Friday, November 24, 2017

cold shower weather



First sunset of the season

We have been here for 8 days and only got hooked up with our Internet service and phone TODAY.  Communications from the house have been out for about 6 weeks total.  We had a bit of service for a few hours last week, then nothing until Monday (with a promise to return Tuesday to deal with internet), but now everything is working fine ~ for the time being.  So I will take advantage of this connection for a post.

It has been a busy time; a trip to Colima to shop at Walmart, Home Depot, Sam's Club, and lunch at Kronos, of course.  Then three trips to Tecoman, the latest to make an appointment for the new car's service, buy bacon, cheese and good potatoes in the heart of the city, Mr. C's first "beach" haircut, and a stop at the Bodega for yet more supplies.  Monday was the first shopping at the tinges  our regular grocer was delighted to see us and he had some pretty good stuff.  We had comics at Fernando's presto  last Sunday and will go again this week.  Tonight being Friday we'll go to Dago's; didn't go last week as we feared the bugs, but it has actually been very bug-free for the time being. Thanksgiving was quiet and delicious.  We cooked a big chicken, had brought-from-home wild rice, cumin carrots, and one of Mr. C's stellar pumpkin pies and our own ice cream.  Very yummy.

The town has not changed one bit.  It is as seedy and rundown as ever.  But our house is looking pretty good.  The repairs to the collapsed ceiling were very well done.  He even fixed one of the cabinets and the cracked cement around the kitchen window.  So we are now ready for the hoards of prospective buyers to come in!  I am trying to be as positive as possible and concentrate on selling this wonderful place.  For about the last year I have thought that it would probably be a smart idea to have a hidey-hole in case of big trouble, and I still think that, but not here.Maybe in the mountains of Montana!

Books I recommend:  Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng; A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra; The Alphabet House by Jussi Adler-Olsen.  Now reading Before the Fall by Noah Hawley.  He is adapting it for the screen.   When I finish it I will go back to Berlin Diaries by William L. Shirer; Germany between 1934-41.  I've been working at it, little by little, for about a month; I need to take a break every so often.  It's very intense.  But excellent.

That's it for now.  I'll get back to taking pix and posting more often now that my lifeline has been restored.


2 comments:

mary ann said...

Great ~ thank you. Lovely sunset and need photo of food and friends.
Love to you both!

jacquie1062001 said...

Welcome home!