Our Italian friends that live in Rincon across the bay from us, are leaving soon to go back to Rome so we invited them for dinner. I fixed my Mexican Lasagna and Angela brought a salad to go with it. They are great people and we miss them when they are gone. They stay here in Bahia all summer when everyone else leaves. Go figure!!! The heat and humidity doesn't bother them so that is a good thing.
We are off to the dentist in Guerrero Negro, 2-1/2 hours from the house. I need to see what can be done for my broken molar and the sensitivity of another tooth. When we got there I didn't have to wait long to get in and he looked at the tooth and told me he could fill it with a substance that wasn't metal but would last as long as metal as long as I didn't chew hard things on that side. Otherwise I would have to have a root canal and then a cap put on it. Well that didn't sound like much fun so I told him to go ahead and fill the hole. He gave me some Novocain and we waited for a little bit and he asked if I could still feel anything and I told him yes I could. So he gave me another shot and this one was a doozie as it seemed like he had the needle all the way in and he was moving it around (slowly, mind you) to make sure he got the nerve. He asked me to let him know when I could feel something and I kept saying, with my mouth open really wide-------ahhhh! After a while he said I was really sensitive. Well after that was done I relaxed just a little while he smoothed the rough edges down on the molar and then filled the hole. I never am relaxed sitting in a dentist chair!!! I really don't know of anyone who is. Ha!!! Anyway-----he gets done with that tooth and takes a look at the other one that I am saying is sensitive and he said the nerve is exposed but my choices were for him to fill in where the gum has worn away from tooth or try to stay away from drinking acetic drinks. We agreed I could wait and work on not having a lot of juices and carbonated drinks (which I don't have much of anyway) and keep using my sensodyne toothpaste and call it good. He said if it starts to bother me a lot then he can fill it like he did for my molar. When all was said and done it cost me 1000 pesos which at the current exchange rate of 19 it was $53.00. Can't even walk in the door of a dentist office in the states for that!!! He did a good job but because he was trying to hit the nerve my jaw was wide open and afterwards I couldn't open my mouth wide without it hurting. I had a hard time eating my sandwich on the way home. And yawning?????? Don't even go there. Ouch!!!!
We had Larry, Annie and her husband Elwyn over for dinner. I made a Chicken enchilada dish as Larry loves chicken. He and his wife were our house landlords for a while. He lost Lois to cancer in October. So he is here with Buddy, his dog, and making things work again in the house and garage after being away for 2 years.
Well it is back to my regular routine in going into town but instead of going in on Saturdays, I switched to Mondays as that is when they get the bread we like delivered and sometimes fresh produce. You can't count on that happening all the time as there are days fresh produce is delivered on Fridays. But I can usually find what I need with no problem.
We had dinner guests tonight. Another couple we have gotten to know. They housed us for a couple days at their house in June Lake, in September, when we were on our way back to Mexico. We had such a wonderful visit. They are great people and have done a lot of traveling plus they use to fly down here in their plane. Oh course they don't have it anymore but they are very active and interesting people. They are avid skiers and hikers.
We got a surprise this morning. Here it is a Thursday and the propane truck is in town. They usually come on Sundays. Well this is a new company from Guerror Negro instead of San Quintin, which is even further, so it is all good. We just changed propane tanks 2 days before so that is great timing. The truck goes over to Rincon first as most of the people there have stationery tanks which takes a long time to fill. There are quite a few people over there this time of year so it is usually about 3 hours before the truck heads our way. We watch the progress of the propane truck with our binoculars so we know when he leaves over there and starts to cross the flats. Their next stop is our little community, but we have to go out to meet the truck otherwise you won't get propane. Since these are new guys they didn't know where to go anyway so I took the truck to the main road from our house and waited then flagged them down and they followed me in to our house. When they are finished filling our tanks and getting paid, we tell them where next to go in our community. Then after that we announce on the VHF radio when they are leaving and if anyone needs propane they need to meet the truck on the main road.
The Arts and Craft Show is happening on Saturday the 19th. All of the artists came in on the 18th to set up and decorate. Then Saturday everyone is there to sell their crafts and art. Since I have been announcing now for a couple years on the VHF radio about the show, I figured I would take it up a notch for excitement. Last year all my announcements were about the elves coming from the North Pole bringing their special handmade gifts to sell here in Bahia. They wanted the Artists to help sell their gifts while they vacationed on the beach. So this year I asked if anyone else, besides me would dress up as an elf. The elves would only be at Opening Day festivities and then on vacation after that. Well I got a couple of the artists to say they would get something together. That was planned last year after the show. Well opening day came and we serve finger foods and lemonade and have a drawing for raffle prizes. Everyone that wants to puts their name on a piece of paper and drops it in a jar and then after about an hour from the opening we draw names and let them choose what they want from the items on a table. Each artist puts in a couple of their items for this. Well needless to say the two women who said they would wear their hats with ears on them-----didn't an d I was the only elf. Well that was o.k. I got to draw the names and I think everyone enjoyed the elf visit. It was a successful opening but we didn't have the crowd we normally do. Several of our American friends that normally buy were on a chartered boat trip in La Paz. But none-the-less we sold some things. Here is the elf!!!!
I got lucky this year with the show as I didn't have to work but opening day and 2 days during the week. The show ran 8-1/2 days. I worked on Wednesday and Friday. Then back on Sunday to tear down and help put everything away. We are blessed with the Museum Salon which is attached to the museum for our show. It is a nice facility and it is big enough to house 7 tables. Here are pictures of my table.
Sunday the show is only open from 10-12, then we break down and cleanup and put things back the way they were before we started. We have two tables that the Mexican local ladies have full of their arts and crafts and when the show is over we all go to lunch to celebrate. It is prearranged by one of our American artist and we usually have 3 dishes to choose from. We all put $10.00 in to pay for lunch and if we want anything other than water to drink we pay for that extra. A short thank you is said to all who were involved with the show. Then we plan for next year.
We have been trying to chase down a water leak. We have a hot water heater in a shed outside and the only time we turn it on is when we take a shower. But every time we use the hot water the water pump cycles. It is only supposed to cycle while the water is being pumped through the pipes. We are not plumbed with hot and cold water like a normal house. We have water in a large pila and a water pump helps to pump the water from the pila to the house. We don't have the water heater on all the time as it uses up a lot of propane. So we shut it off when not in use. I boil water on the stove to wash dishes and when a shower is needed we turn on the water heater. It is very simple and a little rustic but it works. No different than the way it was on the boat. So with that said, we both took showers one evening and even with the hot water heater off the water pump kept cycling. That means there is air in the line and/or a leak. We have been this route before. So now the question is-----what is causing the water pump to cycle. It wasn't just cycling once in a while, it was cycling every few minutes. It was driving us crazy. We ran the cold and hot water faucets in the house to help bleed out the air but it didn't help. The only time the water pump didn't cycle was when Dave tapped off the hot water side and just had the cold hooked up. It is a puzzle and the thought is that maybe there is a leak in the copper pipe that the hot water side flows through. It is going to be a process of elimination because we have tried all kinds of things. We have even asked our friends for help but they don't have any new suggestions. We will keep on looking for an answer.
We have good friends named Bianca and Vittorio who are selling all their belonging in their house down here in Rincon. They tried to get someone to take over the house and property rent but didn't have any luck. They were renting from a matriarch Mexican family, and they weren't helping to fix the house when things went wrong. This couple is in their 70's and they have a house in La Mesa, California, but came here to Bahia to relax and enjoy. But when they didn't get any help from the landlords and the rent kept going up, they decided to give it all up. So they advertized all of the things they were selling in the house in a mass email. Basically they were gutting the house with all the furniture, appliances, etc.. One of the gals that has a house in Rincon, but lives in Reno, puts together manages an email once a month for those who want to sell, buy or anything else. So Mary advertised the list of things Vittorio and Bianca were selling. We went over to their house and took a look at things and ended up with a generator, a battery charger, 2 propane tanks, one small, one large, and a small propane freezer. They also had a 16 foot power boat for sale. It has a bimini (sun cover) and it would be a fun fishing boat for Dave and a run about for the two of us. They are asking 6,000.00. Well Dave would really like to have it but we will have to think about it as that is a lot of money for us right now. We are still trying to recuperate from having to use credit cards to help fix and maintain our boat. Vittorio and Bianca are holding the boat for us until they come back in December. They had to leave to go back to La Mesa, California, but will return at the end of the month. Then the decision will be made as to whether we can afford the boat or not.
While Vittorio and Bianca were gone, Dave and I looked at finances and we just don't think we can afford to get the boat. At least not now. By February it would be possible but they want to sell the boat now or face taking the boat with them to sell in the states. Well we will just have to talk to them and see what they say about maybe making payments.
Vittorio and Bianca are back and are extremely busy with people coming to their house to buy things. All the dishes-----everything is going. They aren't taking anything back to the states with them. We went over to see about getting the things they were holding for us. We talked about the boat and they thought we were going to buy it. They really didn't want to take it back to the states to sell. Well we talked to them and they agreed to allow us to make payments. It wouldn't be for very long as our bills are getting smaller, but it would be early next year we could pay it off. So with that all done, we got the things loaded in the back of the truck and the boat hooked up. We wrote them a check and we can keep the boat at our house. Dave is pretty excited. I am too but he will be using it more than I will be in it. He will be fishing as much as possible and I will go along for the ride and maybe get some beach combing in on different beaches. It has a 50 horse power engine so it will go fast. Now we can return the aluminum boat a friend let us use for helping her. The boat wasn't in the greatest of shape as it leaked and the engine didn't run well. Dave did take the boat out a couple times and even tried to fix the leaks but it didn't work when the waters got a little rough. He had to bail water out so that wasn't fun. And he couldn't go very far because he didn't trust the engine. So with that boat returned to the rightful owner, we have room for the new one.
Today being the last day of November, we were suppose to leave to go to Ensenada but changed it to leave on the 1st of December. Our good friends, Rainy and Dennis invited us and most of our friends for pizza night at their house. They built a pizza oven outside in their front yard and they make the best pizza. It is always fun to go to their parties. So that is how November ends for us------PARTY and a fishing boat!!!! Life is good.
See you next month.
I got lucky this year with the show as I didn't have to work but opening day and 2 days during the week. The show ran 8-1/2 days. I worked on Wednesday and Friday. Then back on Sunday to tear down and help put everything away. We are blessed with the Museum Salon which is attached to the museum for our show. It is a nice facility and it is big enough to house 7 tables. Here are pictures of my table.
Sunday the show is only open from 10-12, then we break down and cleanup and put things back the way they were before we started. We have two tables that the Mexican local ladies have full of their arts and crafts and when the show is over we all go to lunch to celebrate. It is prearranged by one of our American artist and we usually have 3 dishes to choose from. We all put $10.00 in to pay for lunch and if we want anything other than water to drink we pay for that extra. A short thank you is said to all who were involved with the show. Then we plan for next year.
We have been trying to chase down a water leak. We have a hot water heater in a shed outside and the only time we turn it on is when we take a shower. But every time we use the hot water the water pump cycles. It is only supposed to cycle while the water is being pumped through the pipes. We are not plumbed with hot and cold water like a normal house. We have water in a large pila and a water pump helps to pump the water from the pila to the house. We don't have the water heater on all the time as it uses up a lot of propane. So we shut it off when not in use. I boil water on the stove to wash dishes and when a shower is needed we turn on the water heater. It is very simple and a little rustic but it works. No different than the way it was on the boat. So with that said, we both took showers one evening and even with the hot water heater off the water pump kept cycling. That means there is air in the line and/or a leak. We have been this route before. So now the question is-----what is causing the water pump to cycle. It wasn't just cycling once in a while, it was cycling every few minutes. It was driving us crazy. We ran the cold and hot water faucets in the house to help bleed out the air but it didn't help. The only time the water pump didn't cycle was when Dave tapped off the hot water side and just had the cold hooked up. It is a puzzle and the thought is that maybe there is a leak in the copper pipe that the hot water side flows through. It is going to be a process of elimination because we have tried all kinds of things. We have even asked our friends for help but they don't have any new suggestions. We will keep on looking for an answer.
We have good friends named Bianca and Vittorio who are selling all their belonging in their house down here in Rincon. They tried to get someone to take over the house and property rent but didn't have any luck. They were renting from a matriarch Mexican family, and they weren't helping to fix the house when things went wrong. This couple is in their 70's and they have a house in La Mesa, California, but came here to Bahia to relax and enjoy. But when they didn't get any help from the landlords and the rent kept going up, they decided to give it all up. So they advertized all of the things they were selling in the house in a mass email. Basically they were gutting the house with all the furniture, appliances, etc.. One of the gals that has a house in Rincon, but lives in Reno, puts together manages an email once a month for those who want to sell, buy or anything else. So Mary advertised the list of things Vittorio and Bianca were selling. We went over to their house and took a look at things and ended up with a generator, a battery charger, 2 propane tanks, one small, one large, and a small propane freezer. They also had a 16 foot power boat for sale. It has a bimini (sun cover) and it would be a fun fishing boat for Dave and a run about for the two of us. They are asking 6,000.00. Well Dave would really like to have it but we will have to think about it as that is a lot of money for us right now. We are still trying to recuperate from having to use credit cards to help fix and maintain our boat. Vittorio and Bianca are holding the boat for us until they come back in December. They had to leave to go back to La Mesa, California, but will return at the end of the month. Then the decision will be made as to whether we can afford the boat or not.
While Vittorio and Bianca were gone, Dave and I looked at finances and we just don't think we can afford to get the boat. At least not now. By February it would be possible but they want to sell the boat now or face taking the boat with them to sell in the states. Well we will just have to talk to them and see what they say about maybe making payments.
Vittorio and Bianca are back and are extremely busy with people coming to their house to buy things. All the dishes-----everything is going. They aren't taking anything back to the states with them. We went over to see about getting the things they were holding for us. We talked about the boat and they thought we were going to buy it. They really didn't want to take it back to the states to sell. Well we talked to them and they agreed to allow us to make payments. It wouldn't be for very long as our bills are getting smaller, but it would be early next year we could pay it off. So with that all done, we got the things loaded in the back of the truck and the boat hooked up. We wrote them a check and we can keep the boat at our house. Dave is pretty excited. I am too but he will be using it more than I will be in it. He will be fishing as much as possible and I will go along for the ride and maybe get some beach combing in on different beaches. It has a 50 horse power engine so it will go fast. Now we can return the aluminum boat a friend let us use for helping her. The boat wasn't in the greatest of shape as it leaked and the engine didn't run well. Dave did take the boat out a couple times and even tried to fix the leaks but it didn't work when the waters got a little rough. He had to bail water out so that wasn't fun. And he couldn't go very far because he didn't trust the engine. So with that boat returned to the rightful owner, we have room for the new one.
Today being the last day of November, we were suppose to leave to go to Ensenada but changed it to leave on the 1st of December. Our good friends, Rainy and Dennis invited us and most of our friends for pizza night at their house. They built a pizza oven outside in their front yard and they make the best pizza. It is always fun to go to their parties. So that is how November ends for us------PARTY and a fishing boat!!!! Life is good.
See you next month.
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