Time Flies

I don’t know where the time goes, but it just flies by. I have been home from Sweden for a month already. April brought another trip, this time down to Oceanside and Mexico, mostly Mexico. Not as relaxing as my Swedish trip. Since we have two homes just north of Rosarito in Mexico, it is mostly work going down there.

The renters moved out of our Calle Mitla house, the one closest to the beach, and we needed to rent it out again. We did get some new renters that will move in at the end of June. The renters are moving out of the other house, too, Calle Tula, so we were trying to rent that out. But it is quite messy and it was hard to show it to anybody and get them excited about it. Besides, we had plumbers working on that house all week, to find the plumbing back up problem. They had to dig up a bunch of concrete, but they finally found it and put in new pipes. Right next to our Calle Mitla house, there is a house being built now, after having been an empty lot for 30 years. Not only that, they are building within a few inches (centimeters) of our house. Apparently, our house was built too close to their property line. So they moved our water lines, our gas lines that were all on their property actually, they tore out our side walk and the part of our roof that was hanging over their lot. Luckily, they were good people and did the work for us. They didn’t just tear everything out. They could have. Our renters kept a close eye on everything, and we kept a close eye on the work while we were there. There are no rules how close you can build houses down there, but if we ever dropped anything between the houses, we could never get it back, and if we need to do anything to our house on that side, forget it.

We did manage a little beach time down there, and a daily walk. The weather was very nice except for a couple of windy days. We also went to a wedding in Oceanside, and Linnea got to hang out with a couple of friends in Oceanside and Carlsbad. She also had the adventure of taking the bus to Tijuana from Oceanside. She was nervous, but she does speak Spanish well enough and we met her at the station.

So now we are back home, back to work and back to school. It snowed here the day we left for Mexico, and it has snowed a couple of times lately, but it doesn’t stay long on the ground. It is time to put in the garden and get our lawn going again. We have mowed it twice. I really like the winters when there is no yard work and no watering to be done. Just shoveling snow now and then.  

Danny is done with school for this semester. He is very excited to be done with school for a while. We have Natalia visiting from Sweden for a month. She is a cutie and Danny is very excited to have her here. We are also excited to have my parents return from their mission this week. Everybody looks forward to seeing them again. I know all of you in Sweden will miss them, but I am sure they will be back there before you know it.

Sean and his family are getting ready to move to Puerto Rico, where he will work as a Federal Prosecutor. We will miss them so much, but we will just have to “sacrifice” and go to Puerto Rico now and then on vacation.

Until next time, Gil