Sunday and Monday and Tuesday August 8th and 9th & 10th, 2010

(I really gotta finish this blog)

Another beautiful day in paradise (except for the frickin’ noise of the genset)!
We just kinda putzed a lot of the day until 4 when we made it over to Mike and Mandy’s for our weekly BBQ and pool Volleyball! Every week someone else brings the main course and everyone else brings a side dish. This is for us folks that stay in the summer heat, it’s always at Mandy’s as she has a most fab pool!

Once we got home I flaked out in the bedroom to watch Ty and his amazing house building, Ross had to take the fan off my tummy when he came to bed, I had fallen asleep!

What a lousy sleep last night, soooooooooo hot and muggy. I got up to get a drink of water from the kitchen and found the roof leaking right around the fan, I knew we had to get the roof done, but I didn’t know it actually leaked!!! Hello dry season! Then I went back in the bedroom to go pee, and I got dripped on again, through the skylight in the bathroom this time (it has always leaked when it rained and it rained most of the night). We left the big door open to let some cool breezes in and it was cooler out in the living area than the bedroom with the air on, so I grabbed my pillow and slept on the couch. If you could call it sleeping, between the noise of the genset, the smell of gas, a light on so Ross won’t walk into walls at night and all I mean all of the cats needing snuggles, it was a long night. I finally fell asleep then at 6 an alarm woke me up, do you think I could find it, it was on the buffet in the kitchen but of course it is dark and I couldn’t see it, so it rang then stopped, then rang then stopped, then rang then stopped………………………………. It is Ross’s other weather station that is going out to the shed when I’m dressed.
We didn’t do a hell of a lot Monday, just basically sat and sweated! Ross had a meeting in the morning with the people involved with our Street festival in November, I’m not sure what happened there.

We took Gracie to the vet at the request of the vet that Felix took Gracie too which was not the vet we took her too! Now did that make any sense whatsoever??? The vet we took her to was not the one that Felix took her to so we started all over again. He took blood and requested a urine sample, yuck!

Hurray! Ross went to CFE this morning to see why they haven’t turned our power on yet, apparently (no one told us) they were waiting for us to come in and pay a 91 pesos fee! Ross paid it and the power did come on sometime when we were gone this afternoon.

I get a head of myself, we got up early (8am) so I could take Gracie for a walk on the leash so I could get the urine sample the vet needed, alas, it was raining which I guess was ok as I needed to take a shower anyway. I got the sample and got back home sopping wet, so the shower felt good. Ross took off to pay CFE and drop off the urine sample, then we left again at 10:30 for a meeting at the office, I brought our bedspread along as the vet wanted to see the blood that was on it. After the meeting we stopped at the vets and we decided to bring Gracie in tomorrow morning and keep her there all day so the vet can watch her, where is the blood coming from??? We think it is from the spots she has been licking, hopefully that is the case as all we need is a cone to put on her so she won’t lick and the wounds will heal, what I’m worried about is her picking at her feet, she has been doing that since Bandit passed, I don’t know whether or not stopping her doing it for a while will work!

After our meeting, we drove to PV to get more batteries for our very old phones so they won’t die so quickly. We picked up 3 then went to Autozone to get more adhesive for our rear view mirror and we stopped at the huge market type store south of Walmart that I have always wanted to browse! Wow, it is huge! We will have to go back when we have money!

We got home and Ross (unfortunately) decided to see if he could get the piece off his windshield to hold his rear view mirror so he can adhere it correctly, oops, we didn’t want that windshield anyway!!! I was just thinking how lucky we were that it had no stone pits or cracks……………………………….

After cleaning up our extension cords and dirty floors and all the stuff we used for the generator we took some tarps up onto our roof to see if it will help with our leaking……….it started to rain shortly after, so far we only have a couple of puddles in the kitchen, I moved the kitchen table this time, just in case, good thinking!
We decided to play in the pool for a while, we tried to lay on our floaties but it was too cold (go figure) we stayed under the water! We were trying to figure out what we could do, I thought of strip poker but we don’t have much on to begin with so we thought of put clothes on poker, we could end up with our parkas and mittens!!!
Ross is chowing down on guacamole and salsa and I have some potato chips in a bowl watching discovery channel, WTF!!!

Ross Kim and Critters in Paradise