Jueves, 05 Julio 2012. No, there seems to be no
reason for fireworks here. Or is there? When we were in town for
breakfast and computer access this morning, we saw many very well
dressed students, accompanied by their parents, also in their Sunday
best. Many boys and girls had the same pale green-gray plaid bottoms
– being slacks or skirts. The tops were white with red ties, all
presumably the school uniforms colors. Many were carrying bouquets
of flowers. Graduation day – summer vacation is starting. This
certainly is an area of flowers. People buy and have cut flowers for
every imaginable happening or event. This creates much visual
beauty, but is hard on Carmen's allergies to many of the strongly
scented varieties. This picture is flowers from our front yard,
sitting on fireplace mantel. The red is Bugambilia (Bougainvillea), the yellow is Copa de Oro (Allamanda cathartica), and the blue flowers are yet to be identified. Spent a long time at the
cafe near the park, catching up on emails and getting the blog days
posted. Yep, we visited the hardware again. Then across the street
to see if the large bakery had any must buy item. Nope. There are
several large bakeries in town that we know of, plus some smaller
ones. Next we stopped by the locksmith's – no luck, he was off on
a job and it was unknown when he'd be back. Up the next block to the
other large grocery store. No oranges here. Around past the old
railroad station and down to the electric company to get the receipt
we needed with Carmen's name on it. So the electric bill is in
Carmen's name and the water bill is in Dan's name. We each need a
bill in our name for when we apply for various government
permissions.
Back towards our house to a
fruit market to buy more oranges, then to our favorite grocery store.
We have been not seeing the manager from this store ever since we
arrived last week. He was there today and we all joyfully greeted
each other and shook hands. Carmen waited with our other purchases
on a bench at the front of the store, rather than checking our other
items. Dan bought a couple small items. He found salt that has some
thing in it that keeps it pourable in this humidity. Now approaching
home, we had one more stop. Dan needed to go up the hill to Franks
new house to borrow his hacksaw to saw a piece of plastic pipe for
that bathroom sink that still is not useable. He also wanted to take
some photos of the changes in the structure since our visit here last
winter. Carmen loaded up with all the purchased items, plus
computer, to carry everything home and leave Dan to do this last walk
by himself. Must admit that she was rather loaded down, which gave
Dan a bit of a worry. Carmen had walked but a block when she heard
this familiar voice asking her if she'd like a taxi ride. Oops –
hope the driver did not expect to be paid. It was Frank. He then
met Dan at his construction site.
This afternoon several
little boys have been having fun hitting our doorbell and running.
What fun! Dan got the mailbox installed. Hopefully no one can steal
it. Carmen continued cleaning windows and this morn washed and hung
out the final curtains. Plus she sprinkled bug poison around
outside. Dan also invented a way to keep our windows from banging
shut with the breezes. Being a gardener at heart, Dan also went
outside and pruned back some more bouganvilla. Had a HARD rain for a
short time this afternoon. Within an hour the water had mostly dried
up. Pretty amazing. The temp in the sun this afternoon was 98ºF,
and in the shade it was 72ºF. Got to start thinking in centigrade
it seems. Bed time!
