Let’s see, what should we name our taxi company?

Scorpion? Shark? Both sound cozy and inviting.

You know how people with expensive cars sometimes take two spaces so people’s doors won’t bang into them?

Welcome to Uruguay.

Rebuilding a cheap door

Preparing to put new veneer on bathroom door. Fist holes courtesy of male son, years ago. Required every clamp I own.

Use at your own risk :0

Another abandoned boardwalk through the dunes.

Preserving the dunes…sort of.

1) They actually added a proper handrail after

2) the original, tacked to the deck, fell apart and was carted off, presumably for firewood.

3) Another walk two years after they build it through an eroded portion of the dunes (to save the dunes, natch).

4) The same, 2-½ years later.

Are Tienda Inglesa employees trained to do this?

Tienda Inglesa: the shopping cart slalom, courtesy of employees’ abandoned carts used for restocking shelves.

A very silly dog.

Its threat response consists of waving a plastic bottle around. Say what?

Yellow flower

The vet

Our incredible vet. After charging me USD 85 for an operation that involved removing 5 centimeters of our cat’s intestine, maybe half market rate (in pesos; I gave her a USD 100 bill so she couldn’t try to give me change), then basically intensive care for several days, today we spent an hour outside so he could be in contact with the earth, and stimulated by chickens, kittens, barking dog next door, even squealing brakes of a garbage truck.

Not clear that he will survive. But this attention and care is so amazing.

Surf’s (not really) up!

Unusually cool today. Very few people on beach, but lots of surfers. Doing their best to catch shitty waves. I counted almost 30 in the water.