PJ & Shelly San Carlos Bound

After all predictions indicated that Hurricane Jimena had become a tropical storm and was headed West, she hit us with hurricane force TWICE. She came over us in the middle of the night on Wednesday night and then circled over and came over us again on Thursday. We've had over 40" of rain and wind gusts were 60 mph. We lost power, water, and cell phone service. We started this adventure Wednesday night at a restaurant situated on cliffs above the ocean to watch the waves and this is when the rain started. By 9 pm the power was off and the heavy rain and winds really got going. We checked out our new construction and were fairing much better than we anticipated. Some seepage through the walls and some ponding water but not enough to worry about flooding. At 4 am Thursday morning the eye of the storm was right over us and headed East. PJ had not slept all night. The temperature had dropped to 75 degrees. We attempted to drive the truck several times to check out our town but th...

We moved most of our personal belongings into our new garage and are awaiting to move the remainder until after the remnants of Hurricane Jimena hit us. The piedra lavada on the porch is finished. Sconces are installed on the bodega deck. Electrical outlets (including the trailer electrical) and lights are installed. This is how the construction crew deals with paper/cardboard trash - they burn it. Here is PJ at the bodega entrance (Shelly is up on the deck taking this photo).

The glass goes into the Ojo de Buey in the bathroom. The windows and ceiling fans go in. For some reason we don't quite understand these are temporary windows until our double paned windows are ready. The piedra lavada (small beach stones and shells in concrete) gets poured on the steps and porch. The garage gets some of its occupants moved in. Here is an overall view of our lot.

Her name is Andale and she is a desert tortoise. So far she won't eat anything we give her but we are hopeful. Shelly got our previous tortoise 'Speedy' to eat from her hand in a very short time.

We are in the final stretch of our construction. We met with our builder yesterday and were told that the bodega will be completed this weekend so we can begin moving our stuff over. We now have water. The glass cactus blocks are in. The exterior painting is done. The tile in the casita is set in place. The front main gate track is put down. We should be able to move the trailer over in about a week.

We have become fans of the Guaymas (the next town over) Ostioneros baseball team. They are part of the Ligue Norte de Mexico (one of three leagues in Mexico). They have not won their series finale since 1967 and this year THEY WON!!! Watching the home games was very exciting even though the weather conditions were steam room-like. We learned the cheers of the fans and shouted right along with them. We got to know the players names, numbers, and positions. We watched the antics of the mascots which can be very risque at times. We went to their winning celebration and got the players to sign Shelly's team t-shirt (this is the first baseman Josef Lopez - "El Toro" #9). GO OSTIONEROS!!!!!