Mid-winter, fresh veggies from the feria (street market) a couple days ago. I threw all this and more into my own bag in order to bring home as little plastic as possible. Most of the vendors just love putting everything in plastic bags.
Author: doug
Mystery visitor(s)
When you come out in the morning and realize that *something* has been wandering around on your glass table.
Code, schmode
I saw this on the Faceborg recently and saw this in an Uruguay Expat Group.
Later I was standing near a house on the dog walk where I usually spend about ten minutes, and have hundreds of times, noticing its outdoor wiring for the first time.
Sure, just bring the current into the house through a wire lying on the lawn. Just pass over it with the lawn mower when you need to. No problem!
Awesome!
After 12 years, I decided it was time for a new table saw blade. Little did I know that the holes in the middle of blades are not uniform. The washer (arendela) / spacer from the old blade was too big for the new one. While in Maldonado a couple weeks ago with some free time, I wandered into a hardware store and entertained five bored employees for a while, none apparently aware this was an issue, so I didn’t bother to go back to the local hardware store where I bought it. A few blocks away, for some reason, we have a tornillería, a shop that specializes in screws and bolts (seriously, how is that a viable business outside the bowels of Montevideo?). The guy had an almost-but-not-quite washer, and referred me to a nearby tornero, who I could find by looking for two blue doors on the frontage road of the Ruta Interbalnearia opposite Maudy, the electric-stuff shop. No sign, of course.
Long story short, a few hours later I stopped by and picked up the freshly-manufactured spacer that made the new blade functional with my saw. It cost 300 pesos, which is significant compared to the cost of the blade (990 pesos), but begs the question (I being from North America): where in North America could you waltz into a machine shop and get a precision metal part fabricated the same day for just over seven dollars?
Dead, or faking it?
A peaceful walk around the neighborhood.
A large, red-pained pole that’s charred at the far end. Why, and why? And from where?
And then a dead–well, most likely dead–comadreja. We didn’t hang around to find out.
Because orders.
Time has told. Despite the tree now posing no threat, they arrived early this morning to destroy it. Why, I asked. Because orders.
And so, just like that, the end of a tree that sprouted around 1936.
Cutting down The Tree
Our neighbor had requested the removal of a dry, dead tree for four years. Yesterday they showed up and removed it (was to the right, half the height of this one) then started cutting branches off this beast. I can’t remember how many times over the years that I heard of a storm approaching, and photographed this tree, expecting to see it on the ground the next day. It had two parrot nests. No parrots were harmed, but a few of them flew around afterwards, squawking loudly (as they always do anyway).
Now that the wind resistance is drastically reduced, the tree should be no threat. Does that mean they’re through with it? Time will tell.
Professional and less so
Workers here at 7:30 AM, set up secure scaffolding (braced and tied to house) to work on replacing rotted parts of the roof valley. Done and gone by four.
Inspires a little more confidence than what Martín used to paint the house in 2010. Yes, that’s a crappy wood ladder (left with the house) tied to the top of my aluminum ladder.
Parking
I think I’ve just seen my first example of “fully vaccinated” parking.
Another feria bargain
They do this every day. Ya’d think….