Sunny Days

In between the occasional short Norte with its accompanying cooler, windy and sometimes wet weather, we're having fabulous days, close to 30 c, calm and sunny.  The fishermen stay ashore during the Nortes but yesterday was a beautiful day for them and we enjoyed it too, ending our day with a walk along the beach up to Casa de Celeste Vida to have supper with Kenn, Karen, and Wanda.  Jorge and Fabiola (who have a vacation home next door to Celeste Vida) joined us too and we had a great meal followed by one or two drinks and hours of dominoes.  We all learned several Spanish words for "cheater!" and Fabi's new favourite English phrase is to describe herself as a "tough cookie!".

Fishing boats and sunset in Celestun

Earlier in the day my reading/snoozing in our TV Sunroom was disturbed by a flock of parrots in the trees outside our windows.  These green, yellow and blue birds (parakeets actually) are really chatty and a flock of them can be pretty noisy.

Olive-throated, or Aztec Parakeets

I was able to just open our windows wide and wait for some good photo ops as the birds hopped from branch to branch, snacking on seeds and berries in our trees.

Today is a little warmer, 30c+, and we had some new bougainvillea, spiny palm-like plants, and a new coco tree delivered by our local gardener friend, Wilbur Ruiz.  We decided to redo our roadside plantings to make them a little more attractive and colourful as well as adding some colour along our beach-side fence.  The new coco was to replace a bug-infested one that snapped off last month.  Poor Wilbur had to dig a HUGE hole and chop through a very heavy tangle of roots to remove the old stump before finally planting our new tree.

Bougainvillea thrives here, needing very little
water and producing beautiful, dramatic colour

Wilbur digging out the coco stump to plant a new one

  





I had to skip my afternoon nap today in order to watch our nephew Greg play hockey.  His BCMML team from Kamloops, BC, the Thompson Blazers, was playing in Kelowna, BC.  Luckily we can watch most of his games streamed online through www.playfullscreen.com and with texting back and forth with Chris' brother Murray and her Mom who were at the game, it was almost like we were there!

Greg firing one at the net (in a previous game)

Well the hockey game is over and my blog is done, so I think I can just fit in a short nap before supper.  Then I guess I'll have to repeat this hectic schedule all over again tomorrow!  :)