Hell’s Half Acre

You are SO lucky! I have been surfing the internet All Day Long but have been rendered impotent from posting anything until this moment. However, benevolent being that I am, concerned for your lack of (albeit boring) reading material, once un-imprisoned, I RUSH to update this forgotten wasteland. Thank you, thank you [...]

Ha!  Not a chance!  But I was heartened to find that while I still need to perform a fine tooth combing of November and December, we spent only around $33K last year.  Of course, that doesn’t include palapa costs.  A quick perusal of the palapa spreadsheet shows we spent about $8200 on the palapa renovation [...]

i swear, the hardest part of writing an update is the start. making my way to the site and putting words to keyboard. I’ve been sick. A freaking-GAIN and I’m pretty freaking sick of being freaking sick. i picked up some stomach thing that laid me low and had me [...]

I had hoped Jamie would head over and confront the folks in the black pickup but he just sat on the curb watching them. I finally figured out an excuse to head over after the truck flashed its headlights at a security car. We walked over and I had Jamie ask if [...]

But wait; there’s more! A window! Insulation on the newly installed door and window. Air conditioning and paint!
Our neighbor from Durango brought his mother from DF down a few days ago but I haven’t seen his wife for ages. His palapa is coming along so nicely and he’s got almost [...]

I’ve been participating on a weather forum that throws more letters around than you’d ever believe. Did you know that the Gulf of Mexico is known as GOM or GOMEX in weather circles? After a few months there TWO no longer means “one more than one” but Tropical Weather Outlook. We’ve [...]

Our TWO
“For the North Atlantic…Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico…
tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 48 hours.
$$
Forecaster Knabb”
Just the way we like it. Unfortunately, Japan is staring down Man-Yi and hoping it decreases from the anticiapted Cat 4 to a Cat 2 by landfall. Wind shear is [...]

It’s been a wild week. I scratched my cornea, had a fight with a shop steward, paid off contractors and celebrated a birthday. So now you’re all caught up. Today is Jesse’s birthday and I will update; the palapa is finished, but what a rough road it was. [...]

I wrote a post the other day and since Hughes is having some weird DNS problems (or maybe my router simply hiccuped, as it sometimes does) I lost it. And even though Word Press has a feature that saves your post for you, as you’re typing, I’m not exactly sure what happened to [...]

I hope your day yesterday was much more interesting than mine.  After spending the night tossing and turning, I managed to get up at 7:15 and head over to the pool, where I waited for the owner to pass by on his way to work.  I had hoped to talk to him about the issues [...]