Halperin & Christ

check out the article in the sun herald written about our mosaic:

http://www.sunherald.com/living/story/1452906.html

pretty exciting!

for all interested parties, fran is teaching a mosaic class at the terra linda rec center starting this monday evening, july 6th, from 6-9pm. the class goes for 4 consecutive mondays and supplies will be provided. if you have something special you would like to mosaic bring it along, otherwise backerboard squares will be available.

the floor was completed. the trim is done and painted. two accent walls in each bathroom are painted and all the thresholds between tiles and wood floor are done!

eric’s cousins and mom arrived and joined the tile babes and sanded, caulked and spackled windows.

the green tiles for the kitchen floor finally came and were installed by beth and emilio.

we have two tile dudes: colton and avi.

the bathroom floors are all grouted.

christian michiganders came at about 2:00 to install finish flooring and we were pushed off the job! now we will have to paint over finished floor….go figure……this process works in mysterious ways!

so we took the afternoon off, luckily we had an early start and lots of helpers so still much was accomplished.

eric golfed, rose relaxed and the rest of us swam in the gulf.

you know it’s hot when the gulf water is hotter than your shower water.

we are going to the shed for blues and bbq tonight.

we are all saddened by the loss of michael jackson, farrah fawcett and teo the dog (ruben, emilio and avi’s dog).

last night fran industriously did the laundry.  fortunately eric’s shorts emerged from the wash, fresh and clean, unfortunately his phone emerged from the wash dead and limpid, ready for the trash (which is picked up on tuesdays and fridays).

fortunately eric was able to work all day. unfortunately fran and eric had to leave a bit early to go to the verizon store.

fortunately there was a $100 of credit for equipment, unfortunately it didn’t cover the new pink blackberrry fran purchased.

meanwhile………………………

a tremendously terrific transitional threshold was tiled by three of the titillating tile tarts……

we have two new tile babes in our midst, three new tile cutters, one new jamber, one new backer board installer and two new runners.  much was accomplished!

the kids and ruben salted themselves in the gulf which ruben discovered is not fresh water.

beth slept for 5 hours.

emilio won at uno twice.

a sumptuous meal was prepared which included fresh local produce and all is good at the historic harrison house.

tomorrow is another day.

we are north bound and down…retracing old territory…on the last leg of our journey…… less than one month to go….but we are trying not to think about that.

yesterday we had a lovely day in todos santos. after the mandatory stop at the hotel california  and a stroll through the downstown we walked to the beach which is adjacent to the lagoon. looking back at todos santos one is struck by the green and verdant nature of its setting as opposed to most of the region. we have not seen such a profusion of green in weeks.

we parked ourselves at the beach and enjoyed a two hour show of whale activity.¬† we weren’t the only spectators, a huge group of gulls and pelicans had stationed themselves¬†at the best seats in the house to watch the goings on. there were whales breaching, rolling, spouting and generally frolicking in the surge as close as 50 yards from the shore. it was amazing!¬† the birds watched equally as intently as we and seemed equally fascinated. (maybe it has something to do with fish but we like to think we were in the right place at the right time).

last night we had mariscos and tortilla soup and some of us (fran) had strong margaritas. that did not stop us from waking up this morning to the relentless crowing of roosters. cockadoodle here and cockadoodle there, cockadoodles everywhere. they have obviously not adopted the less is more attitude nor were they particularly attuned to daylight savings. it did get us up and out earlier than usual.

retracing our steps back to ciudad constitucion and manfreds r.v. park we did stop for lunch literally in the middle of nowhere. we both used an outhouse whose “floorboards”¬†didn’t really give one a great sense of¬†strength and considering what was below the best advice was to tread lightly and carefully. lunch nevertheless was good.

tomorrow we are headed back to the bahia de conception and will hopefully find a campspot right on the beach.