Ebb and Flow

Noon Tuesday - another scorcher but enough breeze has come up to blow away the bugs. I was so happy to see Camilla arrive for a visit this morning, we had lots to catch up on. We had iced sun tea and Bimbo cinnamon buns. It's going to be very quiet on this street for awhile. Eddie, Victor and Oregon Bob head north today and the next incoming wave starts next Tuesday with Alaska Rick, Beverlee and Karen. Our neighbourhood still has work to do. Frito's palapa car port is being worked on today.

Drove into Los Barriles to get a few things - new mops as the three here are looking very haggard, dirty and stringless after doing extra duty. There are still a few remains of John - bent metal power poles, light posts with broken globes, holes in roofs, or roofs missing entirely; however, much of the clean up has been done, windows and doors replaced, plants and trees trimmed or removed and to a newcomer's eye it appears quite normal - just not very lush.


Stopped in to the Plaza del Pueblo to say Hi to Rick and Julie Marks. They only lost a couple of windows in their new house, but both of their cars took a hit with smashed windows-possibly more damage. They asked when Dylan was coming to school, but I couldn't give them an answer. All Dylan's friends have been asking - Manuelito, Christian, Salvador and Hector and an older kid whose name I don't recall.

On my way home I checked at our local plant nursery El Genie de su Jardin to see how much devastation was heaped on her and to my surprise things looked fairly good. She has been working hard for the past two weeks to clean up all the mud and debris and though there are no flowers the foliage looks good considering all its been through. I had $200 pesos burning a hole in my pocket so I got 2 lantanas, a small colourful croton and an hibiscus -colour unknown.


The grader is in Spa!! The main road from the highway down past Manuel's is smooth now - he's going to have to dig all the topes out again. Hopefully he will deal with the great gorge at Gene's corner as its getting worse and is trecherous.




Paco, Marisol's husband came by to refit our water tenaco. It needs 3 new parts to reconnect it including a float, but the tank itself is undamaged. He brought their son Eric [3] who is now watching a cartoon video while the other 3 kids are in school.