Wednesday Sept 1st to Friday Sept 3rd, 2010

Happy birthday Yoda – your 1 Years old!

At 8:30 the door guy came by, Pancho, to take measurements for 2 steel doors one for the front of the house and one for the back. He is going to put screening on both, maybe my house will be bug free of the flying kind! We will have to get some Plexiglas cut for the bottoms of both doors so the dogs don’t rip the screens, and we are also going to cut part of the bottom screen of the back door so the cats can come in and out.

We had our town hall meeting this morning at 11 at Mark’s Restaurant; we got there at 10 so Ross could set up the PA for the meeting. The meeting went well; some of the delegates didn’t make it as with the bridge collapsing an all, but our Delgado was there along with a police presence. The main topics were streetlights (getting them all working) the camp on the beach by the river (they need to be gone), ATV patrols at night, Crime reporting, speed bumps along our main beach street (so no one races), private security service (I can’t remember if we even touched on this topic and then Christy got up letting everyone know that we will help out all we can.

Thursday was my appointment with Gina, hurray I have nails again, I also got a pedicure, I now have very pink toes!

Ross and Harold met over at Dick’s house to get our new air conditioner and compressor to our house so we can have it installed. This was in Dick’s house and they got a new one as this one’s fan is kinda noisy, but the price was right and when you are sweltering, you can put up with a bit of noise……………………….remember our genset? I got a fellows name from Gina to install it, she has had him work on hers and she says he’s great and fairly cheap.

We heard some racket in the afternoon, big machine type racket and you will never guess what they are doing, on the next block over from us, they were tearing down all the beautiful mango trees! There is a basketball court to the left of the land and a playground on the right side and in the middle were lots of mango trees in a field. We are scared about what they are going to be building there; we hope it’s not a big building!

We drove to Walmart and Mega to get the stuff for our BBQ at Mike and Mandy’s on Saturday (they changed it from Sunday as Mike has a gig in PV Sunday nite. Ross is cooking hot wings and I got some stuff to make some steak and pork kabobs, I got cherry tomatoes, mushrooms, meat (of course) pineapple chunks and some peppers, it should be tasty. I haven’t made kabobs for years and they are so good.

We picked up our scooters, they are working fine now, I needed a regulator and a new battery, they fixed Ross’s ignition so he doesn’t have to bang it to get it working. My battery was 450 and the rest for both bikes were 1400 and as per ED this is very reasonable.

We left to go to the jam at Philos around 8:30, you sure can tell it’s summer, besides musicians there may have been, what 5 or 6 people in the club, now in high season there are tables out in the street it is sooooooooooooo busy! We ordered a pizza (great pizza’s) and Ross got his ya yas out playing. We stayed until they stopped playing, maybe around midnight?

Today is Friday and we are fretting!!!! I took Bagel and Babygirl in to Dr. Mariana to get fixed, we really didn’t think Babygirl was big enough so I thought I would just bring her home……………….NO, I didn’t even have time to give her a kiss and cuddle. I have to pick them up tonight between 6 and 7. They have to go back in a week to check the stitches and for their shots.

Ed came by around 11, we are looking at buying a crew cab truck from Juan, and Ed (our mechanic) is going to look it over to make sure everything is good. Juan wants 60,000 mxn for it, we think if everything is good we will offer him 50,000 mxn, cause we would have to buy a canopy for the back, the box already has a liner in it.

It’s 12:30 now, I don’t know what is happening this afternoon or tonight, we have to get the wings cooked and I will prepare the veggies and meat for Saturday. It has been raining most nights I rearranged our tarps on the roof (another fix we have to do) cause we started to see damage in another part of our ceiling kinda sorta in the kitchen.

That’s it for now, we hope everyone has a great weekend!

Ross Kim and Critters in Paradise!