Mar 25, 2012
The shell on the left was deposited at our feet last week by a gentle wave as we walked along the sand....the other was from a few months ago.
Do you remember the book? I think my Mom gave it to me. I still have it in my library.
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Gift from the Sea
Pantheon Books, Jan 30, 1991 –
In this inimitable, beloved classic—graceful, lucid and lyrical—Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her meditations on youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and contentment as she set them down during a brief vacation by the sea. Drawing inspiration from the shells on the shore, Lindbergh’s musings on the shape of a woman’s life bring new understanding to both men and women at any stage of life. A mother of five, an acclaimed writer and a pioneering aviator, Lindbergh casts an unsentimental eye on the trappings of modernity that threaten to overwhelm us: the time-saving gadgets that complicate rather than simplify, the multiple commitments that take us from our families. And by recording her thoughts during a brief escape from everyday demands, she helps readers find a space for contemplation and creativity within their own lives.With great wisdom and insight Lindbergh describes the shifting shapes of relationships and marriage, presenting a vision of life as it is lived in an enduring and evolving partnership. A groundbreaking, best-selling work when it was originally published in 1955, Gift from the Sea continues to be discovered by new generations of readers. With a new introduction by Lindbergh’s daughter Reeve, this fiftieth-anniversary edition will give those who are revisiting the book and those who are coming upon it for the first time fresh insight into the life of this remarkable woman.The sea and the beach are elements that have been woven throughout Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s life. She spent her childhood summers with her family on a Maine island. After her marriage to Charles Lindbergh in 1929, she accompanied him on his survey flights around the North Atlantic to launch the first transoceanic airlines. The Lindberghs eventually established a permanent home on the Connecticut coast, where they lived quietly, wrote books and raised their family.After the children left home for lives of their own, the Lindberghs traveled extensively to Africa and the Pacific for environmental research. For
several years they lived on the island of Maui in Hawaii, where Charles Lindbergh died in 1974.Anne Morrow Lindbergh spent her final years in her Connecticut home, continuing her writing projects and enjoying visits from her children and grand-children. She died on February 7, 2001, at the age of ninety-four.
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...our sunset last evening!
Tags: books, shells, sunsets, Tres Amigos RV Park
Mar 24, 2012
Well let’s see…..we caught another mouse on the front generator hood!
Caeli cornered a kitten under the RV around the engine and barked till we got it down and out of the yard.
This ugly jellyfish came to the beach for a one day visit, actually last Dec. Thanks for the photo Gary.
There just may be some hope for my plumeria tree. When it was transplanted it lost all of its leaves and looked dead but now there is a ray of hope with this slim 3 inch leaf and the promise of more to come.
...remember this ball.....
It was the one that I couldn’t sit on because I kept falling off. Colin started using it to sit on when he practiced guitar but I never did get a shot of him playing while using it. The other day while in town a good bit of wind came through and took the ball away. So either it is floating its way to Hawaii or someone is enjoying it in their home:( So now Colin has one less ball and two little weiners:)
Carmeh meanwhile has decided that if Colin is going to do exercises, so is she!
I think that she really just loves him a lot...almost to the point of smothering him.
Aren't they cute?
Tags: critters, Funny, garden, The girls
Mar 23, 2012
Last Nov. 6th when when we first arrived at Tres Amigos, the sun was setting just behind the top peak of the mountain on the left.
On January 1st the sun was setting to the very left of that same mountain.
The other evening, March 21st the sun set all the way over to the right of that mountain.
Life does not stay still so enjoy every second of your day.
Tags: sunsets, Tres Amigos RV Park
Mar 22, 2012
…meet Danny! He is a local from Stone Island and an entrepreneur. He has worked in Alberta, Canada in construction thanks to a vacationer who sponsored him for a while. Back home, here on the Isla he does it all. Danny will build anything you want, he is a mechanic with his own shop, be it an RV or any vehicle plus he is phenomenal contractor. Do you need your RV detailed, polished and waxed? Do you need your RV painted? Do you need your RV upholstery redone as well as your window valances? Do you need your roof recaulked? Do you need some bodywork and painting done on your vehicle? Do you need anything…just call Danny!
Danny is the man…………..Danny is also the Monkey Man!!!!!!!!
One other thing Danny, the do it all guy does, is clean up the coco trees.
Can you see Danny way up there....someone has to clean up the about to fall cocos and the about to fall palm fronds.
Because of Danny we can walk about safely....
...better him than us....
...going down....
Would you do it.... not me....
...just one of his names....monkey man!!
When Danny is hired here on Isla de la Piedra to groom a tree he is paid a mere 70 pesos ( $ 5.20 USD ) per tree. He is also hired by a number of resorts in Mazatlan where he is paid 3000 pesos ( $232.35 USD ) per day but he must also clean up the debris and remove it.
Que hombre!
Tags: Mazatlan, Mexico, Stone Island
Mar 21, 2012
…so very very sad! But it is reality as we know it.
...it seems as if the departure of all the noisy vehicles was signalling the end of our time here!
The team from Zacatecas who were parked beside us Sunday night had a major mishap about 7:30AM Monday AM. You can barely see the ATV that was being manhandled onto the trailer....wheel to the right of the fellow in white.....the guy in the brown shirt may have broken his left hand.....the group was actually very organized with a good First Aid kit but I just had to go out in my nightie to be sure!!!! I dispensed pain meds as well as ice packs...not sure how the fellow in the brown shirt was going to do....he was in MAJOR pain. Hopefully the Codeine I gave him helped with the 20 hour journey home. We also provided a bed and pillows while they completed their prep to leave. Wish I could have done more.
...once the hundreds of all terrain vehicles left we were subjected to yet another invasion but of a very minor sort. Seems that these tiny fingernail size jellyfish wanted to assert some authority here on the Isla.
We are very, ever so slowly, packing up...don't tell anyone.....a little bit here and there. Cleaning and storing is the big thing right now. We are poco loco....Colin is taking our dog ramp apart, repainting it and adding a new base to the ramp. The windsheild suncreen has been cleaned and when dry is to be stored.
I finally got around to scraping one of our tables and repainting it. Why did I not do this 5 months ago so we could have enjoyed it??? It took no more than 10 minutes total!!!!!!
While we toil, Caeli basks in the sun under my "finally" rejuvenated DesertRose shrub.....note the yellow spiked plant to the left...... I have no idea what it is but the hummers just love it. I have to say that under no circumstances could I say that Caeli is an attack weiner dog....but Carmeh is !!!!
..here Colin is dremeling Carmeh's toes while Caeli looks on....the vehicles in front are just part of the LWE activities.
...part of getiing ready to leave includes eating these perfect shrimp, the ones that were caught just out front 12 hours before I froze them. The tomatoes were grown here on the Isla de la Piedra....3 medium size for 1 peso ~ about 7 cents !!!!!!!!!!!!
Tags: food, health, Stone Island, The girls, Tres Amigos RV Park