March 23, 2015
February was a crazy month filled with good and not so good adventures. The end of January marked the end of our Santa Fe adventure, but not the end of some great new friendships forged there. It was really hard to say hasta luego to our friends, Leo, Kim and Denny, Glorys and Carl and our favorite little man Colby!
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| Leo, Anita and Carl at Anita's going away party |
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| Kim and Glorys |
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| Great Santa Fe friends |
Our last weeks in Santa Fe were filled with a trip to our friends Bill and Mitzi's orchard to collect bags of ruby red grapefruit and mulberries; a great day trip up to Denny and Don's property with beautiful waterfalls and swimming holes; and a day wandering the annual Santa Fe Feria.
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| Denny and Peg - two peas in the same pod |
The move was complicated by an emergency trip to CA to visit my dad after emergency brain surgery - he is doing much better. When we realized I needed to go help with my dad's recovery we pushed up the move. We hastily packed up and made the three trips down to the new house and tried to get settled. Sorry to Leo who was pretty upset to find out we took off without a good-bye. There was cell service at the road in the front of the house so we had purchased a signal booster thinking that would be enough to get the signal in the house. After a couple of hours with me on the roof and Peg monitoring signal strength we were able to get the phones working, but no luck with the internet. We also discovered that the refrigerator was way too small and had been used for fish (read dreadfully smelly) and the gas stove had a burner that leaked gas and would stay lit when off. So I left poor Peg with no internet, very intermittent cell service, and the job of purchasing and installing new appliances. With the help of Glorys she handled everything like a champ.
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| This will fit our two weeks worth of groceries |
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| New stove working great thanks to some Peg problem solving |
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| Great family time caring for my dad. |
By the time I returned from the states Peg was dying to get out and about in our new neck of the woods. We are now living about 45 minutes from Los Islotes so that we are all ready to get started building. We spent a couple of days with our future LI neighbors Barry and Melissa checking out all of the local beaches. There are quite a few to choose from, but our favorite is the Los Islotes swim beach. Perfect for swimming laps while the dogs run free. We are very excited to be able to start enjoying our new home.
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| Sunset at Puerte Duarte - Beautiful |
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| Summer here and everything is in bloom |
The architect finally received the soil test results and is working on getting the plans finalized. We should have the completed plans this week and Mike our builder is ready to get started as soon as we have them. He was very pleased with the preliminary drawings we received.
Coming soon.... fun trip to Texas to see kids and friends.
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