Tuesday Mar 6/12 update
I got an email back that wasn’t very promising from a fellow
that we had been referred to for painting a mural. He says he does the human form and has only
done one mural with another artist before.
Then when he says he is a professional and asks us what we are willing
to pay, well we don’t want to insult him with our meager proposition. We will wait until we find some nice
paintings like we had found in Quito
The drapery fellow finally showed up at 10am to take the
exact measurements and promised to bring the finished product Friday
morning. We paid them in full and Bella
chose a nice fabric.
Bella was off to the book exchange and a book sale so I
thought I would tag along but she decided she was taking a different bus so I
took the #3 downtown to try to find some magnetic strips for our two metal
doors to the lavanderia and the terrace.
I finally found the type used on fridge doors but I tested them and they
did not work. So I marched on up to
another well-stocked ferreteria on Calle Larga and picked up some cabinet-style
magnets for 25c each. It wasn’t until I
got home that I realized I will have to mount them on a block to make them
work…
I then decided to wander in the 10 de Augusto Mercado and
was taking the escalator to the second floor when I spotted this lovely woman
wandering the main floor. She didn’t see
my wave so I had to chase her down.
Bella was very surprised to see who was pinching her bottom. We had been told that we could buy
inexpensive unsalted butter near the one door here so we asked and, sure
enough, they had it for sale there. That
is the kind of information we get when networking with other expats.
Bella had a lot of books and veggies in one bag and some
blankets in another so she didn’t want to go down the hill to check out the art
at Arte Libre. Instead we decided to
check out the art further north, past the Mercado, behind the cathedral. We actually did find one piece of original
oil artwork that we both liked and that will look good on one of our
walls. He was asking $50 but we could
only scrape up $45 between us so we took it home on the promise to drop off $5
the next time we are in El Centro
Bella decided the painting will go in the living room
between the two windows so I took a couple of shots to give you an idea.
That was today’s excitement.
Enjoy the pics. Hugs to all.
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