We had a quick trip back to Colorado to unpack and pack up again, see our doctors and our friends and headed off to San Carlos on the 15th of October. A few days before we arrived a hurricane hit San Carlos-luckily, we missed the excitement!
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| This was the scene from our front yard during the hurricane. |
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| A lot of mess around town |
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| The usual sign destruction |
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| Home again! Only damage was to some trees that had all their leaves and/or flowers blown off. They all eventually recovered. |
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| We celebrated our arrival with dinner at the Sunset Grill. |
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| They use old record albums for placemats. |
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| Another wonderful sunset |
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| Night time at the beach |
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| The art group's first get together at Diane's ranch up near Nacapule Canyon |
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| We painted Diane's chickens. |
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| Full Harvest Moon |
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Full Moon Party at the Soggy Peso with Karen and Dee
and Joe and Margene |
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| Joe and Karen |
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| A nice but not too large crowd |
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| The entertainment |
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| The dancing girls |
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| The Sailing Regatta from our patio |
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| Our favorite sailboat |
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Our first beach outing, complete with swimming. We couldn't get to
Boo's Beach as the road was washed out by the hurricane. This place
was a good second choice. |
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Day of the Dead
We decorated the altar and then
walked down to Hammerheads to see
all the other crazy costumes. I was
Frieda Kahlo and Jim was the
Grateful Dead. |
One day, driving into Guaymas on the main drag, we passed a cat in the middle of a four lane highway. We thought he might be alive as we passed him, so turned around, stopped traffic and picked him up. He seemed barely alive. He had some blood on him and a very limp front foot. He meowed loudly about twice and then seemed like he may have died on the way to the vet in San Carlos. She gave him some pain meds and wrapped his injured foot and kept him overnight for observation. She was concerned about what looked like a concussion and thought he might have brain damage. We went to visit the next day and learned that he had survived the night and seemed not to have any other injuries. His head was intact and he was not eliminating and not eating much. He weighed 2 lbs and was probably about 6 weeks old! She gave us a kennel and we took him home with the intention to nurse him back to health and find a home for him. The nursing him back to health was pretty easy-he began eating and drinking water right away. He started eliminating in the kennel. We called everyone we knew to see about finding him a home, but no luck.
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| We named him Milagro, for miracle. And how about that M on his forehead?!! He is the sweetest soul! |
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He ate out of a dipping dish and stayed in the kennel
except when he was on our lap, which was alot of the time. |
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This picture was a little misleading, as Boo in a few seconds tried to bite
Milagro. We didn't let Milagro walk around because it wasn't good for his
injured leg. |
Things went along fairly normally for awhile. We could leave Milagro in the kennel and Boo at home in separate rooms but it was pretty obvious that we couldn't keep him forever and we were having a hard time finding him a home.
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Omar presented the original movie (silent film) of Phantom of the Opera
at his new yoga studio. |
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The art group met at Laura's house in the country club area. We all tried
oils this time. |
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| Diane, Norma, Margene, Me and Laura selfie |
Milagro went back to the Vet because Janet was coming to town, but we agreed to take him on weekends until adoption.
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| We had a whole lot of Halloween trick or treaters. This little girl was a little shy but definitely the cutest of the bunch. |
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Janet passing out candy. It was gone in a nanosecond, as our street became
very popular and most grabbed several things. We had to turn off the lights
eventually. |
The second day that Janet was here, we decided to go with friends on a sunset cruise.
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| Erin and her husband. Erin used to work with Karen and Dee. |
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| Erin and Janet |
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| Margene |
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Dee
The two of us sat together and didn't move much. Thus, he had to bend
over for me to see Karen. |
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| Karen |
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| Erin, Janet and Karen |
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| Karen, in her element |
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| Janet, looking gorgeous, as always |
There were plenty of days, just hanging out on the balcony, watching the water, discovering birds, watching the pelicans fish and the fish swarm and jump out of the water.
A Sunday afternoon at the Soggy Peso is one of our favorites:
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| Margene |
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| Me |
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| Our shadows |
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| Boo in the sunset's glow! Happy pup! |
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| Look-alike siblings |
An invitation to Enrique and Sondra's new house:
Beach Day:
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| Dolphins are around alot this year- right in front of our place. |
A lovely night at Sunset Grill and listening to Omar's jazz group with Jim Eakes and his new lady friend, Anne. Until, that is, they dropped our order and we waited 2 good hours for our food. Jim and Anne had to leave before eating, as they still had to pack for a trip up to Tucson the following day.
Stay tuned for more of Janet's trip and Milagro's story!
