Hell’s Half Acre

We had a very uneventful trip up to Mexicali but unlike our previous border crossing, this one was just a bit more involved. At one point the customs person asked me why I was looking at her weird through her questions and I said we’d never been questioned like this before; that the [...]

It has really been an awful week. Jamie and I got a weird back thing (I think mine was started by badly done yoga) that put both of us prone on the bed for a couple days. Luciklly, we were able to stagger the days we were down. I have stopped doing [...]

Jamie and I have started watching a new (to us) show called “Six Feet Under”. Jamie has watched it the last few nights; my Dad gave him DVD’s of the first season and he got hooked. Last night he talked me into watching it and we watched the pilot and the first three [...]

I can’t believe how much fruit these kids go through. I could swear I bought $20 of fruit yesterday but today I made a note. I bought bananas, guayabas, mandarinas, avocado and tomates; 7 kilos worth. We’ll see what is left by tomorrow afternoon. I know Deb will not be [...]

If you have Flickr and you have WordPress, you MUST have this most amazing plugin. It places a Flickr toolbar at the bottom of your posting screen in WordPress and you simply click on the picture you want and the HTML appears in your post. I haven’t found a way to make it [...]

Yesterday was the feast day of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Each and every Baja town has a shrine to the Virgin. Along the highways in Baja and mainland Mexico you will see very many shrines. Yesterday was her feast day and it was celebrated well here in San Felipe. The wind [...]

The past couple days, well, it FEELS like a week, but has only been a few days, I’m sure, the kids have been positively trailer-bound. The skies are grey and cloudy, the air is cool and they might be hibernating. For a couple days, I dragged them out to the dunes to the [...]

Jesse just admonished everyone for talking so loudy; little mousy is sleeping. The kids are all whispering. I don’t suppose it would be possible to show humans the same respect?
These kids, as I suspected, have fallen in love with mousy. They were squealing with delight, just like Christmas morning, upon [...]

Is there some genetic and age defect that makes me the only person in the entire family capable of cooking and doing dishes? Why is that always MY job? I do all the negotiating (Spanish), purchasing, cooking and dishes. Someone tell me how it is physically impossible for anyone else to do [...]

Only because we’re FREEZING here in San Felipe. We are loathe to head north to spend Christmas in the Bay Area. I’m trying to do some data entry and Jamie keeps rattling off temperatures. “Guess what today’s high in Loreto was?” I guess 80F. He says it was 90F (32C). [...]