POCA A POCA

FEBRUARY 2021

It´s been a very long month since we´ve moved to our new home. Had a lot of excitement: new refrigerator not working with tons of frozen (not for long) shrimp + inside, faulty plumbing, necessary new light installations, rewiring, new washer and dryer (I still haven´t had time to translate the instructions to operate them), no fiber optics-then finally an installation...no phones- then 2- then the necessary 5 any day now! This is a big house. Begging Telmex to keep our old telephone number which still hasn´t happened. No TV-then Satellite installation and Mega Cable...And on and on. It will be a very neat place - assuming we finish it before the lease is up!

The potential is there - but so is all the work! Henry is settling into his new studio-I still haven´t touched mine. Priorities made gallery management and paperwork (setting up an office) come first.

And we are finally getting sales at the gallery-hooray! And I need to do more art work but haven´t unpacked my studio yet to find any!

Last week we moved our plants. We have a patio with a fountain with lights off the dining room and a bonsai roof garden.

Henry wrote and illustrated a book on bonsai and has been systematically torturing them for years. In the photo attached - the windswept one is over 30 years old!

This house is fortified with locks on everything and heavy iron bars - seems like a very good neighborhood but perhaps a long time ago it was a target.

All I know is that this place could handle a siege. Check out that bolted door! I got locked out there.

This is the entrance to the front yard - no longer used! I went outside - closed the door - it locked. The front gate was locked. I yelled hysterically till the maid came and opened it up! Fixed that door immediately - left the key in with a spare under the squatting angel in that alcove. Exciting-no?

This is like reading "The Perils of Pauline"... but it´s becoming home.