Cuenca Updates: Friday Feb 3, 2012

Friday Feb 3/12 update

Last night we took the bottom off Bella’s new breadmaker because we knew the belt had fried itself. Oh yeah, it was totally shredded and wrapped around the small pulley with nylon and rubber everywhere. We took it all out, vacuumed the machine out, and used soap to get all the gooey grease off. I took pictures, we measured, and we got a length of string as well. So we need a 28 inch variegated belt, about 3/8 inch wide. This one could be a challenge. Maybe all we will be able to find will be an automotive belt??

Then Segundo called wanting his English lesson (really help with his English homework from his school). He hadn’t contacted Bella all week so she was a little surprised at the short notice. We gave him the grand tour and he said this was one beautiful house for two people.

I started work on a DVD of 337 photos of the Cuenca kids with a new program just to see how it would work. Well it worked, for eight hours, and I do seem to have a good disc for copying from now. I intend to copy it to a stick to see if I can watch it on my TV.

Friday morning and I am up early to await the workmen to arrive at 8am. I could have slept in (yah, right..) because they didn’t show up until 10. I was very relieved to see that the screen guy (don’t know his name) was there to do the work. He is a perfectionist and very smart. I had to laugh because he uses this old broken up cel phone (it works) also as a calculator. Some of the numbers are broken off so he has to carry a pencil to poke those numbers, lmao.

Enrique hangs around and helps sporadically. He did pick and drop off the gutter man.

It is slow going but it is being done in the right order. The main frame and the gutter are up and they need to be solidified tomorrow prior to the glass being installed. I guess that will knock me out of our afternoon BBQ at Joe’s Secret Garden. I doubt very much we will see any of the screening before next Tuesday now. Bella has some cleaning ladies booked for Wednesday morning so we hope this is all done before then.

I learn so much just watching these guys work. It is tiring, especially working above your head all day, but I enjoy it. We were fortunate to have a relatively cool day and no rain to hamper us.

Bella had Michael stop by in the morning for some money for his services, apparently his daughter needs a cat scan for something. Then she was off to a cooking class and to play bridge. The cooking class was a fait accomplit, no teaching, no class, basically a recipe and a huge meal for $10. I find it very odd that she wants to go back to get another recipe.

We were to meet for those delicious hamberguesas around 6:15 but I was too pooped to get there. Bella stopped and brought back some roasted pork skin, corn and potatoes. We won’t be having that again.

I really have to get the Internet people out here again. I have to fight with the modem every time I try to sign on and it is really getting tiresome.

That was today’s excitement. Enjoy the pics. Hugs to all.