nov 17, 2010 wed

this morning I did laundry since we assumed the water guy would come. tow loads and he did come yahooo !! both houses got water. we are good to go.

Pancho's brother died in ensenada and they brought the body here at midnight night before last and buried him yesterday. pancho said he was up all night and they reminisced about the brother. 

a story: when they were young, they were quite poor and the 3 eldest had to sleep together. there was only one blanket and the 2 on the ends would wrap it around them selves and the one who died would be stuck in the middle with the blanket high ... leaving him cold.

a story:  the brother had a wife who had a sister who had a baby at ayong age. so she gave the baby to the brother and his wife. they bring up the baby and she calls them abuela and abuelo. she is 5 years old and she told pancho:  I am leaving abuelito here for  you to take care of him. Ok, he told her !!

Pancho brought by Marcos to meet me yesterday - he is the owner of Puerto Nuevo cabanas.  sasys pancho that he was born in san ignacio and has been a hard hard worker all his life. (in spite of the reputation that people from san ignacio have).  he was a good fisherman and lobsterman and now runs his business and does well.  he is panchos dead wife's brother.  pancho told me he met his wife at a fiesta in san ignacio.  and then she came to work as a nurse here in bocana.

kids stopped by all day long and bikes in and bikes out.  we are down to the wire here ... almost every kid is handled.  tunguis brother and sister joined the club, they are very poor and I am happy to support them.  they are the hooligans of town and hopefully we can recuperate them a little.

Duncan does not have a bike yet. poor thing. every time he comes they are too big or broken or too small. please, Lord, one of these new ones has to be for cutie pie Duncan. Right fit. He is such a good soul. Just like his mom.  I really like Renata.

I watered the garden today and there are a couple plants that could use some TLC. tomorrow this must be done. they are not happy. all the plants at the Copa are doing great. I am so happy.  I bought 2 more plants today. It is great cause the guy knows me by name and always comes to me first hahaha !!

the punta chivato group made 3800 dollars !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! holy smokes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  and everything was cheap except the TVs and they all went for 250 pesos and there were about 7 of them !!!  other than that, everything else was 10 or 20 pesos max. pretty cool.