Happy New Year One and All

.... and so it goes ... I received word the other day a dear old friend died, much too soon.

He is the second one this year, two 54 year old men, gone but not forgotten.


I count 13 pleasure boats in the cove.  Nine are pretty good size cabin cruisers.  I hope they

are all in the restaurants and stores spreading some money around to the women selling

on the beach and at the waterfall as well.


New Years eve will be in Yelapa, and the Yacht Club puts on a great party.  I did start a 

tradition a few years back, to do an Irish Jig before we left the house, so I shall see if I can

resurrect  it tomorrow.  I'll dance for those of us still here, moving into 2013 together.

I also plan to recite  The Cremation of Sam McGee, something my Mothers brother John

would act out from memory for us all, at family gatherings.  I can't do it by heart, but 

practice makes perfect.


I have to get back online and investigate the birds in this area.  There has been a Hawk or is 

it Osprey, or small eagle, soaring over the house for days, with a loud, constant chirping.

There are two of them living in the tree behind the house.  The pelicans have been very 

active too. flying in circles above the village, then out to sea, and back.  The other day, sitting

at the kitchen table, a group of 12 or 15 of them were flying right at me !  It looked like they

were going to fly straight into the house, but of course they didn't.  

On my to Casa Delfin on Friday a whale was breaching off in the distance.  I saw it jump

4 or 5 times, until a boat got too close and she went down. 


It rained on Thursday.  Very little at first, but then actually rained enough to give the yard

a good drink.  It's all dry again now.  Good dirt is hard to come by around here.  We are

experimenting with a large round black plastic compost er , but it's days are numbered, I 

can tell.  Santiago brings us 2 bags of  " soil " , on his mule, for 100. pesos. Sometimes it's

better than others, but it's something.  There is no Garden Center or Nursery in town,

at least not yet.  There is a lot of sharing of clippings and roots especially during the

summer. 


Saturday I saw the most beautiful sunrise, ever.  From my swinging bed, the sun rises over

the hills and everything is illuminated, sky, sea, jungle, for less than a minute, it was

stunning.  I am receiving it as a gift for the coming year, a sign of what lays ahead.


I wish that the world would stop fighting so we could all share the peace of a beautiful

sunrise.  I know you do too.


Cheers and very best wishes for a New Year ....