Muchacho Polaco

Yun got her new car this last weekend. It’s a nice compliment to my black Mazda 6. Now we have a pretty brand loyal household.

We hope to be able to sell the CX5 for about $5000 more than we paid for it 5 years ago. Car prices are ridiculous.

A few weeks back over Thanksgiving weekend we traveled down to Kino Bay. Matt and Dana were with us and we brought Carl and Shelley and Brant and Stacy. The place we stay at is so impressive. We had such a great time.

We had red meat for dinner every night. On the way down we stopped at Taste and picked up some half kilo rib eyes each.

Lots of music and singing late into the evenings

We toasted the sunset each night.

Our friends Orlando and Ana were able to join us for a day.

It’s the time of year again where hiking isn’t completely miserable. We have some trails just North of our house with some pretty spectacular views.

We did this same trail last weekend. It was in the 70s today, so it is really quite pleasant.

Not too many on the same trail, so we had most of it to ourselves.

I found this little guy swimming in the pool yesterday. Once creatures get in, they have no way out. I am not sure what type he is, but not a rattler which is all that matters.

One benefit living close to the border are the super cheap labor rates. Changing sensors isn’t hard, but when it costs around $5, why bother.

Scout and Tila have been around forever. We got Scout around 2006 just after getting married. That was 16 years ago. We got Tila shortly after, maybe 15 and a half years ago (we don’t know how old they were when they came to us, but at least a year). They have been part of every day of our life ever since. They have traveled with us to many destinations, in and out of the US. They would wake us up every morning and we would get them to bed every night. For years we have been dreading their loss. They are getting old. But that had been progressing of late. They were pure enjoyment for us. But lately, they have been on a severe decline. It started with their inability to get up. I would come home from work and one of them would be stuck, unable to move, sitting in their own feces. It escalated to their not wanting to eat any more. I travel a lot for work, so I have been concerned about something happening in my absence. It was so bad last weekend that we had to make a choice. So on Sunday, we traveled down to Mexico and had them put down. This was the worst experience of my life. It’s hard to know what to do and having them both die in your arms at the same time was a bit too much. We will miss them greatly.

I took this photo of Tila a few hours before putting her down.

We had some friends over last night and I made London broil in the sous vide. They turned out as I hoped – perfectly medium rare throughout.

We had heard of pop in the neighborhood a few nights ago and discovered in the morning our lights and fan did not turn on the guest bathroom. Strange. Everything else seemed to work fine in the house. It turns out, our smart switches must have taken an electrical surge that killed them. So I figured I would try replacing them only discover our new electrical panel did not have the circuit in the bathroom properly identified. Grabbing a hold of a live wire gets your attention quick.

Fortunately, changing switches resolved the problem. Our entire house is connected to our network and so I can operate everything remotely. You never know when you might need to turn on that guest bathroom fan from 1000s of miles away.

Cara and Frances invited us over for dinner on Sunday, along with Carl and Shelly, Nick, and Collin.

We filled Matt’s trailer twice today with tree limbs. The olive tree in the front was a load in itself. But it looks real nice now. We hope to get a trailer like this in the next couple weeks so I can do weekly loads to the dump. It’s endless.