All right....

Lorne says I need to put some pics of the house up. ...  so:

 Here is Lorne happily ensconced in his office.  This doubles as a guest room.

This is my office, we have the same desk, such a deal.   My office also doubles as a guest bedroom.

Another view of my office with the stuff I do in my office and the guest closet.

More of my stuff.

Guest bath.  We have some glass blocks in the ceiling to enhance the available light.

Guest shower wall and floor is all acid wash with inset slate tiles.

Guest bath onyx sink and counter.  

View from the front door into the living room and kitchen.

The carpenter Martin from La Ribera made this beautiful door from smoked glass and Mexican Mahogany.

View from the kitchen into the living room.  The counter in the center is also our dining room table.  

View from the kitchen into the living room.  Center is a propane fireplace.

The most comfortable bed I have ever slept in.  Truly.  It is a California Kingsize tempurpedic memory foam mattress look alike on top of this concrete bed.

Built in Mexican cedar cabinetry.

Master bath with a larger onyx sink and counter and the same acid wash on the floor and walls of the shower.  The trim in the shower is onyx.

Looking out the window of the kitchen to the winter patio and the neighbors houses.  It is difficult for us to get used to having neighbors so close by....

Another view of the kitchen.













Outside the house:  the views off the summer patio deck

The acid wash on all the floors and decks turned out really well.












The garden:  there are a number of Ciruelo (wild plum) trees in the yard.

More Wild Plum with the trunk of an Elephant Tree (Tarot) on the left and in the center bottom a Cholla Cactus.

The tallest tree on the left is a Palo Blanco, its a beautiful graceful tree with a white trunk and generally has leaves, even during a drought.  It has a very long tap root system that searches for water.  In the foreground on the left is a Wild Plum and to the left is the Pitaya Cactus that was growing in our bedroom before we built the house.

 On the right is a Tarot and the center is a large Pitaya Cactus with another cactus and a flowering vine growing inside it

 Panorama from Lorne's office window.

Across the street South South West

Across the street North North West

Same view only telephoto.

Grapefruit on the kitchen counter from a neighbors tree.

North North West corner of property.  Our electrical post on the left and a Palo Blanco and a Cardon Cactus center.

Across the street - how many goats do you see?

The goat dog.  She was just a puppy last year living with her goats, and now she is a graduated goat dog.  She takes very good care of her goats, and can be seen frantically searching for the occasional lost ones.

There are a lot of goats here.....





and more on the way....

Foraging in the cactus.

A resident garden Spiny-Tailed Iguana










This yellow flower covers the ground on the property:

The sunrises are spectacular!  

Going Buggy.....

Sometimes a little sometimes a big one.....  Due to the large amount of rain on the Baja Peninsula this summer there has been a huge increase in moths and butterflies.  After Hurricaine John 4 years ago it was black crickets, this year its moths and butterflies.

 This is a brilliant green walking stick.  Her/His color really is spectacular.  You can see the acid wash floor.  This is the floor inside the whole of the house and the decks and stairs outside.

 This is the wall in the living room - and the walking stick standing up on my arm.

There is a huge number of white moths like this one on our deck.  This seems to be the dominant moth this year.  There were so many on the Costco sign in Cabo that you could barely see the blue of the background of the sign.













This one is on the exterior wall of the house and blends in quite nicely.

This is some big beetle!  As you can see it is the size of my forefoot, and below when she/he moved over to the patio wall you can see she/he is the size of a wall plug!  This is some kind of a root borer beetle, likely related to the ones we have in Victoria.

This is taken at night, and is a huge black moth the size of my hand.  As you can see its wings are like a paisley tapestry, absolutely beautiful.  In some pockets in this community there are a large number of these.  I have only seen about 10 of them around our house, but then I'm not up at night counting them.....

This beautiful green moth is very tiny.  About the size of my baby fingernail.

This is not a bug.  He/she eats bugs.  Its an orange throated whiptail lizard and is very small, about half the size of my hand, not including his/her tail.

The screens were not fitting well at first so every morning the walls were covered with moths!  The next few photos are good shots of the finish on the walls throughout the house.  

 so many kinds and colors of moths!

These are very tiny, like the size of my pinky fingernail.

Interesting wing patterns.

This one is also much like a tapestry.

Then there is the lovely grasshopper... quite a big one.

My favourite - the preying mantis.  She looks like she is posing for the camera - holding her triangular head up and looking at me.   She and a few of her relatives were very busy around the exterior lights every night.

Her back is quite silvery green in the flash of the camera.

This is  a close-up of the granite counters in the kitchen and pass-throughs and the aluminum window frames.

This one is dead in the garden and is at least the size of the palm of my hand.  Very big for a moth in my opinion.

Now, this scorpion is dead or his tail would be curled up and ready to sting.  You do not want to step on a live one of these with your bare feet.











This scorpion is not dead!  It is night time, and he is moving along at a good clip right towards the edge of the balcony.  Truly it was as big as a mouse!

Note:  it was the last one we saw and I think it came up on the balcony in the tarp the painter had brought up from the garden and set on the deck.  When I was moving it out of my way, out this one pranced.  Its blurry because I am trying to capture him quickly before he gets away so have not properly set up the camera.

Then there are the butterflies!  There are so many and so many different kinds of them!  This is a blooming bush in our yard covered with different butterflies.

 This is some kind of mesquite down the street alive with a preponderance of butterflies.

I haven't seen many of this kind.

Something else not to step on or pick up.  This is a very poisonous centipede, the lines on him/her are quite blue.  They live in the ground, under rocks.  The painter (Giovani) found him to warn me.  It will not kill you but it will make you ill for a few days apparently, although I have not run into anyone who has been stung by one.

This little green one is on our Mexican cedar cabinetry.

This pretty one is on our sofa.

This is a very interesting, very large moth with transparent silvery wings that fold over his back.  Note his very fuzzy legs.