JUST A FEW PHOTOS

It has been a busy crazy few months. It has went from guests twice, to me flying to Seattle for surgery to my Dad and his wife coming to visit and finally letting myself get back into a routine. Just when I get it back to normal then we will escort Mom up the Baja and on up to Wy. to get our storage unit cleaned out.

The first photo here is taken when Gary and Jake came to visit and treated us to an overnight in a nice resort hotel. This is breakfast up above the city of La Paz.

This is a photo of the view from Dad's timeshare looking to Cabo San Lucas, we spent 3 days one week and just a day and night the next week. Then we brought them home to our house for the weekend, then to the airport.

On the way to the airport we stopped on the Tropic of Cancer to have our photo taken. Dad, Carolyn and Me.

Cloyd trying to find a good mocha, this looks good, but he said it really was not that tasty, lol..We're not in Seattle any more!

TIME FLYS IN MEXICO!

Hola! Wow, didn't seem like it had been so long since I updated but it has been almost a month!! We had guests for 10 of those days so really no reason is there?? I will post photos, they will be in random order but they will be photos...ok??
This is Kayla and I with Cloyd in the background, we went driving to see if we can find the lighhouse which we did. The girls and I went a second time after we figured out the shortest way to get there. It is still about a 45-60 min. drive. Kayla is like a granddaughter to me, she is 6 weeks older than Taya

We know that Miss Marcie loves the beach, I only take her down there on the more calm days as the sneaker waves get her. As soon as she gets on the beach she gets released from her leash and she runs to the water. She is so funny

Mostly all Polly and Kayla wanted to do was soak up some sunshine and see the area and how people live. Our back deck was warm in the sun and out of the wind. We had some pretty windy days making it cold, the wind being cold. Yes, the hoodies, jeans and tennis shoes came out.

WE MADE IT!! Arriving from the airport!!

I love this swing, and so did Kayla. Just chilling out.

Polly and Kayla at the Marina in Cabo San Lucas

Our day at the beach, we were trying to decide how to get up on the rock, it was too slippery and too smooth to go up, no hand holds.

Remember I warned you about random order. Cloyd decided to get some sun in the hot tub!!

I just spent the last hour trying to figure out how I had triple of photos, and so deleting and reposting..will take a break, will put some more photos on later...sorry.

TODAY WAS AN EXCITING MORNING!!

A friend seen the prints in the sand of a turtle that had laid eggs. He went online to see how long it would be before hatching. They left for Wyoming yesterday and said to watch for them and take photos. This morning I didn't get up for my walk with Mom as I had an earache,but when Mike came to the door on the four wheeler and hollered in that the turtles were on their way to the Sea, I threw on some clothes, stuffed cotton in my ear and we drove down to the site so we didn't miss them. We didn't see the groups of 20 or so but we did see some of them. It use to be seen a lot on the beach here, but because of so many four wheelers and pickups that are allowed on the beach it makes it so hard and next to impossible for the baby's to have the strength to get to the water, so the mama turtles started laying eggs elsewhere.

The babies were about 3"long, and all the ruts in the sand, it took a bit of work for them, when they got to the waves it would tumble them and throw them back on the beach, but they made it!!

We had a few shrimp boats in the sea not to far from the shore, they have been there for 3 days. The shrimp here are about 4-5" long, took bad I don't like shrimp, save Cloyd a lot of money!!

The different colors of the water, sand, makes for a beautiful photo!

It was around 80 the other day, about 10:30 am and I took Marcie for a walk, she is getting braver with the waves. Our game continues of chasing the waves. I make sure it is a calm day at low tide. She had been running in the waves, then she decided she needed to rub in the sand, she rolled, scooted her face, and was so full of sand!! She had a blast, running and chasing birds, waves, whatever. Then of course when she got home it was bath time.

I wish the beautiful color would of come out. It was pre-sun up and the clouds were fuchsia!! It was awesome!

JUST A FEW PHOTOS

Mom sent me these photos from her phone.

This is my friend Doyle that I was talking about. He walks 3 miles every
morning with his best friend, his dog. We always stop to chat as we watch the sun come up, he on his way home and me up the beach. Did I mention he
was a jeweler? Had his own store. His son now has it. Doyle lost his
wife to cancer after a 6 year battle.

Mom found this skirt and purchased for me in a little store in a tiny
town about 30 minutes from us. She got it for $100peso with the exchange
that is about $8. The weird look on my face is because I was talking and
she was taking so long to click the photo. I don't know if you can see
the necklace I am wearing very well, but it is a shell I found, and copper spacers and mother of pearl beads. It was my first time in working with a
shell.

This is Mom and I. Doyle took it of us on our morning walk on the beach.

WHATS NEW IN MEXICO?

As you know each morning I take a walk on the beach to greet the morning by watching the sun come up. I leave the house at 6 am, I walk in the water and this elderly widowed gentleman walks on the upper sand with his 3 year old mixed breed dog, Brissa. He told me that as the end of the year approaches, notice where the sun comes up each morning. He told me that in Dec. it would be coming up over the point down the beach (we are in a bit of a cove)Sure enough, it is very close to the location. We usually just greet each other and if I have found a nice shell I give it to him to add to his long ledge of shells. He continues down the beach in the water, and I continue to my spot that I turn around. Oh and by the way, I now look for sea glass on my walks. Its glass of some sort that has been broken and washed ashore. I find it in brown (beer bottles I'm sure) green, clear (but frosted from the sea and sand) occassionally blue. I have decided I want to make jewelry with it. Wrap it with wire and make earrings or small pendants. I have not beaded since I arrived, but will soon I hope.

The snow birds are arriving now, there is a lot more activity on the beach, but the nice thing is, people are not coming down early, when Marcie and I are almost to take our road up they are coming down. Marcie has made friends with Brissa, Lobo (yellow lab) a shy german shepherd,and this cute little guy that is 3 months old. His mama is at the end of the photos. Marcie tried to play with the little one, but it is having too much fun just romping in the sand.

About a week or so ago we were sitting up on the deck in a nice breeze, it was still not much wind and still about 90 out, we have this hammock that we didn't know where to put. Couldn't tell where the own had hung it before.Cloyd spies these hooks made from rebar and goes and gets the hammock, climbs up on the hot tub and puts the hammock up there. It is 7' off the floor. He climbs up to see if it is comfy or not. It was!!

I thought I would share my flower that opened up, I forget the name right now but I have 5 different plants of them. Its so beautiful. Also,outside the front fence we have several types of catcus, some flower some don't. Isn't it pretty!! I got brave yesterday and went out to rake up around the cactus, and snip the dead ones. The dead ones go through gloves just like needles!!!!

As you know my Mom is down here till March. She found an apartment that is at the top of the Spa development, with a view of the sea,sitting either at her window in her living room or on her little deck. This is Cloyd after one of our many trips up to move her in. That is about all that is new down here,things move in a very slow pace so not a lot of excitement.I have to download some more photos to share with you. Don't forget to look at the mama of the cute little puppy below!!

Miss Marcie Investigates

Living in Washington and Wyoming, Miss Marcie was always behind a fence or on a leash if we were not in an inclosed area. She would chase cats or dogs in Washington, then moved on to bigger things in Wyoming, deer and when she got tired of seeing those, she next wanted the rabbits to chase. We moved to Mexico and when we do our morning walks there are no animals on the beach (the cows wander through the yards at nights, but gone in the mornings)so she is let off her leash. She has always stayed right next to me getting use to the roar of the sea. Last Thursday she decided to follow some scent she picked up, so while I was walking in the water, she went up the little hill (I could still see her) and she started investigating the new smells of the beach.

After she got done with smelling the smells of the wet sea items, she decided to go up the hill and walk top. I let her walk up there as I could still see her.

The waves her a bit larger that morning, not all of them but when we first got on the beach, a 'sneaker wave' caught us both, splashing just above my ankles but wet Miss Marcie to her belly. That is why she went to higher ground.

When she went out of site I decided I needed to leave the water and walk on the higher ground also, she thought it was great fun and decided with her little sheepish look when she wants to "race" and took off and I was watching her ahead of me and not watching where I was placing each foot. Well...with wind and surf and sand and debris, there was a mostly buried cinderblock in the sand, had I been looking down I would of seen it, but in my 'little bit of a jog' I stubbed my little toe!!! I still can not wear closed toe shoes. I didn't break it, but bruised the toe and all across my foot to the toe next to the big toe. OH MY GOSH!!! It hurt so badly I didn't know if I wanted to cry or what!!
I missed my morning walk on Friday and Saturday as I could not walk well enough, just a good hobble, but on Sunday morning I went back down, sand feels better walking on as it forgives the feet.

WHO COULD STAY AWAY FROM THIS VERY LONG??

An Easy Day

Today Cloyd and I left at 8 am to drive to Cabo San Lucas to get the oil changed and have the suburban washed, and finish up by going by the airport to pick up a friend coming down to build a small house down here, they live in Montana. It was a nice trip down and we continued with checking out which stores are the ones with the best deals for items needed and groceries.We think we know now. We have found out that since so many Gringos (yep, thats me!) have moved down here, and in the two Cabo's that the prices have went up a lot even in the Costco, Sam's Club, Wal-Mart etc. The only thing that we have found to be cheaper is housing and utilities. I have also learned in three weeks that we don't need as much as we thought to live happy and even comfortable, that if you are eating the tasty locally grown food that you get full faster, stay full longer and not get hungry as soon. Cloyd is still very happy with having his Seattle best coffee brewed at home with double stuff oreo cookies dipped, and only get a Mocha when we go to Cabo. Then perhaps one meal a day, all depending on the day. Now, if I can just find something to make me sleep at night, since I am out of my sleeping pills, that would even be nicer! The Pacific was beautiful as usual, no crowed beaches, white sand and the water the color of blue and green you just can't imagine, with the white caps of the crashing waves on the black rocks. Marcie is doing well in her new home, she was quite bored for a while as she is in a quiet area for the most part until the 4 dogs across the fence start barking and then she has to add her 2 cents. She did chase a cat out of her yard and then found that she could look through the decorative cinderblock fence to watch the going ons next door. The iguanas and geckos don't bother her any, so she is good. We have been looking for her some pup-a-roni sticks down here, but not found them yet, so it will go on the list for when we go to Cody for our stuff in March. She has also decided that she loves the chocolate pill pockets as long as you don't try to hid a pill in there!!

Here are a few photos, below the photos is the story of our trip... Bus passing event~ Big Hugh rock piles naturally along the road~ Scorpion in house~ One of the smaller cockroaches~ Beautiful moon over the sea~

So many things happened the last month that we were trying to prepare for our move. It seemed that nothing was going right for us, and everything was going against us. We kept telling ourselves that everything will be fine, and that we know that what we are doing is right and for the right reasons.

Most of you know that as one of Jehovah's Witnesses we do the door to door work.Knocking on your doors and offering home bible studies. When we visited Mexico in March, the English group met at the Spanish Kingdom Hall and was only a group and not a congregation as there were not enough brothers in the hall to take the lead and do the meeting parts. We committed to a year to come down and help in the door to door work, (we are looking for the English speaking people among the Mexican people), and Cloyd was able to help with talks and duties it takes to have a congregation. We came home to start selling and downsizing. We heard that on Aug. 1 they became an English speaking congregation since us and the other couple committed to coming down and help.

We thought that we had downsized a lot, but the house was so big and everything spread out, that when we cleared a room we had more than we thought, so it took us 3 days longer to get the house emptied. We ended up renting a storage unit but we will be going and selling and bringing the rest of it down here, that won't be till March. We decided that we were going to leave Cody after 5 that night that we emptied the last of the house, we didn't care if we only made it 50 miles down the road!! Well as Murphys law would have it, the right brake on the trailer locked up and we couldn't not get it freed, to make a long story short, at 10 pm that night we spent the night with a family there in Cody, and we started our journey the next day. The trailer we were pulling was very loaded down as it was a friends trailer and the weight of their two 4 wheelers and their things and our things, made for a heavy load. We made it to my brothers below Salt Lake City, Utah to spend the night, we were 2 days late, but we made it non the less. We had a nice dinner, visited and up and on the road the next day. We met up with the friends that bought the house down here and it was their trailer we were pulling and they followed us to the next nights stop in San Ysedro, Cal. about a mile from the boarder crossing.The trip was so much longer than expected because of all the mountains we had to pass over and we went up at about 35 mph. Several were like that!! Mom was already down there waiting for us at the motel.(She is here until March)We got a nights sleep and the next morning went across the boarder. We pulled the trailer over as customs wanted to inspect what we had. They looked and told us to park as we had to get our immigration papers made out. We finished that and thought we were free to go and they wanted to inspect the trailer again. Even though we had nothing to hide, it is a little intimidating to see military  guys with big guns standing there, about 4 of them and then 3 checking the trailer and one talking to me about what we were doing and how long we were staying. FINALLY we were on the road to our destination. We had no idea what we would find along the way, but the first part of our trip the road was not too bad, windy roads and very narrow, but that evening it was a bit scary.There were several roadblocks set up in the middle of nowhere and we would get pulled over, they would inspect the trailer and then we were told we could pass.
 We made sure we fueled at the last gas station that we were told was available. We knew the motel that we would spend the first night in Mexico in, but what we didn't know was the afternoon driving was through many small towns a few miles apart, so a lot of stop and going, then many, many steep grades to pull and it took so much more gas that anticipated. Each time I would see another grade, I was praying not that we didn't run out of gas, I was convinced that we were going to, that I would just pray that there was a safe place to pull over as there were not pull over spots! We thought we had made it to the town with the motel, but it wasn't, and we were on empty and no gas stations in site!!! HOWEVER, there was a place that had gas in barrels and the lady at the little mexican store did a nice job of cyphoning and we got 5 gals of gas which took us to the next stop. We seen a gas station, filled up then seen our motel!! We were all so hungry and tired we had a nice dinner at 9pm and then a nights sleep.

The next day, we had another 500 miles to drive, just like the day before! We thought we were prepared for anything. The grades were steeper, there were a lot of trucks and busses on the road. At one point we were going down a very steep windy road and following two tanker trucks when a big bus was passing us and the two tanker trucks!!! The roads are so narrow, most of the time the wheels of the trailer we were pulling was on the center line and the white fog line if there was on, many times the roads brake off and there is only a very very steeep ditch or drop off, so here the bus comes around the trucks and we see something go flying off the bus right in front of us, luckily it didn't go through our windshield. It was the bus' extended mirror, he got too close the the load of the truck ahead of us and it came flying off!!

Construction was everywhere, roads seem to just disappear into nothing and I can not believe things we were forced to drive on. We finally made it to Spa Buena Vista at 1:30 am. The property management lady was so kind and said she would just leave the gate open to go in the back door and it would be unlocked. We told Mom to just spend the night at our house and we would take her to hers after a nights sleep. We were very shocked to see the house was not clean, and when we went to turn off the front porch light the wall was crawling with cockroaches!! We were so exhausted, we turned the light off and went to bed, at least they were made. We told ourselves that we are in Mexico and things are different.

We arrived on a Wed morning and went to meeting at the new congregation that night and after talking about our cockroach problem (told property management and they said they would get someone over to spray but didn't know when) we talked to the brother that we knew did pest control and he could come in a few days. In the meantime we showed him where we would see the roaches go in and out, now we are talking about 2 inch long roaches!! The handy man in the Spa development was sent over to trim the palm trees and we showed him and he immediately said he would contact the owner and it would be fixed!! 3 places under an ill fitting lid was the pipe that the raw sewer would dump from the bathroom and kitchen and shower, and run through that concrete box and feast for the roaches. Cloyd and Mark put pvc pipe to enclose the raw sewer and put concrete around the pvc so the roaches cant get in or out!! Now, let me tell you how creepy it was when he sprayed. He did the first hole and they were coming out like crazy, but when he went to the second hole, it was in the top of the car port and they were coming out so fast that the walls, ceiling and floor was alive!! The one spraying said he had never in his life seen so many cockroachs, he even had nightmares about it that night. I am not telling a fish story when I say there were about 800-1000 dead ones the first day. Then we swept them up for the next 4 days. I had to purex everything before I put things away unpacking, I had to wash all their dishes, etc so it took 3 times as long to unpack. Oh,and we had 4 scorpions in the house.

I think that we have weathered the worst of it! I was told by the locals that if we can endure that, we can endure anything!

So the beautiful weather, the sandy beaches, and now a clean house that we can keep on top of the spraying every 5 months, it is good. We are getting use to shopping by photos as we don't know spanish yet, but it is working for us. We have beautiful produce, it is so yummy being freshly picked that morning, fresh salsa made, and I have learned how to make it, we are finally recuperating from it all.

I will put photos up so you can see some of what we seen. While you are enduring the freezing weather already, we are cooling down to the upper 80's.

MEXICO SUNRISE

A lot of things have changed on this blogsite since I was last here. I am trying to figure out how to do everything again as I am not real fluent on the computer like most of you know. I will just start out by sharing a beautiful sunrise this morning that I watched as Marcie and I did our morning walk on the beach. I will soon have more photos uploaded when I can figure out how to upload more than one at a time. Bear with me, and I will get back into the swing of things.

BIG GRIZZLY BEAR

We took the 3 nieces home on sat. and when we were on our way back through Yellowstone we seen a bunch of cars pulled over to the side of the road. Its a common site and I started looking to see what everyone was looking at. Up on the side of the hill about 175 feet away was this grizzly bear walking back and forth looking for grubs or roots or whatever. The park ranger was there watching also to make sure no one did anything stupid. He was so big we thought he was a buffalo until we got closer. we took the photo on our phone cameras and went on our way. He was the biggest one I have seen!!!

SHOES FOR SELL

I AM GETTING CLOSE TO HAVING SOLD MY INVENTORY. HERE IS WHAT I HAVE TO OFFER THAT IS NEW IN BOX, PLEASE EMAIL ME AT artis.allgier@gmail.com First come and I only have 1 of most.

SIGNED JAN 2010 CATALOG, ALSO JUNE 2009~$10
FAITHFUL`$10
DELICATE DAISIES-$10

$8 EACH

UNQUENCHABLE
INCARCERATION
KNOCKOUT
EASY RIDER
CORKWEDGE TANG CC
CORK WEDGE
#1 FAN(PATS CHINA EXCLUSIVE)
RICH GIRL
OPERA BOOT
UPTOWN SWING
WHAT A PAIR ($15)
LEOPARD KICK
HAMMERED
EYE CANDY
DIZZYING HEIGHTS


UNSIGNED CATALOGS $5
JUNE 2010
JUNE 2009
JAN 2010
JUNE 2002
MINI 2010 CALENDAR

FOUND THE PHOTOS!!

I HAVE HAD A RED KITCHEN FOR A LONG TIME, NOW IT WILL BE A BLUE/WHITE WITH A BIT OF YELLOW.
THIS IS A FULLY FURNISHED 1100 SQ. FOOT HOME THAT WE WILL LEASE FOR A YEAR. WE WILL SEE WHAT HAPPENS AFTER ONE YEAR LEASE IS UP. ENJOY

OFF THE MASTER BEDROOM

THIS IS THE STAIRS THAT GO UP TO MASTER BEDROOM,

COMING DOWN THE STAIRS FROM DECK TO BACK YARD

IN THE FAR DISTANCE YOU SEE THE SEA OF CORTEZ, WE ARE ABOUT 3 BLOCKS UP

DECK OFF MASTER BEDROOM & HOT TUB

CASA BELLA YARD

HERE ARE PHOTOS OF OUR YARD, NOTICE NO GRASS. YARD WORK WILL CONSIST OF RAKING UP LEAVES AND WATERING.

HERE ARE PHOTOS OF OUR YARD, NOTICE NO GRASS. YARD WORK WILL CONSIST OF RAKING UP LEAVES AND WATERING.