What a fun place to live for a VW fancier. This is a piece to tin off an air cooled VW engine. It helps direct cooling air around the exhaust port area of # 1 cylinder. The engine won't blow up without it but that exhaust valve may run a little warmer than it likes. AND here it is just laying at the edge of a
Cozumel street, taking in the sun, telling the story of it's escape to the world. "Where's that drink I ordered?" "Wow, check out that topless generator stand !"
Once again there was a meeting after the meeting at the Rock'n Java restaurant last night. It's located on the ocean front boulevard, just South of the cruise ship pier. There has been pretty steady work on the pier and shops across the Blvd. There has been a pallet of cement core sheet rock blocking the whole sidewalk since I arrived. They got the sheet rock unloaded but the 4x8 pallet remained. I moved it out of the way some a few days ago but it still lays there blocking half the sidewal. Finally, last night, on my way home I got a couple AA's to help me load it on my triciclo and as I rode by the night watchmen I asked them if it was OK to take away and they smiled and said Si. I'm hoping Blanquita's husband Loupe can make a clothes shelf for me.
Notice the pattern in the new concrete street from last year. They have large thick rubber mats with that pattern embossed on it. The mat is shaped in a way that it's pattern interlocks with the previous impression. When the cement is still soft they spread a light dusting of red pigment and put the mats down. They dance and trod on the mats to emboss the cement, and then move the mats over to the next section with the pattern appearing continuous.
Bortola, the resident cat, lays claim to new things on the grounds by sleeping on them; unlike dogs
who just. . . . . . And, we have no dogs !
I sometimes wonder if Bortola has lid claim to me.
Last weeks coin adventure hasn't really gone anywhere. The 50 peso coin I was hoping to see and trade on never appeared.
On Wednesdays the AA meeting's topic is 'Happy, Joyous, and Free' from our basic text, The Big Book of 'Alcoholics Anonymous'. Here is the quotation from page 133
The regular Wednesday meeting leader is visiting family State-Side during December and asked me to take it for a month. I like gratitude meetings and so this was a great opportunity. This last Wednesday someone told the story of finding a coin as a child, while walking with his Mom. He picked up the coin and marked a cross where it lay and put a stone on the cross, as was the childish tradition in his neighborhood. His Mom said to remove the stone so everyone could see exactly where the 'good luck' too place. Today he was grateful for the lesson of sharing the good things in his life. That, of course, prompted me to tell of my gratitude and ethical struggle around finding that 500 peso coin, which the group found much more amusing than I would have expected (they already knew it was almost worthless). I have a stick of chalk with me, I think I'll go make a cross on my coin's resting spot and put a stone on it, just for tradition's sake.
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Some of you may wonder why I keep hitting on this AA stuff. Part of the recovery process is trying to carry the message to the still suffering alcoholic. There are the friends and relatives of those still suffering who may like to know there is a solution for them too, called Alanon. Plus there are a number of my AA friends reading this who might enjoy the familiar references.
Speaking of alcohol, here are some musings from the side of a bar that has yet to reopen since Wilma. "But Mom, EVERYBODY is going down to Mexico for Spring Break, can I go PLEASE ?"
I visited the Palace Municipal again yesterday to find out a little more about the impounded car and scooter auction. A bilingual friend came along and we learned that they are still inventorying the goods. Only the items that have been there the longest will be sold. They said to 'check back in a week or two' (Christmas ?!). I asked if any of the units had been under water and they just rolled their eyes. With a car, the best place to look for evidence of flood is behind the door panels where it is hard to get at and clean.
In closing, here is a rooftop shot at dusk.
-Home-