Hurricane Vance Has Passed Us By

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

This was the sort of day we woke up to.  I know I have written about the perfect weather here in La Penita, however we arrived almost 2 weeks early and caught the tail end of the hurricane and rain season.  I have always wanted to be here when it rained lots to witness it, but now I have been here, done that, time for sunny dry weather!!!

A little relaxing waiting for the rain to stop.  Yes a blanket even if it is hot.

It did quit raining for a bit later in the morning so Sue and I headed for a walk on the beach with Archie.  He loves his morning walks. Sue took an awesome picture of an egret with a great reflection.  You won't see these kind of pictures from me.

We managed to get a few more of the loungers out today.  These are for the boss's!!!  They will be here mid November we hope.

Took a little time to measure out a spot for a new palapa.  Jen would like a round one with a single middle pole this time.  This was a 20 foot diameter which is pretty big for that kind of design.  No big hurry on a new one, so this was only food for thought.

We had a visit from this cute yellow bellied bird today.  Actually there were 2 of them.  Anyone know what they are??  Sorry picture is through a screen.

We took a drive downtown in the evening with the Jeep to see what was happening.  It was still raining and the downtown was pretty wet.  The town is getting ready for Dia de Mourtos celebrations.  They also have some Halloween stuff going on as well on the 31st.

Well although we had some wind come through this evening for about a half hour, it seems hurricane Vance has passed us by.  We are told we will see some of the effects in the way of waves.  We should see some more normal weather from now on.

Lots of cloud covering us

Archie says just relax.  Everything will be alright!!!  Good Nite!!!

The Palapa is Gone

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

Another hot humid day here.  No matter, Joel was determined to get the old palapa destroyed.  He was soaking wet and I kept encouraging him to take breaks and drink water.  When he has a project to do, he just puts his head down and does it.  

Those posts are buried a long way

He finished up and got his mess cleaned up.  We tried to save a few of the post, but most were rotten from ground level down.

One of the things we have to get done soon is trimming of the coconut trees.  There seems to be a good bunch of coconuts on them this year and we are worried someone might get one on the head.

I had to make a little trip to the store as I do most days.  Down here we just buy based on daily needs it seems.  It gives me a good excuse to go for a bike ride.

Then after supper I went over to Cafecito 2 and met the kids there.  They were bringing supplies and had stopped for a frappe.  We had a nice chat and some laughs which was the perfect end to the day.  Good Nite!!!

Me, Fatima, Kenia, and Karen

And Karens boyfriend Bryan

Archie Gets a Trim

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

We were up by 8 again this morning so it seems like that will be our rising time for the winter.  Today Archie has a 9:30 appointment for a grooming!  He was getting a little scruffy and with the hot weather I think he must have been hot.  Anyway the groomer is just a couple blocks down the street which is quite handy.  He was all done by noon and was happy to come home.

He got the little bandana around his neck.

And they always put these dots between his eyes!!

While he was away at the groomers, I took some time to find a couple Birria taco's.  There is a little ramshackled restaurant downtown and they have amazing birria, so that's where I headed.  My Birria guy that serves on the street corner takes Monday off so that's why I went there.

Lots of onion and hot sauce

Over the summer, they have added a roof to part of the restaurant as well as upgraded the tin and roof trusses on some of it.  I kinda chuckled as I looked up and noticed that the trusses were attached to the support posts with Zip Ties!!!!  Remind me not to come here on  a windy day!!

Susan made up a great roast and potatoes and carrots for supper.  The veggies down here have so much more taste than at home. She used what our friend Patsy calls Madame IP!!!  We can only eat tacos so many times before needing some good old Canadian food.  It was yummy.  

About 7pm, Kenia texted to see if we were coming down to the Cafecito.  She is going to be there training Diago so thought we could be company for a while.  Kenia's mom and Louis showed up as well and we had a lovely visit as best as we could with our terrible Spanish.  Louis is fluent in English so that helped a lot.  Another great day.  Good Nite!!!

Diago making frappes

Sadia and Louis

Poco Poco (little by little) is a Favourite Mexican Saying

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

A little cooler today. Only 33C.  But the humidity persists.  We started the day with coffee overlooking the ocean.  Lots of grackles came swooping in to munch on something on the beach.

Archie wanted no part of them taking over our beach and quickly put the run on them!!!

We managed to spend some time getting some of the lounge chairs ready to go.  Unless you have things in a bag or sealed container, they seem to pick up some mildew from the humidity of the rains all summer so we had to scrub them all down with Fabulosa.  Now they are clean as well as smelling good.

We have been getting a little rain yesterday and today and just as we were finishing up our swim a quick shower hit us.  Not that we cared because we were wet already.  The rain is keeping the grass lovely and green but does nothing for reducing the humidity.  

Sunset was obscured tonight due to the rain clouds so we went in and had a fish supper.  I guess we will have to get used to the rain for the next week or so as they say hurricane Vance has weakened but we should still expect 7 to 10 inches of rain as it passes.  I can take that.

We finished up the evening with a couple more rerun episodes of Survivor.  We must be hard up for entertainment right??  Good Nite!!!

Money Day and a Sunset

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

About 3 houses down the beach is the estuary.  This summer the ocean along with some help from a couple hurricanes washed a lot of sand into the area.  They have moved a lot of it with a loader and now they are designating it a crocodile sanctuary.  I told Archie that he better be careful in case one morning there is a big croc laying on the new sand peninsula.  

Then it was time to head down to Guayabitos to pick up our peso's that we had ordered.  We use Remitly to receive funds.  It works very well except that once in a while there is a line up at the bank.  That was the case today and Mexicans never get in a hurry to move a line along.  They just go as slow as they want to.  The bank is upstairs in a department store so I just hung around looking at things while she stood in line.  Only the person whose name is on the transaction can retrieve the money.

She finally got to the head of the line and got her pesos.

Then I got busy and mounted the rear basket and my new tail light on the bike.  I like to have a good headlight and a tail light because I go downtown after dark often.  The tail light even has a signal light on it.  

I took a trip downtown and found the Churro lady.  I brought home a little treat for Sue.

We finally got to see a sunset tonight.  The humidity dropped just before sunset and it was a beautiful evening to sit and watch the ocean. 

Archie even joined us for the occasion.  We have been watching reports on hurricane Vance and it seems like we might not see it.  We are just watching and waiting before we make any decisions.  Good Nite!!!