallied) to popcorn, not having it before he was not quite sure what to do with it, but once he tried some he was climbing the couch to get more, what have we done, created a popcorn junkie?) and tostados with salsa for lunch, we are so healthy!
We went out to dinner last night to a new restaurant across the street from Sue and Harold’s, on the road to the De Cameron, that was great. Ross had a hamburger 59 pesos and I had the large portion of breaded shrimp with rice and coleslaw with a great dipping sauce, kinda like Thousand Island dressing. We got there before 7 (hurray for us) and there was about 10 other people that got there ahead of us and before we could say bottoms up (they gave us all a shot of tequila, see that’s one good reason to go back) we had to add about 5 more tables for the people that came later ending up making an L shape of tables. High season is here I think!
After having chats with everyone, oh yeah Harold, our resident volunteer bomberos got a call and had to leave dinner for a bit as there was a traffic accident close and could he please come. It ended up with 2 police cars and 1 ambulance were outside our restaurant, a motorcycle hit a car and sped off, we left with Renee and we went to Philos and Ross played a bit with the band. Philo we found out had been to the hospital because he was really sick and didn’t know why, I guess. He came back while we were there and he certainly didn’t look well, hopefully it’s not the H1N1. Nick was in charge on guitar and we had Leon (he’s a looker) on washboard, Oscar on Sax, Carlos on drums and Peggy on bass. Tom came by and played a couple of tunes on his new bass that he bought from Steve York a guy in PV. (Apparently it is a fabulous instrument!)
We drove Renee home and went home ourselves, watched TV for a while and we watched a bit of TV then went to bed. We had sprayed our room with bug spray (I don’t know whether I said that we have an infestation of ticks, we think because of Maggie) and we found dead ticks everywhere. Gracie is infested; we tried to get them off her to no avail, so we are going to the vet tomorrow for a shampoo to get rid of them on her. Jake (aka buddy) doesn’t have any on him, we think because they were all over big dog because he wasn’t moving and Gracie was not away from his side for the past few days they glommed onto her. It’ s kinda yucky thinking about it, but that’s life in a hot climate, we are keeping Maggie outside from now on and once we get Gracie done we should be ok. The cats are ok, sorry about that pause, I had to check, I had just assumed they were ok because they are not scratching at all, and I am right Tigger is free and clear so the rest of the cats will be ok.
We are watching discovery HD Net and it’s a show about the high altitude tests and other tests of nuclear weapons back in the 50’s, that is pretty scary, no wonder why our planet is so screwed up, and they call it global warming because of cars and such! Captain Kirk is narrating (William Shatner for those non trekkies), he has a very good narrating voice, don’t you think. You know it’s funny, everyone knows our lives and no one e-mails me anymore cause they don’t need to, I’d like to hear about how you guys are doing, I really would!
Ross is putting our very skinny pork chops in the toaster oven (he doesn’t feel like BBQing) and we did buy cut sweet potatoes from Wal-Mart for a veggie, but they are yams not sweet potatoes, how dare they! So I think we have some frozen veggies in the freezer and of course we have apple sauce for a side, you haveta have apple sauce with pork chops!
Hopefully my blog will be a little more interesting tomorrow, because I get to wake up in paradise!
Ross and Kim in Paradise
Along with Gracie, Shadow, Tigger, Sunshine and Jake
Buenos Noches. It’s 8 pm Sunday night and I can truthfully say, I have not gotten out of my pajamas all day! We were going to take the dogs out to the beach this afternoon, but we didn’t seem to get up enough energy to go. So we have been putzing all day, having popcorn for supper (we introduced Jake (aka Buddy we have changed his name, the votes have been tallied) to popcorn, not having it before he was not quite sure what to do with it, but once he tried some he was climbing the couch to get more, what have we done, created a popcorn junkie?) and tostados with salsa for lunch, we are so healthy!
We went out to dinner last night to a new restaurant across the street from Sue and Harold’s, on the road to the De Cameron, that was great. Ross had a hamburger 59 pesos and I had the large portion of breaded shrimp with rice and coleslaw with a great dipping sauce, kinda like Thousand Island dressing. We got there before 7 (hurray for us) and there was about 10 other people that got there ahead of us and before we could say bottoms up (they gave us all a shot of tequila, see that’s one good reason to go back) we had to add about 5 more tables for the people that came later ending up making an L shape of tables. High season is here I think!
After having chats with everyone, oh yeah Harold, our resident volunteer bomberos got a call and had to leave dinner for a bit as there was a traffic accident close and could he please come. It ended up with 2 police cars and 1 ambulance were outside our restaurant, a motorcycle hit a car and sped off, we left with Renee and we went to Philos and Ross played a bit with the band. Philo we found out had been to the hospital because he was really sick and didn’t know why, I guess. He came back while we were there and he certainly didn’t look well, hopefully it’s not the H1N1. Nick was in charge on guitar and we had Leon (he’s a looker) on washboard, Oscar on Sax, Carlos on drums and Peggy on bass. Tom came by and played a couple of tunes on his new bass that he bought from Steve York a guy in PV. (Apparently it is a fabulous instrument!)
We drove Renee home and went home ourselves, watched TV for a while and we watched a bit of TV then went to bed. We had sprayed our room with bug spray (I don’t know whether I said that we have an infestation of ticks, we think because of Maggie) and we found dead ticks everywhere. Gracie is infested; we tried to get them off her to no avail, so we are going to the vet tomorrow for a shampoo to get rid of them on her. Jake (aka buddy) doesn’t have any on him, we think because they were all over big dog because he wasn’t moving and Gracie was not away from his side for the past few days they glommed onto her. It’ s kinda yucky thinking about it, but that’s life in a hot climate, we are keeping Maggie outside from now on and once we get Gracie done we should be ok. The cats are ok, sorry about that pause, I had to check, I had just assumed they were ok because they are not scratching at all, and I am right Tigger is free and clear so the rest of the cats will be ok.
We are watching discovery HD Net and it’s a show about the high altitude tests and other tests of nuclear weapons back in the 50’s, that is pretty scary, no wonder why our planet is so screwed up, and they call it global warming because of cars and such! Captain Kirk is narrating (William Shatner for those non trekkies), he has a very good narrating voice, don’t you think. You know it’s funny, everyone knows our lives and no one e-mails me anymore cause they don’t need to, I’d like to hear about how you guys are doing, I really would!
Ross is putting our very skinny pork chops in the toaster oven (he doesn’t feel like BBQing) and we did buy cut sweet potatoes from Wal-Mart for a veggie, but they are yams not sweet potatoes, how dare they! So I think we have some frozen veggies in the freezer and of course we have apple sauce for a side, you haveta have apple sauce with pork chops!
Hopefully my blog will be a little more interesting tomorrow, because I get to wake up in paradise!
Ross and Kim in Paradise
Along with Gracie, Shadow, Tigger, Sunshine and Jake
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Saturday November 7th, 2009
I forgot to tell you about Ross’s debut at Crazy Nelly’s in Guayabitos (thank god for spell check). Our directions were to go north on the 200 and you will get to some topes then on your right hand side there will be an Oxxo and about a half a block up again on your right hand side will be the bar. That is how they tell you where to find things, no addresses involved! We had to wait until our mechanic brought our car back (he charged us 1600 pesos to rebuild our alternator plus he came and picked up the car and dropped it back off again within 6 hours) so we could drive to the gig. We were supposed to be there a lot earlier to help move things and set up, but it just didn’t happen. We still got there in time for Ross to set up the drums and have a great hamburger. We happened to follow an ambulance all the way, which is good because he was going fast and if anyone drove in the other lane, they would hit the ambulance first instead of us! Not a great thing to think about, but the drivers down here are wild!
The band was great, a lot of 60’s and 70’s tunes and both the bass player Ralph and the guitar player Gen-o were great. Between the first and second set a couple of guys came up and played, Ross ended up playing with them so he didn’t get much of a break. One of the guys that played between sets was Dave, he looks about 55ish and he had a girl with him Joanne who looks about 40ish and she just looked kinda dowdy. They live in San Pancho just up the road. (To give you an idea Bucerias, Puenta Esmeralda, La Cruz, Sayulita, San Pancho, Lo de Marcos then Guayabitos (thank god for copy and paste). It’s about 45 minutes to 1 hour away to the north.
They ended up having 2 encores (uno mas, uno mas, uno mas (one more, one more, one more)) then as we were driving home we ended up following 2 buses going between 100 – 120 on the two lane highway where there are a lot of curves (which I think I have talked about before).
We didn’t sleep much last night, Big Dog kept having dreams and crying or yelping or whatever you want to call it, so Ross laid with him most of the night, we also gave him some more pain medication. We just had coffee this morning and did a lot of Bid Dog holding. After the vet left with Big Dog we called the kids to let them know everything was ok.
I’m on the patio, it’s 4:15 pm, and we are thinking of taking a short siesta before going out to dinner tonight. I want to thank all the people that wrote, called, emailed and send best wishes to Big Dog and us on facebook. He will be missed by many, which, can we expect more than that, in one lifetime?
A sad Kim and Ross in Paradise.
I forgot to tell you about Ross’s debut at Crazy Nelly’s in Guayabitos (thank god for spell check). Our directions were to go north on the 200 and you will get to some topes then on your right hand side there will be an Oxxo and about a half a block up again on your right hand side will be the bar. That is how they tell you where to find things, no addresses involved! We had to wait until our mechanic brought our car back (he charged us 1600 pesos to rebuild our alternator plus he came and picked up the car and dropped it back off again within 6 hours) so we could drive to the gig. We were supposed to be there a lot earlier to help move things and set up, but it just didn’t happen. We still got there in time for Ross to set up the drums and have a great hamburger. We happened to follow an ambulance all the way, which is good because he was going fast and if anyone drove in the other lane, they would hit the ambulance first instead of us! Not a great thing to think about, but the drivers down here are wild!
The band was great, a lot of 60’s and 70’s tunes and both the bass player Ralph and the guitar player Gen-o were great. Between the first and second set a couple of guys came up and played, Ross ended up playing with them so he didn’t get much of a break. One of the guys that played between sets was Dave, he looks about 55ish and he had a girl with him Joanne who looks about 40ish and she just looked kinda dowdy. They live in San Pancho just up the road. (To give you an idea Bucerias, Puenta Esmeralda, La Cruz, Sayulita, San Pancho, Lo de Marcos then Guayabitos (thank god for copy and paste). It’s about 45 minutes to 1 hour away to the north.
They ended up having 2 encores (uno mas, uno mas, uno mas (one more, one more, one more)) then as we were driving home we ended up following 2 buses going between 100 – 120 on the two lane highway where there are a lot of curves (which I think I have talked about before).
We didn’t sleep much last night, Big Dog kept having dreams and crying or yelping or whatever you want to call it, so Ross laid with him most of the night, we also gave him some more pain medication. We just had coffee this morning and did a lot of Bid Dog holding. After the vet left with Big Dog we called the kids to let them know everything was ok.
I’m on the patio, it’s 4:15 pm, and we are thinking of taking a short siesta before going out to dinner tonight. I want to thank all the people that wrote, called, emailed and send best wishes to Big Dog and us on facebook. He will be missed by many, which, can we expect more than that, in one lifetime?
A sad Kim and Ross in Paradise.
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Saturday November 7th, 2009
Special Edition
We sent Big Dog to The Rainbow Bridge at 12:25 pm Central Standard Time.
RIP Bandit 1994 - 2009
Kia, our wonderful dog of about 4 years got cancer and we had to send her to The Rainbow Bridge also. A couple of days after that we stopped at the SPCA in Edmonton and went to see the dogs, as we walked down the aisle a scrawny mutt came bounding at the bars with his eyes shining, a great big smile on his face and said to us “it’s about time you came to get me, I’ve been waiting for you”. He had been at the SPCA way too long, he should have been put down weeks ago, but the staff loved him so much that they kept putting it off and putting it off and putting it off until we got there. He probably only weighed 30 pounds; a pathetic looking tail and maybe a foot high and he was 2 years old according to the SPCA. Ross fell in love with him on the spot. There was a Samoyed in the next stall, I wanted him, but oh no, it had to be this one. July 1996
We brought him home and he fitted in like he had always been with us. Lexi was not even two and he loved her. It was really weird; every time he ate he seemed to get bigger! I kept telling Ross that he was getting to be a very big dog and we only had a very small house. Just after we got him Ross had to leave for 5 days to go up north for his job, so Bandit and I (Ross always wanted a dog named Bandit so that’s what we called him) kinda bonded and he (even in a week) got bigger and bigger. When Ross got home Bandit growled at him and wouldn’t let him go near his food. I smacked him and told him this was his daddy so behave! It was ok after that. Ross and Bandit bonded so much that they were inseparable, Bandit stayed by Ross’s side like glue!
By the time Big Dog finished growing in our house, (remember he was two when we got him so he should have been full grown) his tail had filled out and was fairly long (when he was happy, which was most of the time, he would wag his tail and wipe off the coffee table with it) and he weighed about 105 lbs.
He had a great life. Every summer and some winters we went to the lake for the weekend and he would play. In the summer when he was hot he would walk down the stairs to the lake and walk in about ankle deep and lay down to cool off, he never did go swimming. When he was thirsty he would take a couple of laps of water from the lake. He had 10 acres of treed land to explore with his brothers and/or sisters chasing bugs, and anything else he could find. He was always a very laid back dog, so he mostly laid on the front lawn and had a snooze in the sunshine. He used to keep all his balls under the cabin, bringing only one out at a time to play with then when he was done he would take it back under the cabin where it belonged. When we sold the lake property he knew it was the last time he would be there so he went under the cabin and got his favorite ball to bring home. That ball was beside him when he left us today along with his favorite rope he would love to play with.
We had so much fun in his life, he loved to ride in our motor boat on the lake and he would sit at the stern of the boat half on the seat and half on the side of the boat so his tail used to drag in the water. He got to play on the beach on Vancouver Island a couple of times and he played at the beach here. It’s funny, the first time he saw the ocean he waded in and was quite surprised that it moved, the lake didn’t move? He took a lap of water and the look on his face was priceless! He looked at me and said “what the hell, why does it taste funny, it doesn’t taste like the lake? He loved to travel in the motor home lying between us. He laid right beside Ross’s drums every time he played, it didn’t matter how loud it got. He sure loves his daddy!
He was very hot when we first arrived in Mexico, but he seemed to get used to it, but never to the ocean, I think it scared him. He started having a hard time walking about 3 months ago, just like his daddy an mommy sometimes (you know when you first get up from sitting along time, your knees don’t want to work well). I think he had a small stroke too as he kept leaning to his right side when he walked. We went to the vet and he gave us some pills, squish 1 and add 3 syringes of water and a little sugar and give him one syringe a day. Wow, what a difference, he would get up and walk around, he went out to go pee and would walk around the block with Ross and Gracie. Then slowly it didn’t seem to work anymore and he was having a hard time getting up. Ross would lift his back end up until he got his sea legs then he could sometimes go out to go pee on his own or Ross would hold his back end up. He had a couple of accidents in the bedroom. One was this morning, before the vet came.
We posted on our blogs that we had a beloved pet and needed him to be put to sleep and we needed a sympathetic vet to come to help us. 4 people recommended Dr. Sabuesos, including some very good friends of ours. We called him up and he had no problems driving to Bucerias (his office and he lives in PV) to help us out. He came at noon our time and was such a kind a caring man. He explained to us what would happen and why and said he will go as slow as we want him to. He first gave Bandit an injection to calm him down; all the while the vet was listening to his heart to make sure everything was ok. He injected the first of three shots, slowly putting him to sleep, then a deep sleep then putting him out of his pain. He put his back side in a garbage bag just in case his bowels gave way on the way to PV.
You will not believe how our higher power has taken over. For the past few weeks we have been trying to find someone to be able take Big Dog and cremate him, to no avail. The only thing we could find was once a week someone picks up dead bodies to take to Guadalajara for cremation but only once a month per month per vet. And someone told us that once they get to Guadalajara good luck on getting your dog back! The vet that came today told us that two weeks ago they started a crematorium and last week they tried a big dog and it worked great, so that is where Big Dog is going and now we know that it will be him in the urn. Did Big Dog wait until that was in place before he started to shut down? He was doing not too bad up until 3 days ago.
Well, here’s to you Big Dog!
We love you Mum and Dad in Paradise
Special Edition
We sent Big Dog to The Rainbow Bridge at 12:25 pm Central Standard Time.
RIP Bandit 1994 - 2009
Kia, our wonderful dog of about 4 years got cancer and we had to send her to The Rainbow Bridge also. A couple of days after that we stopped at the SPCA in Edmonton and went to see the dogs, as we walked down the aisle a scrawny mutt came bounding at the bars with his eyes shining, a great big smile on his face and said to us “it’s about time you came to get me, I’ve been waiting for you”. He had been at the SPCA way too long, he should have been put down weeks ago, but the staff loved him so much that they kept putting it off and putting it off and putting it off until we got there. He probably only weighed 30 pounds; a pathetic looking tail and maybe a foot high and he was 2 years old according to the SPCA. Ross fell in love with him on the spot. There was a Samoyed in the next stall, I wanted him, but oh no, it had to be this one. July 1996
We brought him home and he fitted in like he had always been with us. Lexi was not even two and he loved her. It was really weird; every time he ate he seemed to get bigger! I kept telling Ross that he was getting to be a very big dog and we only had a very small house. Just after we got him Ross had to leave for 5 days to go up north for his job, so Bandit and I (Ross always wanted a dog named Bandit so that’s what we called him) kinda bonded and he (even in a week) got bigger and bigger. When Ross got home Bandit growled at him and wouldn’t let him go near his food. I smacked him and told him this was his daddy so behave! It was ok after that. Ross and Bandit bonded so much that they were inseparable, Bandit stayed by Ross’s side like glue!
By the time Big Dog finished growing in our house, (remember he was two when we got him so he should have been full grown) his tail had filled out and was fairly long (when he was happy, which was most of the time, he would wag his tail and wipe off the coffee table with it) and he weighed about 105 lbs.
He had a great life. Every summer and some winters we went to the lake for the weekend and he would play. In the summer when he was hot he would walk down the stairs to the lake and walk in about ankle deep and lay down to cool off, he never did go swimming. When he was thirsty he would take a couple of laps of water from the lake. He had 10 acres of treed land to explore with his brothers and/or sisters chasing bugs, and anything else he could find. He was always a very laid back dog, so he mostly laid on the front lawn and had a snooze in the sunshine. He used to keep all his balls under the cabin, bringing only one out at a time to play with then when he was done he would take it back under the cabin where it belonged. When we sold the lake property he knew it was the last time he would be there so he went under the cabin and got his favorite ball to bring home. That ball was beside him when he left us today along with his favorite rope he would love to play with.
We had so much fun in his life, he loved to ride in our motor boat on the lake and he would sit at the stern of the boat half on the seat and half on the side of the boat so his tail used to drag in the water. He got to play on the beach on Vancouver Island a couple of times and he played at the beach here. It’s funny, the first time he saw the ocean he waded in and was quite surprised that it moved, the lake didn’t move? He took a lap of water and the look on his face was priceless! He looked at me and said “what the hell, why does it taste funny, it doesn’t taste like the lake? He loved to travel in the motor home lying between us. He laid right beside Ross’s drums every time he played, it didn’t matter how loud it got. He sure loves his daddy!
He was very hot when we first arrived in Mexico, but he seemed to get used to it, but never to the ocean, I think it scared him. He started having a hard time walking about 3 months ago, just like his daddy an mommy sometimes (you know when you first get up from sitting along time, your knees don’t want to work well). I think he had a small stroke too as he kept leaning to his right side when he walked. We went to the vet and he gave us some pills, squish 1 and add 3 syringes of water and a little sugar and give him one syringe a day. Wow, what a difference, he would get up and walk around, he went out to go pee and would walk around the block with Ross and Gracie. Then slowly it didn’t seem to work anymore and he was having a hard time getting up. Ross would lift his back end up until he got his sea legs then he could sometimes go out to go pee on his own or Ross would hold his back end up. He had a couple of accidents in the bedroom. One was this morning, before the vet came.
We posted on our blogs that we had a beloved pet and needed him to be put to sleep and we needed a sympathetic vet to come to help us. 4 people recommended Dr. Sabuesos, including some very good friends of ours. We called him up and he had no problems driving to Bucerias (his office and he lives in PV) to help us out. He came at noon our time and was such a kind a caring man. He explained to us what would happen and why and said he will go as slow as we want him to. He first gave Bandit an injection to calm him down; all the while the vet was listening to his heart to make sure everything was ok. He injected the first of three shots, slowly putting him to sleep, then a deep sleep then putting him out of his pain. He put his back side in a garbage bag just in case his bowels gave way on the way to PV.
You will not believe how our higher power has taken over. For the past few weeks we have been trying to find someone to be able take Big Dog and cremate him, to no avail. The only thing we could find was once a week someone picks up dead bodies to take to Guadalajara for cremation but only once a month per month per vet. And someone told us that once they get to Guadalajara good luck on getting your dog back! The vet that came today told us that two weeks ago they started a crematorium and last week they tried a big dog and it worked great, so that is where Big Dog is going and now we know that it will be him in the urn. Did Big Dog wait until that was in place before he started to shut down? He was doing not too bad up until 3 days ago.
Well, here’s to you Big Dog!
We love you Mum and Dad in Paradise
Friday, November 6, 2009
Friday November 6th, 2009
Did anyone notice that I put the wrong day on my blog yesterday, hopefully no one did! Today was a very down day. We contacted the vet for Big Dog and they are coming tomorrow at noon. It’s so sad, but so good also, he is not doing well, he can’t even walk anymore. Ross has him so doped up so he won’t feel any pain!
We really didn’t do anything today. We did a lot of talking with Big Dog (when he was awake) and just being a family. Ross went into the pool for a bit this afternoon and I did some reading. I just finished the book that Patrick Swayze wrote with his wife Lisa. He did a really good job, I really enjoyed it. I’m now reading Kindered in Death by J. D. Robb, they are always good, it just came out on Sony books.
Ross went to his meeting tonight at 6 and we are just hanging out watching TV and being with the animals. The temp has been around 30 but the humidity has finally broken so it was only at 40 – 50% today and quite windy this morning. My son just went through a vasectomy today and is feeling ok as long as he doesn’t move!
They graded our road this morning, they have now most of our roads done, which is so nice as we almost had to pack a picnic lunch when we went anywhere, it took so long to get to the 200. We missed our garbage pickup Thursday morning so we left it out and it will get picked up tomorrow morning. It’s great to get garbage pickup 3 times a week and we don’t really pay for it! Our taxes are so low! As you can see I don’t have much to say today, it’s kinda a sad day. We are watching the new House, so I’ll say bye for now.
Ross and Kim (and Critters) in Paradise.
Did anyone notice that I put the wrong day on my blog yesterday, hopefully no one did! Today was a very down day. We contacted the vet for Big Dog and they are coming tomorrow at noon. It’s so sad, but so good also, he is not doing well, he can’t even walk anymore. Ross has him so doped up so he won’t feel any pain!
We really didn’t do anything today. We did a lot of talking with Big Dog (when he was awake) and just being a family. Ross went into the pool for a bit this afternoon and I did some reading. I just finished the book that Patrick Swayze wrote with his wife Lisa. He did a really good job, I really enjoyed it. I’m now reading Kindered in Death by J. D. Robb, they are always good, it just came out on Sony books.
Ross went to his meeting tonight at 6 and we are just hanging out watching TV and being with the animals. The temp has been around 30 but the humidity has finally broken so it was only at 40 – 50% today and quite windy this morning. My son just went through a vasectomy today and is feeling ok as long as he doesn’t move!
They graded our road this morning, they have now most of our roads done, which is so nice as we almost had to pack a picnic lunch when we went anywhere, it took so long to get to the 200. We missed our garbage pickup Thursday morning so we left it out and it will get picked up tomorrow morning. It’s great to get garbage pickup 3 times a week and we don’t really pay for it! Our taxes are so low! As you can see I don’t have much to say today, it’s kinda a sad day. We are watching the new House, so I’ll say bye for now.
Ross and Kim (and Critters) in Paradise.
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
Friday November 5th, 2009
Today is the day we have decided to have Big Dog put down. We have given him a bigger dose of his medication but he still can’t walk without falling down. We called the girl at PEACE (our animal adoption/neuter/spay girl) and she is far away and can’t help. We put out an S.O.S on our blogs and 4 people have recommended calling a certain vet in PV so that is what we are going to be doing tomorrow. It is a good day and a bad day, we don’t want to say bye to Bandit but he has had a full life and is not having any fun now. He is hardly eating, and can’t stand we took him out after we got home from Ross’s gig (I’m getting a bit ahead of myself) and he was just outside when he went pee, and he had an accident this morning in the bedroom.
Our new car guy came to pick up our car to fix the alternator and was only an hour late (He’s from Calgary) and tried to fix it with a new one but it was a tad too long so he ended up rebuilding ours and we got it back at 6ish and we took off to Crazy Nelly’s in Guayabitos (thank god for spell check) for Ross’s first gig with the “Juan-Ted and the Rhythm Roosters”. It was a great gig, Gene-o played a great guitar and sings (the best guitar player I’ve heard yet here), Ralph on bass and also sings, then Ross on drums. They didn’t have a rehearsal and it went off pretty good. At the end of the night they had 2 encores (uno mas, uno mas) (one more, one more). The very few patrons at the bar loved them (even Nelly, which is good because she is paying them) and we hope to have a lot more people there as soon as the word gets out that they are awesome. They are playing all old stuff that everyone our age knows. I am going to try to have some friends make a night of it and we can all drive out together so everyone can hear Ross play.
The best story is on the way home. Picture this…..a very curvy (very good) 2 lane road, covered in old trees with signs that say curvas peligrosas (dangerous curves) going over mountains. I will try to find a picture. We are following 2 buses that are driving between 100 and 120 kms an hour and they are pulling away from us. Please note that this is the main highway (200) (4 lane divided) that goes through PV, Nuevo and Bucerias going to La Cruz and just after La Cruz it turns into a 2 lane (again a very good highway) curvy death trap! No one goes the speed limit and the Mexicans at night will turn off their headlights (so they can see other drivers) and will pass anytime whether or not it is safe or not, so it is not a safe road to drive at night. So the buses (2, one behind the other) are driving between, like I said 100 to 120 kms an hour (the highest speed limit is 60) passing semi’s (one was a coke truck)! And Ross is mostly keeping up, we figure if someone is passing they will hit the bus before us, but losing them around a couple of corners. They finally got ahead of us passing a few trucks, wow, what a ride.
We are home now (it’s 1:50am yuck) and we are going through some notes that friends have sent in regards to Big Dog. He has touched so many hearts, and we will all be sad when he goes. We need to go to bed now so I’ll say adios for tonight (I still need to find a picture of the highway) and we’ll connect tomorrow!
Ross, Kim, Big dog, Gracie, Buddy, Shadow, Tigger and Sunshine in Paradise!
Today is the day we have decided to have Big Dog put down. We have given him a bigger dose of his medication but he still can’t walk without falling down. We called the girl at PEACE (our animal adoption/neuter/spay girl) and she is far away and can’t help. We put out an S.O.S on our blogs and 4 people have recommended calling a certain vet in PV so that is what we are going to be doing tomorrow. It is a good day and a bad day, we don’t want to say bye to Bandit but he has had a full life and is not having any fun now. He is hardly eating, and can’t stand we took him out after we got home from Ross’s gig (I’m getting a bit ahead of myself) and he was just outside when he went pee, and he had an accident this morning in the bedroom.
Our new car guy came to pick up our car to fix the alternator and was only an hour late (He’s from Calgary) and tried to fix it with a new one but it was a tad too long so he ended up rebuilding ours and we got it back at 6ish and we took off to Crazy Nelly’s in Guayabitos (thank god for spell check) for Ross’s first gig with the “Juan-Ted and the Rhythm Roosters”. It was a great gig, Gene-o played a great guitar and sings (the best guitar player I’ve heard yet here), Ralph on bass and also sings, then Ross on drums. They didn’t have a rehearsal and it went off pretty good. At the end of the night they had 2 encores (uno mas, uno mas) (one more, one more). The very few patrons at the bar loved them (even Nelly, which is good because she is paying them) and we hope to have a lot more people there as soon as the word gets out that they are awesome. They are playing all old stuff that everyone our age knows. I am going to try to have some friends make a night of it and we can all drive out together so everyone can hear Ross play.
The best story is on the way home. Picture this…..a very curvy (very good) 2 lane road, covered in old trees with signs that say curvas peligrosas (dangerous curves) going over mountains. I will try to find a picture. We are following 2 buses that are driving between 100 and 120 kms an hour and they are pulling away from us. Please note that this is the main highway (200) (4 lane divided) that goes through PV, Nuevo and Bucerias going to La Cruz and just after La Cruz it turns into a 2 lane (again a very good highway) curvy death trap! No one goes the speed limit and the Mexicans at night will turn off their headlights (so they can see other drivers) and will pass anytime whether or not it is safe or not, so it is not a safe road to drive at night. So the buses (2, one behind the other) are driving between, like I said 100 to 120 kms an hour (the highest speed limit is 60) passing semi’s (one was a coke truck)! And Ross is mostly keeping up, we figure if someone is passing they will hit the bus before us, but losing them around a couple of corners. They finally got ahead of us passing a few trucks, wow, what a ride.
We are home now (it’s 1:50am yuck) and we are going through some notes that friends have sent in regards to Big Dog. He has touched so many hearts, and we will all be sad when he goes. We need to go to bed now so I’ll say adios for tonight (I still need to find a picture of the highway) and we’ll connect tomorrow!
Ross, Kim, Big dog, Gracie, Buddy, Shadow, Tigger and Sunshine in Paradise!
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Tara on the left (Ross's daughter) is the cop. Ashleigh is on the right (Ross's other daughter) being a fairy. Alexys (my granddaughter) being something in white and is the bottom girl of the 2 other girls wearing red. Jessie (my daughter-in-law) being a witch with Melanie (my granddaughter being a pumpkin in her arms. Little Cami (my other granddaughter) with the kitty cat face. And last but not least, Buddy, our new Golden lab.
Tuesday and Wednesday November 3rd and 4th, 2009
Wow do I have a story to tell you! First I have to say Happy Birthday to Sue, a wonderful friend and person!
Today started out like not one of our days we have ever had here………….ever. I set the alarm last night for 6:30 because this is the day we were going to Guadalajara to pick up our new dog Amarillo! Well I set the alarm and realized that my phone had not changed to standard time so rather that waking up at 6:30 we woke up at 5:30. We of course did not realize it until my darling husband looked at his watch and it was 6am and we had already had our first cup of coffee. Well, we figured this is ok; we will just start sooner and get there sooner (or have enough time to get lost and find our way we had to find the Guad airport) and get home sooner. We had a wonderful drive up, we have never been so once we left the 200 is was new territory. My sweetie and I saw 2 volcanos, one that was very old and had the actual column of lava and the other also old but looked awesome, we also saw a great canyon. But it was cold! We, of course had to have the top down on the car so here I sit with a blanket from head to toe……why????? Because it was frickin cold outside! We don’t normally get up that early and once you go inland it’s not as hot and it was way windy!
We got all the way (through 4 tolls which added up to (just wait until I get the calculator going on the computer) about $500 pesos! I was a very good road though, twin highway most of the way. We found the ring road (they told us not to go thru Guad centro) got to the airport and parked outside so that John (the guy that brought Amarillo from SAMM (Save a Mexican mutt)) could find us. As we were early we looked for a place to have lunch and the hotel on the property had a very nice restaurant, Ross had a cheese burger and I had a club sandwich (sometimes you get tired of tacos) and it was great. We were the only ones in the restaurant and got great service. We even got tacos with salsa to eat while we were waiting. We met John and got a look at our new son (I feel like a new Mum) and he is everything that the picture showed. He is so obedient, loving, quiet….. I could go on and on and on and on………….but I won’t (not until later). John said he was an excellent puppy on the way down (ok he’s 2 so he’s not a puppy……but he is to us) but he had to lift him up to get into his SUV because he just didn’t want to get in. Ross had to pick him up to put him in the Sunfire (Ross said he wasn’t as heavy as he looks). He got very comfy; however we had a bit of a problem…..
The man I am married to had paid the parking through a machine and got a receipt out for the payment, we went to leave the parking lot to go home and they wanted the original receipt……guess what ….Ross only had the receipt he got from the machine, he forgot to get the original receipt back from the machine and guess what………………they wouldn’t let us out of the parking lot without our original receipt. To make a very very very long story short we had to go to the lost ticket booth (it is actually called that) got another ticket (after paying whatever it was for the correct one) I had to pay 219 pesos plus, believe it or not, they asked for the registration of the car along with my driver’s license and they took a picture of them! The only reason I did it (as it was that man that screwed up) was that he forgot his reading glasses at home and couldn’t see what he was doing. This is the second parking ticket that got screwed up…..from now on I am in charge of the parking tickets!
We left Guadalajara, it is a beautiful afternoon when all of a sudden Ross exclaimed “Kim, there is a light on the dash what does it say”, because, again, he forgot his glasses, I had to look….it was the battery light…we thought, silly us, the rough roads had loosened the battery cables and all we needed to do was tighten them back up again. At the second toll booth we stopped at the Mechanico and he told us the battery was just fine….our alternator is DEAD! OK, we thought, the battery is good, let’s see if we can get home before we lose our power. At mile marker 50 was when our ABS light came on, then our airbag light came on then……………..we died! At mile marker 60. We phoned Ralph (a good friend that lives in Lo de Marcos) and asked him if he could either get us a fresh battery or come with his truck and boost us. As the man of the car had forgot his glasses he couldn’t see the battery and was absolutely certain that there should be a number on the battery, finally after a curt conversation he told Ralph what it looked like and to see what he could do.
After about 15 – 20 minutes guess who came to our rescue? The Green Angels. This is a service all over Mexico where trucks roam the highways looking for people who need help, cool heh! He used his industrial size battery to charge us up after we got back onto the highway I called Ralph to let him know we were on our way, he waited for us then followed us to Lo de Marcos to his house to charge up the battery again before the 45 minute trip to Bucerias. We were also trying to get home before dark as it is a mountain road and to drive it without lights is very dangerous (just the Mexicans) so the man I married decided after about 15 minutes of charging at Ralph’s house that would be all we would need to get home and still beat the sunset, well…………….after about 10 minutes on the road, we stopped dead on the highway, we were just lucky that there was a turn out where the car stopped.
My other half tried to call Ralph but his cell was out of range,so I tried calling Christie (because I didn’t have Ralph’s phone number in my phone) to see if mine was working. My phone rang a couple of times so he made me hang up to try Ralph on my phone “because this is an emergency”. I ended up getting some Spanish message so I called Christie back and had to apologize for hanging up on her and ask her to see if she could call Ralph for us to see if he could come rescue us. A pretty pissed off Ralph came and boosted us enough to get the roof and the windows up and back the car off the highway a safer distance to leave it. Ralph drove us home and stayed for a bit (we paid him 500 pesos for his time and gas) and he had a couple of beer.
Amarillo is an absolute gem we renamed him Buddy because the man I live with has always wanted a dog with that name. He is so quiet and obedient, we still haven’t heard him bark and it’s already Wednesday after 6pm.
I had to get up at 7:30 to be ready for Christy to pick me up at 9:15 for our property tour. It is beautiful out at that time in the morning, 22 degrees and a bit of a breeze blowing, god I love it here. We all met at Christie’s house and we went to see some properties. We saw a really fancy suite in a development that is just in the construction stage, I think it was 3 bedrooms and I believe it was worth 350,000 US but don’t quote me. We saw another compound, wow!, is all I can say. It is in La Cruz just off the lateral and is a huge property with 5 garages and 2 separate houses with a party place between them and it’s only 479,000 US. It would make a great family compound as long as you loved your family, tee hee! We saw another fabulous condo 2 blocks from the beach for only 200,000 – 250,000 it is sooooooo cute and the patio was really big and it had a beautiful pool. Don’t quote me on those prices I didn’t get much sleep last night and had to get up early so my memory is kinda mush. We went out for lunch in La Cruz at a fish taco place and I had the best avocado and shrimp salad I think I’ve ever had. I brought ½ home and Ross ate the balance. It was 140 pesos, but worth every pesos!
We needed to get some flea medication for Buddy so we quickly drove over to Wallyworld for some then came back and now we are watching Criminal Minds and I am trying to finish this before next year. The mechanic that Sue and Harold told us about will be over around noon tomorrow to take the car to fix the alternator, and Ross has to find a way to get to Lo de Marcos for his gig and we have an art walk tomorrow night that I’m supposed to be at. The saga continues………………………
Ross and Kim in Paradise
Wow do I have a story to tell you! First I have to say Happy Birthday to Sue, a wonderful friend and person!
Today started out like not one of our days we have ever had here………….ever. I set the alarm last night for 6:30 because this is the day we were going to Guadalajara to pick up our new dog Amarillo! Well I set the alarm and realized that my phone had not changed to standard time so rather that waking up at 6:30 we woke up at 5:30. We of course did not realize it until my darling husband looked at his watch and it was 6am and we had already had our first cup of coffee. Well, we figured this is ok; we will just start sooner and get there sooner (or have enough time to get lost and find our way we had to find the Guad airport) and get home sooner. We had a wonderful drive up, we have never been so once we left the 200 is was new territory. My sweetie and I saw 2 volcanos, one that was very old and had the actual column of lava and the other also old but looked awesome, we also saw a great canyon. But it was cold! We, of course had to have the top down on the car so here I sit with a blanket from head to toe……why????? Because it was frickin cold outside! We don’t normally get up that early and once you go inland it’s not as hot and it was way windy!
We got all the way (through 4 tolls which added up to (just wait until I get the calculator going on the computer) about $500 pesos! I was a very good road though, twin highway most of the way. We found the ring road (they told us not to go thru Guad centro) got to the airport and parked outside so that John (the guy that brought Amarillo from SAMM (Save a Mexican mutt)) could find us. As we were early we looked for a place to have lunch and the hotel on the property had a very nice restaurant, Ross had a cheese burger and I had a club sandwich (sometimes you get tired of tacos) and it was great. We were the only ones in the restaurant and got great service. We even got tacos with salsa to eat while we were waiting. We met John and got a look at our new son (I feel like a new Mum) and he is everything that the picture showed. He is so obedient, loving, quiet….. I could go on and on and on and on………….but I won’t (not until later). John said he was an excellent puppy on the way down (ok he’s 2 so he’s not a puppy……but he is to us) but he had to lift him up to get into his SUV because he just didn’t want to get in. Ross had to pick him up to put him in the Sunfire (Ross said he wasn’t as heavy as he looks). He got very comfy; however we had a bit of a problem…..
The man I am married to had paid the parking through a machine and got a receipt out for the payment, we went to leave the parking lot to go home and they wanted the original receipt……guess what ….Ross only had the receipt he got from the machine, he forgot to get the original receipt back from the machine and guess what………………they wouldn’t let us out of the parking lot without our original receipt. To make a very very very long story short we had to go to the lost ticket booth (it is actually called that) got another ticket (after paying whatever it was for the correct one) I had to pay 219 pesos plus, believe it or not, they asked for the registration of the car along with my driver’s license and they took a picture of them! The only reason I did it (as it was that man that screwed up) was that he forgot his reading glasses at home and couldn’t see what he was doing. This is the second parking ticket that got screwed up…..from now on I am in charge of the parking tickets!
We left Guadalajara, it is a beautiful afternoon when all of a sudden Ross exclaimed “Kim, there is a light on the dash what does it say”, because, again, he forgot his glasses, I had to look….it was the battery light…we thought, silly us, the rough roads had loosened the battery cables and all we needed to do was tighten them back up again. At the second toll booth we stopped at the Mechanico and he told us the battery was just fine….our alternator is DEAD! OK, we thought, the battery is good, let’s see if we can get home before we lose our power. At mile marker 50 was when our ABS light came on, then our airbag light came on then……………..we died! At mile marker 60. We phoned Ralph (a good friend that lives in Lo de Marcos) and asked him if he could either get us a fresh battery or come with his truck and boost us. As the man of the car had forgot his glasses he couldn’t see the battery and was absolutely certain that there should be a number on the battery, finally after a curt conversation he told Ralph what it looked like and to see what he could do.
After about 15 – 20 minutes guess who came to our rescue? The Green Angels. This is a service all over Mexico where trucks roam the highways looking for people who need help, cool heh! He used his industrial size battery to charge us up after we got back onto the highway I called Ralph to let him know we were on our way, he waited for us then followed us to Lo de Marcos to his house to charge up the battery again before the 45 minute trip to Bucerias. We were also trying to get home before dark as it is a mountain road and to drive it without lights is very dangerous (just the Mexicans) so the man I married decided after about 15 minutes of charging at Ralph’s house that would be all we would need to get home and still beat the sunset, well…………….after about 10 minutes on the road, we stopped dead on the highway, we were just lucky that there was a turn out where the car stopped.
My other half tried to call Ralph but his cell was out of range,so I tried calling Christie (because I didn’t have Ralph’s phone number in my phone) to see if mine was working. My phone rang a couple of times so he made me hang up to try Ralph on my phone “because this is an emergency”. I ended up getting some Spanish message so I called Christie back and had to apologize for hanging up on her and ask her to see if she could call Ralph for us to see if he could come rescue us. A pretty pissed off Ralph came and boosted us enough to get the roof and the windows up and back the car off the highway a safer distance to leave it. Ralph drove us home and stayed for a bit (we paid him 500 pesos for his time and gas) and he had a couple of beer.
Amarillo is an absolute gem we renamed him Buddy because the man I live with has always wanted a dog with that name. He is so quiet and obedient, we still haven’t heard him bark and it’s already Wednesday after 6pm.
I had to get up at 7:30 to be ready for Christy to pick me up at 9:15 for our property tour. It is beautiful out at that time in the morning, 22 degrees and a bit of a breeze blowing, god I love it here. We all met at Christie’s house and we went to see some properties. We saw a really fancy suite in a development that is just in the construction stage, I think it was 3 bedrooms and I believe it was worth 350,000 US but don’t quote me. We saw another compound, wow!, is all I can say. It is in La Cruz just off the lateral and is a huge property with 5 garages and 2 separate houses with a party place between them and it’s only 479,000 US. It would make a great family compound as long as you loved your family, tee hee! We saw another fabulous condo 2 blocks from the beach for only 200,000 – 250,000 it is sooooooo cute and the patio was really big and it had a beautiful pool. Don’t quote me on those prices I didn’t get much sleep last night and had to get up early so my memory is kinda mush. We went out for lunch in La Cruz at a fish taco place and I had the best avocado and shrimp salad I think I’ve ever had. I brought ½ home and Ross ate the balance. It was 140 pesos, but worth every pesos!
We needed to get some flea medication for Buddy so we quickly drove over to Wallyworld for some then came back and now we are watching Criminal Minds and I am trying to finish this before next year. The mechanic that Sue and Harold told us about will be over around noon tomorrow to take the car to fix the alternator, and Ross has to find a way to get to Lo de Marcos for his gig and we have an art walk tomorrow night that I’m supposed to be at. The saga continues………………………
Ross and Kim in Paradise
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