No Pictures

No Pictures

A few weeks ago I mentioned that there was a parrot flying around on the loose here. Which is rather unusual as we don't see parrots around here. Well, the last few days he has been back and seems to have found a couple of friends. There are now 3 of them, flying around, sqawking, perching, doing parrot type things. I have tried to get a good photo of them. What you see here is the result; nothing, zero, nada. Everytime I get the camera out they fly away, they seem to have ESP. So, no pictures of them.

We have been doing nothing exciting the last couple of days. Yesterday and part of today we spent cleaning and doing laundry. I pulled out the frig and the pantry cupboard and washed behind them. Washed out the microwave, etc., boring stuff.

I had taken meat out for lunch; but as lunchtime came closer it was not thawing out fast enough. I looked at Roy and asked if he thought we could get to our shrimp taco stand before she closed for the day. It was 12:15 by this time, so we jumped in the car and drove down there, closed. I had noticed a while ago that there is a torta place that is about 3 1/2 blocks from home, so we decided to try it out. The gate was open so we walked in, no one around but the house door was open and there were 3 ladies sitting at a table playing cards. I asked if we could order a couple of ham and cheese tortas and she said, "sure". She came out and began preparing them, as she was working she kept apologising that the place was not cleaned up and ready to go. I finally asked her what time she usually opens and she replied, "en la noche", at night. I then asked her what time and she told me at 7 PM. Well, we felt pretty dumb at this point and apologised to her for bothering her. She kept saying that it wasn't a bother and was going to bring us some chairs to sit on. We told her that we would just take it to "go". "OK", she replied, she finished preparing our order, packed it up and with many thanks to her, away we went. Try getting service with laughs and smiles like that in Canada 6 or 7 hours before a place opens. Those tortas were sooooo good.

Turkey Day

Turkey Day

We were on our way out to San Carlos when we saw a truck with a big whale bone/rib tied onto the box. I said to Roy that I should have a list somewhere on the blog of "things you would never see in Canada", this for sure would belong on that list. I imagine that it was on its way to decorate someones yard.

We picked up our friends and went to the restaurant where we were going to have our turkey dinner. All 4 of us are Canadians but who can resist a turkey dinner with all the fixings, besides it never hurts to take the time to stop and reflect on the good things in our lives. Roy and I haven't had turkey for about 2½ yrs. so it really tasted good to us. The restaurant was not too busy and we chatted with our friends and the owner and his wife when she could take time out from the kitchen. A large group of people entered the restaurant and heard part of our conversation about something in Canada and asked where we were from. When we told them, it turned out that one of the ladies had been born and raised in our small town of 1400 people in Alberta. Go figure, we even knew some of the same people. What a small world! We laughed and teased the owner that all of his customers at that time were Canadian, so perhaps he should cook us a turkey next year in October on our Thanksgiving. He admitted that there are a lot of Canadians in San Carlos and that yes, they would cook us a turkey dinner next year if we would just tell him when the holiday is. I don't think it will happen though as most of the snowbirds do not arrive from there until after the holiday.

We enjoyed our dinner and the visiting and made plans to pick our friends up to go to the Shrimp Festival on Saturday.

After we returned home later we noticed the parrot that had made an appearance a few weeks ago; but this time there were 2 of them. Not sure where they are coming from or staying; but they better find somewhere warmer to stay for the winter as it will be too cold for them here. It goes down to 10 C./50 F. some nights during the winter and I think that this is much too cold for them.

Hope you all enjoyed the holiday if you celebrated it.