It's soooo hot and humid. Our house always has sand in it. It's like living in a beach cabin all the time. The Playa Ventura house, which was even closer to the beach than here- basically it was our backyard, didn't have as much sand in it. That would be I suppose, because here we are living in a desert, so the land is sandy and the dirt is this fine dirt that seems sometimes just to be in the air. We live on a dirt road of course, and the small yard we have is also dirt. I think maybe sitting at the park today made me miss greenery, made me miss grass in my own yard.
I took the doggys to the park this morning after my AA meeting which I hadn't gone to all week. When I got there, there were 2 men sleeping on the lawn right where I usually walk into the park. No big deal, I just walked past them to a shady spot under a tree. However today, a police truck happened by, and decided to roust the sleeping men, and maybe one of them commented on me being on the lawn, because one of the policemen came up to me. He told me he didn't speak much English and I said that's ok, my Spanish is pretty bad, too. He pointed to the sign that said don't walk on the grass and told me I couldn't sit there. I hadn't yet sat down, but I pointed to Sam & Lucky and said, oh pobre perros. Then he surprised me by sayingthat the dogs could be on the lawn, just not me! Ha ha I laughed. Then I told him in Spanish that I didn't want to sit on the cement wall because it was always full of ants...he laughed and said sorry. We went back to the first shady spot where the men had been, and there was a short cement wall like a planter box, and I didn't see any ants.
Sam chased the ball alot today, and Lucky explored. I read a little and we stayed about an hour. I love grass, I LOVE GRASS. In this little park it's that really thick grass, the thin stuff would never make it here. It's interesting to me that more people are not hanging out every day in this park, just for the green; the trees, the bushes, the lawn, the shade. Maybe I'm just NOT thinking about my upcoming procedure, that would be me, coming up with an elaborate plan about something else.
I looked at Ensenada on line yesterday and this morning. It's not a desert. It looks like the average temperature is mid 70's all year round, although reading about the winter rainy season from Nov to Feb, I bet its not in the 70's then. And the summer sometimes it much hotter, but it is on the Pacific, and so is probly not that hot. Where we come from in northern Calif, the coast is beautiful, but the water is too cold to swim in. I'm hearing the same for Ensenada, altho' I remember swimming at the beach in Long Beach and Newport Beach...southern Calif...but I bet it was cold ha ha.
Truth is I could easily "be over" swimming in the ocean. I never did it that much, except in Hawaii on vacation and then every day for six months down in Guerrero. I love the ocean, the smells, the birds, the crashing waves....I can watch it for hours, and I don't need to be in it. Ensenada needs to be an option for us....and Everardo told me he knows some people there- yep- he lived there, too. Of course he told me to get it out of my head for now- not to start obsessing like I do...ha ha he says when I get something in my head I don't let go. Noooooo-me?
But I worry for him. He doesn't say it, but I know he's trying to figure out how to make some money, how to take care of us. Right now the only tourists on the beach are Nationals (Mexicans) from other states and they are much on buying stuff from the vendors. But even during "the season" there wasn't that many tourists here. He knew that things had slowed down here, but I think maybe he didn't realize it was this much. Working at the center just wasn't making him any money. He really liked what he was doing but we couldn't live on what he was getting. Now he may have another lead, a guy who works at a gym told him there's gonna be an opening to work 4-10pm and he can make enough to get us by. Den & Rick are planning to have a business down here and she told me today she always keeps Everardo's name in her mind. I just want him to know I'm open for something different. He had actually talked about living 6 months in Algodonis and 6 months here so he could work as a vendor.
So I looked at Ensenada. It has a big tourist population. It has at least one cruise ship port. It's a huge city...oh God! 370 thousand!! Well maybe we could live in the outskirts? There's a mountain range nearby and a valley where they grow grapes and make wine. There grass, did I say it's NOT the desert? So I lived in the tropics and now I live in the desert...what's next?
And I also saw there's several manufacturing companies there- hey I could get a job...but I'd still want to teach English for free, maybe wknds? So this is all just my musings...cause who knows what the next few weeks are going to bring. For me- I'm voting for nothing wrong when we get my results!
Ok fun fact about Mexico: (about Ensenada of course)
It is said that the first Vitis vinifera made it to the region's San Ignacio Mission in 1703, when Jesuit Padre Juan de Ugarte planted the first vineyards there.
I took the doggys to the park this morning after my AA meeting which I hadn't gone to all week. When I got there, there were 2 men sleeping on the lawn right where I usually walk into the park. No big deal, I just walked past them to a shady spot under a tree. However today, a police truck happened by, and decided to roust the sleeping men, and maybe one of them commented on me being on the lawn, because one of the policemen came up to me. He told me he didn't speak much English and I said that's ok, my Spanish is pretty bad, too. He pointed to the sign that said don't walk on the grass and told me I couldn't sit there. I hadn't yet sat down, but I pointed to Sam & Lucky and said, oh pobre perros. Then he surprised me by sayingthat the dogs could be on the lawn, just not me! Ha ha I laughed. Then I told him in Spanish that I didn't want to sit on the cement wall because it was always full of ants...he laughed and said sorry. We went back to the first shady spot where the men had been, and there was a short cement wall like a planter box, and I didn't see any ants.
Sam chased the ball alot today, and Lucky explored. I read a little and we stayed about an hour. I love grass, I LOVE GRASS. In this little park it's that really thick grass, the thin stuff would never make it here. It's interesting to me that more people are not hanging out every day in this park, just for the green; the trees, the bushes, the lawn, the shade. Maybe I'm just NOT thinking about my upcoming procedure, that would be me, coming up with an elaborate plan about something else.
I looked at Ensenada on line yesterday and this morning. It's not a desert. It looks like the average temperature is mid 70's all year round, although reading about the winter rainy season from Nov to Feb, I bet its not in the 70's then. And the summer sometimes it much hotter, but it is on the Pacific, and so is probly not that hot. Where we come from in northern Calif, the coast is beautiful, but the water is too cold to swim in. I'm hearing the same for Ensenada, altho' I remember swimming at the beach in Long Beach and Newport Beach...southern Calif...but I bet it was cold ha ha.
Truth is I could easily "be over" swimming in the ocean. I never did it that much, except in Hawaii on vacation and then every day for six months down in Guerrero. I love the ocean, the smells, the birds, the crashing waves....I can watch it for hours, and I don't need to be in it. Ensenada needs to be an option for us....and Everardo told me he knows some people there- yep- he lived there, too. Of course he told me to get it out of my head for now- not to start obsessing like I do...ha ha he says when I get something in my head I don't let go. Noooooo-me?
But I worry for him. He doesn't say it, but I know he's trying to figure out how to make some money, how to take care of us. Right now the only tourists on the beach are Nationals (Mexicans) from other states and they are much on buying stuff from the vendors. But even during "the season" there wasn't that many tourists here. He knew that things had slowed down here, but I think maybe he didn't realize it was this much. Working at the center just wasn't making him any money. He really liked what he was doing but we couldn't live on what he was getting. Now he may have another lead, a guy who works at a gym told him there's gonna be an opening to work 4-10pm and he can make enough to get us by. Den & Rick are planning to have a business down here and she told me today she always keeps Everardo's name in her mind. I just want him to know I'm open for something different. He had actually talked about living 6 months in Algodonis and 6 months here so he could work as a vendor.
So I looked at Ensenada. It has a big tourist population. It has at least one cruise ship port. It's a huge city...oh God! 370 thousand!! Well maybe we could live in the outskirts? There's a mountain range nearby and a valley where they grow grapes and make wine. There grass, did I say it's NOT the desert? So I lived in the tropics and now I live in the desert...what's next?
And I also saw there's several manufacturing companies there- hey I could get a job...but I'd still want to teach English for free, maybe wknds? So this is all just my musings...cause who knows what the next few weeks are going to bring. For me- I'm voting for nothing wrong when we get my results!
Ok fun fact about Mexico: (about Ensenada of course)
It is said that the first Vitis vinifera made it to the region's San Ignacio Mission in 1703, when Jesuit Padre Juan de Ugarte planted the first vineyards there.
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