5C's Que Pasa

One of the first projections showed a direct hit on Mazatlan. Plans are underway as to which areas need to evacuated and shelters are being set up. Even the Isla has a shelter set up.

A few hours later Orlene’s path moved to the south which is terrible for those communities but much better for the Isla and Mazatlan itself.

About 6:15PM Mazatlan time Orlene officially became a Category 2. Based on the winds it may or may not become a Category 3.

RV2 has been sand bagged. I was unable to confirm if RV1, where we stay, has been sandbagged.

This is what is approaching the west coast of Mexico.

Sunset this evening on the Isla.

Caeli and Carmeh at least five years ago.

Please send a few prayers if you can. This storm has the potential to affect so very many folks. In this article which was issued at 6PM EDT is says that Orlene will be making landfall in the region of Mazatlan. It appears that the landfall projection has changed back to Mazatlan.

This photo was taken during my surprise birthday treasure hunt set up by Colin a few weeks after my birthday.

I use that top shelf for extra storage of saran wrap, zip lock bags etc.

Our kitchen has track lightning with suspended pendants. Five Rock Candy mini pendants ( 10″ with a 3.2″ diameter ) and four Swarovski Crystals pendants that depending on the of location sun send multiple rainbow prisms throughout the kitchen. Again on the far right you can see a single pendant rock candy light hanging directly from the ceiling with a bronze cord and plate.

Rock Candy pendant at night.

The electrical cord came away.

We wonder if the light had not been installed properly! This was attached to the fallen fixture. There are no photos of the clean up. It was a huge mess with glass everywhere. Colin certainly did not knock the pendant with enough force to cause the break.

It wasn’t until we were cleaned up that I noticed that the fixture had crashed into the cabinets below where it had hung. Three gouges!!

The sun coming through an upper window shows how bad the spiders have been this year. The straight streaks have also been caused by spiders.

Last night we had a very tasty dinner of quiche served with beets, Swiss chard, carrots,tomatoes and cucumbers all from our garden.

The same night of the light fixture crash we had the most beautiful sunset – but before the incident. There is even an airplane taking off for parts unknown.

All as painted by Mother Nature.

By the time I figured out how to work with the phyllo ( which was a huge mess ), unthaw the wild shrimp, peel and cook it as well as make the cheese filling I was very close to 3 hours of prep time. Not the best presentation but they were tasty. However I will not be repeating that recipe. Not easy to find frozen phyllo cups.

We had another great evening together.

The girls were interested in all the smells coming from the table. They did get some carrot and cucumber but that was it.

Cute.

Cuter.

The cutest of them all.

It was a love in. Look at those flapping years.

Ciela is enjoying every moment. In fact we all enjoyed the visit. Hopefully the next time we see them it will be on the Isla in a year or two. They will fly over. I can hardly wait. Safe travel my friends.

We saw our friends Tuesday and Thursday yet the best sunset was the evening in between.

A few days ago Colin was looking for his second Jeep fob – I can’t remember why. That is when I noticed that my second Lexus fob was also missing!! So we spent a good 30 minutes looking for the missing key fobs. I went thru my purse four times as Colin thought I was the culprit. Then he checked both vehicles. We kept searching and searching.

After a long time Colin lifted the lid to replace it on the box ( which we picked up in one of our trips to India) where we store keys. Well I just have to wonder who put the lid over the two “missing” key fobs. Twas not me. Missing fobs now found.

This stool is placed between our driving chairs in the RV and the bright dog bed was sitting on top of that piece of plywood on top of the cushion. But it kept sliding all over the place.

A few weeks ago, Colin took the bottom of the stool off and actually attached a larger piece of plywood on top of it.

He then was able to screw the original bottom on and now we have more support that will not move when the bed is on top.  We also place a piece of non skid mat between the wood and the dog bed.

In real time, today, I had my right leg veins treated. OUCH!! Seriously in all the years I have done this, today was rather painful. She was using ultrasound to find a particular vein. Over 65 needles. I used to do the left leg the next day and then I had to wear stockings on both legs for a week.  Way too hot to do that. So the left leg is next week.

Saw this the other day. Seaside, Oregon had a huge doxie meet up earlier in September. 350 people and 250 dachshunds. Guess where we are going next September? Along with many other Kelowna doxie families. Can you imagine?

We last saw Roger in Palm Springs in November of 2016. We were on our way to the Isla. Roger and Susie now had a place in Palm Springs for the winter. Susie was still in Canada undergoing some medical tests. Of course their doxie Sara ( named after the Duchess of York) came along for the visit. The last time we saw all three of them together was on the Isla was in March of 2014.

We did see Roger and Sara the next day at another Isla RVers  site in the same Palm Springs RV park that we were in.

So it was so very special to see Susie again yesterday, 8.5 years later. They are on a trip thru BC and stopped in our park for a few days. Both Susie and Ciela look so beautiful.

Neither of them have changed at all, in our opinion. Susie had emailed me that she needed a wine and chocolate fix. She got her wish.

The girls were a little shy at first but once the treats and veggies came out they were happy.

Sadly Sara is now in doggie heaven probably playing with Carmeh and Caeli. The three of them did play on the beach together on the Isla.

This is Sara getting a wee massage their RV. It appears that all dachshunds love massage therapists and massages, even our chocolates.

After an extensive happy hour we moved on to pizza for the main course. We had so much to talk about and there was a great deal of laughter.

These two always have a fun time.

We had some yummy mini chocolate eclairs for dessert. It was difficult to say goodnight. They are very special friends.

Usually when Miss S visits the three of them do a lot of running, not so much yesterday.

A bit of a stand off under the chairs.

Water break.

Double love, Shawney and Ciela, the black girl and the chocolate one.

Colin came home and created bit of a diversion with a frisbee. Shawney looking on on the left. That is not a ball she said.

I was surprised at how my girls interacted with the frisbee.