Well I guess I'll catch up slowly since I couldn't get this site to let me on until now and it's getting close to midnite. Before when I couldn't log on I tried writing in word, and then copy and paste, but I looked back at a couple of posts and they seem mixed up. Ha ha trying to fix them made it worse.
So we went to Ometepec this afternoon and went grocery shopping at Super Che. Kinda like the big Lucky store, groceries, a small amount of other things like shorts and sweatshirts, plastic bowls and pitchers, a bakery. I never see ground beef anywhere so I bought some frozen hamburgers- we didn't eat them tonite, but we'll try them soon. We bought a couple big slices of pizza, warm, sitting where they had some cooked chicken, to eat in the truck on the way home. Hmmmm very interesting and I believe made by someone who has seen pizza but never eaten it before. I mean it tasted good, and filled our stomachs; I wasn't hungry anymore, but it tasted nothing like pizza. The crust was more like, well bisquick, like a biscuit. There was no cheese on it, but there was ham & pineapple. No loives or anything like that. Oh and the sauce, I think it was spaghetti sauce. So it was a ham & pineapple spaghetti biscuit...a spaghiscuit...It probably would have been better as a ham & pineapple biscuit, hold the sauce. It was definitely different, so that was good ha ha.
When I was looking for the sauce I wanted for pasta- something cheesy or garlic, a man walked up to me and asked me in Spanish if I spoke English. I said I did and he introduced himself, Noe or Noah I think, and said he taught at a local technical school and he taught English. He said his students had no opportunity to practice speaking English so he tried to invite people to his class. Then Everardo walked up and I introduced him, and said he spoke English as well. Anyway we traded phone numbers with him, I would like to contribute, to help out, so we may go back up there to one of his classes. We'll see if he calls us. I thought he seemed sincere but Everardo was not sure, so we'll see if he calls us back. For me, the guy really reminded me of my old Spanish tutor, Pedro, so I hope he's on the up & up. If so, maybe I can ask him for pointers on trying to teach English. Never know- those pesky kids may come back and want to learn some English after all.....
It was the first time we remembered to bring the ice chest shopping so I got some cheese, and yipee, ice cream, and some pork but no chicken. It's really expensive around here, which seems odd since there's so many chickens ha ha. Eggs aren't cheap either, which is why we plan to have some chickens, but I don't want to grow them to eat, just eggs. In a few weeks Poppi will probably build a chicken house and it will be my first experience with them.
Well over the weekend we had to pay some guys to turn our gate around. It's a big wood gate with metal around it and then like cross bars. It goes almost all the way across the driveway, and then the other side of it is a narrow walking gate. Well the big side opened out, and with the road construction it was becoming impossible to open it al the way...well Poppi did, but he'd be out there shoveling rocks and or dirt- not to mention he had to put the truck in 4 wheel drive to get us up the short driveway from the gate to the road. Friday and Saturday they had a big tractor and so much earth...so we give, we changed it. Of course the metal hinges were old and the guys had to drill and pound and switch sides with the gate pieces.
Then the window guy showed up while they were doing that and we've been waiting awhile for him! He fixed the broken upstairs window and also one of the kitchen windows so that was good. But we learned don't pay anybody up front, or if you must, pay as little as possible. We gave this guy almost all of it ahead of time, but some of it was for needed materials. And the construction guys on the road have been really nice with us, so hopefully whatever our driveway is going to look like, be like, will be good for all of us. I'm hoping for it to come in slanted instead of straight down.
A neighbor gave us a good idea tonite- asking them to fill in the ditch betwen the road and our fence, which is a good idea cause then it could be used for visitor parking. Especially good if we ever build those bungalows, or even rent out the upstairs. Gume thinks 800 pesos a nite for a family during the season, we have 3 beds up there and a bathroom & shower...Everardo is for all of it- bungalows and renting the upstairs, but for me- at least this year I'd like to see how the season goes, maybe enjoy our little town overflowing with people. We've decided to play everything by ear, and he said if I really didn't want to do something, we wouldn't do it. Can't beat that I say. I'll probably be all for it next year, but I've never seen Playa Ventura filled up with people, with vacationers.
We also told Chela and Gume we'd pitch in and help them too when the tourists hit. ha ha I can't cook but I could probably deliver food and bus tables!
ok enough for now...
So we went to Ometepec this afternoon and went grocery shopping at Super Che. Kinda like the big Lucky store, groceries, a small amount of other things like shorts and sweatshirts, plastic bowls and pitchers, a bakery. I never see ground beef anywhere so I bought some frozen hamburgers- we didn't eat them tonite, but we'll try them soon. We bought a couple big slices of pizza, warm, sitting where they had some cooked chicken, to eat in the truck on the way home. Hmmmm very interesting and I believe made by someone who has seen pizza but never eaten it before. I mean it tasted good, and filled our stomachs; I wasn't hungry anymore, but it tasted nothing like pizza. The crust was more like, well bisquick, like a biscuit. There was no cheese on it, but there was ham & pineapple. No loives or anything like that. Oh and the sauce, I think it was spaghetti sauce. So it was a ham & pineapple spaghetti biscuit...a spaghiscuit...It probably would have been better as a ham & pineapple biscuit, hold the sauce. It was definitely different, so that was good ha ha.
When I was looking for the sauce I wanted for pasta- something cheesy or garlic, a man walked up to me and asked me in Spanish if I spoke English. I said I did and he introduced himself, Noe or Noah I think, and said he taught at a local technical school and he taught English. He said his students had no opportunity to practice speaking English so he tried to invite people to his class. Then Everardo walked up and I introduced him, and said he spoke English as well. Anyway we traded phone numbers with him, I would like to contribute, to help out, so we may go back up there to one of his classes. We'll see if he calls us. I thought he seemed sincere but Everardo was not sure, so we'll see if he calls us back. For me, the guy really reminded me of my old Spanish tutor, Pedro, so I hope he's on the up & up. If so, maybe I can ask him for pointers on trying to teach English. Never know- those pesky kids may come back and want to learn some English after all.....
It was the first time we remembered to bring the ice chest shopping so I got some cheese, and yipee, ice cream, and some pork but no chicken. It's really expensive around here, which seems odd since there's so many chickens ha ha. Eggs aren't cheap either, which is why we plan to have some chickens, but I don't want to grow them to eat, just eggs. In a few weeks Poppi will probably build a chicken house and it will be my first experience with them.
Well over the weekend we had to pay some guys to turn our gate around. It's a big wood gate with metal around it and then like cross bars. It goes almost all the way across the driveway, and then the other side of it is a narrow walking gate. Well the big side opened out, and with the road construction it was becoming impossible to open it al the way...well Poppi did, but he'd be out there shoveling rocks and or dirt- not to mention he had to put the truck in 4 wheel drive to get us up the short driveway from the gate to the road. Friday and Saturday they had a big tractor and so much earth...so we give, we changed it. Of course the metal hinges were old and the guys had to drill and pound and switch sides with the gate pieces.
Then the window guy showed up while they were doing that and we've been waiting awhile for him! He fixed the broken upstairs window and also one of the kitchen windows so that was good. But we learned don't pay anybody up front, or if you must, pay as little as possible. We gave this guy almost all of it ahead of time, but some of it was for needed materials. And the construction guys on the road have been really nice with us, so hopefully whatever our driveway is going to look like, be like, will be good for all of us. I'm hoping for it to come in slanted instead of straight down.
A neighbor gave us a good idea tonite- asking them to fill in the ditch betwen the road and our fence, which is a good idea cause then it could be used for visitor parking. Especially good if we ever build those bungalows, or even rent out the upstairs. Gume thinks 800 pesos a nite for a family during the season, we have 3 beds up there and a bathroom & shower...Everardo is for all of it- bungalows and renting the upstairs, but for me- at least this year I'd like to see how the season goes, maybe enjoy our little town overflowing with people. We've decided to play everything by ear, and he said if I really didn't want to do something, we wouldn't do it. Can't beat that I say. I'll probably be all for it next year, but I've never seen Playa Ventura filled up with people, with vacationers.
We also told Chela and Gume we'd pitch in and help them too when the tourists hit. ha ha I can't cook but I could probably deliver food and bus tables!
ok enough for now...
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