Abuela Does Birria!!!

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

Since we arrived last fall, Abuela has been under the weather and not doing her normal Birria on Sundays.  Today, she felt well enough to commence doing it again so we headed over around 9:30 to have some.  Oscar was there as well so we enjoyed some good food and conversation, as best we could in Spanish.  John came with us and had some quesabirria!!

It was a hot day today, so we just layed low in the afternoon.  We all came out again for sunset but that never happened.

The sky had clouded over and it was really dark looking over the mountains to the east.  It almost looked like rain but I doubt it will.  We can always hope for clear skys tomorrow. Good Nite!!

Last Game of Flyball This Year

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

On our walk this morning Archie came up with a dead puffer fish.  It had blown itself up before it died so it was very spiky.  Archie enjoyed poking it with his nose into the spines.  Not very many times until he realized there was no future there.

After our walk, I got on my bike and headed downtown for some birria at my favourite street vendor.

When I got back I borrowed Kirleys pet clippers to give Archie a little face trim.  Surprising enough, Archie didn't mind them buzzing around his face at all.

 

All trimmed up

Ed has to go on a work trip this coming week so he asked if we could get a game of Flyball in.  After John and Kirley and Hubert and Vivian leave on Wednesday we will not have enough people left to play anymore this year.  We had 3 fun games and will certainly carry on playing next year.  

We knocked one of the balls out of the pool and Archie went after it and got a tooth into it.  Good bye flyball.  We started the year with 5 balls and ended up with only 1 left lol.

proud of his catch

giving it a good shake

After supper I headed down to see what was happening in town.  Not much but Kenia was busy.  She has a new girl working tonight and she was fairly frazzled.  There is a lot to learn and Kenia expects it to be done right but also has a good way of training.  She looks like she will learn quickly.   I think everything will be just fine.  Good Nite!!

Kenia doing her thing

Always time for some acting

Oscar was babysitting the new girls little guy.

A Trip to the Hot Pools

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

We have been having some hot weather lately so the pool has been getting used lots.  It has not had a good clean for a bit so the green algae builds up and eats up all the chlorine and you have to shock it and add clarifier and let it sit over night.  All of the algae clumps up on the bottom of the pool ready to be vacuumed.  For this process you do a vacuum where you just pump the vacuumed water into the sewer.  It uses a lot of water so one has to be fast.  I guessed that I used about 400 gallons of water to clean it this morning.  

 

 

Today we had plans to go up in the mountains to the hot pools.  These are the rustic ones that we really enjoy.  It is about an hour and a bit one way on a bumpy road but the trip is always worth while.  Ed and Jen accompanied us and John and Loren followed in their truck.  We went around a bend and there were a couple cows on the road and they were not moving out of the way very fast.

We spent about 3 hours at the pools and had some lunch and drinks.  This was the first time here for Ed and Jen.  They seemed to enjoy it.  They have been doing lots of upgrades to the pools and I sure hope they don't take that traditional Mexican rusticness away from it.  

You can come up here at night as well

Just soaking

Lunch time

Then back down the rough old road that takes us home.  This time we met a whole heard of cows being driven by a cowboy.  We just pulled off to the side and let them by.

I always have to take a picture of the sign for the pueblo of "La Cucaracha" because it makes me think of the song and I have it floating around in my head for a while.

We arrived home about 3:30 so still had some time to do things around home.  Susan has been doing some rock painting and she does a really good job of them.  She gives them away or places them around the property for people to find and admire.  I smile at her rendition of crazy animals.  Those are my favourites.

No idea what their names are.

When Archie and I went for our walk tonight, we noticed more Mexican people starting to enjoy the beach.  Easter is sneaking up on us real quick and it is a big holiday for the people here.  School is finished today for a couple weeks too.

As we were walking along, barefoot in the sand, I looked down and there were hundreds of little blue button jelly fish washing up on the beach.  I am amazed that I didn't step on one or maybe I did and they do not sting when they are dead.  They are in the family of the Blue Man O War.

What I saw on the beach

from Google

We did the same ole sunset meeting on the beach.   We did get a little bit of a sunset tonight before it slid below the clouds.

After dark I headed downtown to check what was going on.  Not much other than some dancing horses who were not really dancing!!  They are such pretty animals.

I had not had any supper so I stopped by the Cafecito and Suzanna and I shared some tacos from just down the street.  She was not that busy so she had a chance to sit and eat with me.  She is doing a great job of running the Cafecito and Kenia is happy having her work for her.  What a great way to end an enjoyable day.  Good Nite!!!

Suzanna's daughter Soy.

Suzanna

Loving Survivor 50

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

Oh wow!!!  Nothing of interest happened today, at least anything I can think of.  I did go for a little bike ride after supper to get some bananas.  I put new batteries in my bike headlight so I could see the way.  

And of course we watched another episode of Survivor 50!!

Sunset caught a cloud again tonight but was still pretty.  We have had more cloud this year than I can ever remember but who is complaining.  Good Nite!!!

A Dead Turtle on The Beach

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

We had a little surprise on our walk on the beach this morning.  We saw a blob floating about 30 feet from shore.  As we watched it got closer and closer until it finally rolled up on shore.  It was a dead sea turtle!  And it was big.  Probably 150 lbs.  I wonder how old it may have been.  This one had been dead a couple days I think.  

After our walk I headed downtown to find some birria, but I ran into Abuela and Anyanelli and Carol.  They were going for breakfast and invited me.  I texted Susan and she walked down and joined us.  We had a great talk over breakfast.  Oscar and Rafi joined us.

While we were eating a young lady came in with a mandolin and sang a couple songs.  She had an awesome voice so we gave her a little tip as did everyone else.  I love how the musicians are brave enough to just step up and sing their hearts out.  

Anyanelli had a 100 peso note that was from 1982 and was showing it around.  I don't think they are really rare but we had never seen one so she gave it to us!!!  Yup gave it to us!!!  We will find a special place for it.

Archie and I had a nice evening walk on the beach as usual.  It was really quiet because a lot of the snowbirds have flown the coop.  It is like the calm before the storm, as the Mexicans will start to show up on Friday for Holy week that starts on Sunday.  Then the beaches will be packed for 10 days or so.  We don't get it that bad here, but we certainly get more people than usual.  We walked by the condo construction again and they are moving right along.  

We all did the sunset gathering again today.  We were hoping for a sunset without clouds tonight but no such luck.  It was still good to watch it slip behind the clouds.  Another good day.  Good Nite!!