the beach - finally!!!!

We have been here a week and a half and JUST got to stick our toes in the sand and bodies in this wonderful warm water. The frigate birds did their aerial ballet over our heads.....








Miki enjoys a swim.......











So does Daf......







And the fish boats tie up at the end of the day. Fresh fish abounds in PoMo, and you can buy the fresh catch daily at the co-op and a number of fish markets in town. Yum yum!

lunch at the beach

This will look familiar to many of you - the deck at John Gray's Mother in Law's (La Suegra) - one of our favourite haunts!













La Suegra from the beach - such a great deck with the best view of the beach in town - great food, great margarita's!!!!!!!! and wonderful people!











This was a good bye lunch with Jill, who leaves soon for the U.S. for some work at the Smithsonian and Christmas with family. She and Miki are discussing the genome project here.








Fabulous tortilla soup is one of the best things on the menu.....yummy!

weather.....

The joys of a day when the tropical rain pours and then the sun comes out is this - an amazing rainbow right out the bookstore window.











10 minutes later and it was a complete rainbow from end to end - gorgeous!!!!








The main PoMo dock - check out that beautiful reef out there just waiting for happy snorkellers....soon to be us!!!!!









Ah, the full moon in all its glory over the town square. Makes me feel like howling with delight!

In memory of Pequena.....

Life on the street.... Last night Botas bolted into the yard and after the kitten. We hauled him out right away, but couldn't see her in the dark. This morning the grizzly discovery is that the dog had killed her in one snap. It is too bad we hadn't been able to get close enough to bring her in the house sooner, but it is a very sad day here at the casa. Botas is learning to be more civilized, but he is nontheless a street dog, a wild dog, and chasing cats is part of his life. Sadly, this one did not get away. Diane is going to show us how to do some serious cat training with him, but in the meantime we will miss our little Pequena.

Happy Birthday Jill!

We got together for drinks last night to celebrate Jill's birthday. She brought her new purse and looked pretty damn hot for 39!

















The Saturday Night Blues Band entertained us and played lots of good blues numbers.







The happy revellers.....also had one of Ed's great pizzas!

Friday night in PoMo

After an interesting performance art show at the Cultural Centre, we headed to Cantina Habernero for a drink and some music. The place was full, as usual.










Vertigo 777 played awesome renditions of good old rock and roll.............









Owner Ed was his usual social self, and made us one of the best flans we have ever had!








Ed and Natalie's little ones, Jeremy and Jessily.....heading home with the nanny. They are getting so big!






In Coombs back home in Canada, we have Goats on the Roof. Here in Mexico, we have dogs on the roof - these 2 beauties belong to Steve, and bark at every dog going down the street....oh, and the occasional cat.

new family member

I would like to introduce you to Pequena, the newest member of our feline family here in PoMo. She arrived a couple of days ago, out of nowhere, and has a twisted left ear and exquisite markings. She is very very shy, so can't get close enough (yet) to pick her up. She is enjoying tuna, canned catfood and plain yogurt and can eat the dry catfood if it is moistened for her.





She has moved into the tote we set up to keep the catfood out of the rain, but dashes into the pumphouse beside the water tank whenever the door opens.







One of the twins and Mama, who I think is the mother of Pequena, feeding on the dry catfood.








With Miki using the power washer and me sweeping the water into the drains, we cleaned the whole back patio in preparation for painting this week.