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!!!

A Little Hurricane Watch

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

Another nice 35C day today so we will probably not be out and about that much.  I did have a few jobs to get done today and one was to check all the surveillance cameras, because Jen was having some problems with a couple of them.  The 2 she mentioned were not working because I had knocked the plug in out of the wall by accident earlier, and the other one, the plug had just worked its way out.  They are both showing green lights so I hope that fixed them.  While I was up on the second floor I got a picture of RRV in its place for the winter.  

The other job I had was to get our sewer pipe hooked up.  I used to have a sewer pipe here but it has gone missing so I headed down to the plumbing shop to buy a new one.  Good thing it is just at the end of our street cause I had to haul it back in the jeep and it was 20 feet long so about half of it hung out the back window.  I got a few chuckles and pointing as I bounced down the cobblestone street with it.

Got it all laid out ready for my expert plumbing skills to take over.

I was quite happy with the finished product and it will work so much better than having the RV sewer hose which normal springs a leak before winter is over or someone steps on it.  This ridged pipe will stay in place quite nicely.

One of the things that we have been doing is watching the development of Hurricane Vance.  Our indications right now are that it may fizzle out as it moves northward as well as a high pressure over the Pacific coast may keep it out to sea.  Bottom line is, we are watching it and are prepared to pack up quickly and move inland if need be.  We should know by Sunday if there is any imminent danger on the horizon.  

Susan noticed tonight that we have a little visitor in RRV.  He was crawling up the wall and scurried away and hid but not before she got a picture.

We have not witnessed an actual sunset since arriving here, but the colours it leaves in the clouds is great.  We will be fine!!!  Good Nite!!!

Thursday is Market Day

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

Well we are starting to fall back into a bit of a routine and Archie is enjoying it.  We went for our normal morning walk on the beach and Archie just ran free and splashed and sniffed and was in doggy heaven.  It is so much fun to watch him.  I'm waiting for him to get rolled by a big wave.  This one almost got him.

Today is market day in town and we wanted to pick up some bread but alas, the bread man was not at the market.  We had a quick look and that was it.

Next stop was some breakfast at Irma's.  They do an awesome breakfast and have great orange juice.

I have a lot of things to do around here but the heat has beat us up.  We go out for a little while and then have to go back in the cool.  The pool is getting to the point where it is no longer refreshing, but at least you get wet and then the breeze feels cool.

One interesting thing is that there a couple Iguana's on the property and Sue got a quick picture of one of them.  They are cute to watch but they poop around the pool area quite a bit.

After supper, I headed downtown to catch Kenia and Oscar and spend some time with them.  I checked at Cafecito #2 but they were not there.  This spot is not very busy in the evenings but she hopes business will pick up with the arrival of the snowbirds.  It is a classy little spot to grab a frappe or smoothie and enjoy it in air conditioned comfort.  Its just down the street from us on Acapulco Street.

So I headed downtown to Cafecito #1 which is near the plaza.  This is a busy little spot even at this time of year.  Suzanna does a great job of running this one for Kenia.  Kenia got some Halloween decorations and as usual was willing to pose for the camera.  "One for the Blog" I call it.

 

 

Well another great day here in Paradise.  The heat and humidity is really tough to work in. I can hear you all now, wah, wah, wah, wah!!!  We will make it and when the Santa Anna winds come over the mountain, the weather will turn as awesome as you can ever imagine.  Good Nite!!!