Kathy Green turns me on!

Kathy Green, loyal guest and avid reader, (among other wonderful things), has turned me on to the following post about the Ag industry in the US. I am currently reading Collapse by Jarrod Diamond which also focuses on the destruction that us humans can do to this fragile world we live on. It is truly depressing. Vote these people out of office!

Read it at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-smiley/ceo-president_b_27658.html

Here is also a great site covering some close house and senate races. http://www.actblue.com/page/netrootscandidates.

Wet but not wild

I know that you are all waiting to hear the latest from down here in tree falling down, lighting striking and bungalow flooding zone now that himicane Juan is done with us. Well nothing happened! It rained alllllllllllllll day yesterday and the sky was an even slate color. Jim did a stint of canal digging to divert water from our parking lot which has a tendancy to fill up and then send water into the shop. It worked, and no water got in.

August got a ¨snow day¨ at school, which we didn´t know about till we got there...Yeah, we are out of the loop!

As you can see the roads are pretty puddly and this is just the closest one to us. But nothing dramatic. All is well! 

Politics

Once again my favorite blogger gives us something to think about.

Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald: Who decides what the U.S. will do about Iraq and Iran?

August moves up in the world

Well after about a year of waiting ( Mexico makes us veeerrry patient) August has finally got his bunk bed. It is soooo high that i get dizzy and a bit sea sick when i am up there. Not that is sways i think that i just imagine that it is! Anywho, Don Salva our carpenter did a great job, and it was well worth the wait. 

Lucky!

It has been raining steadily this August. A good thing compared to past summers where there was nothing but sweltering heat! But with the rain comes lightning and thunder.

Last Thursday there was a big storm and at about 3 am the electricity went out. (I was out of town but Jim recounts) that he got up to turn off the battery back up for the computer, and was standing in the kitchen watching it pour down when a HUGE lighting and simultaneous gigantic CRACK scared everyone silly. Apparently Estrella did a back flip and hit the wall about 3 feet up! The damage wasn't assessed until the next morning. BOOM cannon file off the starboard bow! The top of the arch as you see exploded there are bricks and cement everywhere. A bunch of tiles were broken. (not to mention various wireless phones and modems that now are kaput!) But other than that. WHEW! I glad that wasn't me! I don't remember if I posted last year, but we lost two palm trees in October to lightning. What is it with our place. Why now? Needless to say we are going to install a lightning rod.

Extra Extra Read All About It!!

We have been blessed by Conde Nast, who have written a wonderful article about the pacific coast of Mexico in the August issue of thier Traveler magazine. Find it at http://www.concierge.com/cntraveler/articles/detail?articleId=10385. It is a nice article and we are flattered to report a nice photo of yours truly. Of course i could go ON AND ON but i won´t . Check it out your selves.

The road more traveled

Many of you might recognize this photo from our website. It is what the road to the bay looked like back in 1996 when we first came here. It doesn't show the HUGE puddles and the slippery mud that claimed our truck a few times on our first pass. Quite a learning expereience. When you hit mud go slow but above all keep going! If not call the tractor to come and get you.

Well the gossip on the beach is that the county seat is going to pave the road. Eeek! It will be a massive change, for the better and worse. I am really tired of the dust and i am sure that the locals that have to walk to work on the road are too. I also wouldn't mind driving to Troncones in a few minutes rather than 10 bumpy ones. It gets old pretty fast.

There will also be lots of negative effects from having a flat and unencombered surface to navigate. People will drive much too fast! A few years ago when the road was grated really well and all of the speed bumps were taken out, there were two accidents in the first 24 hours. Luckly no one was badly hurt. I am sure that won't be the case with asphalt. Pro, con, pro, con.

In the end neither matter. Either they will do it or not, and we will have to manage the outcome. I am for putting big sloping speed bumps all over it, so even though it will still take a while to get to town at least it will be a smooth ride. 

We are back!

Wow! A fun filled and interesting vacation was had by all!! It was GREAT! This photo is from the roof top sculpture garden at the Met. All of the items that are stuck in the alligator were taken from passangers in the security of airports, so there are lots of pocket knives and nail files (now we have to add to that suntan lotion and other liquid matter i suppose) We didn't know what it ment really but you can't beat the view!

We loved New York best of all. What a fun city! Everyone was so nice and friendly and man there are plenty of distractions. We are sold and are trying to figure out a way to go every summer.
Of course the rest of the vacation rocked as well.

We visited my brother and family in San Antonio and my Inlaws in Orlando, yes we went to the Dixie stampeed. I can't believe that i actually did that! Especially since the whole dooo dah was born right in my back yard in Pigion Forge Tennessee. Dolly Parton must be raking it in. We had fun though so they have obviously got thier finger on the pulse of what it is that entertains children. Horses jumping through flaming rings i think!

We also spend a month of real down time in Oak RIdge, visiting my parents. It is a lovely place, and if you took away the ocean, oh yea, the palm trees, it would be a lot like our back yard here in Mexico.

We arrived back to most things in order. The garden is out of control as usual, and everything is molding, but hey, what's new in the summer time in the tropics? We also have been rife with computer problems. It always happens after we have been gone for a while. So we need to fix the computers (yes both of them) before i can download the photos to take more! Yikes!

All in good time, or should i say...Mexican time! Adios!