Home Sweet Home

Hola friends and Yelapa lovers ... I've been home for 9 days and going non stop ...
until my ankles swell up enough I have to stop !!
You know what I'm dealing with, besides a bodega full of too much stuff !! Water ! won't come in won't flush out !  We're working on it though, and everything will be in working
order in a Yelapa minute !! or two.  I manage just fine, with 1/2 a tank of water still and an
extra banos upstairs, so I'm sitting pretty, down here in the jungle !!  
We have seen the moon the last few nights , gorgeous. 
The last storm knocked out the spotlight on the beach, so we don't have that distraction.
It also snapped off a main branch of the Buganvilla at the top of the back hill.
Fell right on top of the two 2,500 litre water tanks that feed both houses,
but no damage done !!
Just a 4 day job to clean up ... it is as bad as blackberries to get close to !!
But Silverio did it !
The view up there has really opened up, the neighbours will be happy.
I  lost one lime tree, and the other had to be cut right back but will survivie... gave me a bunch of limes beforehand. 
Now the water tanks hover over the casita patio, couldn't see them at all before.  Another
place for a garden...more bananas & papayas ??
No mangos on the tree this year, not a one !  A few bunches of bananas waiting to be cut from the tree, then hung in a plastic bag for a few days, and they're ready.
The avocado tree coming along fine, ( my umbrella trick helped ? ) and the Tapachine has
tripled in size, it's gorgeous, and in the perfect place.
The vine along the fence at the path has numerous flowers, vibrant yellow, filling in more
and more of the barb wire... it climbs up the " stick trees" and pulls them down in the heavy rain, so everything down there has been cut back too ...
And so it goes ... I will post photos for next week.
Life in Yelapa ... my little piece of it anyway ...
Ocean is so so warm, and looks clear to me .  Not a lot of tourists around, but some, the
die hards like the flier from Calgary I met on the path, Karen, with her huge pack
resting next to Mimi's.  Pick a sport she could have been on the Olympic Team !
She was making jokes about the heat and humidity ... I wasn't sweating yet ... did i live here? and how much she loved Yelapa, that she must be crazy ?? She looked really happy, even though she was very very hot and sweaty ...
Manana manana is Kindergarten Graduation at the Casino ! 9 am.
There'll be a big performance, and cake for breakfast ... 
I'll try my best to get good pictures.  I've enjoyed all the holas from the kids I've been running into the last few days ...
I'm going to start tutroring on Tuesday mornings at Pollo Bollo.
Hope to get out to the point today, visit the neighbours garden, admire their lawn and so forth.  Jump in the ocean while I'm at it ...
Dear Dad, Don Hugo, home from the hospital, resting comfortably on the lazy boy chair out on the deck ... thanks for your well wishes ..
Everyone have a great summer day and more to come ...
peace and love
k