I love you all and feel so bad about the dozens of you who were so very worried about us and who emailed and sent comments. Honestly our lives have been out of kilter – I really don’t know what words to use to describe the past several weeks. Quite the upheaval. It was beyond stressful and I often just did not eat ( no time ) and went to bed when exhausted. Not the proper way to lose 7 – 8 pounds, no time to weigh myself. Heck, I sometimes went 3 days ( and once 4 days ) without a shower. Just no time. I lived on the computer.
I had to force myself to get Colin’s pills sorted daily. And of course feed the twins, but Ciela is very certain to let me know when she wants to be fed. Perhaps she has been feeling the strain. Many days she wanted 2 of her 3 daily feedings at the same time. She insisted that her tummy be full. Carlie is always hungry.
Oh my, I just peaked out the window and there is an outstanding sunset happening. But I am committed to writing this post so no photos.
Speaking of photos, I have files & files of events in photos to share with you including Carnaval fireworks and the parade. Do you want to see this or just move forward?
Not sure I can do this in any sequence. I think I am simply going to express what comes to mind and move on from there. Hang on for the ride.
About three weeks ago, I purchased one of those grounding sheets you see all over Facebook. I LOVE it…..I am finally sleeping more than 45 minutes at a time. I have even slept up to 3 hours a few times during the night.
Oh….get to the point you are saying!!!!!!! We are all well. But it has been beyond frantic. I will never be able to describe it all to you. However Carlie did have an adventure with an iguana, not once but TWICE. The first time she must have bit the critter as she had blood all over her muzzle. The second time the iguana took two chunks out of her side, Thank goodness we have the best vet in all of Mexico. She came first thing the next morning and brought 3 medications, I already had the pain pills on hand, thank goodness. Her charge was only 60.00 CAD including coming here on the launcha and the medications. She was here this past Wednesday to check and the wounds are healing with no infections. No charge for that visit.
Colin thinks that by the time his foot is better we won’t have enough time left for RVing. We also figured out that this is our last year for our temporal residency. So we would have to get rid of of RV within the next 10 months unless we import it, which is extremely expensive. But as Colin can no longer drive it right now, we had to make a very difficult decision. The RV was put up for sale on the Monaco RV website.
We will import/nationalize our 2015 Jeep but that will cost us $4000.00USD. We would rather keep our vehicle than buy a used vehicle here in Mexican that we have no idea how reliable it is. But we still have time to get that done. Tons of research and phone calls just on this alone.
And of course we had to deal with our Canadian taxes, due the end of April. Done and paid.
Oh and then I realized that our Canadian passports were expiring early May. Colin did that research. We had to go somewhere in the middle of nowhere to get passport photos. Then Colin even went on his very own into Mazatlan to the Canadian Consulate to make sure we had crossed every T! We had not. Semana Santa was in the middle of all of this. Today ( a full month later ) we got our new ten year passports, very nice booklet, but no comment on the passport photos 🙁
We were very anxious to receive these passports as they were required at a meeting here with a Mexican notary to sign the documents re the sale of our house.
Yes we finally sold our home on the beach in Kelowna 😀
A huge amount of time online has been spent on the sale of this house. I think that it might have been easier to give birth to twin dachshunds 😳 So many back & forth with the buyers, the realtor and the lawyer and so and so on and so on. As of this past Monday, I believe that all is well and the sale will proceed with the closing on May 27th.
Enough said…..
Oh yes!!!! We had listed the RV 😎 Lots of back and forth but the RV is here in Mazatlan and the buyers are in the USA. Then suddenly a very bright and promising light appeared. A lovely fellow “M” from Colorado actually flew down here with his friend. We had nothing to hide as I have always been totally honest on this blog and “M” wife found my blog. Good for her. “D” I loved your gift and wished I could have met you in person. M and his friend Joe ( did that medication help ? ) were so delightful. They went thru the RV with a fine tooth comb. It took a few weeks to get the final news, but M & D decided to go in a different direction and did not purchase our RV. Honestly it hurt but M was open and explained that they liked our RV but their life took a turn. Good luck to the three of you.
Not too many days later we got an email……hey – now do you understand why I have been totally busy online and not able to post???
We will find out early next week, but it appears that yet another fellow might be flying in to purchase our RV.
We wake up every morning to new things that come out to be dealt with. Seriously no time to eat nor shower…
The plan was for us to get the RV moved to Arizona in August but people are interested and want to see it in Arizona. So with a huge amount of effort on Colin’s part a plan was made to transport the RV to Arizona mid May.
What????????????????
Where will we move to and when and how??? We were to be here a year and had to tell with our landlords ( they love us and cried ). We thought we would leave in August.
Suddenly we have secured an apartment for 3 months beginning May 1st, because of the RV being sold. The place we were hoping to get and WILL get is only available August 1st. Definitely tons of online effort.
So It appears to me that we have a place to move to on May 1 BUT the RV is not yet sold . Nor has the Kelowna house sold yet. Are you beginning to understand that we are living hour by hour as well as day by day!!
And that is just the top ten items…
Dozens more that I am dealing with….hour by hour.
Oh, I have been selling our things including patio furniture and plants and anything else you can think of. Stuff we will no longer need as we will be living in an apartment.
It took us a long while to come to terms with selling the RV, to having to leave the Isla and so on. However we have had 16 winters here on Isla de la Piedra. As you know our hearts are here, but logically it is time for a change. We have to move because of our permanate – we can no longer live in the RV. It certainly hit us hard once we realized the truth. But with Colin not being able to drive the RV right now, it was time for a change.
Neither of us can use the Playa Sur embarcadero which is a short walk away. So we have to drive to the main embarcadero and cross the shipping channel each and every time he needs to see a medical person and take Didi / Uber. That often adds an hour in each direction. Very tiring.
In the past 5 or 6 weeks we have added a few new therapists. The reflexologist was good for a few weeks as long she worked on his feet, which was her specialty. Then one day she worked on his hands and created a great deal of pain. end of that. Then a wonderful person came to us with her special therapist Sebastian. He is a kinesiologist and our chiropractor was ecstatic that we found him…..he is the only one in Mazatlan. Our chiropractor plans to use him for his clients. Long story short, Sebastian has made a HUGE improvement to Colin’s ability to walk. He is here twice per week, plus we have physiotherapy weekly ( she is the best ever ) and we see the chiropractor biweekly.
Yup, we are busy and we sold the house ( which involves a lot of things that I refuse to go into other than to say they are time consuming ). Hoping to sell the RV next week.
Meanwhile we have started to pack our personal times within the RV.
I apologize re falling behind in my blog posts. I honestly did not have free time to update you. I was just trying to survive each day and figure out how to feed us.
Truly I have no idea how the next 3 weeks will be – we don’t even have a move day yet.
But once we are get moved I can promise you sunsets like you have never seen. And I will do my best to post at least once per week until we move. You are my family ( we have no other ) and you mean the world to me. Please stick with me for a few weeks longer. Doing the very best I can……
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