Things Are Looking Up Around Here

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Parody of our president and his famous raffle of the presidential plane.  More at the end of today's blog post.

Recently, I began to feel like Amanda Berry.  I'm not sure you remember her, she was kidnapped and held captive for 10 years.  Here famous words once she escaped were (but applied to me), "Help me, I'm Chris, Covid has kept me in my house for six months now, and I'm, I'm here.  I'm free now!".   Well not really free but some good things seem to be happening.

We have the first meet up with a couple who are very interested in purchasing a piece of land we have had for 10 years.  You remember, we bought the 40-foot travel trailer and all that.  It started out to be a good project but the "malos" the bad guys, came and F'ed it all up.

We've had many projects pending around the quinta now for months.  It only took four months to get the pool remodel figured out, started and then finished.  We gave up and just put off a lot of stuff for the summer.  My days have been filled with housekeeping and yard work.  Truly a bummer and to be quite honest, fed up with the pandemic.  That said, it will be around for another year and a half so as much as I hate to say it, I am happy to be alive and sequestered here at home.  

It has rained now for two weeks with only one afternoon of sun.  Today was the second so I jumped outside and cut the grass and ended up totally disgusted with myself for not taken action on things that need to be done.  It's the same ole dog.  It's very hard to find people to do work where we live and workers don't like to come from Monterrey even if we pay for their travel time and gas.

I began looking on Facebook marketplace and tried all types of searches.  A lot of things here in northern Mexico are in English so I typed in "handyman".  That's really what we need.  And sure enough, up popped "The Handyman".  I had my suspicions from the start.  We did some Whatsapp back and forth and then he asked if he could call me.  We chatted for a while and as I had thought, he was raised in the U.S. and deported with his family.  He seems to have some things we like, cleanliness, and promptness.  He has a million pictures of his work before and after so we agreed to a meetup.  He will come in the next few days.  Being "gringoized" he may charge an arm and a leg and I will have to tell him my story.  I'm not rich.

Today was the 16th of September celebration.  There was no celebration.  All of the events were online and no public gatherings took place according to the news.  

Hopefully, I can get back out and do my 10Ks this week.  I went to go shower this morning and found toadstools between my toes.  It must be the rain.  After all, I shower once a week!

Oh, and the big Mexico news.  Presidente Dingus raffled the presidential plane.  Nobody could actually win the plane but there were 10 20,000,000 pesos prizes.  They never did sell all the tickets and after all this, we lost 86,000,000 pesos just on the raffle.  And guess what?  We are still stuck with the airplane, it's in a hangar in mothballs because it represents wealth and happiness.  Good night!