The vet

Our little dog Bandido had a checkup following surgery, and my conversation with the vet went from Spanish to English, so after explaining the prescription, she said in English, “I wrote in it Spanish, but you’ll understand.”

Which would be true, but for one detail….

That was close

Why is Mocha the dog on a leash, and what is he so intently looking at? you ask.

The answer is that he was lagging, sniffing around, and I saw it first, and fortunately had the leash handy.

I saw this rabbit inside the yard a couple days ago for the first time. What on earth was it doing outside the fence, and what chance in hell would it had of escaping a dog like Mocha, who loves chasing hares (liebres) Hares are big. Very big. And fast. Very fast. This rabbit? Neither.

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.

Random, or is it just me?

I saw this Fusca today.

I probably should have just kept walking, because the artwork on the side has been haunting me since. Two upside-down spark plugs? Custom culture? Keep traditions?

I’m wondering if it’s like t-shirt designs with Japanese or Chinese characters that used to be popular, perhaps until people figured out they had absolutely no idea what message they were promoting.

Custom Keep Traditions Culture? I just need to let this one go….

No, I didn’t hang around

This is the parking deck (there’s much more parking under the building) at Tienda Inglesa in Atlántida yesterday afternoon. 15 out of 40 or so available parking spaces were blocked off for people showing off their Alfa Romeos, at least one of which might have qualified as antique.

What is the thinking here?

(BTW, today noticed that the foolish plastic “covid” shields have been removed from the cashier aisles in Tienda Inglesa!)