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Nov 3, 2010, 12:03 pm
Dear Readers
I have spent the last 6 months in upper California and no longer am I running the guesthouse. The El Boleo mine, painfully on hold during the worst of economic times, is now about to become a reality with funding underway. The mine will bring many new opportunities for jobs and in... Comment - Like
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Sep 9, 2010, 6:59 pm
Hermana and I drove down to Carlsbad, NM to visit our Mother recently. We spent all of our time eating out, then napping and then trying to decide which restaurant to devote our attention to next. We made some surprisingly new finds and repeated old best ones—people in Carlsbad have some clever ... Comment - Like
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Aug 23, 2010, 4:26 pm
Yesterday we flew back from Vancouver where we spent the past several days for Esperando’s work. The weather was beautiful and we ate at some really great restaurants.
Esperando tried to check us in online, but for some peculiar reason he couldn’t acquire my boarding pass. Our flight didn... Comment - Like
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Aug 1, 2010, 10:01 pm
Confederation Bridge traveling north to New Brunswick
When we went to visit our friends in Prince Edward Island last week instead of taking the ferry back to Nova Scotia to go to the airport in Halifax, we drove back over the Confederation Bridge which crosses the Northumberland Strait to connect PE... Comment - Like
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Jul 27, 2010, 1:30 pm
Driving onto the ferry to cross over Northumberland Strait.
Esperando and I spent this past weekend visiting The Storyteller, an old friend, who lives on Prince Edward Island in the Canadian Maritimes (that includes Nova Scotia and New Brunswick as well). We journeyed from San Francisco to JFK Airpo... Comment - Like
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Jul 16, 2010, 1:58 pm
1. The dog is not allowed in the house.
2. Ok, the dog is allowed in the house, but only in certain parts.
3. Ok, the dog is allowed in all rooms, but has to stay off the furniture.
4. Ok, the dog can get on the old furniture only.
5. Fine, the dog allowed on all the furnitur... Comment - Like
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Jul 10, 2010, 8:14 pm
Esperando and I are in Denver for the next few days for various appointments and we can’t overlook the necessary tidying of the yard. In addition to all the trimming back and replacing of plants that froze to death this past winter, we have serious weed patrol. Unfortunately we seem to have our sh... Comment - Like
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Jul 5, 2010, 9:54 pm
View from 17-mile drive near Pebble Beach
This past weekend Esperando and I set our sights for Paso Robles and a little wine tasting adventure in a region with which we were not familiar. We drove down Highway 1 with a diversion through 17 Mile Drive at Carmel, and then on south down Highway 1 to B... Comment - Like
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Jun 21, 2010, 9:13 pm
On Friday I laid down for a few moments to nap. My brother and his wife were coming to go out to dinner with us soon, and I was worn out. Esperando and I had been hustling around all day. A few minutes into my doze I realized that Lupita the Wonder Dog was lying on the floor by my bed in the sunshin... Comment - Like
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Jun 14, 2010, 11:54 am
This past Friday was the eagerly awaited big move-in day to the new apartment. We had been living in a hotel, albeit a nice one, for the last 3 weeks. Every day we had a different maid—that seemed so strange to me that in 3 weeks I never saw the same maid maybe twice.
Our new apartment was ... Comment - Like
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Jun 7, 2010, 7:06 pm
You know this about your pets especially when they are still young--never leave them alone for too long. So what did I do? I slipped out of the room to do laundry and while I was out Lupita got a hold of my computer and started her own blog spot at http://adventureswithlupita.weebly.com/. So far i... Comment - Like
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Jun 6, 2010, 9:13 pm
I have looking for a place to board Lupita when we have to be away. This is not Baja and I don’t have those fantastic muchachas here that baby my pets there as much as I do, take them into their hearts, give them way too many treats and pamper them while we are gone.
First I called a local Yelp... Comment - Like
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May 31, 2010, 1:36 pm
Memorial Day weekend arrived, our first weekend in the Bay Area, a splendid three days for us to relax. Yesterday Esperando and I met with Youngest Daughter and took a picnic to Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. When I was growing up in the City, my best friend in high school and I would cart a l... Comment - Like
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May 27, 2010, 5:02 pm
Youngest Son had an exuberant graduation ceremony in LA last week to receive his BFA in film animation. Since many of his classmates were theater or dance majors it made for an exciting evening as each one had a few seconds to have his/her selected song played and to act out whatever fantasy t... Comment - Like
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May 25, 2010, 11:51 am
Amount of hotel soap used taking a shower while Lupita the Chihuahua consumed two 5-gram dark chocolate candies that the hotel left on our pillows the previous night = $0.02
Amount of gasoline used to race Lupita to the Tri-Valley Emergency Clinic = $1.00
Amount of vet bill to induce vo... Comment - Like
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May 17, 2010, 2:17 pm
My sister Hermana drove up from Taos to stay with me after my mother’s birthday last week. Denver was cold and rainy and snowy, not much of a welcoming reception—but that didn’t stop us from have oodles of fun.
Serious shopping was the order of the day.
We spent the next 5 days combing ... Comment - Like
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May 7, 2010, 5:48 pm
Here we are in Carlsbad celebrating my Mother’s 102nd birthday. After the cool days in Denver last week, it is hot here. Yesterday was 100F, more like Baja than Denver. It has been a busy couple of days catching up with other family members, like a long visit with your best friends. Today when we ... Comment - Like
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May 1, 2010, 11:50 am
When we drove out of Santa Rosalia last Friday my goal was to stop at the little marble shop Rancho Sonora at kilometer 149 just north of Catavina to purchase a few marble wind chimes for Esperando’s children, a small token of melodious sound from Mexico. I bought wind chimes there last year when ... Comment - Like
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Apr 22, 2010, 12:36 pm
Once again we are on the move. Tomorrow we will start out early for our drive to Ensenada and then on to the States for my Mother’s 102nd birthday in May. She is still sharp as a tack.
My Mother last month holding her newest grandchild, Paloma.
After that we go to Esperando’s son’s gra... Comment - Like
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Apr 20, 2010, 3:54 pm
Esperando was out of town in Washington, D.C. on our wedding anniversary. Bummer! And that was the day I thought I had discovered that I had—worms! The thought that my body might be infested with an alien life form was almost more than I could handle. It made my skin crawl. I told Esperando on the... Comment - Like
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Apr 19, 2010, 4:14 pm
Esperando told me on Saturday, “Francisco wants to take us to see his father’s ranch tomorrow, to see where the soil for our flower beds came from.” I was right in the middle of something that seemed important on Sunday when Francisco showed up to take us over there. I was annoyed that I had t... Comment - Like
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Apr 18, 2010, 6:44 pm
Yesterday morning when we woke up Winnie was drooling and trying to throw up. I was sure he had ingested some kind of poison but I didn’t see what it could be since he isn’t allowed outside. Then we thought maybe he’d eaten a spider or been bitten by a scorpion, although we saw no evidence of ... Comment - Like
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Apr 12, 2010, 11:42 am
Me: “Hola Carmen, I see you looking in through the screen door like you want in the house. You have done this several times now in the last few days.”
Carmen: “No, no, I wut nefer wan’ to come back into ze casa. Besides zez casa ees nosing I know anysing about. I nefer live in it, I am jus... Comment - Like
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Apr 7, 2010, 7:04 pm
Here is a multiple choice problem. It is the story of a foolish woman who wakes up every morning with a very sore back. It is hard to explain why this woman is so foolish. Every night she lies down with a small black-and-tan Chihuahua puppy tucked up under her arm underneath the covers. Then on top... Comment - Like
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Apr 6, 2010, 1:20 pm
Esperando and I just got back from a 4-day fling to celebrate Semana Santa. This holiday is to Mexicans here in Baja what the 4th of July is like for USA folk: a holiday with beaches and partying, it's a true spring break. The Mexicans crowd the beaches to camp and just before they arr... Comment - Like
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Apr 5, 2010, 1:45 pm
Lots of cactus.
Crazy gringo riding heavily loaded bicycle on a highway with no shoulder and blind curves.
Trucker about to pass bicyclist.
Cockfights on to celebrate holidays including Valentines.
Beautiful sunsets.
Quaint gardens.
Interesting garden ornaments.
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Mar 30, 2010, 6:44 pm
Lupita has entered the stage of lets-eat-everything-and-run-away-from-people-when-they-try-to-take-it-from-you. Everything is wonderful: cat shit, other people's used Cheetos lying on the ground from days hence, little poisonous berries that grow on bushes, wilted flowers, small chips of le... Comment - Like
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Mar 29, 2010, 3:57 pm
Baja is home to more than 300 hundred known sites of ancient cave paintings that are the oldest on the American continent. The paintings at San Borjita have been carbon dated to 7,500 years. This Great Mural Rock Art consists of prehistoric paintings of humans and animals, often larger than life-siz... Comment - Like
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Mar 28, 2010, 7:14 pm
While I was surfing the web last month, I chanced upon Alison Day’s website and got a free online tarot card reading. I also marked a little X in the box asking if I wanted to have a tarot card, with its symbolism explained, e-mailed to me each month. Last time the card arrived one week ago it was... Comment - Like
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Mar 24, 2010, 2:50 pm
Missing my china and my own cooking!!
Yesterday my collective food consciousness hit the wall. All I could come up with for dinner was tuna melts using a loaf of Orowheat bread I found down here a month ago and froze. I am so bored and tired of all the recipes we cook at the guesthouse—and... Comment - Like
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Mar 19, 2010, 3:26 pm
Back in the days of the Christians and the Romans, we know that the Romans liked their bread and circuses, liked hand-to-hand combat with gladiators, liked to watch people being torn to pieces by wild animals, liked to watch animals tearing one another apart and expected that kind of entertainment. ... Comment - Like
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Mar 16, 2010, 2:40 pm
What strength possessed the Spanish people to struggle through the steep arroyos and climb the craggy mountains and to find the hidden valleys with water so they could stay to make a life here in Baja centuries ago? Some of their descendents stayed on, even though water was more plentiful in other p... Comment - Like
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