Thought I'd say a little about the new house we're renting. I know i already said it's on the side of a hill, a mountain really, although I have not been up the road past our house. We are the first cross strett coming up- you can go to the right or the left, we are left then 2nd house on the right. I'd been up here before, but turning right because my friend Jan lives up that way, as does my other new friend Rowan. Actually Jan is Rowan's mom. But I've known her over a year, and Rowan just a few months but we seem to be becoming good friends- I like that. I'm not really to close to anybody here except for a few people from AA , and with the exception of my friend Dave from Ensenada I don't socialize with any of them. Dave goes to San Diego alot and I go sometimes; when I need natural peanut butter or horseradish or some other thing I can't get down here.
I've walked down the road were on a ways and then turned right to see where it goes up, and we think it cuts back across so we could probably walk a full circle but gotta check out how many dogs, and how many mean dogs are on that route before we make it a dog walk. But the main road seems to go pretty far up the mountain side. I'm sure we'll be checking it out before too long. Today makes day one of week 4 of being here. Went by fast didn't it? And yet it feels very natural, very right.
So the house is a Mexican style house in the sense that it's a finished house surrounded by an unfinished house. Our finished part is 2 bedrooms, a wide open kitchen, and a living room. It may be close to the same size as the trailer, maybe a bit bigger since we had barley any kitchen, and in this living room the tv is not basically at the end of the couch...the room is longer. However, the bedroom is right off the living room and the other one is off the kitchen, so there's no hallway like we had in the trailer, and there's only one bathroom, and it's in our bedroom. But the floors are tile. yipee After the trailer floor, that 1/8 of an inch thick stuff that comes on a roll I guess. It was coming up in places and there was plywood underneath. In fact there were places we didn't walk for fear it would fall thru. Actually in the spare bedroom when we had 2 twin beds in there, one time Everardo was lying down on one of them and I came and climbed on top of him....and the floor gave way! Boy did I feel like a cow ha ha!! It was just one corner of the floor, and Everardo fixed it, with plywood, but it was just sort of sad to live in a rickety old trailer. The beautiful colors we painted it, our things on shelves and tables, our paitings on the walls helped me to overlook it, and I always told myself that out dogs run free and we're on the beach.....
The dogs basically run free here as well. Our yard is so huge they have tons of room. We never close the gate so they could go down the road if they wanted to I guess....but they don't. So if you were facing the house you would see on the left side a big room being added, walls and and opening for a big bay window. Cement floor. Wood and cement, no drywall. I think I'll make it a work out room when the rainy season comes. I have the elliptical and the sit up thing, and I could dance in there- it's plenty big enough, maybe between 20 & 30 foot square...Everardo is making noises about fixing the bicycles again (yes again they've both been broken for about 2 years.) But the road we're on actually goes all the way to Maneadero- we drove it in the truck and it's a pretty bumpy ride...dirt of course with ruts and dips and lumps....but a bike could do it better. OK behind the house is an attached garage area....much bigger than the "exercise room" (like how I named it already?). The garage can be accessed thru the second bedroom, so you walk from the garage thru that room to the kitchen. We have the trailer (the one we pulled behind us from northern California and all over Mexico) filled with stuff we had in the shed at the beach and it barely takes up any room We also have the washer and dryer. Everardo already put me up a really nice clothes line out back- we almost never use the dryer.
Oh and for the washing machine- we are using the gray water to water the plants out front. He put a barrel next to the washer so it empties there and then attached hoses that lead thru the exercise room out to the front yard. So we're using that water. He's already started a few plants, he brought some peppers with him and started new tomato plants, and when he constructs his big garden we'll use the laundry water.
OK so above us is an entire second story the width and length of the house. But it's wood and cement only. I heard that the previous tenants built at least one room and a bathroom up there, windows, sheet rock- finished rooms, but tore it all out when they left. Yeah not a happy ending for them. Also apparently they had their dogs up there and were not taken very good care of because there was a flea infestation when we got here. First day we set off bug bombs. Next day walking around the perimeter with something for fleas. Finally a week later we had an exterminator come and do the outside and the upstairs.
Then came the mouse traps; we caught about 5 or 6 and then I guess the rest left for safer pastures. Everardo found 2 dead scorpions, but hopefully they're also gone, but I have gone back to wearing shoes or flip flops all the time, and not putting my hands places I can't see, checking shoes I haven't worn in a while.
The kitchen sink, when I first turned it on, on one side the water went straight down into the bottom of the cabinet. The hot is the cold and the cold is the hot. That's ok once I figured it out. It also seems that the previous tenants put broken pieces of sheet rock in the kitchen pipes. Everardo had to dig out the pipes outside the kitchen and luckily the sheet rock clumps didn't make it to far. The gas leaked and the water heater leaked. He found these things out one at a time. The shower had no pressure and no hot water, but there was hot water in the kitchen....The shower drain was clogged. My husband is amazing. One by one he tackled each problem and just worked them thru.
The walls are cement so I can't just pound nails and hang pictures...Or shelves in the bathroom, or a long scarf to make a door for the bathroom.....so I need him for everything. Oh and did I say he finished painting every room in the house. It looks awesome. The bedroom has a deep purple wall, 2 light purple walls and one green wall to match the bathroom on the same wall. Today he made me a standing shelf for the bathroom to go with the 2 he put up on the wall. I probably could drill the holes to hang stuff, but he prefers to do it. I direct. We make a good team. It's 90% done, maybe 85%...but really wall hangings for both bedrooms and the bathroom and we're done, Plus the stuff that's still in boxes in the extra bedroom. Which is not much, just a few things, and I need to not call it the extra bedroom- there's no bed in it. Oh yeah and no closets here ha ha. So we went to Home Depot in Ensenada and go one of those wall closets- you know shelves and places to hang, made of that white painted wire...then in the spare room is just a very long pole for hanging with a shelf along the top. So Everardo's clothes are in the spare room- there's a dresser in there and one came with the house in our bedroom (long and low with a huge mirror and impossible to move ha ha). Also a bookcase in the spare room and another end table type table for putting photos, trinkets.
Ok so that's what the house looks like. Oh- the kitchen is the same light green as the bathroom- light but shiny, and the cabinets are deep purple...yeah need a photo here but I don't think I have one...wait I have something with a little of the painting done while we were still moving in. You can see the green in the kitchen but the cabinets were not painted yet. Also the orange of the living room and that round thing is NOT on the wall right there in the walkway ha ha:
Ok this is enough for tonite. I will get myself caught up. Viva!
I've walked down the road were on a ways and then turned right to see where it goes up, and we think it cuts back across so we could probably walk a full circle but gotta check out how many dogs, and how many mean dogs are on that route before we make it a dog walk. But the main road seems to go pretty far up the mountain side. I'm sure we'll be checking it out before too long. Today makes day one of week 4 of being here. Went by fast didn't it? And yet it feels very natural, very right.
So the house is a Mexican style house in the sense that it's a finished house surrounded by an unfinished house. Our finished part is 2 bedrooms, a wide open kitchen, and a living room. It may be close to the same size as the trailer, maybe a bit bigger since we had barley any kitchen, and in this living room the tv is not basically at the end of the couch...the room is longer. However, the bedroom is right off the living room and the other one is off the kitchen, so there's no hallway like we had in the trailer, and there's only one bathroom, and it's in our bedroom. But the floors are tile. yipee After the trailer floor, that 1/8 of an inch thick stuff that comes on a roll I guess. It was coming up in places and there was plywood underneath. In fact there were places we didn't walk for fear it would fall thru. Actually in the spare bedroom when we had 2 twin beds in there, one time Everardo was lying down on one of them and I came and climbed on top of him....and the floor gave way! Boy did I feel like a cow ha ha!! It was just one corner of the floor, and Everardo fixed it, with plywood, but it was just sort of sad to live in a rickety old trailer. The beautiful colors we painted it, our things on shelves and tables, our paitings on the walls helped me to overlook it, and I always told myself that out dogs run free and we're on the beach.....
The dogs basically run free here as well. Our yard is so huge they have tons of room. We never close the gate so they could go down the road if they wanted to I guess....but they don't. So if you were facing the house you would see on the left side a big room being added, walls and and opening for a big bay window. Cement floor. Wood and cement, no drywall. I think I'll make it a work out room when the rainy season comes. I have the elliptical and the sit up thing, and I could dance in there- it's plenty big enough, maybe between 20 & 30 foot square...Everardo is making noises about fixing the bicycles again (yes again they've both been broken for about 2 years.) But the road we're on actually goes all the way to Maneadero- we drove it in the truck and it's a pretty bumpy ride...dirt of course with ruts and dips and lumps....but a bike could do it better. OK behind the house is an attached garage area....much bigger than the "exercise room" (like how I named it already?). The garage can be accessed thru the second bedroom, so you walk from the garage thru that room to the kitchen. We have the trailer (the one we pulled behind us from northern California and all over Mexico) filled with stuff we had in the shed at the beach and it barely takes up any room We also have the washer and dryer. Everardo already put me up a really nice clothes line out back- we almost never use the dryer.
Oh and for the washing machine- we are using the gray water to water the plants out front. He put a barrel next to the washer so it empties there and then attached hoses that lead thru the exercise room out to the front yard. So we're using that water. He's already started a few plants, he brought some peppers with him and started new tomato plants, and when he constructs his big garden we'll use the laundry water.
OK so above us is an entire second story the width and length of the house. But it's wood and cement only. I heard that the previous tenants built at least one room and a bathroom up there, windows, sheet rock- finished rooms, but tore it all out when they left. Yeah not a happy ending for them. Also apparently they had their dogs up there and were not taken very good care of because there was a flea infestation when we got here. First day we set off bug bombs. Next day walking around the perimeter with something for fleas. Finally a week later we had an exterminator come and do the outside and the upstairs.
Then came the mouse traps; we caught about 5 or 6 and then I guess the rest left for safer pastures. Everardo found 2 dead scorpions, but hopefully they're also gone, but I have gone back to wearing shoes or flip flops all the time, and not putting my hands places I can't see, checking shoes I haven't worn in a while.
The kitchen sink, when I first turned it on, on one side the water went straight down into the bottom of the cabinet. The hot is the cold and the cold is the hot. That's ok once I figured it out. It also seems that the previous tenants put broken pieces of sheet rock in the kitchen pipes. Everardo had to dig out the pipes outside the kitchen and luckily the sheet rock clumps didn't make it to far. The gas leaked and the water heater leaked. He found these things out one at a time. The shower had no pressure and no hot water, but there was hot water in the kitchen....The shower drain was clogged. My husband is amazing. One by one he tackled each problem and just worked them thru.
The walls are cement so I can't just pound nails and hang pictures...Or shelves in the bathroom, or a long scarf to make a door for the bathroom.....so I need him for everything. Oh and did I say he finished painting every room in the house. It looks awesome. The bedroom has a deep purple wall, 2 light purple walls and one green wall to match the bathroom on the same wall. Today he made me a standing shelf for the bathroom to go with the 2 he put up on the wall. I probably could drill the holes to hang stuff, but he prefers to do it. I direct. We make a good team. It's 90% done, maybe 85%...but really wall hangings for both bedrooms and the bathroom and we're done, Plus the stuff that's still in boxes in the extra bedroom. Which is not much, just a few things, and I need to not call it the extra bedroom- there's no bed in it. Oh yeah and no closets here ha ha. So we went to Home Depot in Ensenada and go one of those wall closets- you know shelves and places to hang, made of that white painted wire...then in the spare room is just a very long pole for hanging with a shelf along the top. So Everardo's clothes are in the spare room- there's a dresser in there and one came with the house in our bedroom (long and low with a huge mirror and impossible to move ha ha). Also a bookcase in the spare room and another end table type table for putting photos, trinkets.
Ok so that's what the house looks like. Oh- the kitchen is the same light green as the bathroom- light but shiny, and the cabinets are deep purple...yeah need a photo here but I don't think I have one...wait I have something with a little of the painting done while we were still moving in. You can see the green in the kitchen but the cabinets were not painted yet. Also the orange of the living room and that round thing is NOT on the wall right there in the walkway ha ha:
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