Sorry about the spelling mistakes ...
The old Chesley Chicken will be become the new Little School, starting with English Classes, and growing into Art, and Music, and maybe Cooking ? We shall see. It's a very small space with some room for expansion, but not much !
It's a fantastic start, and I'm excited to get started !
Church bell ringing now, at 6:15 am ... not sure why ??
Yelapa schools are looking for volunteers to go assist in English Language Learning. With more and more people coming to stay, I hope we can set up a volunteer program to give these kids a hand up. It's so important.
Yelapa School Project is the name of the new Website.
It's on your Google now ! We haven't reached the final stretch yet, a few photos to add and change, drop down menu for more specific information, linking the Facebook page and accounting/ paypal procedures. This means forming the committee to get this off the ground. Not sure how long that will take but it is now a priority, so before my next post is the goal !
One of the Yelapa Folklore dancers, from 1st year Prepa, has been selected to join the Puerto Vallarta dance group on their trip to CHINA !! On the 18th of this month !! Outrageously exciting !! Jenny Lorenzo, Neto and Lupita's daughter, from La Guera water taxi, Taco Ramona's Grandaughter !!
Can't wait to see her Thursday !!
Rain overnight again last night, close to an inch every night last week. Good.
Growing season is at her peak !!
Enjoy your Days of September ...
Monday, September 4, 2017
Sunday, September 3, 2017
Goodbye August
Buenos Dias Amigas y Amigos ..... I hope everyone is doing ok this extreme weather season !
I arrived home August 8th and it's been raining almost everyday since then.! 1 inch to 1.5 inches generally, with one or two 3 inch days. This is our rainy season so it's welcomed, the wind is a pain when your live in a Palapa, but I should be used to it by now !!??
Yelapa lost her long time friend Luckey Gillet. He died July 15th, thereabouts, of a heart attack, at home in Nevada City.
Just like that, with no warning, sitting in his chair.
He was 73 or 74 years old.
A hugh blow for so many people, he probably made friends with everyone he met, if he liked you. Too bad he never got to writing a book, it would have been facinating. He will be conspicuously absent from the beach, and Tacos y Mas restaurant especially !!
Sipriano's wife Marta died within the same week or 10 days.
With peace and bravery and lots of love around her. A brain tumor that was only diagnosed 6 months ago, or less ! She probably wasn't 60 yet.
And then Marcos, " The " seller of jewlery on the beach.
Father of Daly, and Kevin, and Sergio, and Aron, and Vero, and Marcos Jr. .... died tragically in the same time period.
The siblings lost their Mom only 4 years ago.
They were both early 60's.
I was away for all the saddness, and Life continues, with memories of good times and another Guardian Angel to watch over us !
So much destruction and loss around us.
I have Yelapa Hi Speed internet now, and Videos of Texas, and North Korea, and The CBC National News covering NAFTA, and Hurricanes are coming in loud and clear.
Is this what I really wanted ? No, but it comes with this package called Life, and in the world we live in now, it's harder to disconnect. Yelapa doesn't feel so far away anymore ... but I'm grateful for the positive things Hi Speed brings, making my Blog, and Instagram, and Photos easier to enjoy !
Power has been out fairly regularly, partly there is work being done on the lines, and partly weather and faulty equipment. There was a sign posted to announce power outage on Saturday, 10 - 2, which was novel. It did go out, but 3- 6 instead. Usually I'm not using any electronic equipment when it's raining, and stormy, and no power.
There are pin prick size holes in my roof, large pin size, and
water will come through the first few days of heavy rain, then they swell up and hopefully stay that way till the end !
Usually I know where they are, but there have been a few surprises lately !
And the bugs are bad in the summer, not like Northern Black Fly bad, but this is our time for mosquitoes, ( Denge ), and swarming termites looking for a home in the support beams,
( also not good ), and, we could change the name from rainy season to house fly season!
No seeems , and see ems, you can't get rid of or swat buzzing around your ears and nose !
I bought, home made by local, bug repellant in Terrace Bay, and I love it. I could be her Mexico Representitive, it's so good, but I'd have to smuggle it into the country !
Burning coils, incense, no egg cartons yet !
Candles every night, prepared for power outage plus bugs love light bulbs ! Yelapa nights there is always a candle burning.
Many business here and throughout Mexico have a candle burning at the altar of their dead, day and night.
It's lovely.
My neighbors, Maria and Jim, both seen by our new Doctors yesterday, we do have 2 full time now !! Both of them on antibotics but not serious. 83 and 85 respectively. No family.
Just us.
Changes at all the schools, again this year, with maybe the exception of Prepa, grades 10 - 12. That's where Im going this year, starting Thurday, twicw a week one 50 minutes ESL class. ..
to be con't ..
I arrived home August 8th and it's been raining almost everyday since then.! 1 inch to 1.5 inches generally, with one or two 3 inch days. This is our rainy season so it's welcomed, the wind is a pain when your live in a Palapa, but I should be used to it by now !!??
Yelapa lost her long time friend Luckey Gillet. He died July 15th, thereabouts, of a heart attack, at home in Nevada City.
Just like that, with no warning, sitting in his chair.
He was 73 or 74 years old.
A hugh blow for so many people, he probably made friends with everyone he met, if he liked you. Too bad he never got to writing a book, it would have been facinating. He will be conspicuously absent from the beach, and Tacos y Mas restaurant especially !!
Sipriano's wife Marta died within the same week or 10 days.
With peace and bravery and lots of love around her. A brain tumor that was only diagnosed 6 months ago, or less ! She probably wasn't 60 yet.
And then Marcos, " The " seller of jewlery on the beach.
Father of Daly, and Kevin, and Sergio, and Aron, and Vero, and Marcos Jr. .... died tragically in the same time period.
The siblings lost their Mom only 4 years ago.
They were both early 60's.
I was away for all the saddness, and Life continues, with memories of good times and another Guardian Angel to watch over us !
So much destruction and loss around us.
I have Yelapa Hi Speed internet now, and Videos of Texas, and North Korea, and The CBC National News covering NAFTA, and Hurricanes are coming in loud and clear.
Is this what I really wanted ? No, but it comes with this package called Life, and in the world we live in now, it's harder to disconnect. Yelapa doesn't feel so far away anymore ... but I'm grateful for the positive things Hi Speed brings, making my Blog, and Instagram, and Photos easier to enjoy !
Power has been out fairly regularly, partly there is work being done on the lines, and partly weather and faulty equipment. There was a sign posted to announce power outage on Saturday, 10 - 2, which was novel. It did go out, but 3- 6 instead. Usually I'm not using any electronic equipment when it's raining, and stormy, and no power.
There are pin prick size holes in my roof, large pin size, and
water will come through the first few days of heavy rain, then they swell up and hopefully stay that way till the end !
Usually I know where they are, but there have been a few surprises lately !
And the bugs are bad in the summer, not like Northern Black Fly bad, but this is our time for mosquitoes, ( Denge ), and swarming termites looking for a home in the support beams,
( also not good ), and, we could change the name from rainy season to house fly season!
No seeems , and see ems, you can't get rid of or swat buzzing around your ears and nose !
I bought, home made by local, bug repellant in Terrace Bay, and I love it. I could be her Mexico Representitive, it's so good, but I'd have to smuggle it into the country !
Burning coils, incense, no egg cartons yet !
Candles every night, prepared for power outage plus bugs love light bulbs ! Yelapa nights there is always a candle burning.
Many business here and throughout Mexico have a candle burning at the altar of their dead, day and night.
It's lovely.
My neighbors, Maria and Jim, both seen by our new Doctors yesterday, we do have 2 full time now !! Both of them on antibotics but not serious. 83 and 85 respectively. No family.
Just us.
Changes at all the schools, again this year, with maybe the exception of Prepa, grades 10 - 12. That's where Im going this year, starting Thurday, twicw a week one 50 minutes ESL class. ..
to be con't ..
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