My Week

In my last post I made mention of perhaps being swindled by repair men but I have been spared!  I now have a working fridge WOO HOO!

Last Sunday I went to my husband´s ball game and met the fate of being hit in the leg with the baseball which left a very huge bruise.

I´m glad to announce that I am way ahead of schedule for Christmas.  Usually I don´t start decorating until the second week of December and every year I say next year I am going to be ready to decorate way earlier Since Thanksgiving isn´t celebrated here in Mexico I haven´t been busy prepàring for guests and making food so I´ve been able to focus a little more on other things.  For example...

I pulled out all of my pictures and finally fixed my huge frame that holds 1 8x10, 2 5x7, and 12 4x6. It took me longer than usual because the frame was badly molded from the humidity so I had to doctor it up and clean, clean, clean it up.  

The house is still coming together. Here are a few of my peeves as of late.

1) Every morning I have to go outside and pick up 5-7 doggie dumplings in my front yard.  Ever since we finished remodling the front yard is still wide open and with a lot of rock and sand where the doggie´s love to take a dump.  It´s driving me crazy because I don´t even have dogs Plus, I can´t let one day pass without picking up the dumplings or else I can´t leave my front door open to let in the breeze because all I get is an ugly stench.

2) All the traffic uses my yard to turn around.  I know it´s not a big deal but after a while it gets annoying because they almost make it up to my front window.

Ok, I´m done venting for now.  That pretty much sums up my week, I hope to start sharing pictures but can never seem to come prepared to the ciber.

I have an idea of setting up a desk at home to have a working area. However, I have run out of tables and need to buy a new one which I hope will serve as both table and side table whenever needed.  We´ll see but that is the plan.

Well, tootlz for now, its dark here and so I´m off for some pan con leche para cenar.

Swindled?

I´m taking my fellow blogger Contessa´s advice and am going to throw myself into this by posting about daily life here at home in Nayarit.  This place is truly like "Peyton´s Place," but more of that later.

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Today was the 2^nd time I made tortillas by hand, or as they say here in Mexico “tortie” (pronounced: tor-tea-e).  The 1^st time I tried, the tortillas came out a little burned but I think I’m starting to get the hang of it because today I didn’t burn them.  It’s not too difficult to make tortillas there is simply several things one must be aware of because if one is amiss then your tortillas suffer the consequences.  Making tortillas is an art into itself and I will go into how they are made in more detail later.  For now I will simply tell you that I’m tackling the task of tortiando daily.

Earlier today two men were driving down the street announcing that they repair refrigerators, stoves & washing machines.  We asked them to stop because the fridge my suegra (mother-in-law) gave us isn’t cooling as it should.  Reluctantly, my suegra called them over.  I say reluctantly because in the past other people have paraded down the street announcing their handy work capabilities and end up swindling my suegra out of her money leaving her only with broken appliances.

We told the two men that we had a fridge that needed fixing but weren’t very trusting because we have been swindled in the past.  They assured us that they were honest men who live in Tepic and work the surrounding ranches repairing old appliances.  After about 15 minutes of discussion, we (B, my suegra and I) agreed to let them fix the fridge.  We also had them unclog the stove (also given to us by my suegra) because one of the burners wasn’t working.  They fixed both (supposedly) and charged us $800 pesos; $750 for the fridge and $50 for the stove. 

We plugged the fridge in and it seems as if it is cooling more but only time will tell whether or not we too have been swindled.

Wish us luck!

-Trinidad