We ordered some firewood and it was delivered today. The man who delivered it was named David. Well he had his son go most of the work and he and I got to talking. He told me his life's story and actually we had a lot in common. David is from the United States and is married to a Mexican woman here and they have five children. He is in his 30's.
Long story short = he has a man who knows and works on cars and he also built his own home which was a double walled adobe house. David asked us out to his house and he would then talk me to his car man and introduce me to him.
We followed David out to his house and my goodness what a trip that was. The road just continued to get worse and then I was not even sure there was a real road but on we went.
We came to this fortress of a wall and gate and that was where he lived. It was a massive home and very well built. I do not believe that I have ever seen such large bath rooms and the tubs were like small swimming pools.with roman spa type seating.
Then Dave took me to his car person and he will get prices on the brakes. His labor for putting on new brakes would be 100 pesos. That is less than ten dollars. So he will get the parts pricing for me and let me know.
I found our way home and we started a fire in the fire place. Then we had a knock on our door at the bottom of the drive way. It was a son of one of the ladies I had over for this cooking class I gave. Let me explain.
We got friendly with a taxi cab driver who is this young kid. He was over at the house one day when I baked biscuits. He wanted his Mother to learn how to make them so I opened up my kitchen and invited some other neighbor ladies over to learn how to bake biscuits. In the process we all became friends and this taxi cab drivers Mother has taken me under her protective wing.
She told her family that they needed to find a cheeper place for me to live and that was why this other young man was at our door this evening. He knew of a place to rent for 1,800. pesos that is less than 142.00 dollars a month!
Well lets look at the place. Off we went to see this house. It was really quite nice except for two thing. There was no off street parking and - now get this - no kitchen. And I thought that this kitchen with no cabinets was bad. But no sink- the room that was to be the kitchen had a hole in the wall for the gas hose to be connected.to a stove and a gas cylinder outside. That was all - this kitchen was a kitchen because of the hole in the wall and nothing else at all but a empty room. Think I will pass on that.
Then we got home and I started the fire again and another knock on the door. This time it was a neighbor man whose wife came to the cooking class and he said that his wife told him to help me sell my art. So he wants to go to different stores in the community and see if they will display my art for sale.
Wow - a simple biscuit making class and I got all kinds of help. We shall see how it all turns out.
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