Happy Birthday HMC !

Another quiet week in Yelapa ...it's easy to adjust to the slower pace.  The sea is calm, the
sun is hot, and we all slow down ....

The humidity is over 80 % , I'm guessing, and the barometric pressure is high ....but rain still
3 or 4 or 6 weeks away .... i'm not called Skycloud for nothing !!

Another group of friends are heading out this week, back to the U.S of A. for the season, and
another group arrives, from Costa Rica and Canada ....Globe & Mail in hand and tales of adventure !  I don't miss Canada half as much living in Mexico as I did living in California,
I see Canadians all the time down here. 
I even watched the Leafs play the other night, such a familiar feeling ... better luck next year !

Mimi just got back.  She had to go to Ajiji.  Her 24 year old nephew died, the son of her eldest sister, not Carmen's son, Tomas Jr.  An avoidable accident.  He fell off the deck at a  nightclub in Guadalajara. Very very sad. So many questions, as to what happened, but it
doesn't really matter now.
Jessie, her oldest daughter went into early labour the next day, and delivered a healthy baby
boy in Vallarta on Monday May 13th.  A very brave girl to go through it without her Mom.
 
Another young woman in the village, 7 months pregnant with her first child, had to go into
PV for an emergency appendectomy !.  But she is ok now, and all is normal with the baby.
She won't be home for a few days since getting on the boat is not advisable.
There are certainly pros and cons to living so isolated.

Pregnant, sick, crippled, blind, old, you have to get on the boat.  Rain or shine, day or night, it's your one way out of town.

Unless you want to walk up the hill to Chacala, or to the " parking lot ", and wait for a ride.
There are some trucks parked there from time to time, but not once it starts to rain.
There is no such thing as a parking lot in Yelapa then.
No streets or highways, horns, alarms, exhaust, accidents. No bus.
Not for everyone but it suits me just fine.

There are 4 paddle boarders going strong in the bay.  Looks like great exercise, but I'd
rather have a canoe !

The Chacalacas, large Pheasant type birds, are making a huge racket in the trees.  Three of
them hopping and flying about.  Tiny finch type birds are also chirping loudly.  
One particularly likes to flirt from the metal tip of my sun umbrella.  It's incredible such little
things can sing such a large melodic song.

Also, the Scorpions are back.  It's been a while since I've seen any, but last week, when JJ
was here, we saw 8 !!  Three in one night.  That may be sign rain is on the way .... or not ....

I also saw the biggest Armadillo the other night, below the deck.  Paid me no mind when I
tried to chase it away !  so we just ignored each other.
And squirrels,  tormenting Lily by running along the edge of the deck. One, the same one everyday I suppose, came into the house and jumped along the rafters !!
I use the broom for a lot more than sweeping around here !

The school library will close Monday.  Cake will be served.  A&B have done an amazing job, and just take it in stride, but it's very impressive.  We're all excited for next year.
A. bought a horse to ride back & forth! How exciting !
but it's not a canoe ...

Polka music on the juke box, from the cantina up the hill. A Sunday night tradition and ritual ...sometimes extending into Mondays ..... but i don't mind ...
it's better than horns and alarms and sirens ....

A large gathering from the Church were out of town this weekend, at a yearly retreat, which
means Pollo Bollo was closed.  Delicious fish filet and f.f. at Breeza's instead ....
and a toast to Queen Victoria and my Dad ....it's his Birthday too ... 86 years young !!!

Have a great week .... and let the summer begin ...

xox
k