Wednesday May 14, 2008
You may have heard that Wendy is dead. She was an amazing creature until the end. We went on a road trip six weeks ago and she, while hardly able to walk, was game. She presented herself to be lifted into the Expedition and watched the images outside pass by. She disappeared a week after Ash and Hilary had visited.
There is no mourning as she managed to fade from view so gradually that what I might miss is what I remember and what I remember has not faded in the slightest.
While in Redondo she greeted every person who wanted to say hi. I stopped for every person who seemed amazed at her good looks and personality. I saw her going west when I was driving east as you passed me in your car, amazed that she had another life. Dozens of high school or neighbor kids waved and yelled hello. In Redondo people yelled from their cars, “awesome dog”. People stopped their cars and parked to say hello. Once a little girl pegged her perfectly. She broke away from her parents, came over to Wendy and nose to nose to nose said as she giggled, “You funny, funny, funny”.
Raincheck is her own special case, her eating rat poison has nothing to do with her being smart. She is a high IQ dog. I am glad she is well. When was the last time we had a blood transfusion? She is treated better than she seemingly warrants. But not really. Raincheck is a force to be taken care of. Reckoned with.
dwlandiser
Tuesday May 13, 2008
well, heard about the Otto dog afar. very interesting. that dog is a nut probably got out and was having too much fun and forgot to mark his trail home; home being your house.
no email has been received from your email address. i have not used aol for two months. old computer broke new one did not have aol. yet in reviewing the email that now exist, there are fifty that want to sell me something.
did you say hello?
hello back and etc. weather is now getting humid. temperature is ninety.
put up the rest of the new custom blinds. makes the house look much better. laid every other stair in tile, they’re called stair treads, today. tomorrow will see if i knew what I was doing, if not, well someone else can do it. garage is looking better. neater.
i have been overtaken by this urge to buy a powered boat. small, but, or and impressive only to me.
it will be a rubber boat of the inflatable outboard type. having exhausted myself on the quest to understand these boats, it has gotten confusing and out of hand. eleven thousand dollars for a rubber boat? or seven, or three thousand dollars, which is what i expected the thing would cost. after seeing the eleven or seven thousand dollar boat i forgot what the least expensive one looks like.
and outboard motor five thousand dollars! i felt faint of heart when i discovered this and came to the conclusion a rubber boat with experience is a wise choice. now to find one, craig’s list keeps letting someone else buy the one i want. this will take some time.
p.s. heard you were thinking of getting a moped or had one. did you know the original reason for the pedals was so that people could get up hills?
nothing more
dwlandis
Tuesday November 13, 2007
leslie i am doing this in the dark, the sun has set at five twenty two. there is a glimmer of the sun in the sky to the west. i have read the word but have not understood until now, the gloaming. spelling to be deciphered. it is the time between the the light gleaming slightly in the sky and the total darkness of the night.
the moon is a sliver and the darkness is near complete. the galaxy is available for viewing. the milky way is enough light to see your way by.
the other night at three am i heard the coyotes or foxes traveling by. they whimper a yip and whisper a gruff sounding huff and they reply back and forth. i decided to get up and see if i could at least see the shadows they cast. as i walked to the back of the house under the carport i heard them move up the arroyo. then three shots could be heard in rapid succession. it was a sound of a small gauge shot gun or maybe a twenty two rifle. then all of the sounds of foxes stopped. they like chicken and our local building supply store owner raises cock fighters. he takes it badly when one goes missing.
the pelican are dropping from the air in mass. twenty at a time drop into the water and then flip back their bill, catching as many as a half dozen fish of about an inch long at a time. fish of an inch or less darken the water and make it impossible to see the sand below. this mass of fish is about fifty yards long and twenty feet wide.
Thursday November 8, 2007
Disregard previous message. Found mail in trash can.
We had pizza last night. Good party. Two of us and television
We buy the dumb pizza now just to keep the guy in business. Figure it is twenty dollars and there are no coupons. Same with the chicken on Monday night. Besides, we could go to a market and get one for forty pesos instead of 150 pesos.
Huge dish for television being installed today. It is six foot verses the now installed three foot radius dish.
Will get free TV. 250 channels of which ten will be nice. Will probably keep other dish operational as well, it’s a status symbol.
News from China Mexico England etc. Russian etc. Literally around the world stuff that will get boring in three weeks.
Movies and Christian channels too.
Descrambler deciphers the signal and a service on the Internet provides the info when scrambled.
The solar panels are going to where they can get sun most of the day, good power, happy panels and batteries will result. Osprey has found another place for the night. Now I can move the boat to beach.
Nothing to say plenty to do.
Thursday November 8, 2007
Leslie
Deleted your email.
Was getting lots of trash emails and
selected delete-all before seeing the one I wanted to read.
Please send again. I get too few emails I want to read,
to miss one that I do want to view.
ctb dwl dad.
Friday October 19, 2007
Dear Leslie:
Have you sold anything this month so that you can make a lot of money? It is hot out here.
Is it true cars out number people up there?
Regardless of the mood of the day, I have two people who might email me, you and your sister. So far your part of the will is getting smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller. Being left in a will requires magic, luck and work.
My next door friend was left three million dollars. Why? The reason her aunt said …”and because Suzanne is the only one to have treated me me politely and showed that she cared I leave my entire estate to her.” etc, etc. Because she was the only one of twelve cousins who took the time to write and come by to say hi. And this was only in the girl’s first twelve years of her life.
Of course then there is your mother, who has never shown anything but reverence and kindness toward her father and then nothing was left in his will for her. And that fellow who will no doubt be living in a jail cell, at least part of his life, got everything. So the moral of the story is faked or not, people like the appearance of communication.
It’s good I never married her. She moved to Bangor, Maine where it gets very cold.
Most everything typed here is true and since I am getting old, I will not be able to deny or confirm what is or not in a few minutes.
Saturday September 22, 2007
real life is this. ugly car. can be reliable. no credit no prob. is a place to go.
it is no fun in the rain.
you are missing the mark. a store. somewhere would love to have you spend twenty percent interest on a purchase. some tiny amount can be financed loan papers made credit reported find the place..
first do not apply for another credit card. being rejected is exactly right worse than having no credit.
do not ignore the credit card you buy. it does this for you, establishes the fact that you are not a flake. you are capable of making payment you are organized and worthy of risk.
XXX be upfront explain you have no credit period. you thought you were being smart in avoiding the pit falls of credit card debt and you had always paid cash for your cars.. do not waste your time, it is best to see the credit manager. some of them can make their own decisions.
go to beneficial finance. say hey. bring all of your stuff to show your earnings. show the bills explain i have one thousand dollars or $ and i want to buy a car. but more than that i want to establish credit. how much will can you lend me.so that i can get an idea of how tiny a car i need to buy.
get real with what you can pay. you are a three thousand dollar vehicle kind of girl. you need to see the credit manager. explain your problem and it is not in getting a reliable car. it is in establishing credit. have copies of your pay stubs 1040 etc. be real about the payment you can make. find out if anyone will take your vehicle in trade. it is funny money. they discount the car and make your trade look like it is a down payment.. look for small car lot that likes older cars, classic types. your car is worth 0 to big car lots.
take the amount you earned subtract taxes food and lodging and travel expenses. that is the money you could spend on a car.. find out what the cost will be for insurance . show that as well . let it be known that you are in fact a worthy credit risk. take the amount divide it by twenty four months and fifty dollars to the amount that is your payment.
walk on to a car lot and have all of this information. they say they can’t help you, ask which lot in town could help you. ask for a referral to somewhere. Felix Chevrolet is not the one to go to. they wont have time for you. when you do find a finance possibility they are going to show you a car, most likely you can’t select the one you want. find the reliable car guys. the car you buy should be a two year car. trading and moving up after that. the interest will as bad as it gets. financing likely will be for two years not three and not five. you do not rate a long term loan, there is no history.
ford dealers are hurting and likely have to rely on the used car business. don’t forget taxes and license. add ten percent to the price of the car. is your car can yet. advertise with van clubs as per the folks it came from. tell me when you have sold your car. we will talk, but not before.
Friday, September 21 2007
nest i ask qunatro questro? or something close to that. and they say xx pesos cut the top 1/3 off and heat it with a heater designed for same.
good shopping. bought a shovel and a hoe. your mother took the hoe on her atv, the shovel rode with me.
no accident.
dug part of a hole, passed out from heat and i am going back now after long time procrastinating. can see or could see, this morning twenty feet down or more. now the wind is up and now can’t see anything. cloud cover most of the day … makes this the first day of real outside activity of straining the back type.
the following is not advice. it is a slip of the tongue where too much information is given that might be construed as advice. i do not do not give the advice stuff. once upon a time a young boy bought a radio on credit. he went to the good guys or the circuit city people. he said i need to establish credit and i need your help. here are my pay stubs this is where i work. these are the taxes i paid. how big of a radio will you let me buy. ”we will let you finance fifty dollars” they said, “but the stereo needs to be this ugly thing”. ok wow he said. and he made every payment on time. then he was very smart. he went and put two hundred dollars down on one of those credit cards that uses your money to let you charge things. he charged $150 each month and paid that same amount each month. never went over his limit and always paid on time. he had to learn what that meant as in the first of the month may not be on time and the 15th might be. he read the credit rules carefully and later some fool sent him a credit card for real. and then he got them send cards with limits as much as his car costs. wow he said i am a human at last. much later of course the story gets better he moved to baja sur.
once though he went to a place that said hey no credit? no problem. and the interest he was charged was rated according to the risk they thought they (no problem guys) were taking. they said do you want a car or not as they pointed out this but ugly glamor-less vehicle. ah the boy said and pointed at the car of his dreams they shook there heads. and he said but ah ah they said buy this car or nothing. and so he did. buying another car naturally as soon as he paid off the first (stupidly) he was so happy to get a interest rate that was half of the previous he bought an extravagant dinner with his wife of course he was older now, she liked it and they were late of the first payment since that dinner cost the same as the car payment but were hardly ever late again.
this is how i heard the story.
Friday, September 21 2007
leslie so relieved you were not pool stealing. neat idea, an air conditioned place with pool and bar. oh that’s where i live. well no pool, very sad. we did see our spa today. went to the local supply for building stuff store and there it was. a three thousand six hundred litre water tank. or about three hundred and fifty gallons. next a heater!
.nu foe
Thursday, September 20 2007
the humidity has dropped. the world seems more attractive now.
saw your picture on the web. Swimming? you do have fun. Edgar ate all my lunch. your life is exciting. i was excited because Edgar ate all my lunch. new generator is exciting, pulse is quickening. need nap.
N.M.I.M.L pdw landis
Saturday, September 8 2007
storms named after boys and girls
when i was in high school there was a revision of the naming of a storm. these liberated thinkers decided to protest and now storms are named after boys and girls. ships are still called she and that is whether it is named after a president, a queen or a project, endeavor. most are named after birds like frigate, corvair, corsare, etc. well one of those storms visited our locale again. ask those who lived through it, they would probably prefer you just gave it a number. it is a category this or that and you have to be cautious and or warned or watch. tell me what else a person is to do?
the storm went to Loreto and turned right. went east to the main land of mex. well, the winds were not so high but the surf was . the waves were as big as five feet and the surge was two hundred feet in . somehow the storm managed to come at the highest tide day of the year. winds were gusts of forty miles and as little as twenty. surf can still be seen out on the island. looks good through the looking glass
did surf some but for the best of it i was on the roof having to replace every screw previously applied by those who are not in the know of roof attachment.
clams washed up on shore. the waves were forming and breaking out where the boat buoys are. the action of the waves rolled them to shore. i found one clam that was sixteen inches long and seven inches wide. looked like a muscle clam. the others were good eating brown clams. the owner of the local building material drove by on his atv with his a milk crate filled with clams. now a great many are odifying the air. just made that word up. sea gulls are making this a dangerous place as they drop the clams from great heights. i half expect holes to appear in our veranda roof.
pretty boring, naw. i read. i sleep. i eat. dream of huge burgers and fries. life is simple. the woman who has the place three over from directly in front of us just dropped by. she is in her seventies, looks okay. seems to think she has an earlier image to uphold and maintain. has a companion twenty percent of her years old. seem like a nice guy.
someone else has arrived. the name escapes me but his first act is to cruise on the atv and glare at the world as in “looking for adventure”
yesterday the military went by. a truck loaded with about twenty troops and followed by a gas truck cruised up and down. no idea why. guns were on display. even if they can’t shoot there were enough guns to hit an target. creepy ? naw.
saw the same truck four times yesterday. that’s a first. waiting for the humidity to stop to get major projects in order or underway
Wednesday, September 5 2007
your mother and i are sitting here watching surf five feet tall. the tide has come up past the road..
we are watching a hurricane.
it is nice though that the center of this storm veered away from baja and started out over the sea to the main land. it was due to pass right over us. winds are about forty miles per hour. surf is good if i could get out in it. sky is black and the sea is brown. the debris from the river beds is already appearing on the shore. muleje is likely getting flooded again. last year was bigger wind and less wave size. without the aide of a spy glass the swells out to sea are looking the height of the islands out there.
signing off now- need to move the kayaks one more time. too bad i can’t figure how to get out in the surf.
dwlandis p.e
Saturday, September 1 2007
the books are dwindling. i am not sure there are enough to last until my next visit across the border. read four this week. the library, el biblioteca, has max thousand books and is the regional library for baja sur. no help there, all in a foreign language!
a big and bad tropical depression is making its way north and west. possibilities of 60 miles per hour exist. it was better last year when we didn’t know how to find this information. i had a good afternoon of surf and then a big wind came. it was about 56 mi per hour. everyone has a weather station providing evidence for conversation and argument, if it was a hurricane or just a big wind. at the tip of baja its possible the winds may reach 100 plus mi per hour.
i will be on the roof today, doing the things i have been saying it was too hot to do.
Edgar, sounds like a good name for a hurricane, came just now poked me rubbed and made a plaintive meow. he is now laying up side down in the chair next to me. the Chips dog did the same. she is on her side on the floor. this is good weather for napping. i am in the front room south side looking out at waves that make noise without proportion to size. Breaking on shore they could be five feet tall from the sound, but alas one foot is all they are.
i just started using the email i send as a diary for the day to day things. the weather is hot, the wind is blowing, the water is…. a bird did this. later, with out a great effort, my book of a hundred days in baja will be completed with antidotal information in the form of a diary. the days go by more quickly now than they ever did.
signed anxious in ba
o yes, where is that story you were going to write me. that would be the one i said you were going to send me. right, write me
Thursday, August 30 2007
two nights ago a sea hawk came and went to sleep on the Hobie mast.
just as total darkness was about to descend on us, we had a full moon- as total as possible, then bird came and sat on the mast. we watched for fifteen minutes ,as it made throat like sounds , rumblings probably about how unsuited its perch was for sleeping and then silence. the bird did not move and later it was still there
in the morning i looked but did not rise early enough to know if it had spent the night. last night no bird. i have thought of taking the big boat out and setting up its mast. the bird would have a nice platform. sometimes these birds don’t breed for five six years simply because they can’t find a sensible nesting place. that would be a sensible place
Do you have birds where you live? let me tell you about the one i met just yesterday..
the sand here is like powder. how is the sand where you live?
temperature is good and the wind is making white caps on the sea. we found a new beach on our atv excursion. they have, the powers who own land, fenced in their property which includes the trash place for our society. now we will have to go the municipal. this fence has to have cost a lot of money and is probably a precursor to it’s development. thing is though, there is barbed wire at the top. the owner thinks that all of the gringos should be kept out and away from his property. we have the atvs. i wonder what will happen to our golf course.
this is the weather that kiss kiss kind of greetings started. energy or humidity keeping the bodies apart.
P. cdwlandis
Thursday, August 30 2007
mucho callore. yes see or something. bewanious dias capassa beuen eetoo.
i dont know what.
l
