Category: Uruguay

We “won”

Our energetic and industrious neighbor Álvaro submitted a proposal to some coastal development government organization, and encouraged enough of us to vote for it that we got funding for more playground equipment and tables in our little local park, which has gone from being an empty pass-through lot with a few tree identification signs to a destination for families with kids.

I can’t wait to see what kids invent to do with this one—supposed to be like stairs I suppose. Just seems like all kinds of ways to get hurt. I don’t think you’d see this in nanny North America (which excludes Mexico).

A double-decker (wooden!) slide.

This place is going to be busy as the weather gets warmer!

A new table has joined two previously there, as has one on the far side of the park.

All very impressive.

Frosty!

Thermometer’s in our back yard, with lemon and orange trees, where it never freezes, but was 2°C this morning…pretty close, and same as two days in June. First frost in a month. Strange thing is the sky is not perfectly clear, as it always seems to be on mornings with frost. Some light, wispy clouds.

Doubles

My first attempt at bread with a new sourdough starter was not a roaring success, so I ended up with small pieces of toast for breakfast (at noon). What more fitting to go along with them than an egg with two yolks?

:)

Maybe they didn’t forget about installing wiring before plastering.

Maybe they weren’t imitating their great-grandfather, who built his house before the grid reached it, and had to chip out part of the wall to make a run for conduit.

Maybe they just wanted their house to have a big smiley face. Makes as much sense as anything with this crazy built-and-rebuilt no-apparent-design project.