October Expenses

October was an interesting month from an expenses perspective for several reasons. 

Bottom line... we spent quite a lot of money! 

It's going to be a nail biter!

We've been busy here, but nothing really worth reporting on. In fact I went two days in a row without taking a single photo. That doesn't happen very often.

We've got our garage area totally cleaned up. It actually looks a little empty with just our ATV in there! But at least visitors who are driving will have a decent parking spot.

That was a productive morning!

We drove Igor over to the mechanic shop at 8:00am, went over a few things with them, then walked back to the house. They weren't exactly sure how long it would take because I had asked them to check the brakes, but they said to check back with them in a couple of hours.

Took Igor to the mechanic this morning

We got up early this morning because we had to take Igor to the mechanic shop at 8:00am. 

Now, this is Mexico and so things don't always happen the way you think they should. So we wouldn't have been the least bit surprised to arrive at 8:00am and find nobody there.

Igor is back on the road!

Yesterday's job was to get Igor fired up and see if we could move him out of the mud.

He hadn't been running since we arrived here at the beginning of May. So almost six full months.

Day of the Dead is coming...

We hopped on the ATV and headed into town to do our weekly fruits and veggies shopping at the Sunday market.

When we arrived, we went for a walk to the central plaza and found that they have a big stage set up.

Now... how do we get it home?

Late morning, we hopped on the ATV and drove in to the big Chedraui super store in Valle. We needed to pick up a few groceries, but we also wanted to have a look at a few washing machines that they had on sale.

There is a washing machine here at the marina, but we always have to ask our host if we can use it, and it really doesn't work the best. So we wanted one of our own.

Very strange...

The title of yesterday's post was "A lot of packages showing up today!"

And, how many packages showed up? Zero.

A lot of packages showing up today!

We had done some looking around town for beds and bedding, but it ended up there was a lot more selection and better pricing buying through Amazon Mexico. 

So we ended up ordering a bunch of stuff, most of which will be delivered today.

A little more work than expected

We were talking this morning and realized that we've been here for two weeks already. But we disagree on how much we've got done. Ruth feels like we haven't done very much, but I think we're doing okay considering it's only been two weeks!

And we're in no real rush. We have no time deadlines other than making sure the spare bedroom is finished for when my sister arrives mid December.