Dogs and Cats in the Sunshine

Scratch that flea.

They aren't in that way.

They aren't that way either. Where are they?

Don't take my picture

I love the expression on this dog's face.

Dinner with Friends at La Nueva Posada

The tree is decorated with all these little dolls

My friend Glen looked very handsome in his suit and tie.

First Annual Can-Mex Polar Bear Club Swim

My friends and I just stumbled upon this event. There was only one man willing to take the plunge. Maybe more next year. Instead of making a snow angel which seems to be part of the ritual, he made a grass angel. That is his wife taking the photo. I didn't write down their names. Sorry. I forgot them. Interesting couple from Canada. I think the man's first name is David. I only remember that because it is my son's name. You would never catch my son doing anything like this.

Wednesday Market in Ajijic, New Year's Day 2014

A lot of the people selling stuff didn't show up. Maybe because of New Year's Eve...

My friend Tom, buying berries.

Look closely. This dog is wearing sunglasses.

Morning Thoughts--New Year's Resolutions

What a noisy place it was here last night. It never stopped until early this morning. But I finally managed to sleep. This is the first market day of the new year and it is gloomy and overcast outside. Every day I look at the weather forecast and it keeps saying it will be sunny in one day or two days and then those days come and no sun. The forecast is pushed up another couple of days for sunshine. It is getting depressing. Guess I am totally spoiled, not having to live through real winters.

This morning I am thinking of the coming year and my goals and other resolutions. I usually don't do that because it is so depressing when I don't follow through on them. But today I am going to do it anyway.

My biggest goal is to stay healthy. The older I get, the more important that goal becomes because bodies start to wear out after a certain age. We get old. We die.  That is how things go. But what about the in between? What do I do with what limited time I have left on this earth? (Last year at this time I was getting ready to have my thyroid removed. I was told it was most likely thyroid cancer. So I was getting ready for the worst and expecting to die. It wasn't cancer and I have more time here. What a blessing.)

My second goal is to continue writing on this blog and for Accesslakechapala.com. But maybe I can also write on another book. About ten years ago, I spent several years writing a book but because I wasn't in a good space emotionally, the book wasn't well received. I showed it to a few friends and a couple of publishers and after all the negative feed back, I became very discouraged and threw it in a closet. Then it got lost. Maybe that is a good thing. Time to try again.

Maybe I will fill in some of the blanks between my posts, stuff I never shared on the blog and publish it through Amazon. It will take me a long time to go through all these posts, over 2500 of them now. But this is an idea I have been thinking about. There are many things I have not shared on my blog that may be of interest to people. More about the difficulties of living in a foreign country. Stuff I won't put on my blog because it is too personal or too negative.

I will see if I can get myself together enough to do this.... I don't have any other goals or resolutions for now. Well, Lose weight. Of course, that goes without saying.... go to the big wedding that is coming up in my family this August. Maybe travel around Mexico by bus....

Okay, now I have piled on a lot of goals. Travel around Mexico by bus? I have lived here for six or seven, maybe eight years now. (I don't count the time anymore) and I have never traveled around Mexico by bus. I have THOUGHT about it a lot. I did it when I didn't live here and was just visiting but not since I have moved here. Life is just too good in this one place so I keep putting off bus trips. Besides, if I write a book, I won't have time to be getting on buses and visiting new places. But who knows what the future will bring for any of us.

 Life is a mystery...... Sometimes an exciting mystery, sometimes tragic, sometimes boring, but always a mystery.   Let's enjoy it together.  P.S. Since I started this post, the sun has come out. What a pleasure to see it again. I am off to the market.