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??