Sunday's and Birria go Hand in Hand

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

Another Sunday, (Domingo) and Sunday is the normal day to have Birria but Abuela is not well yet so won't be doing Birria for quite a while.  So I headed downtown to find the guy with the Birria cart.  Yup there it was right in front of the hotel and his business was hopping.  I sidled up to the taco bar and in my best broken Spanish I mumbled, "Dos Taco de Birra , Para llever con no dorado por aque" and just like that, there they were.  I loaded them up with onions and some good green sauce and dug in.  Now they are sloppy and you don't get forks or spoons so by the time you are done eating you feel like a one year old who uses fingers to eat.  It was running right down to my elbows, but man was it good.  A quick "cuanta cuesta and the answer was cincuenta peso's.  I paid and off I went, belly full and smile on the face.  See you next Sunday!!!

Later in the afternoon we received the news that Las Korita's will be opening next Sunday and they are having ribs!!!  We have a standing reservation for opening night so we have something to look forward to.

And a bit of early Christmas for Susan and I.  A big Amazon package arrived which we were not expecting until next Tuesday.  Wonderful!!!  Sue got some things to help her with her latest pet project, making sour dough bread.   I will update on the success of that venture.  I received a new water pump for RRV as the other one is pooched.  I will install it tomorrow.   So the size of the box was a bit deceiving, as there were only a couple small boxes inside.  Oh well, I guess there is a reason for that.

My evening project is to give the lawn some much needed water.  I do it while I am either watching TV or working on the computer because it needs me to move the sprinkler every 15 minutes.  So once I start, I am kinda committed to a couple hour ordeal.

And I worked in a little swim.  The pool is awesome right now so we take advantage of a lot of swims in a day.  The evening ones make the water feel sooo warm.  I took a few pictures while I was floating around all by myself.

This is how close RRV is to the pool

The moon peeks through a cloudy sky

The pool looks inviting

from the pool

So while I was watering I was working in my little office doing the blog.   

Then I wrapped up the evening watching some Chicago Fire.  No sunset pictures tonight because of the overcast.  Good Nite!!!

Chasing Water Pressure!

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

Since our arrival here in October, I have been certain that the water pressure has declined since last year.  Because the water is all pumped up to the tanaka on the roof and then gravity fed back down to the building, I wanted to put a garden hose fitting up there and run it direct to the ground to see if we get more pressure that way.  First thing was to build the tap and spigot and then take it up and mount it on the roof.

The way we tested it was to hook up a sprinkler and do a before and after.  The coverage area was quite a bit bigger direct from the garden hose than from the inside spigot down below, so that says there is a bit of a restriction somewhere in the line.  They are going to be working on the water system later so I'm sure they will find the problem.   

sprinkler spray pattern.

The second reason for the spigot on the roof is because the roof is now full of solar panels and they need to be washed occasionally.  So now one can fill a pail right on the roof without having to haul water up here.  

Panels get quite dusty

Next little project was to change out a leaky tap in the bathroom.  Stuff like taps have a tough life with all the salt near the ocean and don't last too long.  One could change the rubbers in them, but as you see, the taps rust fairly fast so new is probably a better plan.

After that was done, we got to welcome Ron and Lilly here for the season.  They are a great couple to have around and they love Archie.  They got here about 3:30 and they had quite a bit of work to get the camper ready for sleeping tonight.

Sue has bought a new smoker attachment to use in conjunction with our Webber BBQ.  There was some concern with how it would work but we smoked our supper chicken and John did pork chops and we were both pretty impressed.   It is not very big and just feeds smoke into the BBQ from the bottom.  

After supper we went to John and Kirly's for a game.  I lost AGAIN!!!  But it was fun.

Before the game started while we were still friends!!!! lol

After the game, I headed downtown on the bike to see what was happening.  Some horses were down there and Kenia was busy at the Cafecito.  Suzanna was helping her again tonight so we had a nice visit.

The clouds have been blocking our sunsets lately, so tonight I will show you a few of the pretty flowers we have here.  These flowers last pretty much all winter and are all over the property.  I have no idea the names of the flowers.  Good Nite!!!

A Trip to the City

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

Today we headed down to Bucerius to do a little shopping.  Although La Penita has everything we need on a daily basis, there are some things that we like to have that are more like they are at home.  Also the girls have to have a little dose of SHOPPING!!!  We headed out about 10 am down the old 200 and twisted and turned our way to Bucerius.

We only made 3 stops while we were there, but managed to get most of a truck full of stuff.  First stop was Walmart and then on to Home Depot and then La Comer.

La Comer is a big grocery store that has a lot of things that we are used to in Canada.  

We headed back home about 3 pm and arrived around 4.  Our trip takes us through and past some neat mountains and down a lot of tree covered roads.  That is part of the magic of Mexico.

We saw a neat little Volkswagen conversion.  The top is actually another VW van!!

And yes the sun set AGAIN!!!!  Good Nite!!!

Market Day

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

Short and sweet today!!!  It was market day so I headed down so I could have a taco de birria.  Wow are they ever tasty!!!

Had to catch up on a few things on the computer.

Sunset came and went again today and that was a wrap.  Good Nite!!

I'm a Chicken Thief!!!

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

It was a lazy day around RRV.  We are allowed to have some of them.  Other than attending to the pool and installing a couple toilet seats for Jen, the day was pretty relaxed.  Let me tell you a story though.  Around 3 pm Brad and Julie stopped by the pool to let us know that they were heading down to the yellow chicken place because today is the chicken and a half special day.  So they headed out on foot downtown.  Susan suggested to me that maybe that might be a good idea for us for supper, and Jen and Ed thought the same thing, so about 10 minutes later I jumped on the bike and headed downtown to the chicken place. I thought maybe I would catch up to Brad and Julie at the chicken place but they weren't there.  I kinda thought that they should have had time to get there ahead of me. There were only 3 chickens left so I quickly ordered 2 specials which took up the 3 chickens.  I thought if they landed along while I was there I would just let them have our and we could share with Jen and Ed.  Well they never showed up so I headed home with the chickens.  When I got there, Susan said that Julie had texted her to let her know there were no chickens left!!!  OH NO!!  Now I feel like a real heel or a chicken thief.  Well I tried to get them to come home and we would share the chicken but they said they would be ok.  Anyway, we will find a way to get even with them later on.

Our early supper

This afternoon was nice and sunny with a few chem trails!!!  I got to thinking that if they are really chem trails, why would they waste the chemical out over the ocean all the way from Hawaii to here!!!  Asking for a friend.  

 Just before sunset Archie and I headed out for his evening walk.  He loves to get his feet wet and the estuary lets him wallow around without waves sweeping over him.

Another awesome sunset with some great colours.  Even the clouds all around were a nice pink.  Another great day behind us.  Good Nite!!!