A Septuagenarian in Cabo

 I realize I haven't posted since November, but when you are  living in Paradise, it is hard to wrench yourself away from the ocean or pool and sunshine !  This has got to be what being in Heaven is like.  Not only that, but I'm feeling the "Tender Mercies" happen.  I've been fretting about a car.  I actually bought one that I didn't feel really comfortable with, but because it had Mexican plates I couldn't register it so the man gave me my money back.  I wanted to have the car in time for Kim and Steve and Savannah coming for Christmas.  Then out of the blue, my friend at Church, Sherri Galbraith posted her minivan for sale at my price!  She had no idea I wanted a car.  And she needed to sell the car as she is leaving for 6 months to take care of her parents who both have COVID and her 82 year old dad also has Parkinsons.  A blessing for both of us!  So she came up and I drove the car.  She's going to take it to have a fe...

 I am so close to being done and this condo is beautiful.  It is so comfortable that in this perfect weather I find myself dozing off, especially after a swim.  Honestly, I would have never accomplished anything in my life if I lived here all the time.  It is like being in a warm bath with big Turkish towels to wrap yourself in and then falling asleep in a down blanket while listening to ocean waves. Speaking of sleep, I am getting used to a twin bed.  After a king, this is funny, I have almost rolled off the bed many times. But now I have an extra bed for friends and family who can visit after COVID is over.  I also have a sofa bed! Here are the pictures I promised for the condo.  I still have to put my rug down and the dishwasher and washer and dryer are coming in a week I am told.

 I'm sitting on my deck with a little lamp so I can get the cooler sea breeze and listening to the waves crash on the beach.   In my effort to have some semblance of a Sabbath, I listened to the Mexican LDS Conference that was held in our stake here as a virtual meeting.  I understand only a few words, but the spirit was there and it was nice.  More construction this past week.  I  have had such fun watching it go up and the workmen seem pleased that I praise a lot so they have been bringing me street tacos and carnitas and I bought pizza again one day.  It is going to be weird without at least 6 men in this tiny place.  It will feel like a palace. Paulina and Jess downstairs invited me to dinner which was wonderful since I've just had a microwave and no sink so you can imagine what I am eating. Paulina is from Chile and she and Jess met at college in California 50 years ago.  They were both principals.  Jess plays the guitar. ...

It's Sunday again.  I am so trying to make it a different day than all the rest, but I surely miss going to Church.  Ugh!  When will COVID be vanquished?   I'm having a lot of fun with my 8 workmen.  They all want to find a husband for me, but I tell them that husbands are too much work at which they howl!  Except for Jose and Chano, they are all in their twenties.  So Thursday they brought street food, carnitas which consist of a very well, meat off the bone, cooked chicken, tortillas, onions and hot sauces.  It was delicious.  Friday I bought pizza.   Jose comes by every day to check on the work being done, he is very serious about getting everything right.  I found a place that sells amazing Talavera tile and it was hard choosing the right ones, but I think it is starting to look even  better than I imagined. I'm meeting more and more of my neighbors who are so friendly and instantly include me in their  conve...

Tonight there is a breeze coming off the ocean which is wonderful.  Everyone says the heat wave is now over and we will have perfect weather for the next 9 months.When it rains here it smells like sandalwood and in a breeze I can smell flowers.   I just got back from swimming in the pool. Today only  Jose came to work on an electrical plug and hang my drapery rod.  Tomorrow the guys come to put in the base cabinets.  I think I enjoy having so many interesting men here, they all have a little English and I a little Spanish so there have been a lot of laughs as we try to communicate. I am so lucky to have always had such good people as friends wherever I have moved.  And they stay friends long after I've moved away.  It's happening here too. I wonder why all these nice people cannot run the world.  I am just praying Trump loses but I'm afraid no one has changed their minds from the last vote.  And yet kind people are going out of their way...

 I can't believe how busy this week has been, it's Sunday again and I've not blogged a word!  I guess it will be Sunday blogging.   I love Jose!  His crew has been amazing.  They spent one long day masking everything and then the next three painting with such perfection!  I love the color walls and having new fresh white walls makes it look so clean and updated.  Kathie Stone, you would be proud, I have a green entry, orange living room and turquoise and white bedroom.  Not ready for pictures yet... I have had a lot of fun with my neighbors at the pool.  We all kind of meander to the pool and I exercise while talking.  As I was telling them that it all would be perfect if only I had a pool boy with a virgin pina colada,  Roger jumps up and says "Let me make it perfect."  So in about 15 minutes he comes back with several pina coladas for all of us and he is wearing a hat that says "Pool Boy, Mira Vista"  Ok, I am pinch...