Our grandsons, Brody and Conor are such goofballs. They were
playing football in the living room and having fun.
Brooke wasn't doing so well the first and second day we were there. She had a negative reaction to the pain meds and caused her to get really sick. She was able to talk to the doctor and get some anti-nausea medicine and now she is much much better. Ernie has been cooking and he is pretty good. He likes to make sauces along with marinating sauces, just like Dave.
Last night Ernie got the Halloween witches out for Conor. Brody is at his dads this weekend so Conor has gotten a little extra attention. At first he was kind of scared but then just excited. He loves to have it on but the cackle goes a long way so it is on for a short time. Ernie is going to have them in the garage with smoke coming out of the cauldron so it will be cool. I can't do a video here, but I did get a picture of them. Pretty cool. Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year.
Had my ear checkup and stitches taken out. Everything is good and it is healing nicely.
Now that that is behind me we are on our way to storage to load the truck with the items we bought and have been storing. Tomorrow we leave to head south. With the bathroom and living area in Ron and Noreen's basement clean, now we can pack up our belongings and load up the truck so we don't have much to do tomorrow morning.
We said goodbye to Noreen this morning, Wednesday the 8th. Ron was still in bed. Now the trek home. Tonight Dave wants to get as far south in Oregon as we can before stopping. Smoke is still lingering in the air especially in Oregon. Fires are still burning in Northern California which is moving north into each northern state.
We got as far as Roseburg, Oregon for our first stop. Tomorrow we will be in California. It is pretty smoky with a thick haze.
Pretty smoky here in California. I feel sorry for all the people who can't enjoy the outdoors because of it and it doesn't look like it is going to get better any time soon. We have seen remnants of where a fire burned, but most of the fires are now toward the coast. Wine prices are going to sky rocket next year because the smoke has ruined the grapes. Bummer. We stopped in Woodland, California for the night. Good to get out of the truck and stretch our legs. So far it has been a good trip. Seems weird not stopping to see family, but I hope and pray we can next year.
Onward we go and this time we made it to Santa Clarita which is north Los Angeles area. We should be home on Sunday. We want to be able to cross the border on Sunday as there is less traffic, so our next stop is El Centro just above the Mexicali border. It is hot and we really didn't want to do running around, but we had to go to Costco to get some food items, so we don't have to mess with trying to find the Costco in Mexicali, and also go to the money exchanger on the U.S. side. First time we have exchanged dollars for pecos in the U.S. Normally we do it in Mexico. We wanted to save some time plus a lot of the money exchangers are closed on Sunday. Unfortunately the first one Dave went to would only give him a certain amount so we ended up having to go to 2 more to get the amount we will need for the months ahead in Bahia. We don't want to mess with trying to find the Costco in Mexicali. We just want to get home. After we got money exchanged; the shopping done and filled the gas tank in the truck, we were done for the day. Finally we can rest. We stayed in the same hotel as we did last year. It is only about a mile or so from the border so we should cross the border around 8-8:30am.
We are in Mexico now and we didn't get stopped and had the green light. Awesone. We do have to find a Similars pharmacy in San felipe as I need my little red anti-inflammatory pills and need to pick some up for my friend. Once in San Felipe we stopped to get gas and asked if they had a Similars pharmacy in town and the answer was yes. So now we have to find it. We drove around but didn't find it right away so headed to the malecon and that is where it was. I got the meds I needed and we were on our way home. Yahoo!! We got home around 4:00pm. We gased up the truck when we got into Bahia, and stopped at the store to pick up some ice and something to munch for dinner. Then homeward bound.
Everything on the outside of the house looked alright but the indication was there were some hefty winds this summer. The big shells I had on the front platform step had blown around and one ended up in the planter I have my aloe vera in, under the steps. But other than that everything else seemed ok. I went upstairs to check it out and open windows to get some air flowing through. I found 2 dead cockroaches on the bedroom floor but found out it was because I left a small gap between the two raps of saran wrap on the toilet bowl. No worries. Other than that it was good. The water pump worked, we turned on the propane and lit the refrigerator and stove to start the cool down process. It is hot but we knew it would be for a while. It doesn't start to cool down until mid to latter part of October. Now comes the fun part----unpacking. We unpacked some of the things from the truck, but mostly just our clothes and necessities for the night and next day. The rest we will take our time getting done.
It feels good to be back and it is a beautiful sunny day. It is going to be a hot one, but I keep cool by having a wet cloth around my neck. I unpacked my suitcase and other things then had to take a gatorade break and sit down. Dave was pulling the rest of the totes and stuff out of the back of the truck and putting them in the garage so I can retrieve the items at my leisure.
After a full day of caring things up stairs from the garage, there still was more to get and put away. No hurries.
Finally all the items are put away and now I can concentrate on organizing my clothes. We had looked for a 5 drawer chest while in Washington, but didn't find one. I have been using a plastic 4 drawer cabinet for some of my clothes and that was going to go into the bathroom closet if we got the chest. But since that plastic one got damage when we had the wall blown in from the wind storm, we bought another one to replace it. Well I decided that the damaged one was still usable so I would have that and the new one placed on top of it so now I will have 6 drawers. Don't need a chest now. So I finally got my underwear and socks out of the bathroom closet and most of my clothes into all the drawers. I took advantage of getting rid of some of the clothes I haven't worn for a long time and probably won't. They can go to someone who can use them. I reorganized the shelves in the bathroom and it looks so much better and we can tell what is in there. So nice!!
Well it is off to town. Dave and I are getting gas in the little black truck and 2 jerry cans. I am picking up some groceries to last about 3 or 4 days. I will do the bulk of my shopping on Friday.
Dave and I are relaxing a bit and trying to stay cool. Our new neighbor went into the bay and asked me to join her and her friend. So I noodled around out there in the bay for a while. Boy did it feel good and refreshing.
It is Friday already and I am heading into town to buy the bulk of my groceries. Have to stock up again. I can't leave hardly any food items on the shelf here in the summer as it gets too hot. I took inventory before leaving Bahia this time so I knew what I had and what I had to buy. Before the pandemic I used to shop on Saturdays, but I don't want to shop when there are a lot of people in town so thought Friday would be good. However, a lot of our American friends were arriving that day so there were a lot of Americans at the stores. It was good seeing everyone but didn't want to linger too long. No virus here and the Mexican people are taking it seriously. I think some of the American people think that since they are here they don't have to wear their masks. I still do and will remain doing it when I shop until the pandemic is over. We now have food enough for meals for a week. I will go into town every Friday.
Went into the bay again by myself and it was marvelous!! So cool and refreshing. Then 2 days after that I was back in with my neighbor bobbing around.
One of my good friends came down to her house down here from Oregon and she wanted to get together to play train. I was leary so I declined. Maybe next week. Most of the Americans will have gone through their quarantine by then.
Dave and our gate guard, Tito, went fishing and caught 12 fish. 11 Yellow Tail and 1 grouper. Tito took the grouper and 4 yellows and we had the rest. We weren't able to clean them right away due to having to rinse down the boat and flush the engine and then put the boat back in the big garage. So they did dry out a little which makes it a little more difficult to filet, but Dave did an excellent job. We had two full zip lock bags of filet fish that went into the refrigerator to keep overnight and then Dave will finish cleaning them up the following day. Whew!!! That was a lot of fish but we are so happy we have some now in the freezer. I so glad they went out today because it is supposed to get windy for the next several days.
We found out that the propane truck came by just before we arrived back home. Bummer. It will be another month before he comes out again----maybe. We can take our large and small empty cylinders into town and get them filled and the price isn't that much different. It is just easier to have them filled at the house by the truck.
There were 11 ladies that showed up for Mexican Train on Tuesday. We sat outside out of the wind. It was a windy day and had been for a couple days so there was a light dusting of sand on the tables, but it is to be expected here in the desert. After train I did some grocery shopping then went home.
Today, the 27th is my youngest son, Jonathan and his wife, Susannah's 8th year Anniverary. Yay!
It is starting to cool down now and be chilly at night. That is always good. The blanket is on the bed and had to put the comforter on for one night only. The temperature is pleasant enough to sit outside on the deck and read my book.
We had Dave's fishing his filet glove soaking in water overnight, so yesterday I scrubbed the fingers to get the fish particles off then poured the water out and refilled the bucket and put the glove back in for another overnight soak.
Happy Halloween!! It is Dave's birthday so I made him a waffle and bacon for breakfast, baked brownies and cleaned shrimp for his dinner tonight. The Mexican people are not into Halloween but tomorrow and the next day they will be celebrating the day of the Dead.
You know that glove we've been soaking, well while I was peeling and deveining shrimp, Dave asked me what I did with the glove. I told him it was still in the bucket soaking. Nope it wasn't. A coyote got it out, bad of me not to put it up so coyotes wouldn't get in the bucket, and had taken the glove out. Dave found it in the yard with 2 finger tips missing. LOL!!! It's still usable, but he definitely needs a new one.
Enjoy Halloween and happy trick or treating!!!
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