feelin like a half-eaten lizard on my bedroom floor

so after a night out with the crew, i slept in til 11, got up, watered the yacca tree and the starfruit and was, by chance, surveying the perimeter of the property when i heard a funky bubbling to my left. egads! a broken water line! so i called over the wall to the first neighbor i saw and he strolled over to check it out. we dug out the line a little from the muddy pond it was forming around itself. then he ran to get strips of old bicycle inner-tubes. he wrapped the pipes up pretty well and we let it sit until the water came back on (city water in this small-town mexican pueblito runs from 8am-noon and 5-11pm). at 5 i checked it out and saw that it was leaking a bit so i attempted to patch it up with one of the extra rubber strips. well, if that didn't completely ruin all of the previous efforts.... however, i think in the long run it served well enough to encourage me to find another option, namely, finding another length of pipe of slightly smaller girth to insert into the other two pipes and make a solid connection. so far this has worked. we'll see how it looks tomorrow morning.

in other news, i've eaten 1 and 1/2 mango today. snake you, parcheesi.

i took down a few more wasp nests. this time i didn't even imagine using boiling water. i just folded up the end of a dry palm frond and burnt my way to victory. not a big fan of destroying homes but perhaps i've already written something about not enjoying it, after that first major battle.

also, negrita caught a large lizard today and snuck it into the house, where she proceeded to munch on it in my bedroom. i guess the lizard was full of pee or negrita wasn't really hungry or something, cuz she just left most of the lizard carcass in several pieces on the floor. when i cleaned up the mess, i realized i should probably mop that floor anyway, so i added it to the list of things to do before DD returns home. still i tried to scold the cat to what seems to be varying degrees of success. she'll be totally forgiven in about 8 hours anyway.

listening to simon & garfunkel on the terrace today, gazing out into the palms, i realized that their greatest hits will now always take me back here... in my mind. this makes me happy.

and, i made some more yogurt today, which i have to check on. now.

tomorrow may hold spearfishing in the cards but we'll wait and see. in the meantime, i'll focus on reporting only the most exciting tidbits of my continuing adventures down south, way down, jalisco way.

uuuuuhhhhh.


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