Que Pasa!!!

This post was started on January 12th….

No matter how much you plan your day for tomorrow, it will change! So now I just get up when I do ( was about 9ish earlier in the week but today it was 10:30 ). Somedays we have one or two people drop by, other days more and on some days no one.  So enjoying our few but very special visits. I am learning to go with the flow. We have had the opportunity to be active but we both have chosen to live quieter.  Heck, Colin even had a nap today, I was just waking up from mine when I found him asleep on the bed. Nice to see. We have slowed the pace of our day to day. However he is finding time to play his guitar which means all the world to him and I am happy to have him playing again.  Today he played, napped and then played again. Just as it should be.

We are saddened by the fires in the LA area and as well we have a handful of close friends directly affected. I got your messages Julie, sorry we are not there to help you directly. Hopefully you will have electricity soon. Another friend’s home is only 2 miles for the encroaching fire 😥

We have had a cold front come through. Love burrowing under our duvet ( with the twins of course ) with the open window at night. woke up to 57F yesterday and today. Two nights a go we had major rain – we both slept thru it – the road still has puddles. This RV is quite sound proof. Back to sunshine but with cooler temps for the next week.

Back in January of 2020, Tom and Mandy started having Monday afternoons at our place at Tres Amigos RV Park as a fun day at the beach for the various musicians. The first one was just a few weeks after my knee surgery. Below Colin is jamming with Benito ( aka Santana ), Eugene and on the right Rick.

Click here for a link to a post I did January 23rd 2020. I totally recall how hot it was that January, we all needed to sit in the shade. In that post you will also see James Anderson who just played here last week. I blogged about each event at our RV. Here is the link to another great afternoon with photos of Mitch Woods who will be playing here in March during Carnaval. Back in those days the performances were at La Bohemia in the Plazuela Machado. Everything changed in early March of 2020 when Covid came into all of our lives. Sadly La Bohemia closed down to lack of business and now is a fast food restaurant.

So we have been busy – well actually Colin more so, immersed back in the world of music. Colin is now also filming each event for Tom. I have only been to the one event, just next door to see Eugene. I just could not miss seeing him again.

Continued today, January 19th…..

Poco a poco. I wish there were more hours in each day. Still cool at 62F today. No matter we still love being here and for certain the sun and heat will return.  The girls are dealing with the best they can with the constant feral cat appearances.  Bark and bark and bark, I guess it’s their job.

So many changes in our world on a daily basis. Not all so good. Best to live each day to the fullest. Special thanks to Cindy and Sonny who have been dealing with a constant blaring smoke alarm. The new batteries and reset did not help so they will replace the unit for us. Meanwhile we are working on find the right realtor to sell our home. Hope to get this sorted out and listed in few weeks. I don’t know if this is true but I have heard that we actually have to go back to sign the papers despite so many legal things being signed online. Maybe I will fly someone here to deliver the papers to us 😎

Lots of tuna activity. The helicopters are spotting them and flying personal back and forth constantly. The boats are leaving and returning full of tuna 24 hours per day.  So nice for the economy. Over the years we have had shortages and tuna, of dorado and of shrimp – that was the worst for us. Fortunately this season there is lots of fresh fish available. Yeah, we finally just got some fresh off the boat tuna, best ever. And we have a good source to get fresh crab. We will not starve.

…and now today, January 31st we will get the rest of this post written – I hope!

What excuse can I give this time…..tick, tock, time is passing faster and faster.

But I do have a very unique reason to complete  the final push to publish this post. Readers from way back (possibly from day 1 in 2010 when I started to write this blog) stopped to say hola to me just outside our open gate today. Robbin lives in Hawaii. He gives the best hugs ( next to you Alan, my Chilliwack friend ). He has a home about 3 minutes from us here on the isthmus when he is not in Maui or elsewhere in the world. Robbin reminded me how much he enjoys reading my posts so here I am.

Continued yet again today, February 1st……

Perhaps this post was never meant to be. It seems that everyday we have something that happens that interrupts plans. No complaints as most of them are interesting or fun and certainly enjoyable at the moment, yet this post never gets completed. How did it get to be February?  Still dealing with yet another cold front, down to 57F last night. During the day the sun is shining and if you can sit out of the wind the weather is perfect.

I am feeling so much stronger. No longer dizzy. No longer sleeping for hours and hours. I don’t think I have had a nap for a week now. Two days ago I even walked down to the beach on my own to meet Colin returning from his longer walk with the twins and we walked back together. I am going to now push myself ( hopefully that is more successful than blog writing ) to walk every second day. I read my first book since before Christmas so things are much better in my world. So great to have more energy and it will get better yet. Also have been working on my eyes, I can see a bit better. Trying a few different things for more improvement.

I have lots to share with you – especially in photos. So I am going to wrap this loco post up pronto.  Just have to add some photos. FYI that took just over an hour to add the photos, links and captions. 

The only complaint I have, apart from the feral cats driving the girls crazy, is my inability to see the sunset nightly. We had a great view location back at the RV park but honestly I had to keep darting in and out of our RV in order to not get bitten by the no-see-ums.  Here the berm bordering on the shipping channel blocks the view. But now that I am stronger I really only have to walk a very short distance to get a better vista. Going to start working on that now. Plus we have no bitting bugs, not a one, here on the isthmus.