Keeping the dust down

Watering the street is such a common pastime around here after months of no rain I thought it would have caught the attention of another blogger or photographer. I Googled every phrase I could thing of and not a photo or story to be found. I did find a few using mojando calle.

My neighbor and I take turns watering the street between us, morning and afternoon. We are lucky enough to have good water pressure so use a hose. Many places people throw buckets of water in the street. It's a great time to socialize with passerby's or tease the kids with a squirt of the hose. Last night my neighbor Lorena volunteered so I took my own photo. I hope Google appreciates that ;)

Lorena watering the street

New outside light fixtures

Not exactly new since I bought these over a year ago in an artisania shop in Cihuatlan. I've been waiting till the painting was finished so they could stay mounted for awhile. I only bought two of these and have three lights on that side of the house so one remains a bare bulb until I find something else. A sconce in Mexico is generically called a lámpara de pared but also a arbotante.

The first one took over an hour to mount as plans kept changing. I ended up drilling a hole just over outlet box and using screw and plastic insert, screwed in a loop of metal pipe 'tape' (brought down from US). The second light took 10 minutes. Should be easy to remove for future painting.

First LOW of the Tropical Season

Well this one is right on time and the Tropical Weather season starts tomorrow on the Pacific. Seems like we had an even earlier one last year. When a storm is this young it's hard to tell which way it will head but speculation is West/NW and out to sea. It's been named Invest 90E and may become a storm by Thursday.

What is also interesting is the humidity has risen dramatically in the last week, overcast all day and the refreshing breezes we were experiencing have faded.

From this morning

From 2 this afternoon

Mango season at the White House

We finally cut down my bananas because they were splitting on the tree so then had about 10 small bunches. They are sweet and great with yogurt in the morning but too many for me before they spoil.

Abundio and Teri live across the street in an unfinished house and are basically the caretakers. He is always asking to work for money, just plain cigarette money or food money. She has asked me before but is more shy. She still calls me Gringo. Today I had to do something with the bananas so took them two bunches. Teri immediately handed me 3 mangoes in trade and asked if I had 5 pesos. I asked her: for cigaros? ... and she said NO, for vino. Vino is any hard liquor here and she is not shy about her preferences.

One of the mangoes smells really good so maybe tomorrow morning. The season is a little slow this year but when in full swing .... I'm in heaven (no religious connotations there)

My bananas and traded mangoes

The house has a real paint job this year - The White House

A circus the right size for Pinal Villa

I've never seen a circus (circo) this small before but this one is the right size for Pinal Villa. We have the rides, trampolines and Foosball kind of fairs for the kids a few times a year but they usually set up on the edge of the plaza. For some reason this circus rented a lot on the corner of the plaza and set up there. Not sure how these guys make any money as Pinal is pretty poor but they have a big Kenworth that pulls the trailer and the announcer that drives around town has a nice little car. The RV even had air conditioning running. The life of a Carny in Mexico.

From the corner of the plaza

This must carry the tent and seats

Main entrance

Under the Big Top