Mushrooms

A happy little family in a cow pie.

Smiley pizza

I’ll have a slice of pizza. Please make sure it’s smiling.

Looks delish.

Yummy.

Hot.

Hot today. This in the shade in our back yard.

Very few people on the beach midday (considerably more at 6 PM when I drove by again). Except for the utter lack of waves, the river that doesn’t flow* looked like an ocean with that extremely rare blue hue today.

*for the locals, the estuary of the Rio de la Plata is a river. Don’t even try…it’s non-negotiable.

Another boring blue sky day in Uruguay

Peaceful

Makes my eyes hurt

Go ahead, try to make some sense of this!

I bought jamon Media Cura, cream cheese (yes, called that), Roquefort (Azul-blue cheese), muzzarella, and Colonia cheese.

The outdoor haircut

While yet another large vendor has bailed from our local feria, the one in nearby Salinas is thriving. This morning I saw an outside barber shop. I have never seen such a thing before. A haircut was advertised at $150 (~USD 3.80). I normally pay 240 (~6.00) and have to make an appointment, so I thought why not – the difference between a good haircut and a bad haircut is two weeks anyway.

My goodness! This was perhaps the most meticulous haircut I’ve ever had, including eyebrows, nose, ears and endless clip-clip-clip. You’d think they would want to crank through customers at that price, but it must have been 20 minutes. (Hot minutes despite the breeze, I might add.) Using two different electric trimmers alone seemed to take more time than my entire haircut normally does.

Amazing.

Two helicopters

Strange sighting today: a black and a white helicopter flying along the coast. Then they do a huge circle and pass overhead before continuing on their way.

Debugging

No, not tech. Clearing out the under-counter corner cabinet, we found all sorts of critters infesting bags put away with just a rubber band, plus an unopened infested bag of Quaker Oats and bulgur wheat from (not the first time!) La Abundancia.