Oh my Gosh. It’s already Wednesday. What happened to Monday and Tuesday? We spent them cleaning out the loft. It was a dirty dirty job, but now the things in the loft are put away where they are supposed to be. Mostly, anyways. We hired a local (Mexican) guy to smooth out the concrete, so it will be ready for a chair and the new, way cool king sized bed there. Just add a mosquito net and it should be very cool sleeping accommodations for a guest. And with a nice view of the ocean as well. The weather is simply beautiful for sleeping!
I drug Pete into town to run errands - Sam’s Club, Glass/Aluminum store, furniture store, Walmart, paint store, currency exchange. And he even treated me to an ice cream cone from McDonald’s. Yummy, especially after a hot day running errands. We picked out and purchased night stands at a Mexican furniture and appliance store. It’s amazing what you can do without being able to speak the language - and what you can’t do as well. Now they just need to be varnished. Then the bedroom will be officially done!
On Monday night, one of the guards tapped on the door and spoke to us in Spanish. No intiendo (I don’t understand), I said. We went outside and he was just asking if the old air conditioner was okay to take - was it basura (trash)? We said yes and Pete even delivered it to the guard shack so he didn’t have to carry it there. He mentioned to another guard (Rudy) that we also had some pans that we put out for the garbage. He asked us to put them aside for him. Pete signed a paper giving them permission to take the items. None of the workers are allowed to leave with any items unless they have written permission. We also gave some items to our cleaning lady on Sunday. So many things are re-used or passed along to friends or relatives in Mexico. Little goes to waste here.
We had (note the word…had) a large coconut palm leaning against our roof. It was absolutely loaded with coconuts and was located right over the walkway to the ocean. The guards came this afternoon and cut it down. They did an absolutely terrific job. If one of those coconuts dropped on anyone walking on the walkway, it would’ve done some serious damage.
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