The Power of the Ocean

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

Archie and I went for our normal morning walk and were amazed again by the power of the ocean as it moves the sand in and out in a short period of time.  Looks like it will be a great day again today.  Archie spent some time playing with his little friends again today.

There have been lots of sandals, and running shoes either washing up or being left by someone on the beach this year.  This is the fourth set of shoes I have found and I keep looking at them reluctantly in case there is maybe a foot in one of them.  I'm told that the sharks spit out the shoes!!!

I did a little tap change out up in the owners suite today.  It was a tough one because the threads on the tap were defective.  But I won in the end.

By the time Archie and I went for our afternoon walk the ocean had carved out a deep channel in the estuary.  I would imagine that it will be all filled in by morning.  We will see.

No sunset tonight because of the clouds so I took some pictures of some kids playing in the surf.  The ocean is quite warm right now so the kids love it.  Spent the evening watching TV and off to bed.  Good Nite!!

In Search of a Baked Potato

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

Today was a good day for just laying on the beach.  We have a few people gathering in front of our place now and I'm sure more will come shortly.  This lady was working on her leg tan outside our fence.  Lots of people spend 2 days on the beach and then 8 days inside nursing a sun burn.  

Just lots of enjoying the beautiful day today.  About 4:30 John and Kirly and Sue and I headed downtown to go to the baked potato place we had heard about.  

Just our luck, it was closed.  So we went down the Street to Sabor de Casa.  It is a nice restaurant and we have been here before.

We ordered various seafood dishes, but Kirly insisted that she came downtown for a baked potato.  So we did our best in our humble Spanish and the waiter helped as well and he thought he could find a potato and bake it for her.  She doesn't like a bunch of garnish on it so settled for some cheese.  Well it came out and looked and tasted delicious.  Full credit to the chef for making something like that even though it is not on the menu!!

Our meals were fantastic as well.

We are lucky to have a great mural artist around town and they like to spruce up some of the local restaurants as well as the down town.  Sabor de Casa has a couple nice ones.  That was it for us and we took our full tummies home for the night.  Good Nite!!!

Revolution Day Parade

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

Every time there is a parade in town, I go to watch it, and everytime I do, I say never again.  Parades here are hot and crowded and slow and and, but my goodness the kids are so cute.  Kenia's friend Suzanna has her daughter Soy in it and she looked beautiful.

I didn't do a good job of taking pictures of the actual parade, but captured a little bit of the colour.  It is the Revolution Day parade.  

Fany dropped by for a little while and we got caught up on what was happening at their house.  We are looking forward to seeing all the painting they have been doing.

Steve delivered Ron and Lilly's trailer today.  We got it set in so they will have a nice view of the ocean and the pool area.

We made a quick trip to Guayabitos to the Poppin Food Mart to get some cream and veggies.  They usually have stuff that other stores don't.  Some of the stuff is having a nap on top of the cat food dispenser.  I guess it is hoping for a little handout.

Later in the afternoon, Jen and Ed showed up. They have driven down from the Los Angeles area and are going to spent 5 months or so here.  Its nice to have them back.  I didn't even get a picture of them!!!

they drive back and forth to Mexico in their RV

When we got Ron and Lilly's trailer in this afternoon, it was kinda tight to ours but I did it for 2 reasons.  Our awning area has been like a long hallway up to now and having their trailer right there will be like having a wall with the advantage that the breeze will still blow through.  I think I will like it there.  Secondly, R&L will have a good view of the ocean without looking through our awning area.

After supper I headed downtown to check out the music on the main street.  It was booming away like Mexican music does.

There were some dancing horses in the main street and one of them wandered down by Kenia's.  They always seem to be enjoying the music as well.

Kenia and her friends were having a good time tonight grooving to the music.  It is always good to see the kids having fund.  Good Nite!!!

A Sleepover

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

The ocean spent the night filling in the exit from the estuary.  I always marvel at how the ocean works and the amount of work it can do on a landscape.  The sand that filled in the exit was about 6 feet deep and I could walk all the way across it.

After our morning walk I got busy fixing a couple more things.  The salty air plays havoc with electrical wires and it is a good thing that everything is concrete and cannot burn because this cord was burned back about a foot.  I put a new piece of wire in and we will wait for the salt to do its thing again.

The burned off wire and plug

spliced in a new wire and plug

Next was to install the new pool timer.  The clock motor burned out in the other one and I have been manually turning the pool pump on and off.

We try to run it 6 hours a day

It came with instructions.  What do I need them for anyway??

We got our propane tank filled today so this afternoon Sergio came over to light the pilot on the hot water tank.  Really and honestly there is no real need for the hot water tank for the most part because the water all comes from a black tank on the roof and it is actually the right temperature for a refreshing shower.  We use our own propane hot water in RRV so we won't be using the hot water in the building much.

I stood back waiting for the "BANG".  Sergio says its all good!!

Jeff and Fany stopped by this afternoon to drop Max off and to show us the little Ouch Jeff got on the truck.  I'm not sure how it happened but Sue made a sticker to put beside the scrape that says "DISREGARD".  Jeff enjoyed putting it on there.

Brad and Julie and Cookie the dog stopped in just to say hi today.  They brought their friends from Bucerius with them.  Brad and Julie will be moving in to No Vista on Sunday and stay for a month.  They are a fun couple and we will love having them around.

Archie and I walked with them as far as the estuary when they headed downtown.  Notice that the ocean has eaten out the sand to create a path for the water to run again.  I wonder if it will be filled in by morning.  This was as close as we will get for a sunset tonight.

The clump of bananas are getting ripe real quick.  We tried a couple today and they will be a day or two yet.

Max is spending the night with us tonight and is sleeping in the "Magic Bed".  He loves his Lego and was busy building something before bed.  He is a lot of fun to have around and is full of questions and answers.  Oh yes and he is always hungry!!!   Good Nite!!

Just Living in Mexico

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

I was a little later rolling out of bed this morning and by the time I did all my morning chores and drank some coffee, I was aware of a stare coming from the bottom of the stairs.  Archie has got a real schedule going on and if you are late, he will stare you down, and if you still ignore, he will begin to woof!!!  Todays stare was enough for me to get busy and take him for his walk on the beach.

There were lots of buzzards hanging around the estuary this morning.  Hopefully they are not waiting for me.  Archie chases most birds, but buzzards he doesn't like at all.  He heads the other way when he sees one.

He likes to explore in the empty lot next door and when he is done, he comes and sits at the gate waiting to get in.

Got another couple projects completed today.  The downstairs patio gets lots of green algae from being wet all summer.  I had to sprinkle granular chlorine on it and keep it watered down all morning and afternoon.  By evening the green algae was gone.

I did take time to go up town for lunch today.  My favourite restaurant "El Pollito" has an awesome lunch special.  A full meal lunch and a drink for 90 peso's.  That's like $7 CND.

Breaded chicken, frioles, salad, rice and tortilla's with hot sauce. Mmmmm

Our banana's from the tree are ripening today.  A bunch of the bottom ones are quite yellow.  Joel says they need to be quite brown before eating.

I missed the sunset today but I did catch this picture downtown tonight in the grocery store.  Do you see what I saw??  Good Nite!!!