Today Viny and I went into town about noon and ate and then went to a coffee shop for a while, shopped some and then came home.  I ran into Marta, she just found a job, she thinks she will like it,  I am glad for her.

A couple of days ago Viny bought ten white lampshades in town, today he bought ten sockets in order to hang them in a tree and have lights in them.

Last week while Alberto was still here we bought little tile, like on the columns in front of the spa, and Viny is going to put them or have them put on the two columns inside the spa - the showers and the towel column.  Today he bought the adhesive and colorant to stick them on with.

Lately I have been making a dish consisting of various veggies, with a lot of ginger, and mango.  I think I have been putting so much seasonings that it is hard to taste clearly the mango, even though I put a couple each time.  Today, I did not add so many ingredients and used three mangoes and I think it is my best yet. But I will keep working on it.

It is windy and a little cool, maybe it will rain.

Two or three nights ago little Goliat had a seizure for about five minutes, he could not control himself, he appeared to never completely lose consciousness, I talked to him all the while and then it stopped and he has seemed to be okay since then.  He will be 17 in April.

I eat peanut most evenings, and I frequently give a little to most of the dogs.  Last night Viny noticed little Canelo on his side on the floor, it first looked like a seizure, but I think it was just the peanut butter that wouldn't easily go down, and in a few seconds he was all right.

Today I was holding little Prieto, as I frequently do, and Goliat walked up to me and Prieto bit the back of my right hand.  I think he wanted to bite Goli, but I was safer, or at least closer and handier.  Marta told me today to do one of Cesar Millan's techniques each time he does this.  Little Kenia used to do this some, bite me when I was holding her when she really wanted to bite one of the other dogs that were close to me.

I made a copy of "Beginners" for Marcia and gave it to her today, I have one for Alberto when he gets back.

Alberto has been the charge nurse the past two nights, he says he will not be tonight.

I took this photo a short while ago, from just outside our back gate, looking up a little.  At the bottom is the top of our back metal gate, then the row of three cement pieces each with two grasshoppers, and above that three rows of adobe.  It has been this way for a while, and Teo loves to get on top of the adobe and lie there for long periods of time.  So, we are leaving the space for him.  We had the bell put in, Carl took his like this one on his last visit.  Above the bell we have a reproduction of the head from Palenque, which I have probably had since the 60's.  Above that will be another five tiers of adobe and then a row of clay squares to top off the adobe wall.  

Tomorrow Javier returns, we will go to Oaxtepec and buy our steel for our new bar and palapa table, and then return to Tepoztlan for lunch, and later in the afternoon we will pick up David and Dennis and go to a party at Peter and Richard's house, whom we have never met, in Cuernavaca.  We hope to be charming enough to be invited back again, if that is possible.

I started watching "Meek's Cutoff" last night, but switched to the excellent "Beginners."  Maybe tonight I will continue with "Meek's Cutoff."