October 30, 2007

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Dusty and Dirty

That will be the name of the game here for the next month! The courtyard renovation project has begun, at the same time as the mason is here repairing the salitre on our walls. The salitre project should only take a week or so but the courtyard will take a month. I went to the Department of Agriculture with a man we were referred to for help with intricate Spanish conversations. We haven’t talked to the last person we need...

Te Amo Beisbol

Last night we went to the baseball game here in Mazatlan. The Mazatlan Venados (Deer) vs. the Guasave Algodons (Cottons). It was our first baseball game in Mazatlan, and as lifelong baseball fans, a city with a team was an important criteria for us when we were selecting our new home. We went to the game with a couple we just met – taking a pulmonia both ways so we didn’t have to battle the stadium traffic. The game was...

Morning at Olas Altas

Yesterday I took a little video while we were near the Pedro Infante monument at the south end of the malecon. It starts out with a view of the newest boutique hotel here – Casa Lucila, then shows Paul and the dogs, Pedro Infante on his motorcycle, and then I just scan around in a circle. The tide was very high. Olas Altas is the stretch of beach nearest us, and it means High Waves. Kind of a nice way...

They aren’t ruins, they are projects….

Mazatlan has a wonderful colonial city center – Centro. It is a mish mash of houses, retail, parks, home businesses, and the various entrepreneurs that gather in any Mexican city. (Car washers, carts selling food, street sweepers, etc) It can be messy and loud and incredibly joyful. Last night we sat on our patio and listened to people passing by with a background of live jazz being played somewhere not far away. Across the street from us and also kitty...

Tuesday Update

One of my last posts brought a flurry of comments that I thought I’d respond to in a post instead…. Learning Spanish – Both of us have been doing pretty well, but nowhere near as well as we would like. We manage transactions ok if we have thought it through before hand so we have the expected words handy to the tongue, but sometimes we embarass ourselves or have a brain freeze and feel stupid. People are very helpful and...

Life, continued

Tomorrow is our one month anniversary living here in Mazatlan. We really do love it here, and discover wonderful people and places every day. We continue to become more and more comfortable in our home – a desk for the office is wonderful – no more plastic table and things scattered on the surface. We have drawers! Today we bought two inexpensive chaise lounges for our upstairs terrace since now that the evenings are cool we thought it would be...

Thoughts on Food

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I love food. And I am a vegetarian. I don’t eat meat or seafood because I have an active visual side to me that brings up images of the critter in its live state that spoils any chance that I might want to eat it in its (dead) state… I really sometimes wish I could eat meat, as life would be a lot easier, especially in Mexico. But I can’t change who I am, so there are always a lot...

We are getting settled now

It’s almost been three weeks since we arrived, and we can hardly believe it. I won’t bore you with all the details but we are starting to feel like our old selves again. It is great to finally get some furniture to be able to put some things away. Our last couple of months in Washington and the month since we left really challenged our need to have an orderly home. Our king size bed was delivered a couple of...

Sailing on Sunday

Yesterday we went sailing on the Patricia Belle with a group of about a dozen put together by our realtor. The Patricia Belle is an 82 foot schooner – on Fridays and Sundays they take people out sailing just for tips – around 100-200 pesos each. It was such a fun time I know it will be a regular event for us – or for sure anyway when we have people here visiting. We sailed out at 3:30 and returned...