Muchacho Polaco

Mr. Scout played with a ball last night on the street and the result was devastating to his paws. The pads on his paws were nearly rubbed off on every paw. So today he is a lot of pain. 

Today was an exciting day for the Jeep. A couple weeks ago I took it into a shop to have an alarm installed and a new stereo and speakers. The shop was a catastrophe. I had to take the Jeep back a number of times because of problems in the installation of the alarm and later the speakers.

A couple days ago the passenger side door stopped working. Rather than take it back a fourth time to the shop I decided to fix it myself. So today I had Asael over to work around the house,which included work on the Jeep. He was not only able to repair the problem with the door, but he also was able to get my air conditioning working again. This is an incredible thing given how unbearably hot it’s been recently.

About a week ago we started to experience problems with water pressure in the house. As it turns out, the water pressure from the city is insufficient. So homes here have a water pressure tank that is used to compensate. It consists of a tank in the backyard and a pump at the bottom of the cistern under our carport.

As you can see from the close up the top of the water pump blew off and ultimately destroyed its ability to pump water. Generally one  would expect more than one year on a pump given this is a brand new house, but it appears as though they installed the very cheapest pump one could buy. So now we wait until Thursday or Friday to have it replaced and resume our life with normal water pressure.

We are having Abe’s super protein dish for lunch.

So for whatever reason, we decided to go low budget on this trip. So instead of the spectacular-looking hotel off the city center square, we opted for a little hostel down the street. The place itself is not horrible, but the first night was so incredibly difficult because there was no air conditioning in the room. Needless to say we did not get any sleep that night. The next day we were fortunate enough to be able to change the room or one that had that window. So our sleep last night was infinitely better.

Yun and I left Sunday to travel to Guadalajara. It’s a cheap flight from Hermosillo. I think we paid about $70 each for a round trip ticket. The flight itself is only about an hour to an hour and a half. The flight was pretty horrible. We had really bad turbulence. So I hope it will be nothing like that on our return tomorrow.

Celebrating our 11-year anniversary. Good times.

Our friend Raul was here last weekend for a visit from Yucatan. We haven’t seen him in over a year. Was good to spend some time and to catch up. There’s a possibility he may be moving back here to Hermosillo within the year.

Yun and I went to banamichi on Thursday and returned yesterday. It was a quick, but spectacular visit.

We had a study on one of John Owens works tonight, The Mortification of Sin. Good times.