What's new pussy cat ?

Well guess who is getting a new kitty? Yes that's right we are! The cat that is at
the barn had 4 cute kittens, 3 of them are calico's and I have been wanting a calico so it seemed like a universe moment to me. We will pick her up on Wednesday after I finish riding, Her name is going to be Calie, short for calico. I think our cat Pancho will really like her at least we hope so, Pancho is a really good boy so I think they will hit it off. I will let you know how things work out.




Our soon to be new kitty, isn't she just to cute?


Exploring outside her little den.


Her brother, who looks just like the mom.


One of her sisters.


Her other sister, it was hard to chose one they are all so cute!


This picture was taken on Friday, the mountain has fires on it, and no equipment here to get at it, so it just burns.


Horse back riding friend Maureen, on Junior .


Carlos, who owns the horses that we ride, on his stallion, we call his stallion handsome, so when we say hi handsome Carlos answers :)



This is a picture of a cactus plant, it looked like it had white fluffy cotton growing out of it.

Horses on the beach, foals are everywhere!



On Friday morning I woke up early to go Kyacking on the lake with my neighbors Tom, and Mia.
Now I don't like getting up early for to many things but I thought it would be fun, and Tom likes to go early before it gets to hot out. We are able to launch the boats right down the street from our place so it is really easy for us to go out.

That is my neighbor Pete helping us load the kyacks, Tom in the background and Mia.


Mia getting ready to get in her kyack


Mia taking a break from all that paddeling.



Interesting to take pictures of the mountians from the water.


The lake was nice and calm, just a few waves every now and then.




Tom and Mia, they were always ahead of me, this was my first time out so I was a little slow.


Mia and Tom heading back.



Heading back, west shot of the mountians.

I had a great time and I plan on going out again, Mia & Pete were the ones who bought the kyacks, then they took Tom out and he really liked it so he bought one, they sell them at the Costco here. Sherry who is a friend of mine also has two kyacks, so I told her she needs to get them to my place so that we can go out.

Well that's all for now will post again soon. Hope all my followers are doing fine, and thanks for reading my posts.

Where does the time go

Where does the time go, it has been one year since we moved here and boy the time
went by so fast. I spent more than my share of months being homesick, but I finally got
over that and then we went back to the states for a visit, and guess what?? Homesick
again :( . I am finally getting over it, thank God ! I am really so tired of being homesick, I know that part of the problem is not living in the present and too much thinking of the past. I am really working hard on trying to live in the present, when I find myself slipping into the past I stop myself and say no, don't go there. I also sometimes think that it is ok to be homesick, I mean what kind of person would I be if I didn't miss, parts of my old life? You find that here in Mexico there a plenty of people who moved here to escape their old life, be it their family, jobs etc. I guess I'm not one of the ones who needed to escape.

Zumba class: Yesterday I went to a Zumba class in the cultural center here in town. So there I am waiting for the teacher to arrive, and all the woman are coming in so I am watching them and I suddenly think to myself OMG I am the only gringa. ( American/Ex-Pat ) Yes that's right 26 woman and me the only blue eyed one in the bunch. Actually my eyes are green, but you get the picture. I was just happy to be able to keep up with the class, but there was one point when I thought, ok I am not going to be able to finish this class. That passed and I must have got my second wind and I Zumbad away. I thought maybe today I would be sore but I wasn't. I plan on going back for some more torture on Friday. Of course the music was full blast, the teacher was really fast and it was mostly Mexican music but it was fun!

Weather: As always it is beautiful everyday, but today we woke up and it was actually cool out. Of course by the afternoon the sun was out and it turned out to be hot. Soon it will be the rainy season, and it will be cloudy all morning but the sun will come out. Everyone here loves the rainy season, the mountains turn so green. It is amazing that the trees and flowers can bloom right now without the rain.


Doing this blog: Now you would think that this should be easy for me by now, but no it's not. I went to start it this afternoon and I couldn't download the pictures, it couldn't connect to the picture site, then if you are not careful about deleting lines you can delete pictures which I did. Then if you have done your typing and want to add pictures again, it will load them on top of your stories, so then I have to move them, boy maybe I should have serve cheese with all this wine!
So now I am thinking about sometimes posting without always adding pictures, it will make my life easier and I would probably post more often. My friend Dale emailed me yesterday and wanted to know when I was doing another post. He keeps me on my toes, as I didn't realize that it had been so long between posts. Like I said time flies.



Can you guess what this sign says just by looking at it? It is telling everyone to clean
up after their dogs. I got a kick out of it.

This is how they repair the cobble stone streets here, pickax, shovel, wheel barrel, sand and hard work. They are working hard to get it done before the rains come.

On Saturday we took a ride to a friend's house in St. Nicholas, it is about a 45 minute ride from here. They have a place on 30 acres, and this was one of the views.

Their gardener owns this turkey, now we know where to get our Thanksgiving dinner.


My friend owns 3 mares, this is Princess, she is 8 and has a 4 year old daughter, which I don't have a picture of because the trainer took her out for a ride. I was invited me back to meet the trainer and to ride, so I will be giving him a call soon.


This mare is up where I ride on Wednesday, and I just realized that I don't know her name, I do however know that this little filly is 2 weeks old in this picture and her nickname is Cami!

I am just too cute !
That's all for now. I will try to be more conscientious, but if I slack off a bit, Dale will see to it that I write something. LOL

Vacation Time

Home Sick Again?

Well, we are back from our vacation and I am homesick Again! I was really hoping that I wouldn't feel this way but I do. It would be great if this feeling goes away quickly!
While we were in Florida our days flew bye, they were jammed packed, we only had a week there and it just wasn't enough time. There were a few people that I wanted to see, and never got to, and some food that I wanted to eat and never did, ( that was probably a good thing ) I guess I could say oh well next trip, but am I going to get home sick every time I go back to the states for a visit?
What do we miss? One of our friends asked us this question, and, at that time we had only been back for a day so I didn't have an answer for him, but now I do. I miss our family, friends, horses and Beal's outlet.

The Beach: We took the grand daughters to the beach. I forgot how much we love the beach; makes me wonder why we are living so far inland. I thought the water was a little to chilly to go in but that didn't stop the kids from jumping in.



I really like this shot. The girls were feeding the seagulls so they hung around while I took their picture.



Ryo, foreground, and Trinity rinsing off the salt water with help from Grandpa

It's always fun to bury your sister in the sand Trinity and Ryo

Grand daughter Brianna, can't believe how grown up she is !

Enjoying the waves





Grandpa and his girls making brownies, this is a family tradition. We had such a good time with our grand daughters. It was so nice to see them and they are growing up so fast. We miss them and they miss us. I asked Trinity the youngest one, if she missed me a little, or a lot and she looked at me and said "Way more than a lot grandma," made me want to cry on the spot.


My girlfriend Pam. We used to love going shopping, so we got together and went to my favorite store Beal's Outlet, where I did manage to find a few things !

Met our friends Pam & Bob for lunch, it is always great to get together with them.


Horses: Seeing my horses again was happy and sad. I loved seeing them and I got to ride both of them and that was great but saying goodbye is always hard. I am very grateful that they both have wonderful owners and they are being well taken care of.


How Happy do I look in this picture?????? Me with Carma

My friend Chris who now owns Carma, with her horse Moose. Moose likes to jump he's a big boy and clears the fences with ease!

Grooming and getting Carma ready to ride.


This is a picture of my trail riding buddy Helen on her horse Rose. We are on one of the beautiful sandy trails that we enjoyed that day. We were out for 2 hours and the time just went by way to fast. I told Helen it was one of the fastest trail rides I have been out on, that's because neither one of us stopped talking the whole time, we had lot's to catch up on.

I took this picture while I was in the saddle. When I rode Jakkar it was like I had never left and it felt so good to be back on him. So hard to say goodbye to him again.
This trail was so soft with white sand, it almost looks like snow.

My mother-in-law and father-in-law have been married for 68 years!!!

68 Years! can you imagine being married for that long? So nice to be to in Florida to help Billy's parents celebrate their important day.



The Happy Couple !
Posing outside of church.

Mom & Dad after mass

Palm Springs:


I took this shot through a window at the airport, getting ready to head to Florida.

Another shot from the airport

Found this sign at the library, something you don't see everyday, at least not here!


Billy took this picture from the car, it had snowed up in the mountains during the night, it was just so beautiful. Notice the windmills.

Going down the road with the beautiful mountains in the background

This was taken from the patio at Billy's brother's condo.



My sister in law Deb checking her emails.

We could walk to these mountains from the condo


The Pearson Gang: Celebrating St. Paddy's day. Billy, his brother Richard and sister Deb

The pool at the complex, I really enjoyed swimming in it, nice and warm it was heated!

Pictures: So when you are the one taking the pictures you forget to put yourself in them, which is why I don't have any of me with our gran daughters :( I will do better next visit.

Coming back home from Florida was an experience. There were tornado warnings up and our flight was leaving at 11:20 but we didn't get to take off till 1:45. Lucky for us, we would have had a long lay over in New Mexico but we did manage to make our flight out, they held the plane for us, and some other passengers in Albuquerque, so we got off of one plane and right back on another one. Then off to LA and then to MX.
We arrived home at 1:30AM, which was actually 4:30AM to our bodies. (time zone difference)

Back Home: So now we are back home getting into our routine, going to my exercise class, riding on Wednesday, swimming in the pool visiting with friends etc. Life is really good here, and I am sure that in a few days I will get over being homesick, at least Billy hopes so!
Hope you all enjoyed the post and the pictures, until next time, Adios!!!