Month: June 2025

I have to say that one of the many great things about living here, in Mexico, is the availability of fresh farm to table food.

Is there a way to know the trail of said food? Not that I can see. We used to buy all of our produce from a market about 2 km from us. Now I buy it from Soriana, and have it delivered. Is everything pesticide free, E-coli free, carcinogenic free?

I have no idea. And, I have no idea how to find the answer to that question.

I feel very comfortable buying our fruit, and veg from the Mercado Paseos, the one about 50 ft. from the bank we use. Where they’re grown, I don’t know. I don’t have enough command of the language to ask the people behind the counter.

All I know, for sure, is that they’re not processed foods, and they don’t have petroleum based colorings in them. Check out how many foods you eat that have dyes called Blue 1, Blue 2, Green 3, Red 3, Red 40, Yellow 5, and Yellow 6. These are in thousands of foods you eat every day.

They are, however, only in processed foods. Try to get away from the foods that come prepackaged in any way, brightly colored cereals, even canned fruits may contain some of the dyes.

As I said, we are fortunate that we have the fresh food available to us 365 days of the year. We can buy from any of the supermarkets, or from a small local market; only the food imported from the US has petroleum based colorings.

Choose the good stuff. Shop at the farmers markets in your area. Get back to eating food the way God intended you to eat it.

Until next time, stay happy, and love the Lord.

Just after the beginning of this year, I started the dominoes falling.

They were slow to fall at the start, but as the days, weeks, and now months have gone by, they are falling quite routinely. Thank you Lord.

As I have said, I started by doing 2 things simultaneously- first was reducing the amount of alcohol I consumed, and the second was praying the Rosary daily. Both have had a profound effect on my way of living.

After I managed those 2 changes I started walking again, around the park. At first it was sheer torture, but as I’ve gotten more accustomed to it, things are easing up a bit.

Next came my ability to stay focused throughout the day, getting more done than any other time since we’ve been here. I’ve been able to rearrange the kitchen cabinets, get them all cleaned out. I’ve started labeling everything going into the fridge, as well as the cabinets with masking tape, and a marking pen.

I’m back to making kombucha again, as well as baking bread weekly.

Then I bought 2 5-tier storage units that remained in their boxes, on the living room floor for 2 months. We got the sliding doors out of the 3rd bathroom, I got the storage units up, and rearranged the pantry. I was able to put shelves in the lower cabinets, made of the leftover pine boards we’ve had for about a year, (we were going to make who knows what with them but never did so I reallocated them to my project), and was able to completely redo the pantry.

I have since moved this over there, and those things over here, making room in the living room to actually move around. Our storage unit, up on the roof, we let Jesús, and Liz use while they were here, but Jesús has gone on to another job, though Liz still works upstairs for a neighbor. Anyway, they will be moving their stuff out of our unit and over to their new living space so we’ll be able to gut the living room, and live as normal, older, rich retirees that we are.

You needed a laugh, and you know it.

I have all kinds of before photos, and will take plenty of during, and after photos to show you the progress. I’m anxious to make it happen. We bought a robot vacuum before we moved down here, but have never been able to use it because we still have so many of those blasted yellow, and black totes all over the apartment there’s not enough open floor to use it.

Until next time, thank you, any of you, that prayed for the resurrection of my blog site. As I have said before, with the help of my sister Martha, the Lord, and all of my prayers, I am, once again continuing to produce nonsense. Stay happy, and loving the Lord.

and failed.

Fortunately.

Once again I almost drowned the Saki electric kettle, my favorite, (though you’d never know it by the way I treat it), appliance in the kitchen. I give it a vinegar bath every so often, when the water starts to taste of something. Water shouldn’t have a taste of anything, so when it does, I boil a cup of vinegar in with the water, discard, wipe out the kettle, and refill with water.

Lovely. I forgot to put a yellow microfiber cloth under the spout, however. You see, when it boils, it has a tendency to spit water out of the spout, especially when it’s been over filled, as it may have been this time. So, when I came back to it, an hour, or so later, as I had been creating the amazing coat rack, (see prior post), the readout on the kettle was looking rather wonky. When I tried to change the setting, it didn’t respond.

That’s when I noticed it sitting in a small pond of vinegar water, which had also run under the cutting board, and was pooling there also. Needless to say, I quickly found the cloth, tried to blot everything dry, ran and got my hairdryer, and started to dry the control coil on the base.

Nope. That didn’t help. I messed around with trying to make sure everything was dry, wiping around what I believe is called a thermocoil, you know, the heating element on the base of the kettle. That didn’t work either.

I gave up. Of course I said multiple prayers, and promise the Lord all kinds of nonsense, but He listened anyway.

I left it on the counter, overnight, unplugged, and now, the kettle is full of water as I type this, and is coming to the boil. Thank you Lord. Again.

Until next time, stay happy, and loving the Lord.