Fourth Week in Paradise December 3rd to 9th 2017

The flowers are beautiful again this year. I am going to have to do a flower walk and get more photos one of these days.

The hens are still living in the community, they must still be laying their eggs for their households. The eggs we purchase here are the best tasting eggs and the yolks are a deep pumpkin orange. So good!

One of our neighbours across the street is a fisherman, on Sunday as we strolled by he was unloading these lobsters from his ice chest. You see they have had their tails removed (must be waiting in a good restaurant somewhere for you Ann M). The weirdest thing happened here, I stepped inside his property to take this photo and his dog without a sound jumped up and put his front paws on my back side. It frightened the life out of me, I let out a loud scream, I even frightened Allan. I knew the dog was there but forgot about him as I was talking about and taking photos of, the lobsters. That was a heart stopper but was quite funny after the fact. The lady at the man's house still laughs about it when I walk by 😁.

I mentioned in an earlier post the town is installing water and sewage lines, this is one cover a dog seemed to have found great fun in tracking through before it had a chance to dry.

Wonder if this is one of the roosters we hear crowing in the early morning hours.

This little fellow and others like him are dressed for these cooler days of winter.

This restaurant on Calle Chaca across from the community library which seats about 30 people is often without seating space. This surely is the sign of a good restaurant and that encouraged us to stop by for brunch one day. We were not disappointed.

This is the special - all for the small fee of $50 pesos, in day's rate of exchange in Canadian dollars $3.50

A fruit dish with 4 different types of fruit,

scrambled eggs with bacon or ham, plantains fried and beans with nacho chips,

along with fresh juice or Jamaica tea, regular tea or coffee.

Delicious for sure. We will return. Oh, when we first arrived we were the only guests, before we had our meal complete the restaurant was full, without any more seating space.

We invited Dani and Kris over for a swim in the pool and pizza for dinner. The water was 83 degrees F/ 28 degrees C, Dani was shivering so much her teeth were chattering. This is their winter time and they notice the difference in temperature.

We went to Cancun one afternoon and as we walked down a street we came upon this beautiful Christmas tree.

We stopped to take a closer look and found it is shaped from steel support bars and chicken wire then covered with the plastic rings or yokes that hold 6 packs of pop or beer together, then the aluminum cans are cut into shapes and used for decorations. What an idea! It is one of those times you just have to say "Who'da thought!"

Beautiful!

We stopped at one of our favourite restaurants for lunch

Our goal on this Cancun trip was again to shop at Home Depot - almost like Canadian Tire Addiction.

Donna C and anyone else who does not like four legged furry creatures smaller than cats, close your eyes to this next photo please.

This was either a small rat or a large mouse we saw on the floor in the Garden Centre at Home Depot. It had been baited we were sure because of its seemingly inebriated state. Workers waited until we left the area before disposing of it.

A few days later we were walking down a street here in our subdivision and came across this decorated palm tree.

Then we saw this car jacked up on blocks waiting for repairs.

One look at this pole suggests it might fall over,

not to worry, second look tells you it won't

because it is taped to the pole beside it.

I wonder how old this tree is, we see many

like it and most are huge,

and give off a beautiful shade.

We found another place we didn't know was here, a nursery. We have driven past it every time going to and coming from the port. It is in a little hidden away spot. Thanks to Kris for taking us there to purchase soil for our flower pots at Casa Pura Vida.