New Years 2009-Viva La Mexico!!

Hola, mi espanol is muy bueno con todos los practicos!! I wanted to post a picture of my homemade xmas present from my fave guy! I keep telling him to let me take pimp pictures of him with his new motorcycle jacket, helmet, goggles and oh-wait he still needs gloves-then we will take pics!! of him on his bike!


My bestest xmas present ever!!!!! It is my garden/planter box!! It is just the beginning....


Shyam doing his part giving back to the earth:) He dislikes it when i take these...he dislikes it even more when i post them publicly!..If he didnt give me the opportunity than maybe i wouldn't take them




Talk about a room with a view:)


Booze cruise went out every night...sounded like a party but we had our own in the room!


The mustache bar..well that is what i have been calling it for 6 years..never eaten drank or gotten the name of it though...now on my list of things to do:)


Hmmmm, Can we enter Rye? :)


Blue Moon even shown in Mexico!! Although it was much more dificil to get a shot of it than we anticipated:(

Happy New Year's Eve, that's me admiring the man i am so grateful to be spending another year with;)

Shyam on the beach..kickin around a dead sea cucumber...ewww



Seagulls and Sandpipers taking in dinner while the tide goes in and that is Baja in the background.






egret fishing with the boooze cruise in the sunset


YAY, for a beach day..it was actually colder than we anticipated but i won't even go there:)

Hope your new year is starting off to a great start! Made a whole crockpot full of turkey chili but instead of using stewed italian tomatoes i used rotel with green chiles, mmm, mmm, good! We are gonna freeze some.....when you plan on visiting AZ? or do you think your next trip will be to OR in June? Keep us posted:) and take care of yoself!

X-mas, Windows, Doors & Chimichanga's?

My Grandma and I. We had a real nice Christmas Dinner (at noon) at my Grandma's place. I tried not to eat too much food because I was going to another dinner later on, but the food was really good. They had this smoked salmon appetizer thing that I had way too much of. Anyway, it was really nice to spend it with me Grandma.

There is me with my gift of cologne. I was very happy to get some new smells to cover up the old smells, which I don't mean to say that I smell, just that I need something to cover them...I'm going to stop. I liked my Christmas present. Polo smells good, now I smell good. Whatever.

The picture didn't come out that good, but the food did. It is a baked chicken chimichanga with refried beans. Hell yeah it was good, and except for the beans, good for ya.



It does not look like much, but this is the culmination of days of work on the window. There were three or four sets of curtains, drapes, and a shade on the window. All the holes that they made were just the tip of the iceberg, the drapes held in moisture that condensed on the bottom of the window and seeped into the frame. It also took off some paint revealing a not so pleasant alabaster color underneath. I still have another round of caulking and sanding to do before I prime and paint the walls. Not looking forward to the painting, but I can't wait for afterward.

This is a very simple cover to a very annoying problem I had. The original set up for the front door had a real puffy, very girly, cover over the window in the door. I took down the puffy cover but you could see right through the house with the window uncovered. Plus there are 12 holes in the door holding up the bars going across the top and bottom. So I went to a fabric store and picked up the tan material, but I didn't know how to put it up.

So...
No laughing, but I sat down and learned how to use my Grandmothers 1950 Singer sewing machine so I could put up that door cover thing. It took almost three hours of messing around with this well-kept sewing machine. I made a mess, but I did it. Not sure if it was worth it, or worth admitting it. :)

friendly bird

No, this is not the friendly bird, this is the 20lb cooked bird we did for Thanksgiving and my friend, Alicia, who so graciously made us the best gravy ever:)....and i dont know why it is underlying my words in blue????
So, forgive me if they are one in the same but this little guy was too cute to not take a dozen pictures and i think i took more than that. I am pretty sure it is an Anna's and i thought there were some great shots...kinda one in the same:)

Presott days....

Hola, sorry it has taken me forever to post another blog:( I have a few other pictures that i will get up here before we head back down to Mexico for New Year's!! Do you guys have plans, we realized that we have not spent a new year's eve by ourselves since we rang in 2007 at a B&B in Sandpoint, ID-you have been a part of our newyear's celebration for the last 2 years:(
So, here goes....

I have never seen a cat play with it's tail but this is Player's new thing, chasing his tail, catching it and then cleaning it incessently...i have no explanation except that he is bored with Tymba.
brrr, it was cold in Prescott! Shyam kept reminding me to make sure i brought enough layers and then he ended up getting sick after:(

Cannot see Kohl's baby bump but it is there:) they are talkin Bryson James Tidwell-Shepard for a boy...i am trying to convince Shyama not to allow his nephew to be named after felatio!

This was taken the first day we got to Prescott. After spending the afternoon visiting, exchanging gifts and going out for a late lunch we decided to check out Willow Lake..lost track of time but got this great shot! shyama and i woke up earlier the next morning to check it out again:)..i wanted to see all the birds and there were a ton of waterfowl!!

still trying to figure out what kinda cactus this is?

i spy a canyon wren, what a puffin!

just us being artistic with the camera...

Who'da thunk it? I love this little town so quaint and all the sw stone jewelry and antiques with such a homey feeling.

This was our hike that we planned on the way home from Prescott, unfortunately there wasnt much to it, it was really just a walk and it led us to a wash. It was cool to see some water in the desert but there was really nothing around, no wildlife and not much scenery:(

Guess who lives in these holes..i say a gila woodpecker...anyone else?

This was me trying to be artistic with the prickly pear..eh-not so much:)

shyama spotted this tiny cactus under some brush, guess i didnt give it anything to compare its size to....so you really cannot tell it is tiny:(

Thinking of you and thank you thank you again for the awesome bamboo steamer! We are so excited to put it to good use! I learned how to make jelly...if i get ambitious i will send you some:) take care

Pics of the House...Finally :)

Horray! There she is! Decked out in all its Christmas cheer. I've got neighbors to my right and left, with a small yard in the back and a patch of grass in the front. She is unassuming, but so far I like the layout.


It is one of the weirdest combination of furniture that just does not work, but none-the-less I call it home. The table the tv is on is actually an old-fashioned stereo with hidden speaker and a turntable in it. The record player does not work, but might be fixable, but then again I don't think I want it.

There is a tiny dining room that is interesting but not really my style. On the other side of the wall with the picture on it, is the kitchen. I'd like to just take out the dining room stuff and open that wall up to the kitchen. That way the room will open up in a more modern floor plan.

My favorite room in the house, the bright white kitchen. It is a little small but I am not complaining. This kitchen can crank out some great food. Right now, the fridge has got some big steaks in it, marinating, just waiting to be cooked. I usually eat on the counter top, with the bar stools, eventually I will get a kitchen table.




This is where the kitchen table will go. It is a nice space that ends with an attached patio. The carpeting in the patio area had to come up so that is why you might be able to see it's patchy looking.







This room is a small guest room that has a single bed in it. Ideally, I would like to make this room a study or office. Maybe put a desk under the window...






Right now, this spare room is storage for a lot of my Grandmothers things. In the future, it will have a queen-sized bed in it for guests. There is a bathroom in the hallway that I might consider trying to link to the guest room.




This is the master bedroom in all its grandeur. There is a bathroom off to the right however it is really small. My first big project is going to be to add some floor space to the bathroom by chopping the closet in half.



Well, take care everyone!! I hope you all have a good Christmas and New Years!
Steve