Feb 21 Sunday: The first morning we walked the house & yard to see where the work & fixin’ must begin. If any. Usually there is something that needs work on after being abandoned for a year.
In the house we found a small leak in our bathroom as well as a disconnected hose under the kitchen sink. That’s where Joey began. We have now given him an additional title of Plumber. Everything else inside the house seems ok.
In the yard we used to have a HUGE Maguey plant. It was taller than I am. That’s the plant that they use for tequila. It’s similar to a muy grande aloe vera plant. I say USED TO have one in the center of the yard with some cacti & other desert plants in a big circle area defined with rocks. We could drive around this circle….a circle driveway . The heart of the Maguey plant had been ripped out, stolen. What a shame. It was so beautiful. The outer leaves now all dried & dead. The plant dies after the heart is taken. I don’t know how anyone got it out of the walled & gated yard but people can be quite innovative.
Our next door neighbor , Raul, said that one afternoon there were 3 teen age boys on our roof & he chased them away using his barking dogs as ammunition. First of all I have no idea how they got up there without a ladder. It’s about 18feet high. Maybe they were just hangin’ or maybe they were thinking about stealing the copper tubing up there. Maybe they “did away” with our Maguey plant. We’ll never know.
The horse poo needed picking up. A friend & neighbor, Ellen, puts her horse in our yard from time to time. It’s a win win situation because he eats the weeds…We need more horses because he doesn’t eat enough.. Still lots of weeds. Oh well.
Anyway she came by to tell us she’d come tomorrow with her worker to pick up the poo.
We went over to neighbors Velma & Bob & found out they’d be leaving Alamos tomorrow for the season. They came down in November & it was time to go home to Salem, Oregon & tend to an ill sister. They gave us two big bagsfull of grapefruits & oranges from their trees. A lovely going away gift but THEY were the ones going away. Works for me!
Other neighbors, Nicole & Ray invited us & Velma & Bob, for coffee & cookies in the afternoon as a friendly send-off for Velma & Bob.
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