Happy Birthday Joseph, and also our son-in-law Ash.
I was awake again at 3am and had a tough time getting back to sleep. When I decided again to look at the clock I fully expected it to say about 6:30 but it was almost 9am, and time to get up so I was thankful for the extra sleep. I managed a half pot of coffee before Bella and I went out to catch the #15 to head west. Like usual, waiting for Bella to get going meant we missed the bus by 15 seconds so had to stand around for the next one which put us 10 minutes late.
We arrived at Jim & Cindy’s new house just off Avenida
Loja and were impressed with the great deal they got. The house is very large and needs mostly
cosmetic work only and has tons of possibilities which shouldn’t cost a whole
lot of money. The kitchen is small and
closed off but will look great with a clever pass-through to the front dining
room.
The major work will be in the lavanderia off the kitchen
which is ½ open to the elements in a wide shaft at the back of the home. We were discussing how they could easily
install a lovely terrace on the 3rd floor, or better yet, the flat
roof at the back, which would afford them a dynamite view north to downtown and
the Cajas. I am so excited about those
possibilities that I want to do the work myself.
Bella had to head off to play Bridge so I walked with her
down Avenida Loja, which is part of the Inca Trail and points right at the
Immaculate Conception cathedral. Most of
this one street has the underground electrical, surprise, surprise, so it
affords a nice, clean, spectacular view.
I caught the #16 east, while Bella caught one west, to go
our respective directions. I got off at
the Coopera just to check out what kind of food, etc they have these days and I
was pleasantly surprised to see that they have lots of fresh fruit, vegetables
and meat for sale. We will continue to
support them as best we can. Our
nemesis, SEPS, fired 386 employees 2 days ago to streamline operations and make
them more attractive for sale. That was
part of the dirty work they attempted to pass off to the remaining unpaid
investors, the bastards!
I also have not received any further communications from
anyone regarding our proposed unity meeting for Wednesday so I am not hopeful
that we will have any influence on future events.
I then wandered over to one of my favourite video stores and
easily picked out 4 movies so I hunted until I found 8 movies. One was not in English so I filled that slot
with a movie I had seen and enjoyed previously. Then while I sat and waited while he put
together my movies, cases, fillers, DVD’s, and made sure they played well, I
spotted another one called Goon that looked a lot like the famous Slapshot
movie, so I laughingly asked him for a “yappa” or gift of that movie, and he
didn’t bat an eye, he said “Sure” and added it to the pile. That meant I got 9 movies for $10. Such a deal… and only one duplicate…. Spanish titles and different covers still
fool me once in a while. My collection
is now up to 333 movies.
On the last trek home I took a shot of one of the families
on the riverbank just enjoying a simple romp with the kids on the grass. No toys, no video games, no balls, just the
family enjoying each others company.
This is a most common sight here on Sundays and it is one of the things
that continues to endear us to the Ecuadorians.
It is such a throwback to the simpler days of our childhood and it is
something that we would never want to change with all out technology and
materialism.
That was the day’s excitement. Cheers, Al
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