New Favorite

I love the Manning boys. So cute! So talented! And from all appearances very nice. If they have skeletons in their closets, chicks on the side or a penchant for ingesting illegal substance I haven't heard about it.

But last night when Drew Brees, after leading the New Orleans Saints to their first Super Bowl victory, held his son on the podium? I might have melted just a little bit.

One Week

Third verse same as the first (and second):

One week from today I'm going to be on a beach in Mexico.

One week from today I'm going to be on a beach in Mexico at a lovely resort.

One week from today I'm going to be on a beach in Mexico at a lovely resort, with the Saint.

One week from today I'm going to be on a beach in Mexico at a lovely resort, with the Saint, on a trip that someone else is paying for.

For what it's worth? I highly recommend getting to know a salesman. A really, really good one.

Over the ocean blue

One afternoon we rented a sailboat. A sloop to be exact.


We also hired a captain - we're not crazy!


Hector was the boat owner and guide, Ricardo was the Captain. They were wonderful. Very knowledgeable about local landmarks, history and folklore


Lands End: The very tip of the Baja. From here you will not hit land again until Antarctica!




The "Key Hole", you can look through from the Sea of Cortez to the Pacific.


They found us whales to follow!


Our friend A had ample opportunity to sail and our captain was impressed with her skill.


Our resort seen from the Pacific



We stayed to watch the sunset.

Gracias Ricardo and Hector; we had a ball!

Vacation, part 1

Cabo San Lucas is on the tip of the Baja Peninsula. If you sail south from Cabo you won't hit land again until Antarctica. One of my GNO girls and her husband have a time share in Cabo. They very generously donated a week to our group for our girls get away. It was a lovely two bedroom, three bath condo. But the best feature was the beautiful balcony.



The view was looking out over the harbor on the gulf side



We had our morning coffee out there every day. Each morning two boats would arrive at one of the docks.



Members of the Mexican armed services (Navy maybe?) would march in formation to this platform



and raise the Mexican flag.



We also had a good view of the pier where the fishing boats came back to deliver their days catch. We saw this Marlin the first day and it the largest fish we saw all week.



In the evening we would enjoy an alfresco happy hour.


It leaves me wondering why in the name of all that is holy why I came home!

Once again...

Reports of my demise, and post-vacation coma, have been greatly exaggerated. I have four posts sitting in draft. Three with nothing but uploaded pictures . I'm just...I dunno, listless.

As always, I remain shocked at how much work is waiting for me after I've been gone a week. All the rigmarole that is "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it" (George Santayana) is lost on me it seems.

Anyway, I hope to rejoin the wold soon! Have a great weekend!

Sunset

Cabo San Lucas, Sunset



I'm home.
We had a wonderful time.
Daughters heading back to school today, more later.....

What would make a girl?

What would make a girl go out in this?



And wade through this?



To go dump scraps in this?



My new border fork!



The Precious Daughters got this for me for Christmas. I love the short handle and the light weight. Perfect for work in the compost bin. I know come spring I'll find it helpful in the gardens as well. The Master Gardening site is a great source for good quality gardening tools.



As an aside to my fellow composters, do you see that bit of bright blue in the left of the photo?



That's a piece of a Sun Chip bag! Now 100% compostable! How cool is that? A chip that's not altogether bad for you and a bag you can compost!