We have now news that our stepdad Lucien is on the decline and having trouble communicating. Mom and Leonie visited him again Friday and he was only partly lucid at that time. This is so sad and it must be hardest on his three children who are maintaining a constant vigil.
Well the right buses weren’t showing up and the lightning show was becoming more persuasive so I never made it to any soccer game last night. The subsequent rain storm would have chased most fans home before ½ time anyway. I finished off the Rambo series of movies while Bella was happily Skyping with family and friends.
Sunday was another lazy day of rest. It was a beautiful day until about 2:45 when we got a rain and hail storm for an hour and a half. The rain quit for a short while then it continued to sprinkle as we went to the Monay Mall for KFC. We stopped at Coral and picked up 3 more picture frames and also a clock, temperature, humidity combination for $6.85. Again, between the time we went, and the time we returned, the river rose about a foot.
That was today’s excitement. Hugs to all.
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Monday March 26/12 update
Today Bella sent me to the nearest Coopera to get some cash for the week then she was headed to Coral for a few things. I intended to walk a direct route to that Graiman store by the airport again but actually found a huge ceramic store just up the hill east of Coral. It cost me a whole $1 to get a yellow tile that will look good on the house once I mount our house numbers on it.
I am learning to take my time and think things through but things don’t always go the way we want. I have always been envious of those folks that can run a bead of silicone in seconds and have it perfect. Not me….
It will take me another day to get that sign sorted out.
I also did up four more photographs for our stairway. They all insist on hanging at a slant, mind you it is all the same slant, so I am leaving them like that to see if we will get accustomed to it or not. So far it offends my sense of level horizon.
We waited for a bus for ½ hour tonight, actually one of 2 buses would have worked but we have no luck at all after 6pm. We finally hailed a cab and made it to the Sucre Theatre just off Parque Calderon to hear an American bluegrass band called the Ajusco Mountain Boys. The crowd was 80% expat English-speakers, yet the band spoke only in Spanish, but performed in English. Here is their rendition of Rocky Top Tennessee.
http://youtu.be/QX-87G2DVkQ That was the liveliest they got…. It seemed like all the songs sounded the same, and they didn’t do something fun like “Men Of Constant Sorrow”, I think it is called. That should have been in their repertoire. And they basically just stood there and played and sang. The bass fiddle got rotated only once… They really didn’t do much to get the crowd’s attention. It was a night out, and it was free, and we did get to see a lot of Canadians we hadn’t seen in a while.
Enjoy the pics. That was today’s excitement. Hugs to all.
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| 120326 Our local church, St Teresa de Jesus |
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| 120326 Part of the Sucre Theatre |
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