Since the neighbors turned the front of their house into a (very nice btw) minimercado, the trash “dumpster” closest to them fills up very quickly with packaging and cardboard.

Now there’s another reason.

Almost half a block — five building lots — of trees has been completely leveled.

This promises to be interesting.

…for what? Seems there was a huge free concert last year. True to my predilection for remaining largely clueless about many things, I learned little more.

I took my bike to get a tuneup, and as I walked by wa amazed by seeing so many things that I would miss, especially driving, but even on a bicycle. Like this homemade two-story ladder.

And this monstrosity in the middle of a residential neighborhood. Would you want that next door?

Or this, ten metes from your front door?

I’ve seen this an another house, near the defunct town zoo. Imagine a contractor putting a plaque with his name on your house!

Or naming your house “Kanguro.” Misspelling of Kangoru?

Can’t imagine how many times I’ve past this abandoned basketball backboard without ever seeing it.

And there, that contractor again….

Toward the end of the dog walk (inland from the coast highway), we saw some black smoke, and we couldn’t figure out where it might be coming from. It was in the direction of the origin of two forest fires where we walk. And it seemed farther away than the beach. So on the way home I stopped at El Águila, one of several eccentric local constructions, and there it was. I asked the car park attendant if it was a boat. He assured me it was. I don’t remember where the island is, I said, He again assured me it was a boat.

But I checked when I got home, traced my line of sight, and lo and behold, it very well could have been the Isla de Flores. Which begs the question: what is there that could burn?

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UPDATE next day: it was a boat