Dos Bolsas

Our laundry room is adjacent to the garage. And the garage has been construction central for the past two months. With the garage full of sand and gravel as well as roof tiles and other tools, the laundry room became...

It’s big news in my world

You may be scratching your head while you look at the picture above and thinking to yourself “what the heck is this picture of, anyway?”   But since I couldn’t show you how great the house smells, or how nice...

Different strokes

We have had a lot to learn about our new home, Mazatlan. When carpenters install hinges here, they make the cut out area double deep and then install the other side of the hinge flat on the wood. Smart because...

Just about done!

We are very near the end of both our courtyard project and the interior painting. So, we asked the architect a couple of weeks ago what day and time would be good for an end-of-project thank you party. He said...

It’s personal here

I read an article yesterday about a coffee shop in Washington State where many people chose to pay for the vehicle behind them in the drive through lane. It got a lot of attention as a “good news” item. I...

Ahhh, Sunshine!

  • December 19, 2007
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  • Dogs

It is a beautiful sunny day here in Mazatlan. We are reveling in it, because the last 5-6 days have been chilly by Mazatlan standards, anyway! It has been breezy and hasn’t been warm enough to sit outside unless you...

It’s a dog’s life

  • December 13, 2007
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  • Dogs

Yes, Lucy has the good life, but so do we. There’s nothing like sitting in the sunshine watching a hummingbird feed in the bouganvilla. Paul and I have been doing a lot of sitting in the sun or in our...

December in Mazatlan

We’ve only been here since September, but we feel like we are home. I had no idea that it would be this easy to settle in and feel comfortable. A few things to share: It’s wonderful to live in sandals!...

The courtyard, AGAIN!

For those of you not interested in yet MORE construction photos, I’m sorry. But the courtyard project is really fascinating me and I just have to share. If you’d like to see my previous posts on the project here they...

Random Observations

There are tons of things I love about Mazatlan. Some of them are probably unique to Mazatlan and some are similar throughout Mexico. Here are a few: Bike Cops – Mazatlan has a ton of them. They wear t-shirts and...

What’s for Dinner?

I promise to write a post soon that isn’t an update on a construction project. But we are pretty excited about the transformation of our kitchen that just was completed yesterday… Above is a picture of our kitchen from the...

Salitre 101

I thought that you might want to see pictures of the salitre repair project in one of our bedrooms. We’ve learned a lot about salitre over the last couple of months. Salitre is a kind of cancer on the cement...

We all had a great time

  Here’s a picture of Adam and Martha on our sail on the Patricia Belle. We had such a good time! In addition to the sailboat cruise, we went to the beach and boogie-boarded, ate out a lot, stayed up...

Our first guests!

We are very excited to have our first guests coming tomorrow! Son Adam and daughter-in-law Martha are visiting from Mexico City for the holiday weekend. Our house is in quite a jumble with all the construction but we have managed...