Everyone is on the Defensive

Old Buildings Need Love Too...

Expo Canino '09

We hit the big time?
The director of the Instituto Sinaloense de Cultura, Sergio Jacobo, officially starts the filming There’s a movie being filmed in Mazatlán this week.  It is called “Asesinato y Reencarnación: Un Romance.” It is based on a book by Juan José Rodríguez that’s titled

Comfortable as a pig in mud
The rain came a couple of days ago and we have been experiencing cooler than normal temperatures - not humid and VERY welcome. Paul and I went to a hotel in Nuevo Mazatlán for an overnight for Paul’s birthday.  We had a nice time swimming and lounging around the pool and had a very good dinner. But it was quite a shock to hear so much Engl

Thanks, La Gringa!
A few times recently I have said a silent thank you to La Gringa, an American woman blogging from Honduras, and I thought it would be a bit nicer of me to thank her publicly. First, it is drippy glass season again!  While I have more or less given up on crisp neat clothing

It was a pretty good one
Storm, that is.  Tropical depression 1E hit Mazatlán this morning and for a few hours there was torrential rain, crazy wind, windows banging, tinaco lids flying, and miscellaneous howling and scattered screaming here and there.  One neighbor told me that part of the roof on the school on our block flew off.  I watched some sort of metal plate swing crazily in the wind.  I saw a line of laundry flap off like a crazy nautical flag. Our timber bamboo whipped this way and that.  One piece must have hit the roof edge and even though it was more than an inch around it was cut clean.  Our bouganvillia got to whipping around and was pulled off the wall and now is

I’m really spoiled now…
I wear a lot of cotton.  Paul’s favorite shirt is a guayabera.  This means ironing.  I don’t mind ironing, but if I don’t have a tv show to watch, it can be pretty boring.  And hot. So when blogger Jennifer told me about ” Arco Iris”, the planchaduria that advertises 12 pieces for 50 pesos, I didn’t hes