August 20, 2010

we are having a party !!

Dave and wife Patty have been here for the last couple days - first night with Valentine, 2nd and 3rd with us, then this last over there again !!  The first night they ate with Edith and Valentin, the 2nd we all went to Joaquin's (yesterday) and had a grand time ... I drank a margarita that Germann made for Patty and I and it was good good good.  Les, Jim (Dave's friend) and most of the rest of the gang on beer and Dave on wine he brought from his vineyard.

Patty told me that their vineyard is very small and they produce about 900 cases a year, which they produce between the both of them !!  She explained how Dave and some friends started out making wine at home in the garage for fun and then when a guy gave them some grapes in exchange for bottled wine they got more into it and eventually his kids wanted to move back into the State and they found this huge acreage at a good rate and planted grapes. Here it is so many years later and they are producing award winning wine. She likes some of the process, but not all of it.  Both of them were teachers way back when and retired.  And then made wine their life.  So, if you see PESCATORE wine in the store - which means fisherman in Italian - be sure to get some !!

Dec 13. Sunday - car wash #2

well

my car wash boys have outc\done themselves !!  they all showed up, except Leo, for an early morning meeting at my hosue where i told them

1. you are on your own now - decide what you want to do with your money and pay your own way

2. remember to leave the locale cleaner than when you found it (thank you girl scouts)

3. conserve water and make the time shorter (everage was an hour a car yesterday ( jeez louise !! )

4. spread out the frebbee requests and return favors - chose one person a week to get a free carwash - yesterday, it was the police. today it was the water company guy (my suggestions since he gave free water to them 2 days in a row !!)

Today, they were just as busy as yesterday - I wasn't sure they would be, but they were !!  and they will be doing the wash every weekend.  Very cool. Very lucrative. Inspirational.

Today I interviewed them - just some questions so as to have some information to put on the webpage .

Pancho stopped by. Nacho stopped by.  We donated 3 sets of lights to the main square for decorations.

The delegado woke up and asked me how to generate cash for their office. Which is what i thought about last night ... and we dicided to have a la bocana cookout - on the beach - every Saturday. One time the money for his office; another time, the cash for the social services office where his wife works and lastly - to be decided. I will bake cakes. Linda and Antonieta will cook.  Volleyball will be played. should be huge and should be a good cash generator.

truck tire got fixed Friday - and that is a huge story in and of itself...........