Hell’s Half Acre

We’re picking up a fourteen week puppy this afternoon.  We’ve been helping the local animal shelter by washing puppies (honestly, I’m not exactly certain how much help the kids are) each Saturday and have talked Jamie into a doggie.  AND a kitty!  Jonna and Mimi have seriously cautioned us against a puppy though, so as hard as the kids have fallen for the 5 week old pupeez, they tell us it just wouldn’t be the best choice.  They tell us we would do best with a 9 month old and the animal shelter folks say that the 14 week puppy we really like is Very Energetic, so we’re going to take the 14 week old for a week trial and see how she does.  I wonder if daily exercise and attention will calm her down.  The shelter has named her Mildred, but should we adopt her, only a Spanish name will do.

We’ve been working on the palapa little by little; I have one entire outside wall painted and am working on the back of the palapa.  We have talked to one carpintero about bottom cabinets for the kitchen and a contratista about tiling the bathroom upper walls and bottom cabinets for the kitchen.  We hope to get the ball rolling on those projects by next week.  That meaning we’ll select a carpintero.  We have no idea if/when the cabinets will actually be installed.

I’ll update later when we pick her up.