Salud, pesetas y amour y el tiempo para gustarlos!

Health, money, and love and the time to enjoy them! We do, we are, and we wish the same for all! Cheers!

We are in Los Barriles enjoying the beautiful home of our friends Paul and Renata. They have gone car camping with their two fairly large dogs. We are caring for their beautiful home, swimming pool, hot tub, tropical garden, and two cats. I think we got the better deal. They should have negotiated for the use of our motor home - they were packed to the roof and on the roof when they happily took off for their camping holiday in Baja. We are here for two weeks till Mike Kate and the kids arrive, then we are off to Ellen and Chris's beautiful beach house for another two weeks.

Speaking of cats - Heidi the indoor cat likes to be accompanied to her room to have her food - she will meow and meow until one of us goes with her - I don't know - maybe its scarey? She then likes to be patted and to have the burrs taken out very gently while she eats (she is fluffy so easily catches nasty burrs particularly in her tail). Following her meal she likes to go outside for a bit and then to come in and sleep on the back of the sofa. She repeats this at will. Squeaker - the outside cat, also likes to be accompanied while she eats - she likes you to dip your fingers in her bowl and stir her food around - I don't know - releasing the tantalizing aroma?. Neither cat like fish or shrimp. They are quite entertaining.

Not quite as entertaining as the kite boarders that we can see from the dining room table and very well from the roof patio. The whales are back and have been providing entertainment for those on the beach (aparently its mating season) we don't spend much time gazing at the sea at this house. Its been so windy that its just not that pleasant to be outside in the wind. There is a lovely deck at the other side of the house, a little more sheltered, and also where the pool is where we can enjoy the sun and the warmth. We have been here since Feb. 9th and have had only one day with light winds, all other days the wind has been howling.

We have two quads to use as well so as anticipated we have spent a fair bit of time looking at houses for sale, of which there are a huge number. The prices have come down although they are still very high, particularly for beach front. We have found a house tho - wow its just wonderful - we are both enamored. It requires us to first sell our house before we can buy it. We would then mostly live here full time, leaving only in the very hot months. Sounds good to me.

Charlie is camping at North Beach and is giving his free slide show this evening. We commissioned him to take a picture of this house and of Ellen and Chris's as a gift to them for letting us stay in their homes. I hope they like them. He does a wonderful job. (See his website on the sidebar)

We are so releived to be down here in the safety of Baja rather than at home what with the woman who was pushed in front of a bus and killed in Victoria and the three separate drive by shootings resulting in two women killed and a man seriously wounded in Vancouver. All these in the past week! Whew - Canada is not a safe place.