Last nite the sunset was amazing. We sit at the back of the bay and look straight out into the ocean, with Ensenada on the north side and a mountain peak at the mouth of the north side. For some reason it reminds me of a shot of Hawaii. Last nite as it got dark I was sitting out in my chair overlooking the beach, and the sky just became so beautiful. Next to the mountain top and then behind the sky was painted these vibrant splotches of pink, golden yellow, blue, orange...the color was sharp and in places one color sliced thru another. As I looked across the bay from the south to the north, the sky changed; it was more like waves of color...softer, sort of folding across each other. The colors were more muted, the yellow and oranges gone, mostly dark dark blue and shades of pink. It was bigger somehow, I guess it covered more area. Then to my left on the land up and behind Ensenada, the hills were that black/blue and the sky above and around them just a few shades lighter. I was in awe of the whole thing. I thought to myself- how weird that at first I thought it looked like a painting! No silly! Art imitates life not the other way around! Duh. Everardo came out then and stood beside me taking it all in. He asked why I didn't bring my camera and take some shots- that means my phone of course...and so I answered that a picture would not do it justice, that I barely felt capable of trying to describe it at all. Maybe when I get our new camera with all the different settings I can try and take some good shots. Maybe take tons of pictures with different angles and lighting, and be able to choose some that kind of define how I feel here. Maybe.
The ocean also knocks me out on a daily basis. It's always different. The pelicans who have made themselves scarce lately have been back the last few days. There were so many every day when we first got to Baja; I guess I thought they would always be here. I googled it last month when they became fewer and fewer, and when I google I always read about 10 articles on whatever subject it is, and it must have been the tenth article that finally said they move up thru Calif and Oregon following the fish in the spring. The balance of the articles merely said yeah there's alot of pelicans in Baja. Brown pelicans altho' they are not always brown...and the males of course have the most interesting coloring. Anyway they're back, and so are the fish. Our neighbor walked by our house yesterday late afternoon pulling a kayak. About an hour he came back by holding a string of fish- maybe 4 or 5 pretty big fish. Very cool. We ate fish for dinner last nite but it came from the fish market....almost as fresh as his....
On my dance/walk yesterday morning, Sam found a live crab in a pile of kelp at the water's edge. It was small, maybe 4 inches across. OMG it was soooo funny. Hazel ran over to see what Sam found, and at first they just looked at it. Then tried touching it with a paw, which got the crab swinging his claws and both dogs jumped back. Each tried to put his face down there and the claws started swinging again and I thought somebody's nose would get pinched. So then Sam started barking at it and Hazel joined in. I let all this go on for a few minutes, but finally called them to leave it alone because sooner or later it would have ended badly for poor mr crab. Sam the fishing dog! Last week he pulled a stingray our the water- I'm pretty sure it was already dead, but he brought all the way home and then guarded it for a while. Everardo came home and finally took it away- I couldn't bear to because he was so proud of it. When we first came to Mexico down in Guerrero Sam caught a live fish! He's the man! I gotta find that picture and put all three together and post them on facebook- and also print them and put them in a frame.
Last Saturday we went to Ensenada for a meeting and to get Everardo some boxing gloves because the gym here has one of those long bags. On the way home we decided to go "exploring" and turned on a dirt road just south of Ensenada. It ended out at the estuary, which I didn't realize was that big. It's close to us on this side, but driving the road goes away from the coastline and so it's much further. Anyway the road started to have puddles as we got way out there and we could see something disturbing the puddles. It was tiny crabs- but the totally cool thing about them was that they had one claw that was as big or bigger than the rest of their body. I mean they were about an inch long and had a claw at least that long. And there were tons of them. They ran from every puddle. We got out and took some pictures of them. I assume the puddles were salt, and that it was high tide....but we were still pretty far from the water- how often is the tide great enough to come in that far?
In other news, I think the laser light therapy works. I've had 5 sessions- 1 hour each, and my hands are way way better. My wrists have not had a pain or ached at all since about the second appt. My fingers stayed stiff and sore, but it's basically gone. I haven't needed the wrist splints at night, and I can be on the computer all day or holding up a book, anyway it's pretty amazing. I want to see if it lasts....yeah I hate to be a skeptic, but let's see long term- and by that I only mean let's see in 6 months. I'm pretty damn happy about the results at this point though.
So I'm into week two of my new health plan, and I'm not talking about health insurance ha ha. I'm talking about exercise and eating. I don't want to call it a diet- that assumes an end. I need to eat better. And really I eat ok...I just add sweets- cookies and chocolate- on top of it. If the stuff is not in the house I don't eat it. Luckily Everardo doesn't eat that stuff, yes people he snacks on fruit! I just finished a nice ripe pear, and actually it was great. He made a stir fry shrimp with asparagus and mushroom for dinner that was to die for. So the plan is M-W-F gym and dance/walk and T-TH only dance/walk. Feels great! I really only started working with weights when I went to that boot camp, and when I got back really tried to keep it up. Of course life always gets in the way, right? But right here, right now, I have an amazing opportunity. The gym is free, the dance/walk is free (altho ha ha I could use some new steps- gotta google that). So I'm getting up and working out, then come home, shower and have my protein shake, then study Spanish for at least an hour. Now I am at noon. So whatever I need to do- whether it's laundry or grocery shopping or just hanging out- I have all afternoon. After that amazing dinner we went for a long walk on the beach. It was nice, and we saw other couple doing the same thing- probly walking off their dinners as well. The thing is- I have the time! I have the time to make this my habit, to make this my lifestyle. It's already Everardo's lifestyle- working out and eating right so he's very happy to help me out, he helped me figure out what machines to use in the gym, Oh I almost forgot this. Yesterday we went over there and he had his new gloves so he worked out on the punching bag. We actually went so he could show me a technique for doing it, but now I'm thinking I'll wait since I'm trying to decided if the laser light therapy is working and i don't want to cloud the issue. Anyway- I watched him punch the bag- and for some reason it was kinda scary. He's very strong, and the look on his face was so...focused I guess. This is a man who never loses his temper. I mean I have seen him angry maybe 2 or 3 times ever and it was when we argued and it went on and on. He got mad, yelled something and then walked away. I never seen him lash out at anyone or anything. Never seen him smack a wall or throw something down in anger. So maybe that was it. But watching him hit that bag, nonstop...his face never changed but he was moving all over the place. He was determined, focused, brutal..yeah I guess I want to watch it again and it will probly be fine. Ok and it was a little sexy as well. He has very nice muscles, very nice definition- arms and chest. And he never wears a tank top, never wears no sleeves. But just the way the clothes fit him you can tell.
Ok so he runs and hits the bag- oh is it called the heavy bag? I think so. I'm doing weights for arms and chest and back, and then sit ups. Oh and my dance/walk. I am so grateful that I am so fortunate that this is my life right now.
I'm going to be going up to northern California in a few weeks, and sometime this summer we're going to take a road trip down south, see his brother and sister in Michocan, hope go thru Oaxaca because neither of us have been there, and then swing back up thru Guerrero and see our house down there. I want to get my books and a piece of furniture, and this light blanket with a peacock design that I bought when I was down there with my friend Veronica. We both bought blankets of the street because we knew we'd be sitting possibly all nite in the Mexico City airport and it gets cold in there. We will proby stay just a few days. We have renters in the house right now who Jay tells us (Jay is the guy we pay to look after the house), anyway her says they really like the house. They originally rented it for 2 months but have decided to stay. Ok I know I must not get my hopes up but maybe they'll want to buy it.....
I'm excited to go back and see it. My Spanish is a million times better than it was when we were there, so I can talk to my friend Chela. The renters are only living in the downstairs like we were, so we're thinking we can sleep in the upstairs. It has it's own entrance, and a bathroom with a shower. We can always eat somewhere else-that's not a problem, so we'll see. I want to sit on my rock, swim in the warm ocean...look at our property. And this will be with no stress on my part. We are not in a hurry to sell. And with the road paved, and we heard that water is coming, well the right buyer will come. When we left I was very stressed, over wanting to leave, and worse, because of getting involved in the politics of the town. It's basically 2 families and so almost everyone is related to one family or the other. Also, we found out I was taken advantage of when buying the property- which would be my own fault except some of those involved were supposedly my friends. Then after I left someone accused my husband of malicious gossip and I fired back with the truth that it had been her own brothers and sisters. So I'm hoping my best friend down there is still my friend. But if not- no big deal- we will never live there again...we want to sell but we could always just keep it as a vacation house. See what I mean about stress? So this visit will be for fun. Ha ha fun for me- Everardo plans to do some work on the roofs of both the kitchen and the bedroom. He patched it when we were first there, but it needs a more permanent fix. He is also open to painting if it needs it. Me? The beach, my rock, my books, walks....did I say I have a great life???
I know that Guerrero is not the safest place right now, Michocan either. But at least now we have Sonora license plares (Michocan didn't like Guerrero when we were there). And I know the "public defense" groups are still around...but they would have no interest in us- that's for the bad guys. We will be tourists.....I'm excited about the whole trip- when we drove up from there we were in a hurry and had Sam to contend with. Sam and Hazel will stay home with a sitter, so we can be choosier about motels, we can stop to look or go in somewhere, things like that. Everardo and I like adventures and we like exploring. It will also be nice to see his sister and brother again- without the fear of the first meeting ha ha. Anyway the trip is in the planning stage- but I know my hubby and all of a sudden he'll say "ok we're leaving tomorrow". so I need to do my own planning in my head- clothes, dog sitter...yeah it's gonna be great.
ok enough for now. Viva
The ocean also knocks me out on a daily basis. It's always different. The pelicans who have made themselves scarce lately have been back the last few days. There were so many every day when we first got to Baja; I guess I thought they would always be here. I googled it last month when they became fewer and fewer, and when I google I always read about 10 articles on whatever subject it is, and it must have been the tenth article that finally said they move up thru Calif and Oregon following the fish in the spring. The balance of the articles merely said yeah there's alot of pelicans in Baja. Brown pelicans altho' they are not always brown...and the males of course have the most interesting coloring. Anyway they're back, and so are the fish. Our neighbor walked by our house yesterday late afternoon pulling a kayak. About an hour he came back by holding a string of fish- maybe 4 or 5 pretty big fish. Very cool. We ate fish for dinner last nite but it came from the fish market....almost as fresh as his....
On my dance/walk yesterday morning, Sam found a live crab in a pile of kelp at the water's edge. It was small, maybe 4 inches across. OMG it was soooo funny. Hazel ran over to see what Sam found, and at first they just looked at it. Then tried touching it with a paw, which got the crab swinging his claws and both dogs jumped back. Each tried to put his face down there and the claws started swinging again and I thought somebody's nose would get pinched. So then Sam started barking at it and Hazel joined in. I let all this go on for a few minutes, but finally called them to leave it alone because sooner or later it would have ended badly for poor mr crab. Sam the fishing dog! Last week he pulled a stingray our the water- I'm pretty sure it was already dead, but he brought all the way home and then guarded it for a while. Everardo came home and finally took it away- I couldn't bear to because he was so proud of it. When we first came to Mexico down in Guerrero Sam caught a live fish! He's the man! I gotta find that picture and put all three together and post them on facebook- and also print them and put them in a frame.
Last Saturday we went to Ensenada for a meeting and to get Everardo some boxing gloves because the gym here has one of those long bags. On the way home we decided to go "exploring" and turned on a dirt road just south of Ensenada. It ended out at the estuary, which I didn't realize was that big. It's close to us on this side, but driving the road goes away from the coastline and so it's much further. Anyway the road started to have puddles as we got way out there and we could see something disturbing the puddles. It was tiny crabs- but the totally cool thing about them was that they had one claw that was as big or bigger than the rest of their body. I mean they were about an inch long and had a claw at least that long. And there were tons of them. They ran from every puddle. We got out and took some pictures of them. I assume the puddles were salt, and that it was high tide....but we were still pretty far from the water- how often is the tide great enough to come in that far?
In other news, I think the laser light therapy works. I've had 5 sessions- 1 hour each, and my hands are way way better. My wrists have not had a pain or ached at all since about the second appt. My fingers stayed stiff and sore, but it's basically gone. I haven't needed the wrist splints at night, and I can be on the computer all day or holding up a book, anyway it's pretty amazing. I want to see if it lasts....yeah I hate to be a skeptic, but let's see long term- and by that I only mean let's see in 6 months. I'm pretty damn happy about the results at this point though.
So I'm into week two of my new health plan, and I'm not talking about health insurance ha ha. I'm talking about exercise and eating. I don't want to call it a diet- that assumes an end. I need to eat better. And really I eat ok...I just add sweets- cookies and chocolate- on top of it. If the stuff is not in the house I don't eat it. Luckily Everardo doesn't eat that stuff, yes people he snacks on fruit! I just finished a nice ripe pear, and actually it was great. He made a stir fry shrimp with asparagus and mushroom for dinner that was to die for. So the plan is M-W-F gym and dance/walk and T-TH only dance/walk. Feels great! I really only started working with weights when I went to that boot camp, and when I got back really tried to keep it up. Of course life always gets in the way, right? But right here, right now, I have an amazing opportunity. The gym is free, the dance/walk is free (altho ha ha I could use some new steps- gotta google that). So I'm getting up and working out, then come home, shower and have my protein shake, then study Spanish for at least an hour. Now I am at noon. So whatever I need to do- whether it's laundry or grocery shopping or just hanging out- I have all afternoon. After that amazing dinner we went for a long walk on the beach. It was nice, and we saw other couple doing the same thing- probly walking off their dinners as well. The thing is- I have the time! I have the time to make this my habit, to make this my lifestyle. It's already Everardo's lifestyle- working out and eating right so he's very happy to help me out, he helped me figure out what machines to use in the gym, Oh I almost forgot this. Yesterday we went over there and he had his new gloves so he worked out on the punching bag. We actually went so he could show me a technique for doing it, but now I'm thinking I'll wait since I'm trying to decided if the laser light therapy is working and i don't want to cloud the issue. Anyway- I watched him punch the bag- and for some reason it was kinda scary. He's very strong, and the look on his face was so...focused I guess. This is a man who never loses his temper. I mean I have seen him angry maybe 2 or 3 times ever and it was when we argued and it went on and on. He got mad, yelled something and then walked away. I never seen him lash out at anyone or anything. Never seen him smack a wall or throw something down in anger. So maybe that was it. But watching him hit that bag, nonstop...his face never changed but he was moving all over the place. He was determined, focused, brutal..yeah I guess I want to watch it again and it will probly be fine. Ok and it was a little sexy as well. He has very nice muscles, very nice definition- arms and chest. And he never wears a tank top, never wears no sleeves. But just the way the clothes fit him you can tell.
Ok so he runs and hits the bag- oh is it called the heavy bag? I think so. I'm doing weights for arms and chest and back, and then sit ups. Oh and my dance/walk. I am so grateful that I am so fortunate that this is my life right now.
I'm going to be going up to northern California in a few weeks, and sometime this summer we're going to take a road trip down south, see his brother and sister in Michocan, hope go thru Oaxaca because neither of us have been there, and then swing back up thru Guerrero and see our house down there. I want to get my books and a piece of furniture, and this light blanket with a peacock design that I bought when I was down there with my friend Veronica. We both bought blankets of the street because we knew we'd be sitting possibly all nite in the Mexico City airport and it gets cold in there. We will proby stay just a few days. We have renters in the house right now who Jay tells us (Jay is the guy we pay to look after the house), anyway her says they really like the house. They originally rented it for 2 months but have decided to stay. Ok I know I must not get my hopes up but maybe they'll want to buy it.....
I'm excited to go back and see it. My Spanish is a million times better than it was when we were there, so I can talk to my friend Chela. The renters are only living in the downstairs like we were, so we're thinking we can sleep in the upstairs. It has it's own entrance, and a bathroom with a shower. We can always eat somewhere else-that's not a problem, so we'll see. I want to sit on my rock, swim in the warm ocean...look at our property. And this will be with no stress on my part. We are not in a hurry to sell. And with the road paved, and we heard that water is coming, well the right buyer will come. When we left I was very stressed, over wanting to leave, and worse, because of getting involved in the politics of the town. It's basically 2 families and so almost everyone is related to one family or the other. Also, we found out I was taken advantage of when buying the property- which would be my own fault except some of those involved were supposedly my friends. Then after I left someone accused my husband of malicious gossip and I fired back with the truth that it had been her own brothers and sisters. So I'm hoping my best friend down there is still my friend. But if not- no big deal- we will never live there again...we want to sell but we could always just keep it as a vacation house. See what I mean about stress? So this visit will be for fun. Ha ha fun for me- Everardo plans to do some work on the roofs of both the kitchen and the bedroom. He patched it when we were first there, but it needs a more permanent fix. He is also open to painting if it needs it. Me? The beach, my rock, my books, walks....did I say I have a great life???
I know that Guerrero is not the safest place right now, Michocan either. But at least now we have Sonora license plares (Michocan didn't like Guerrero when we were there). And I know the "public defense" groups are still around...but they would have no interest in us- that's for the bad guys. We will be tourists.....I'm excited about the whole trip- when we drove up from there we were in a hurry and had Sam to contend with. Sam and Hazel will stay home with a sitter, so we can be choosier about motels, we can stop to look or go in somewhere, things like that. Everardo and I like adventures and we like exploring. It will also be nice to see his sister and brother again- without the fear of the first meeting ha ha. Anyway the trip is in the planning stage- but I know my hubby and all of a sudden he'll say "ok we're leaving tomorrow". so I need to do my own planning in my head- clothes, dog sitter...yeah it's gonna be great.
ok enough for now. Viva
