April 27 2007

Today we were taking meserments for boards needed for several differant projects on the house. I saw water dripping from the floor. We dicovered that it was water from my bathroom. The wax seal on the toilet had gone bad.
We have been thinking about redoing my bathroom for a long time. So the toilet and bathtub are now out of the house and setting in the yard. We will have to take out part of the wall to be able to install a bay window. Oh but we will use the hole in the wall to put the new bathtub into the room. It will be a bigger tub, with massage jets, which will not leave room for a new toilet in my bathroom. It's ok as the new tub will be like getting a hot tub. Then the new bay window will let in more lite which will (I hope) make if feel like I am outside, sort of.
So we didn't plan on doing this right now but, the toilet was leaking so why replace it when we want to make this changes anyway. Just going to cost some. The tub I am looking at is $1000.00. I have no idea about the window, and then their is the new walls that we replace the old ones with. Then the paint or wall paper that I will have to get to redo the remaining walls.
I think I am looking at $2000.00, I hope not much more we will have to wait and see.

April 25 2007

I went to Dallas (Oregon) today for some plants for the small area in frount of our home. They will go in between the pourches we have. An area of 3.5 feet by 16.5 feet. I have some foxgloves that will go next to the house. I wanted to find some preannals that will work and that I won't have to re-plant every year. But I think that will take some years in planning. I have the foxgloves that will go next to the house as they are taller flowers. Then the Coreopsis 'sunfire' are the next perennial that will be going in. I also have a Clematis at one end of this plot.
Next in line from the back will be Gerbera's (large dasies) which are annual's along with Kenai Grande Pineapple (wich look like dasies), then differant kinds of impatiens.
Larry will be putting in a sidewalk in frount of the flower bed. Hopefully this will help people that come here to see us to go to the frount door instead of the pato door that inters into our "office".
I wish I could find all the plants I want in the wild to transplant but I can't so I have to buy most of them.
Cost would be much cheaper in Mexico, but I am not there.

April 18 2007

We have had a week of rain. Oh, there have been sun breaks, during which I have been able to to some walking. While on our trip this last winter I lost a lot of weight. I really don't want to gain it all back and have been trying to walk as much as passable. It has been hard as depression has set in due to not being in sunny weather. I will adamant to gaining 5 pounds at this time.
My best friend here could tell how I was feeling and has asked me to join her at her home on days when we can't walk to use her exercise machines. I went tonight and really enjoyed exercising and talking to her.
I haven't been off of our property much sense we have been home. I fact I have only filled my gas tank once and still have a half of a tank. We have been home for a month now. We live 5 miles out of town so any shopping we have to do we have to drive to.
Sunday I am planning on going to Salem after church to do some shopping for plants. I will fill my car with gas while there as it is much cheaper there than here. Gas is almost or is at $3.00 a gallon. I haven't been to any town where their is a gas station to really know what it is right now.
Last month, while in Mexico I never thought about the cost of gas. We went everywhere by bus. Which was much cheaper than driving our own car.
We don't have the kind of bus system here, wish we did. People could go to town, cost them less, there would be less cars on the road, so maybe Mexico is not so backwards as so many people think. Just a thought.
So today was a better day, even with the rain.

Rain?????

It's raining, it's been raining, we have had maybe 7 days of warm, sunny days sence we have been home.
Easter Sunday it was a sunny morning for sunrise services, but on the way home the fog, was here on this side of Butler Hill. We never did see the sun, at our home on Easter Sunday.
Today, Wendsday, April 11, we have rain, Larry did fix my washing machine.
We have been home for almost a month now. Things that were broken when we got home were, my car, the washing machine. I broke the toilet and it was fixed, oh it had to be fixed again, we are having problems with anything to do with our water. It seams that small pepples are getting into our system and causing problems with the valves.
Washing machine was cold water running, not closing, and over flowing. Tolitet same thing, valve not closing and tank over flowing.
We have replaced the flote valve twice in the tolite and cleaned the washing machine valve. They are working for now.
Some other things we have dicovered that will need to be fixed due to things that went wrong while we were gone is, the roof. Some of the shingles on the roof are no longer doing their job. We will have to replace them. Yes I have found wet spots in the cealing of some of the rooms in our home and I have found wet stains that show that the roof is leaking.
I think that I would like to be back in Chacala, Mexico right now. It's not raining there. Their are some other things that are better there, like the prices of vegtables for my salads, and the friendly people.

April showers

April showers bring May flowers.
We are having the showers, and on my last walk I saw flowers, some small blue ones and what I call lambs tong, some may call them avalanche lily's, which tell me that spring is truly here. Yet it's cold at night.
Ok, it's not what it's like in Mexico right now and oh no matter how I want it to be it wont be untel June or July. Even then I will not even be able to think about going into the water, (beach or river), as I could in Mexico.
I miss Chacala, San Blas, and the surf they had.
Chacala, the people, really made my month there worth the time and money spent there. Not just, my landlady, or Andie, but the people, I don't know, I wish that some how that they could know how much they made our time there so memerable.
Chacala, is a place whereI would love to spend the rest of my life, but not yet.