Coffee on the patio

Saturday November 26, 2011

We had a relatively quiet night last night with only a small Mexican parking lot party that didn’t last too long and a bang that could have been gunfire and not much else.  There was a band playing in the hotel but we could barely hear it. 

It is warm and sunny and I had my first coffee outside on the patio.  Yahoo!!  I also had a chat with a guy from Maryland who is parked across the way.  He and his wife and two kids are on a one year journey through Mexico.  They are travelling in a brand new huge (40’ ?) 5th wheel and brand new Ford truck and seem to be (at least in my mind) seriously uninformed.  He has a Mexican map book and Church’s Mexican camping book and no GPS.  I know that we are overly cautious and like to be very well planned but we too are travelling in a very tall, newish rig and prefer not to damage it if we can help it.  He seems to have a Disneyland take on the whole Mexican experience and I hope it doesn’t get them into trouble.  He probably won’t have any trouble at all!!  Yeah right.  I did tell him that you do not want to get lost in a small Mexican town in a rig that size so if you don’t know where the road goes, don’t take it.   Good luck!

I called home but didn’t talk to daughter Erika because she was out on their new tractor blowing snow!   Eric spent every winter on a tractor with a snow blower doing the same thing and now …..not!   In the early years the tractor didn’t even have a cab.  Brutal!  We lent them our big 8’ PTO snow blower as we don’t need it now!   Son in law Wade is away and Erika had to figure out the new tractor and snow blower for herself.  It is a good thing our daughters were farm raised and turned out to be tough resilient women.  It has served them both well.  They both did chores every day before school, walked a 1/2 mile to the highway to catch the bus and back (pulling a sleigh with their stuff in winter) helped with the garden, cooking, washing, cleaning, canning and haying.  They were both in 4H, had their own horses, part time jobs and did well in school.  Does this sound like I am bragging about them….perhaps a little bit but all of that made them who they are today.  They didn’t have big holidays or many extras but they seem to have turned out fine without those things.  Nuff said!

So, we are on the internet….the Yagi has picked up a good signal from the hotel and all is well.  Eric has gone for tour on his “personal ride”  the “bought at a gas station bicycle” that has become a big money pit and and ongoing project.   I shall just relax a bit!