My rent is paid for the next year and my cupboards and refrigerator are full. I again have fruit - mangos and papaya and pineapple and limes. There are small tangerines and lots of oranges on the trees. All the banana trees have fruit hanging from them. Thursday Otto came and helped my back feel much better. Thursday was the craft ladies also. I made a jelly roll and used the mora strawberry jelly for the filling. There was a pastry type cookie in the dish next to mine and it had a filling in the center. It turned out Rosa, Emilio's mother, made it and she used my mora fresa jelly in the center. I brought all the embroidery patterns with me and 4 books of mine for the club. 3 of the books were quilting patterns and the 4th one was all different kinds of stitches. The ladies loved them and spent most of the time looking at them. They did also buy 6 of the packages of patterns.
Saturday morning I headed for the bus at 8:15 to go to the feria. I was loaded up with a full red bag as I was going on to Ziomara and taking her the things I brought. As I walked to the bus stop I saw the bus pass by. I guess the times have changed a bit so I missed it. Katherine and the kids came to say hello and since I now had to wait for the next bus I left my bags with her and ran home to get the gift for Courtney. It is a backpack that folds out to a farm and the inside is full of plastic animals and a couple little farmers. She loved it and put it on and would walk up and down the street shaking it. The next bus came at 8:30 so the times are really off. Emilio called to see where I was and was waiting at the feria when I got there. We headed right for the empanada stand and took everything we bought to a picnic table in the square. They are so good, and so was the coffee. There was an event going on in the square with vendors and entertainers and musicians. A group of them came over and surrounded the table and played for us. I loved it. The costumes were crazy and they were lots of fun.
It was great to see Ziomara and show her all the things I brought. They are working hard to sell the yarn shop and hope to have everything decided and settled by the end of this month. She is working 5 days a week at her new job and Saturday's at the yarn shop so she is very tired. She invited me to her house for Mother's Day. Here it is celebrated August 15. She wasn't sure whether they would celebrate on Sunday or Monday but will let me know.
I have spent some time at the pizza shop, taking Emilio the charger cord and the Kind bars and taking his mother the magnesium and showing her all the fabric I brought. She was very interested and bought several pieces. I also brought a bag of deGrazia magnets that we are changing into pins and I made one for her and I gave one to Emilio without the pin. They are so beautiful. I really love his work. These are mainly children. I came away with a pizza one day and crispy breadsticks the next day. They were great.
This week Katherine and the kids are coming on Tuesday, the sewing ladies on Tuesday and Wednesday and the craft ladies are here on Thursday. I have to figure out things to eat for all of them.
There have been changes in Orosi since I left. The restaurant we like, Rabbits, has closed. The one across the street has been closed also. I don't know if that is just a vacation kind of thing or permanent. It has been school break the last two weeks so lots of people are traveling.
I may be returning to the US earlier than expected to do a stretch of animal sitting. Heather and Kent are looking at going to Europe for a friend's wedding for a couple weeks in September and their 4 cats and a dog need a companion. It works out for me, timing wise, and I will work in a trip to California. I may also have to hit the consulate in Minnesota to have all my paperwork apostilled for my residency. Everything has to be less than 6 months old when you submit it. Everything I have will also have to be translated into Spanish by an official translator.
Emilio and I are planning an excursion to someplace I haven't been yet. We aren't sure yet where. We want to be able to do it round trip in a day. It will probably include a bus change in San Jose and I don't want to do that alone. He also said that later in July lots of Nicaraguan vendors gather in front of the Basicila so we will go and see what they have to offer.
That's it kids. My life is getting very quiet and ordinary.
I have started my hen and chicks. These aloe juice bottles work great because they are square. I take the covers off and they are at a slant so the extra water can drain off. I used a larger aloe bottle for the red flowered branch.
The avocado tree is just loaded and they are getting big.
The hydrangea are doing really great.
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