We’ve had a few nice bike rides…
…always with a good cup of coffee at the halfway point.
There was a beautiful full moon that set just as the sun was rising…
We made another trip to Vera for a couple more plants…
I always drive with a bag of cat food in the car to feed the strays in Las Pocicas – one time I stopped there were at least 13 of the poor little things.
I joined another local facebook group that has some members that also like cats – apparently one of the local vets gives a discount for neutering feral animals but there are also a lot of rules that make it somewhat complicated. I’d like to help somehow, though.
We took a nice day trip down to the coast to the village of La Isleta Del Moro which was very lovely.
We had an excellent coffee at one place then walked around and picked a nice restaurant for lunch.
There are lots of date palms in the area, and now that I know what they look like compared to all of the other palms I see them everywhere.
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There’s a hunting dog across the way that we always hear barking and recently she’s begun to come over to visit us. They keep her very hungry so we’ve been feeding her – she loves the food but loves the attention at least as much. Colin has named her Jayne, but I call her Lady J. She’s very affectionate and just adorable.
Our kitchen renovation was started!! Neil arrived and the transformation was made from:
..to:
…to:
I love it so much! Colin had to return to France for some appointments so he hasn’t seen the end result yet other than what I’ve been able to show him via facetime.
In addition Neil solved a major electric problem that happened the morning he was planning to leave – it took two days to solve and if it wasn’t for him I would have been totally hooped. The house is fairly old and the electrics are crap, to put it nicely. Luckily Neil’s an expert and after tracking things down like a detective all seems ok now.
The last few days we’ve had some extremely fierce winds – one of the jacarandas has been torn apart as has one of the potted yuccas. Neither one seems to be dead as there’s some growth at the bottom of each so hopefully we won’t completely lose either – we’ll see.
Sally McKenzie's European Adventures 