Muchacho Polaco

El centro

Posted on May 28, 2013 by admin

The center of town is not far from our house, maybe 5 minutes. There is a nice cathedral and square to walk around. We took the dogs with us last Sunday evening. Plenty of interesting things to see and eat.

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Back home

Posted on May 24, 2013 by admin

Happy to be back home, even though it is rather hot. Scout and I are enjoying the sunset from the front yard.

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Lowes

Posted on May 23, 2013 by admin

We had an early inspection on our house this morning, so we decided to prolong our anniversary festivities another day by staying the night at Lowes Ventana Canyon. I love this place.

The tub is like a mini lap pool in the bathroom. It’s beautiful.

We spent most of our time at the pool and in the room watching HGtv. So much fun. I’m a huge fan of house hunters international.

We are on our way home now after a brief stop at Trader Joes.

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Oil snake

Posted on May 19, 2013 by admin

I found what appears to be a snake in our oil and vinegar today at lunch. We went to Escalon with Gabriel and Alejandra, an Italian place just up the street.

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offers on the house

Posted on May 18, 2013 by admin

We have received a couple spectacular offers on the house, but today we received one for the full asking price with no additions (no contributions toward closing costs, etc). We accepted the offer and now it is subject to various things such as the appraisal and inspection.

We have mixed feelings about the sale of the house. We put an extraordinary amount of effort and money into it to be exactly how we wanted it. And we have loved living in it, despite it being in an area that is not ideal. Everything was new and modern. The enormous kitchen and beautiful master bath was my favorite. Now we fear we will not have a house like this again and I am not quite ready to take on a task of this magnitude again (hopefully ever).

We also love our house in Mexico. It is twice the size of our house in the US, but even so, it may be short lived because Yun’s brother put an offer on it as he wants to buy it. If that goes through, we will once again have to look for another home. Neither of us our thrilled about this because it’s not easy to find a house that we like.

Even so, we feel blessed by all of the things taking place of late.

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My favorite meal

Posted on May 17, 2013 by admin

There is a place down the street which is easily my favorite. Good wine and great steaks. I look forward to our next visit. This was dinner a couple nights ago.

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Anillos

Posted on May 17, 2013 by admin

I was once mocked for introducing the sale of rings to our little store. They turn out to be rather popular. With single sales as the above demonstrate, I am no longer mocked.

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Beginning to fit in

Posted on May 14, 2013 by admin

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blood runs return

Posted on May 12, 2013 by admin

We used to take the dogs on regular runs out in the desert. We would find a road where there was no traffic and let the dogs out to run along with the truck for miles. Due to an increasingly busy schedule, we stopped doing this a few years back. Fortunately, we’re not as busy anymore so I had the opportunity yesterday to take the dogs back on their much loved runs.

Scout is very fast and does not deviate from the road. Tila is not as fast and loves to explore off the road. This is a problem because we’re in the desert. Despite her previous history from suffering miserably from cactus needles, she does not learn to avoid them. Yesterday was no exception. Five minutes into the run, she deviated off the road and through a patch of la cholla cactus (also known as jumping cactus). The result was that she was covered in thorns, all over her face and body. And as I had nothing to remove them with, most of them ended up sticking to my hand as I tried to remove them.

Here’s a picture after having removed the worst of it (which was mostly around her face):