Friday-Saturday July 27-28/12 update
Friday
Thank you to my friend Betty M. for identifying my redhead
and red-chested little bird as a Vermilion Flycatcher! He must be doing his job here as there are very few bugs in Cuenca!
I was up real early and started work on a graduation card
for Gabriela Beltran. It was when I went
to print it that my printer confirmed the cartridges need
replacing,…again. Do not ever buy an HP
Photosmart D110. Sure the printer is
cheap and it has a lot of features but it uses ink like a sieve. Then I downloaded a few “Doctor” songs,
although I doubt I will use them.
Bella headed out to play bridge at Gertie’s near Avenida
Solano. Bella says she has a gorgeous
apartment with glass on 3 sides so it is very bright.
I headed out later as Chris had mentioned he might meet me
for lunch, then that wasn’t happening, so I delayed and got off the #15 at
Parque De La Madre, near the escalinata and the CIDAP Museum
Then I walked over to Otorongo Plaza
Walking up the stairs from Otorongo brings a person right to
San Sebastian Square ,
near where Bella had suggested we might have supper. Then I truly wandered and criss-crossed El Centro trying to price
photo enlargements and large frames.
Plan B is to make a gift from one of my own works. One camera store quoted $4.50 and the one
across the street $12.00 for the same size.
Nobody had a nice large frame anywhere.
I may have to get one made at a frame store on Juan Jaramillo. I may also check out Coral tomorrow.
I went all the way to Rotary Market then started my trek
back. I watched this priest feeding the pigeons in
front of Santo Domingo
church. I hung around on a bench in Parque Calderon
until it got pretty cool so I went into the main cathedral for a while. When I saw the sun come out I headed back to
San Sebastian
and located the place where we were to have supper.
I found a park bench in the sun and just enjoyed all these
youngsters with slingshots shooting at birds in the trees. They couldn’t hit anything because half the
times the lump of dirt wouldn’t go high enough.
It was pretty comical.
Chris called again that he was around the corner at this
Mangiare Italian restaurant but it did not open until 6, more than an hour
wait. The girls decided we would go back
to La Vina where we all like the food.
While there we called Cindy and Jim in Atlanta because Chris had received an urgent
message from them and he was fearing the worst. Thankfully it was nothing serious and we
enjoyed a good meal and good conversation.
Once I got home I tackled the huge job of processing the
many photos and eliminating background clutter.
I was only part way through at 10pm when I couldn’t keep my eyes open
any longer.
That was Friday’s excitement. Please see the day’s photos at
souvenircuenca.blogspot.com. Hugs to all.
Saturday
I had gone to bed at 10 but was wide awake at 1am. Bella says it was because our son Greg was
born at 1:10am 40 years ago. HAPPY
BIRTHDAY GREG!
I worked on photos again until 5:30 and couldn’t
continue. I was about 2/3 the way
through but 85% through the hard stuff.
I crashed with my buddy Pancho until 10:30. I finally finished all the photo work at
12:15 and went down to make lunch then headed for the Ferreteria on the hill. The guy had forgotten to get hold of his
Jack-of-all-trades so he took my details and said he would call me. I am anxious to get that toilet leak fixed.
I then popped into Coral looking for large picture frames
and they had nothing over an 8x10. I
then scoured every aisle to find a humidifier, also to no avail. I walked away with a new bicycle pump for
$2.22 though.
I took Bella's broken umbrella, modified it, and am using it as a rain cover for our propane tanks.
That was today’s excitement. Please see all photos at
souvenircuenca.blogspot.com. Hugs to all.
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