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why I love my life

I had a great day today.  Back in my youth, I’m actually a little younger than Mick Jagger but only a little, I was wont to say pretentious things like “do whatever you want, just don’t bore me”.    In fact, that was more or less my motto for life in the 60’s and 70’s.  OK, [...]

Happy Birthday to Tita

All of our fur kids are rescues so we have no real way to know their birthdays.   Tita (who we called Tito at first thinking she was a he) was brought to a vet clinic Mimi was working in the Akumal pueblo by some kids.  They said they found her alone in some bushes, no [...]

what a drive

First though, I have to explain about my scary eye. I was planting stuff and weeding on Friday and my eye started bugging me, it kind of hurt and felt like something was in it. I rubbed it and went on. A few hours later I went in the bath to look [...]

ants, mice and men

I took Mimi off to the bus station this morning early, she got to Cancun airport OK and I’m waiting to hear from her when she lands in Denver.
Last night we were getting ready to go to what I thought was a party at a friend’s house when we noticed that the kitchen counter was [...]

a new friend and tea!

It’s always great to meet friends of friends and also to meet someone who regularly reads the blog. June came down from Canada last week to spend time with Stephen and Paula and I got to meet her. I’ve heard so much about her and Paula tells me that June always lets her [...]

covered in dust

It feels like we are the center of a huge storm of white dust, everything is covered and if you sit still for very long you will be too.
It’s coming in the back from our yard project and it is coming in the front from the renovation next door. The pounding from next door [...]

trying to catch up

Can I just say that it’s been rather busy around here? I forgot that winter is the social season and I get overwhelmed. So, let’s see… Country was here for a week and then we drove her to Akumal for a day and to the airport in Cancun. We took all the [...]