Water Closet Improvement

Things are moving fast and furious around here! The new bathroom is getting the roof today and those cool twisty posts went up yesterday. The contractor says that it will be totally finished in the next week.



As you can see here there will be two parts to the bathroom (how advanced eh?!). No more waiting. I have been told by my friend David Brown that on no account can I have ambiguous signs for the gent’s and ladies respective sides. So I have been trying to come up with something clever. I figured baño would do and the rest can be figured out on a case by case basis. I don’t think that any designation is necessary. Why should the ladies have to wait just cuz their side is full and the other side has a “gents” on the door. Festival seating in the toilet is what I say!

Timber!

Sad but true. I was standing in the courtyard looking at the cool branch that hangs out over the side of the restaurant, admiring it really. I mentioned to Pedro that it looked a little heavy and that we should prune it back so that it doesn’t break. It would be a shame to loose our piñata tree you know.

Well go figure get up on Saturday and it has fallen down. There was a pretty big rain last night and the branch was also full of the seasonal crab apple crop, not to mention upon further investigation the center of the trunk that the branch came out of was half rotten. Dang! It will truly be missed by all, well except by the grass that could never grow there in the corner of the courtyard. I think that I am going to plant a new tree there. It looks so empty.

Welcome Evita Lilia Garrity-Robbins!

Happily, on the 26th of July, we have added to our family to the tune of one lovely little girl. Evita Lilia was born at 4:45 in the morning with no complications. Yeah! She is now two weeks old (today!) and doing great. She sleeps, well, like a baby and is as cute as a button. She stays in most of the time so has yet to make it to the local discos. My mother is coming down to see her on Friday too. As you can see from the photo August is thrilled to have a sister and has been a great help.