Domingo, 23 de enero de 2011

Buenos noches amigos!!

NFL Domingo here and it is 4^th and 1 for the Jets who happen to be down 24-10 with 11 minutes left in the game. Doph…1^st y 10. But enough about football.

Ayer we experienced something e had never seen at Mojon…some brown’ish sea foam. It did not look pretty, but we did not know what caused it. Only one thing to do…Google (Googleeee) it.

So, from http://www.myinterestingfiles.com here is what we found.

This is amazing. This happened in August 2007, when the Australian shoreline at Yamba, north of Sydney, was swallowed up by a layer of foam.

Scientists explain that the foam is created by impurities in the ocean, such as salts, chemicals, dead plants, decomposed fish and excretions from seaweed. All are churned up together by powerful currents, which cause the water to form bubbles. These bubbles stick to each other as they are carried below the surface by the current towards the shore. As a wave starts to form on the surface, the motion of the water causes the bubbles to swirl upwards and, massed together, they become foam. The foam “surfs” towards shore until the wave “crashes”, tossing the foam into the air.

“It’s the same effect you get when you whip up a milk shake in a blender,” explains a marine expert. “The more powerful the swirl, the more foam you create on the surface and the lighter it becomes.” In this case, storms off the New South Wales Coast and further north off Queensland had created a huge disturbance in the ocean, hitting a stretch of water where there was a particularly high amount of the substances, which form into bubbles.

Now our foam was nothing like this, but either way, I am not sure you will find us frolicking in decomposed fish etc. ja ja ja

4^th and goal…and they are stuffed!! No points.

Today was clean up day and that meant after mi desayunos of pan frances, it was time to vacuum y mop the piso.


Then it was time for a walk through the industrial section of town. Bexico does not come that way often so it was good to go for the walk and show her some of the places I see daily.

But it was a hot walk…phew.

Not many photos but here they are.

A duster salesman working on Domingo.

An advertisement for Familia de Dios…God’s Family.

Looks like they are having an event here in town. No admission charge but they are hoping for a $500 peso donation, which is a ton of money for most of the local Mexicans.

We walked to the hardware store but could not find a clip or bungee cord. We went to another hardware “stall” and as we started to speak Spanglish, the hombre starts speaking Ingles. Oh well. We are given the small bungee and decide we need grande and tell him so in Espanol. I try to use the Espanol as much as possible...they continue to try and use Ingles as much as possible. ja ja ja

He has the clips, but they are chico. They support 230kg but are not big enough to clip onto the hammock. Proximo semana I will go to Pepes and see what they carry.

Then off to Isssssssste (ok…there are really only 3 s’s) and we grab some items. Not the best selection at this abarrote, but what they do carry is much cheaper then Che.

Lugged 6 litro of laundry soap home and that was enough to prompt us to go straight to the alberca after dropping the groceries off.

Not many peeps staying in the condos, so the pool was tranquillo. Hung out for a while, met another Mojon owner and then came up to watch the Packers seal the deal vs the Bears.

Bexico continues to do on-line work and also had the iChat de Domingo with her madre.

La cena…hamburguesa con papas frites. Yummy.

Manana? Escolar at 1030am…wish me luck!! Then off to the gimnasio and also get the car washed.

Mojon? Need to check our horario escolar (school schedule) but we will head there 2 or 3 times this week.

Have a great week wherever you may be.

Hasta luego.

Steelers win. Steelers over Packers for the Superbowl?