ANNUAL ART SHOW

Unbelievably gorgeous

During the early part of December, we went to an art show at an artist's home here in Mulege. This is the third year that we have attended the show at this artist's home. She is so creative!! Her gardens, and what we see of the house were pretty.

 The things she does with shells around the garden and house are so inspiring.

LET THE HOLIDAYS BEGIN

Capturing the changing colors.

Granpa Wayne with small grandchildren

Many of the campers on Coyote Beach enjoyed the Dinner buffet at Hotel Serenidad. The menu has been the same for the last 4 years and has measured up for being very tasty each time.

Coyote Beach filled two large tables with those ready for fun and frivolity.

Bob and Jackie

Jelle and Debbie

Kay and Bob

Pat and Kay

Bob helping Jelle with the Margarita.

WHEREFORE ART THE ICEMAN?
Or a Breeze?

Sorry this is blurry!!

  The full moon is so bright at night, it lights up the whole beach and makes it difficult to see the stars. Men have been known to go outside in the nude in order to appreciate the round, bright orb.

A coffee cup sunrise

Blue Heron

  It's been pretty quiet here on the beach. However, a few weeks ago, a 78-year-old woman tripped over her dog during the night and cracked her hip. She had to endure a 7-hour car ride to the hospital in La Paz.

  The Suzuki has been acting up again, so Oscar, our main man and mechanic, worked on it!!  It's no fun being without it anymore. We even use the car to pull the sailboat up onto the beach from the water. We're spending more on repairs than we ever thought we would need!

Barb and stylist, Pat

Praying to the internet gods

Ready for walking

  I've been walking every morning now for 4 weeks with my buddy, Barb.  We went nearby for an excellent haircut recently.  Barb's guy, Jim, lets us use his internet access every morning for an hour!!  But then, her dog, Luigi, got into our palapa last week and ate all the sausage Bob had cooked for our dinner.  Fortunately, Barb was able to replace it for us so our dinner was saved!!  We all had a good laugh over it.

Early Bird: These worms are overrated!!!

   Okay, so we wanted to get  to Coyote Beach early as my expected knee replacement surgery should happen around the end of Feb. (I shall fly back the end of Jan. for pre-op appts.

The Grapevine

Bob driving the Grapevine.

   Thus explains why we are on Coyote Beach on October 10, which has only Bird Gary besides us and temps are in the 90's and the bugs are biting. Within a few days we found ourselves weathering the tail of a tropical storm which dumped 7 inches of rain on Loreto. We had a day and a half of solid, hard rain and were thankful for little wind.

   Bob's newest toy is the composting toilet which is working out to be the best thing since sliced bread!

   We started our journey caravanning with Tom and Pat from Canada and their dog, Max. North of Bakersfield we decided to split up. The result being that Tom and Pat arrived on the beach 4 days after us. So now there are 3 regular units here on C.B.  And Coco's has 2.

SUMMERTIME!


It's almost the end of June and summer is trying to start in fits and starts.

Daisy has celebrated her first birthday.





Josie has completed a successful season of softball.

She played catcher alot but says she prefers pitcher and first base.                      

Daisy attended her first Jr Rose Festival  parade.

Josie got to march in the Jr Parade as a cheerleader.
The shirt says 'HOOFERS'.

ADJUSTING

This is home (or "The Home")

Returning to the great and beautiful Pacific Northwest involves more than acclimating to the weather! I still can't find half the things I "tucked" away before we left.

This is the Suzuki.

Our first order of business, even before taxes, was to replace the Suzuki. We chose a new, ice blue Toyota Yaris. It's fun to drive, has a lot of zip.

Our cute little car.

Of course, what's special for me is my two grand daughters'.Josie is eight and Daisy is one.

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Josie Mae

SETTLING IN


Well, after placing the Suzuki in storage, we had
a long six-day drive to get home to Portland!!!
Bob and I both agree that when we first came to Baja 6 years ago, we thought the desert that is the peninsula was very stark, barren and rather ugly. In the short years since, we have come to admire the beauty of the desert achieved with very little rain!





There is a very large area in the middle of Baja which is covered by boulder fields! It seems that
geologists do not know how these boulder fields came to be. Our job is merely to appreciate them.







Because of the rain the peninsula received in October and in March to the north, the desert put on a display of beautiful wild flowers in ground covers and blooming cacti.