May 13, 2010 Thurs

mary and george, smiley and john were here for a nite - it was so cool talking to them...they are much more than guests now- I truly consider them friends....catching up on months of whats been going on is fun

they were wonderful to the bike club !!  they brought clothes and so much stuff to sell - shoes and curtains and blinds...amazingly fantastic. they will also bring more stuff next time and will - most importantly - keep an eye out at salvation army for bikes and a bike rack. now that is muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuusic to my ears ....and best of all, if there is a best of all when everything is going so well .... mary and george bought a full team uniform !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  and Smiley and John donated too !!!!!!!!!!!   wow. 

so ....  I really thought those  were the LAST TWO uniforms we needed dough for - NOT so, turns out there are 2 more kids wanting to join the team !!!  So, Yolie Carlos and I brainstormed about who else might help and Yolie will visit them tomorrow

we are busy working on the design for the team uniforms. they are going to be just perfect.  the logo is not as great as i would have liked, but if the kids are happy, that is fine by me.  i did put my foot down at spending club money for the parents to get team jackets.  nope.  this money is for the kids.  i would love to get freebees too, but my thought is that we are adults and can work.  the kids cant earn big bucks. they can certainly help out and they have and  that is why i am proud to help this team.  but using moeny for the parents ...not my idea of right.

the surfers got a little talking to yesterday - if they dont get together and start worling now on fund raising - there is NO way i am going to seat it the month before.  they have to go to asuncion in august.  asuncion supported us, we must support them.  and then we have our 2nd annual contest here in bocana in dedember or january. got to prepare now. not later.

Cotty will do some garage slaes with the new items.   I am on my way over to drop stuff off.

Linda will do another garage sale

we called Juanchy's kid Grecia asking if she is interested as well

so, when I come back in a week, hopefully all will have been sold !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  LIfe is indeed, beautiful.

Time to pack, we are leaving tomorrow !!!   Must call Dudu, see about staying at his house in La Paz.

March 2, 2010 Tuesday

I think we are going trash hunting today :)

fish lines left on the salt flat

first fridge

secong fridge

look how full the truck is !! started out empty ...

Chuey from the automotove shop helped us too

dead tree - dry and dangerous

my trusty neighbor and biggest helper LINDA !!!

that's me far away .. while they picked up heavy stuff, I cleaned up many plastic bags and chip bags ... come on world - let's ban plastic forever ........

Dec. 16, Wed.

Did a garage sale this morning - tomorrow is the last day of school and therefore the last sale...2 weeks of 7:30 to 8:45 is enough...today I actually got up at 5 a.m.  I just had to start the day by organizing who will do what on the 30th and the 31st. We need teens as setter uppers and taker downers and a DJ and mike and kids doing a play and adults cooking. Friday we will have a meeting and I will make breakfast......

Actually, this morning I wrote to Sherry in Asuncion and invited her to come to the  surfing competition !  Her daughter is a surfer and that would just be fantastic !

I stilll need to figure out sponsors before I leave. San Diego is always a lot of running around. Plus Les will get his operation. Plus we have a ton of shopping. Plus family and Christmas and cooking. Plus my eyelid has a growth on it and I will have it removed. But back to today:

did the garage sale and sold a little.  but it is so fun to see all the kids. now eveywhere I go, someone is waving and calling out my name !!  what an experience.  ran home - unloaded and went to do the beach ceanup. i guess a group did some work yesterday. Linda showed up and we worked for an hour and a half til it got too hot. we went home. Les and I had chili for lunch and then I got a call that the garbage guys were ready for me to meet them. Sent them to put diesel in the truck and meet me in front of the boat shop. There are 2 abandoned boats that had been sitting there for years. We removed them !! 

first boat and mess

second boat - to the dump !

where is the second boat ????

first boat gone gone gone

the first took about an hour to break up. the second i actually convinced Chuy Espinoza to take dragging to the dump since we had other stuff to clean  up. Very nice of him. then we went to  pick up the bags Linda and I made this morning. then i went to DIF to see if i cold find antonietta. she is in santa rosalia. i forgot. so i saw a reuseable bag finished !!  so perfect - I am the VERY FIRST  PERSON TO BUY ONE and I documented it !! then i came home. did emails. made some phonecalls. no Maile .... strange to call and not get an answer. i called 2 times. will try once more tomorrow and then give it up. not meant to be but i could so use her expertise. no idea why she wouldn't pick up a cell phone. why have one then ??????  Taught my class and I have 2 new students. The best one is thelittle boy who cant be more than 6 years old.  he loves that he can spit out the answer while the older ones are still thinking about the question !!  he is cute cute cute. after class, showered and emails and called Enrique whom will meet us for dinner on Sunday. Panchito sent the meds for Les so i extended a thank you too.

well, I told them white was a terrile color - dark blue or green or black would be better ....

Juanchys dropped by and gave us these pics