We woke up to about a hundred gallos, crowing before dawn...I love to hear the roosters. Great way to wake up. The cow next door moos at me on the way to the outhouse...Aaahh...such is life in Tepeyac.
It was cold this morning, after the wind blew all day yesterday. I couldn't do much laundry because of the "Mexican real estate moving around" as Bill says. So saved laundry and dishes till this morning. No wind and quite overcast, but cool and nice out.
Our routine is to get water for the coffee pot from the faucet out front, and then I make Bill's coffee. He sits up in bed, propped up with all the pillows, dogs under the covers, and waits for his "miel" to serve him coffee in bed. What a life! :)
Then I do dishes or laundry, or both, like this morning. The washer makes terrible squeaking noises, and we think it's the belt so will look at it later today to see what's wrong. It announces to the whole pueblo that the "Americana" is doing her wash...
Lately, the school kids have been coming to visit in the afternoons. They only go to school from 8:30 until 12:30 so they have nothing to do after school. Diego, who has always attended the VBS, came without shoes. He's a big boy, about 12, I'd assume, and he said he likes to run around with no shoes. I'm the same way, but haven't tried it here. Too many unknowns yet...
Bill has been going over to the school at recess and the kids just love it when he comes. Yesterday he took some Butterfinger candies to Irene and her family. Then Roque, the 10-year-old who lives with Irene came to visit. Bill told Roque he can only have one candy a day...I don't know if Roque believed him or not. He's not registered for school here so just hangs around his kinfolk all day. He likes to draw and I've let him use paper and markers to draw at our house. His father is a police officer in San Carlos. Hopefully, he'll get registered in school sometime soon.
We can drive about 2 miles out of Tepeyac and catch a US cell tower, so we have made phone calls that way. It's sort of an adventure, and amazing to me to be able to communicate with friends and family as often as we have. When we first moved to Baja, we went to a "caseta" and made calls from there. We're spoiled with our cell phones, and so many people have them. Even here, you see kids with cell phones, texting all the time. Too funny, really, when you don't have indoor plumbing but you have a cell phone...
We'll try to send pictures next time we update our blog. I keep forgetting to bring the camera to the internet place...
We love you all and thank the Lord for you, especially for your prayers for us.
Keep building a kingdom for the King of kings!
By His grace,
Bill and Toni
