The courtyard, continued….

  I thought I’d keep going with the courtyard remodel pictures. They should be finishing all three roofs this week, and next week the painters will paint the top part of the wall so they can use the scaffolding while...

Two week progress report

We are in the midst of our courtyard remodel. Above are a couple of “before” pictures: As you can see there are chipped tiles, a big empty space, an irregular step, overgrown plants, etc. The windows on the floor above...

Mazatlan is Unique

One of the reasons that we chose Mazatlan as our home is because it has a historic colonial Centro – and is on the beach. Usually these two don’t go together. But there’s another thing that makes Mazatlan interesting –...

This life is good!

Of course, we knew it would be, but we never thought it would be this good! Although, Friday when Paul and I went out for Day of the Dead festivities, Henry (the dog) got into the room with the sand...

Dusty and Dirty

That will be the name of the game here for the next month! The courtyard renovation project has begun, at the same time as the mason is here repairing the salitre on our walls. The salitre project should only take...

Te Amo Beisbol

Last night we went to the baseball game here in Mazatlan. The Mazatlan Venados (Deer) vs. the Guasave Algodons (Cottons). It was our first baseball game in Mazatlan, and as lifelong baseball fans, a city with a team was an...

Morning at Olas Altas

Yesterday I took a little video while we were near the Pedro Infante monument at the south end of the malecon. It starts out with a view of the newest boutique hotel here – Casa Lucila, then shows Paul and...

Tuesday Update

One of my last posts brought a flurry of comments that I thought I’d respond to in a post instead…. Learning Spanish – Both of us have been doing pretty well, but nowhere near as well as we would like....

Life, continued

Tomorrow is our one month anniversary living here in Mazatlan. We really do love it here, and discover wonderful people and places every day. We continue to become more and more comfortable in our home – a desk for the...

Thoughts on Food

  • October 11, 2007
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I love food. And I am a vegetarian. I don’t eat meat or seafood because I have an active visual side to me that brings up images of the critter in its live state that spoils any chance that I...

Sailing on Sunday

Yesterday we went sailing on the Patricia Belle with a group of about a dozen put together by our realtor. The Patricia Belle is an 82 foot schooner – on Fridays and Sundays they take people out sailing just for...

We love it here

It has been a whole week since we pulled into town. It seems like much longer to us…and our former world in the Pacific Northwest is in the distant past. We really love our morning walks with the dogs. We...

Are we famous?

I forgot this little tidbit in my last post, so I thought I’d step back in time to Sunday. We’d moved our van full of stuff in, and after dancing around a while we headed out to buy a mattress....