BIRTHDAYS

The birthdays are over mine was on the fifth and Grandpa's was Sunday. We had John, Sueanne, Scott, and Grandma over for dinner. He picked ribs, twice baked potatoes, corn, and salad. We had strawberry short cake for dessert.

Here is a picture of grandpa and some of his favorite little ones.

THE GRUNION RUN MARCH 2009

I had decided not to post another post about the ocean and San Felipe. (Some of these pictures are R-rated) Well, the grunion were running and how could I not post this. A grunion is a long skinny silvery fish about 7 inches long. The grunion run an hour or so after high tide, I don't know how often. They come up on the beach to lay their eggs in the sand. The grunion in San Felipe always run in during the day, where the ones on our California beaches run at night. We sat on the beach almost two hours watching and taking pictures of them that afternoon.

There seem to be millions just on the beach in front of our cabin.

They were just thick with all the females trying to lay her eggs in the sand.

The female fish wiggle and twist, using her tail to dig herself down in the sand. The male wraps himself around and releases the sperm . Sometimes more that one male will wrap around her. This all has to be done between waves. They are very fast.

Notice all the females twisting down in the sand.

A grunion run last about 2 hours. Then after about two weeks, on high tide the hatching hatch and swim out to sea. See why I posted it.

CURTAINS

If you have ever been to our cabin in San Felipe, you know that there are no curtians. Why rush, it has been only 20 years. At night with the lights on, you are inside a fish bowl.

Well, we now have some curtians. I bought some Mexican blankets in town. Took the blankets home to the states.

( measured, zig-zagged, cut, hemmed, vialo simple curtians)

Then to Lowes to buy rods and clip rings.

John Allen and Dennis getting ready to put up the rods.
John putting up the rods.
Did you notice the window frame is still not painted. Maybe manana. When I do get around to painting it, it will be light yellow to match the bricks.

One curtian hung. Slide it open for the day and close it after dark.

Now isn't that beautiful. I have started to decorate the cabin.

SLEEP OVER AT GRANDMA'S HOUSE

Melissa brought the kids over for a few days. It was great. The toys were back on the floor. Sponge Bob found his way back to our TV. Kid food appeared on the table to eat. Dessert after every meal. It was great. Disneyland playhouse was on my computer. Shoes no were to be found. Lily would take 6-8 steps for us.

Playing with play dough and using with all my cookie cutters and whatever was in the kitchen.

Phoenix having a nap on his mom.

Poppy picked me some wishing flowers.

(They are just dandelions, after they have gone to seed and before you make your wish and blow on them) Lily changing the channels for Grandpa.

Willow showing grandma just how to do yoga. She makes bending look easy.

If I could only bend a little bit like her, I would be happy.

Caught red handed getting into grandma's candy.

Lily walking to grandma. She took 6 steps before she sit down.
See why I have so much fun when they come to see me.

More pictures of San Felipe

The highway to San Felipe. There is nothing growing on these Mountains. Have you ever seen pink water?

Clouds at sunset

San Felipe Bay

The only birds I got close enough to take a picture before the all flew away

BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN

We were in Mexico the last two weeks. I was going to take pictures of the neat birds on the beach. But they kept flying away just as I would get almost close enough to take a good pictures. So you will have to settle for something else.

The tide drops between 20-30 feet on low tide in San Felipe. It has one of biggest drops of tide in the world. When it goes out you have to walk almost a mile to get to the water edge. We had real good tides this time. So I spent half of the time walking on the bottom of the ocean. Checking out the tide pools. I did a lot this time. I saw great sea creatures and no camera.

This picture is taken from the floor of the ocean looking back at shore.

seaweed. I saw lots of this

Sand dollars. The wind had been blowing so there were lots on the beach just waiting to be picked up.

Sponges all colors


Jellyfish

The tide pools are amazing you never know what you will find. The only shells I take needs to be empty or no one living in them.