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Every time I go by this bougainvillea (above) I think about taking a picture of it.  Last time I asked Paul to use his cell phone camera, so now you can see my favorite bougainvillea in town!  (one block west...

This place makes me smile

I’d decided it was time to cover our two plastic tables on the upstairs patio with a tablecloth.  These are plastic Coca Cola tables that have a groove on each side to keep spilled or sweating drinks from dripping off...

Summer sunset

Paul and I ate dinner at  a restaurant on the malecon at Olas Altas the other night, and I took a lot of pictures of the sunset, as it went on and on for probably more than an hour.  But...

Paul was immersed

Paul takes the blog to tell about his experience: When we moved to Mexico I had several goals in mind. One of the most important to me was to learn to speak Spanish well. I have always had a pretty...

…around the house

There were a number of comments on my post about salitre, I am really no expert.   I think it has a lot to do with how careful your house builder was with the amount of salt in the sand...

Water girl

Me at Stinson, about 7 years old I need to be close to the coast.  I can’t even imagine what it would be like to live in the middle of a lot of land.  South Dakota. Nebraska.  Even Colorado.  Somehow...

Salitre 102

When you buy an brick and cement house in México, you will quickly get up to speed on Salitre.  Salitre is kind of acne for walls, and it’s a fact of life here. I wrote about it before in the...

The secret is out

Ok, so a couple of people asked about the secret project and it just doesn’t take much to twist my arm! Our sala fresca is a lovely room, if you remember it’s the one where we had the mural painted. ...

The Boys

One street over from us is an apartment building.  For about a year a group of young men has been living in one of the second floor apartments, and I admit that they have provided us with a fair bit...

Drink your vegies!

I have been on a cooking jag lately…it is quite strange for me to cook so much when it is so warm, but I guess the way I cook is casual enough that it isn’t very stressful.  Plus with our...

Around the house…

It is summertime here, but it is still quiet.  The hotels say they are at 60 percent occupancy, but I think that’s a bit of wishful thinking.  Paul and I had lunch today (Monday) at a nice hotel in the...

We hit the big time?

The director of the Instituto Sinaloense de Cultura, Sergio Jacobo, officially starts the filming There’s a movie being filmed in Mazatlán this week.  It is called “Asesinato y Reencarnación: Un Romance.” It is based on a book by Juan José Rodríguez...

Comfortable as a pig in mud

The rain came a couple of days ago and we have been experiencing cooler than normal temperatures – not humid and VERY welcome. Paul and I went to a hotel in Nuevo Mazatlán for an overnight for Paul’s birthday.  We...