We haven’t been to the garden in about a month. We went last Monday and found all sort of treasure growing. The radishes have done really well. I pulled about 30 and planted new seeds to replace what we took. The lettuce and peppers are doing really well as well.
We spent the day with Jacinto and Erika today in Hermosillo, which included an excellent lunch of comida china. We have been to this restaurant twice now and have been pleased both times.
The purpose of our day was to show Jacinto the pharmacy and to look for homes. The hope is for him to manage the place for us. We think he’d be great and asked that he give an answer by tomorrow.
We’re asking quite a lot. They live three hours away. Both of them will have to quit their jobs. They will have to find a new home here. No small tasks.
Even so, we want him to work for us. We need someone we can trust completely and will work hard to help us grow.
We will find out tomorrow.
It’s Sunday. We are driving home from Hermosillo. It will take us 5 hours to get home. I enjoy the drive. It is the most relaxing part of my week.
The photo above is of the military checkpoint as you head north. It’s an hour or two from the border. These checkpoints are always hassle-free. I much prefer them to the US checkpoints.
Last weekend we finished most of the prep work on the pharmacy. We purchased some inventory and brought a lot of needed equipment.
This weekend we spent most of our time doing interviews. We began with a two hour interview Friday night with one we hope will manage. We continued with 8 scheduled interviews on Saturday. This gets old pretty quick. Fortunately not everyone showed up. We did however find some great candidates out of about 50 people that have applied so far.
Since the person we hope will take the position is not in the same city, he will have to relocate in the immediate future. We are going to meet his wife and him next weekend to show them what they are getting into. They will have to look for a new home right away.
As always, we had some great food over the weekend. Losing weight is increasingly difficult these days.
We made a list of things on the ride home which we need to do to finish the house so we can sell it. It was no small list.
Then we have a long list of things which we want to sell so as not to have take with us. Not sure when we’ll have time to sell these things. I wish there was a convenient service for something like this.
We now await the emperor god’s priests to allow us re-entry into the holy land.
Scout likes watermelon and we have more than we know what to do with. We visited the garden late last night in the dark and found that our new crop is coming in nicely from seeds. Lots of rashes and lettuce and bell peppers.
It’s only 8am and we are in the 90s. It is going to be brutally hot today.
We chartered a boat for the evening. It was a nice break to an insanely busy week. Also, it’s Gabby’s 30th bday today. We had an awesome dinner (my first meal of the day).
VIPS is a restauant chain in Mexico with awesome breakfast food. I don’t know what VIPS stands for, but it has nothing to do with my importance. Check out the rotating book rack over Yun’s right shoulder. I want some of those.
After a rather long day, we found our way to Tacos Pina. So good. I had three tacos carne asada, one taco del pastor, and a plate of beef ribs.
We have been extremely busy all week trying to get the pharmacy together. Today was no exception. We woke early to meet the electrician and to get an estimate. The estimate was a rip, but less than the previous, so we chose to move forward with that. An hour later, the sheetrock and painter group arrived to complete the job they started on Monday. They did a pretty good job but we’ve been getting the white person rate mostly, so that stinks.
An hour later the floor crew came to polish the marble floors. That took 5 hours. The jeffe only had one leg and it was amazing to see him make such good use of it. You would think the polishing machine would take two legs. Not for this guy. He stopped by last night for a quote and I told him it was too high. He called back 15 minutes later with a better price. I would use him again.
While moving things for the floor crew, I accidentally broke one of the Pepsi signs on one of the drink refridgerators. So we made arrangements for one of the Pepsi representatives to stop buy to discuss repairs. Of course the rep stopped by when Yun was away shopping. Even so, my sweet skills in the native tongue got the rep to exchange the fridge with the broken sign for a newer, upgraded fridge tomorrow morning. No charge. Sometimes it does pay to break things.
We spent the remainder of our 11 hour workday cleaning. So much to clean. But the place looks completely different now, so it was worth it. Sadly, as we were hauling out some trash (we have had an endless supply), we accidentally locked ourselves out. So now we are waiting for Yun’s brother to bring a spare key. I had a quesadilla for breakfast and a cup of noodles for lunch. So yea…dinner and cerveza will be nice.
We started calling vendors on Monday and received our first order of medicines today. Exciting times. We have plenty left to do, but hope to tackle a lot of that tomorrow.
