Barn raising

Not much happened today in Los Rios. I didn't sleep that well last night so I wasn't the most cheerful at morning chores. I moved Sinley out where there was some sweet looking grass and let Mama out. Oh, Mama did come back! I found her sleeping on top of a scrub brush in the porch. Eric completely freaked her out by grabbing her and she woke up with a squawk. We put her in her cage but she was so disorientated that she knocked over her water dish. Miserably clucking in an inch or so of water she started diving for food and sounding more and more pissed off with every second so I fixed her up in the bigger cage with a nice big stick to roost on. Anyway back to this morning, so after all the animals were settled I tried to go back to bed and right as I was falling asleep the water truck showed up and would not stop honking because I had an empty bottle out on the porch. Sigh, no more sleep for me! Coffee followed and basically I stared out to the main road for about an hour or so. Eric woke up and I made more coffee. Ah what a riveting life I do lead...we watched a movie called The Dreamers that I had never seen and enjoyed with the exception that it was based in Paris and everyone was smoking like a chimney. I am trying to cut down and quit by sometime next month so at times it was torture. ;)

After the movie Eric decided to go home and I went to socialize with my people. It was an awful Spanish day. Hoping it had something to do with my lack of sleep and not that I am regressing. I got alot of "hey your accent is getting worse," and "I thought you spoke Spanish better than you do" type remarks. But you know that is what I love about these people. If they love you they are all in your face and it isn't as if I didn't know my Spanish sucked today so it wasn't anything surprising. I also like the fact that I can be super fuerte with them, telling them exactly how I feel or think about a topic without worrying that I am going to offend them. Of course this isn't with everyone but being an extranjera gives me a lot of leeway.

Someone killed Gera's cat and she was a mess when I stopped by. Apparently a vecino broke her back and left it in their yard. She had just had kittens and they were still nursing. It took a few days for her to die, she couldn't move, drink or eat. Max is sleeping with me tonight, I don't even care if he has fleas...okay that isn't true and I just pushed him off the bed. ;) Life is rough for animals here.

Rats have returned to my home and so has Masa. He is here working on his site change and I couldn't be happier to have the help. He loves Sinley and somehow getting a lamb came up in conversation or perhaps a piglet. Other conversation topics included how to build an ark in case of a flood and community barn raising. ;)