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.
