Ha ha so this morning the workers were back shoveling the dirt pile that has become our driveway. They had been doing it Thursday, then nobody showed up on Friday and that's when we were told oh it will be completed in 2 weeks, when we finish this other part....yeah right. Well Everardo talked to the engineer last nite after smashing the cement to bits, and the guy said well if we don't fix it next week go ahead and take out the rest of it. (Personally I think he should take it out but fat chance of that) Then this mornig we were getting into the truck and the head guy for this project was on the road, so Poppi went to talk to him. Then I saw the guy taking pictures- uh oh, he's either siding with us or gathering evidence for Everardo's trial ha ha. Actually he agreed with us; Everardo told him it's been a problem for 4 months, pointed out the short wall being built in front of our neighbors, that was promised to us at one point. So he took pictures of the area and said he was going to talk to the project manager's supervisor....hmmm I'm impressed. Poppi said see that trailer? We want to pull it out of our driveway next weekend, full of stuff. The guy apologized; he said there were so many mistakes made on this project; even pointed out a couple to Everardo. The did a "lip" across the opening to a small road that goes down off our road right before the arroyo. That road is now impossible to access at that end. It is a loop so comes back out further back, and that opening was done correctly. So, again vamos a ver....
Well we packed some more today, I packed to "fragile" bins that will go on top. There's not a lot more; clothes more knicky knacks, the bare minimum we left in the kitchen...we are leaving the furniture here for now. I am getting excited. Sam is getting wiggy- he knows something is going on. The trip is 3 or 4 days, our plan is to take the cuotas (toll roads) the whole way. Part of my excitement I know is the new adventure. The other part is expectation and I know I have to be careful with that. But ooooh- an AA meeting in English, silence at nite (ha ha the quiet here is people made quiet, but the ocean is soooo loud). I thought remote sounded wonderful, serene, peaceful. It is all those things, but add to it lonely, nothing to do, the need to travel to get anything....
I found out something interesting that answers a couple of questions for me. This is indeed a tiny town, remote. Well it seems that nobody pays their electric bill...in fact side note: the governor just paid off everybody's past due bill in Guerrero...foolish us paid the 10 months that were past due when we moved in (not sure why the money I sent wasn't used for that), and we are current so ours didn't get paid. But the store on the corner hasn't paid their bill in 2 years! A couple of other places don't pay either. It's weird that nobody's power gets turned off. And we have no meter; only some people have it. When we went to San Marcos the other day, they gave us a sticker to affix somewhere and if we do, we will get a meter. Otherwise, they just guess. So- we took a couple pf payments to pay off the 10 month past due, and then got our regular bills. They were about 200+ pesos for 2 months, the bill comes every 2 months, so under $30USD a month. Then this bill we just got was 657 pesos! Everardo talked to them while we were there and asked what's up with the big jump? So they changed it to 150 pesos for the 2 months! Arbitrary. Weird....And if we hadn't paid the whole time we were here, she would have erased that bill since it was in the previous owner's name. ha ha intersting way to do business. We actually went up there back in July to change it to our name, but they wouldn't put the bill in our name without the deed to the property. Ha ha. And we've had some issues with the revised deed, now all taken care of...in the usual wait wait wait manner of business in Mexico.
So all of this helps me to understand why the power company won't come out here unless the whole town is down. Unless everybody's electricity is out, they don't come. So we have our local electrician, Romeo who as I think I said before is now a line in my budget ha ha. But why come to people who don't pay anyway. And I think it's the same for Sky, the tv satellite cable company, they don't turn it off for months after you stopped paying. When we got ours, at least one neighbor thought it would be a good idea to hook into ours and run a cable from our house to theirs! Yeah, I don't think so.....well we will be turning off tv and internet when we go, but keeping electricity. We want an outside light on at nite, and we can pay form up there. The phone has been off for ahwile altho the lines are there for a connection downstairs, upstairs and out in the kitchen is somebody wants to give it a go ha ha.
Well it's late afternoon, a beautiful cooling wind has come up. Maybe another nite time walk on the beach is in store for me tonite. I still love it here, and I'm sure we'll be back....for vacation ha ha.
Well we packed some more today, I packed to "fragile" bins that will go on top. There's not a lot more; clothes more knicky knacks, the bare minimum we left in the kitchen...we are leaving the furniture here for now. I am getting excited. Sam is getting wiggy- he knows something is going on. The trip is 3 or 4 days, our plan is to take the cuotas (toll roads) the whole way. Part of my excitement I know is the new adventure. The other part is expectation and I know I have to be careful with that. But ooooh- an AA meeting in English, silence at nite (ha ha the quiet here is people made quiet, but the ocean is soooo loud). I thought remote sounded wonderful, serene, peaceful. It is all those things, but add to it lonely, nothing to do, the need to travel to get anything....
I found out something interesting that answers a couple of questions for me. This is indeed a tiny town, remote. Well it seems that nobody pays their electric bill...in fact side note: the governor just paid off everybody's past due bill in Guerrero...foolish us paid the 10 months that were past due when we moved in (not sure why the money I sent wasn't used for that), and we are current so ours didn't get paid. But the store on the corner hasn't paid their bill in 2 years! A couple of other places don't pay either. It's weird that nobody's power gets turned off. And we have no meter; only some people have it. When we went to San Marcos the other day, they gave us a sticker to affix somewhere and if we do, we will get a meter. Otherwise, they just guess. So- we took a couple pf payments to pay off the 10 month past due, and then got our regular bills. They were about 200+ pesos for 2 months, the bill comes every 2 months, so under $30USD a month. Then this bill we just got was 657 pesos! Everardo talked to them while we were there and asked what's up with the big jump? So they changed it to 150 pesos for the 2 months! Arbitrary. Weird....And if we hadn't paid the whole time we were here, she would have erased that bill since it was in the previous owner's name. ha ha intersting way to do business. We actually went up there back in July to change it to our name, but they wouldn't put the bill in our name without the deed to the property. Ha ha. And we've had some issues with the revised deed, now all taken care of...in the usual wait wait wait manner of business in Mexico.
So all of this helps me to understand why the power company won't come out here unless the whole town is down. Unless everybody's electricity is out, they don't come. So we have our local electrician, Romeo who as I think I said before is now a line in my budget ha ha. But why come to people who don't pay anyway. And I think it's the same for Sky, the tv satellite cable company, they don't turn it off for months after you stopped paying. When we got ours, at least one neighbor thought it would be a good idea to hook into ours and run a cable from our house to theirs! Yeah, I don't think so.....well we will be turning off tv and internet when we go, but keeping electricity. We want an outside light on at nite, and we can pay form up there. The phone has been off for ahwile altho the lines are there for a connection downstairs, upstairs and out in the kitchen is somebody wants to give it a go ha ha.
Well it's late afternoon, a beautiful cooling wind has come up. Maybe another nite time walk on the beach is in store for me tonite. I still love it here, and I'm sure we'll be back....for vacation ha ha.
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