Not A Great Way To Start The Week

 If you're squeamish or don't like blood, better pass on looking at this blog!

Sunday, March 7th I was doing my usual walk on the beach in the early morning - even though campers are NOT allowed on the beach for overnight camping, there were 3 sets of them camped out!  As I was walking towards the last tent (which is up on the sand - I walk right along the water) I saw a dog down on the water.  I stopped and waited to see if a person would come out of the tent and sure enough, someone came out and the dog went back to the tent.

I walked on by and then turned around at my designated spot and headed back along the beach.  Now mind you, I look for sea glass when I walk so my head is down a lot and out of the corner of my eye as I'm walking parallel to that tent again, I see 2 dogs barreling towards me!!  It happened SO FAST that I hardly knew what had happened but one of the dogs bit me in the back of the leg!  It hurt - BAD!!  Both dogs then stood there barking ferociously and I remember screaming NO at them as the owner is running towards me, yelling at the dogs!

I think I was in shock for a couple of minutes - the bite hurt - and she got ahold of the dogs and sent them back up to the tent.  I told her the one bit me and turned my leg around and sure enough it was already bleeding.  I did have enough sense to ask if the dog had had his shots and she said yes!  And by this time I realize the couple has 4 dogs!  The guy is walking towards me too and he felt bad and kept asking what he could do to help!

I had no idea the bite was so bad and just stood there dumbfounded - by this time Joleen is walking towards me and I just left and walked towards her and showed her my leg!  I should have asked him to take me by car back to our house as we had at least 1/3 of a mile or more to get back there!  And I probably should have gotten their names and phone number but I'm walking without ANYTHING except sea glass in my pocket and I'm barefoot!

It was a long walk back to the house and when I got there, then I could really see what had happened and it wasn't pretty......

This doesn't look so bad taken straight on.

But once I turned my leg to the side, you could see how swollen it was!

Joleen is a nurse (how convenient!!) so got the puncture wounds cleaned up and we got ahold of Jaime (who is a pharmacist) to see what type of antibiotics I needed to be on!  Glenn was out fishing!!

We flagged down my friend Jo who was walking by and she took one look at my leg and said she was taking me to the dr so walked back home to get her car.  But after she finally got ahold of a nurse who works at the clinic, she found out it wasn't open (it's Sunday).  The nurse did call the dr and got instructions on what to do and passed that on to us!

It's such a great small community we stay in and before long, Jo had left and brought back all kinds of supplies - she had a syringe to thoroughly irrigate the wounds, special liquid to clean it with again and then per the dr, an amoxicillin pill crushed into triple antibiotic cream!

Glenn was pretty darn shocked when he got back in from fishing and him and Joleen got right into town to get me some high powered antibiotics!  Luckily the 2nd pharmacy they stopped at would dispense them without a prescription!

For many days, I iced it, put on the cream, took my medication and spent way too much time on the couch!  The bruising was bad - all the way down to the ankle and it hurt to basically sit straight on the couch and have my legs in front of me because of the pressure so spent a lot of time on my side!  Luckily I slept pretty well!

I've been wearing the same pair of stretchy cotton shorts for over a week now during the day and if we had to go out or to town, I had one pair of capris that were not legging tight!  Guess I need to rethink clothes next year and have some baggy attire!

So as I write this 10 days later, my leg is doing much better!  The bruising is still there - it's still quite sore - but I've done my 10 days of antibiotics (and my stomach paid for that this morning - glad I'm done with those) and hoping the bruising will fade shortly!  I'm sure it was very bruised inside also.

As you can see, it's a whole lot better and the puncture wounds are scabbed over and healing nicely - I kind of think I'll have a scar or two from this ordeal!

Unfortunately I am not a dog lover (sorry all you dog lovers!) and now I cringe when I'm around dogs - and believe me, EVERYBODY down here has dogs running around on the beach!  Glenn has found me a stick and I've started walking short distances this week, carrying my stick and keeping a close eye out!  I will NOT walk if there are tents on the beach!  And next year, the bear spray will be brought down!

This 'n That

 This is like a mid-month photo dump - ha!  

We're really "uptown" here at the spa now - they actually have guys come around and either rake the sand or drive this and pull a drag behind!

We split a box of vegetables with a neighbor - a guy grows all of this and then every other week delivers a box to whoever wants it filled with whatever is growing at that time!  There was a LOT of stuff in that box and this is even after our friend took his portion out! $8.00 was for 1/2 a box like this!

We went to Smokey's one day for their famous nachos with sweet BBQ Beef and drinks with Joleen!  It didn't disappoint1

Some of the gals from the Spa decided to have a "Girls Day"!  Joleen and I were both invited and my friend Jo picked us up in her huge station wagon!  We went to the Community Market first and walked around and then on to La Playa for brunch!  Most of the gals ordered Bloody Mary's or Bloody Maria's (made with tequila instead of vodka).  I ordered a mango/strawberry smoothie which was delicious but did taste Joleen's Bloody Maria and it was good!  They served them in the cutest mugs and the view there is wonderful!  After a stop at the veggie market (where I didn't need a thing of course!) we headed back home - what a nice day!

They FINALLY had cheesecake offered at the Spa when we went for taco night - it was very good and I thought it was strange that it was served with a blackberry tasting preserve on the side and the little dots are a very creamy peanut butter!!  Mix them both with cheesecake and wow - it was delicious!!  WOW - who would have thought?

And last but not least, our oldest granddaughter Rayna turned 19!  Happy Birthday Rayna!

2nd Set of Company

 After we dropped Sherry off and got a few groceries, we went back to the airport - I was sporting a pretty good headache by this time and was dismayed to hear that Joleen's plane was delayed - really delayed!

We had another friend we met last year who was waiting in the bar/restaurant area for us - her guy was coming in on a later plane and she was just waiting so we sat with her and had a little lunch and drinks!  By this time, we knew Jo's plane was going to be delayed by 3 hours (oh the joys of flying) so I headed back to the car to try to sleep a little and get rid of the headache.

It did eventually subside and Joleen did get in so after being at the airport for 7 hours we finally got to head for home - airport days are never fun days!

Joleen was staying in a rental for the first week and then coming to our place for the 2nd week!  We got her settled in and of course invited her for dinner with us that evening.  She was super excited to walk the beach as soon as she got here!

And we did have 3 amazing sunrises while she was here!!  So stayed tuned for more gorgeous pics!

The first calm day we had, Glenn and Jo headed out to fish!  They stayed out several hours and had a fun time catching fish!

The catch of the day - and of course we had fresh fish for dinner and plenty to give away!

Although we have a lot of windy days, the calm days are beautiful and all you want to do is sit on the front porch and watch the clouds and the ocean and the palm trees swaying gently in the breeze!

Every day is a great day on the Baja!

February Photo Dump

A hodge podge of pics from life in Baja!!

This is where coffee break is taken most days!!

A new house is being built right beside Juan's house (Glenn's good friend and where Joleen, our next guest, stayed for a week before coming to our place) and it's been fun to watch the progress!!  This is the day they poured cement!

When we showed up for potato night we easily found our outside table!

Almost full moon!

Steps I saw on a walk one day - aren't they cool?

It's always fun when the horses come to visit!

Glenn and I have spent many hours in these chairs enjoying the ocean!

 And that's a wrap for February!

Our First Visitor

Glenn's sister Sherry from South Dakota flew in to visit us last week!  We picked her up at the airport on Sunday - and the airport has sure changed since COVID.  You're not allowed to go into the boarding area unless you have a boarding pass so if you're picking up someone, you have to walk around and go in through the arrival place!  She was on time and it was great to see her!  We also saw the COVID testing spot where she would be going before she flew back out a week later!

Even though we had high wind a lot of the time, Sherry enjoyed watching the kiters and joined me every morning on my walks!  

Glenn took her on a few ATV rides and she enjoyed seeing our subdivision out here!

We did go down by the rocks to look for glass!

Glenn had a lot of fish so decided to share it with Eric and Hillary and Del and Linda - we all met at Trini's where they cooked it for us - it was delicious!

Glenn and Sherry got to go out twice in the boat and she caught 2 of these!!

Shopping in town for t-shirts means stopping for ice cream!!  Glenn got a couple of t-shirts and a new hat - I found a long sleeved t-shirt and a zip up sweatshirt with "No Bad Days" on both of them!!  And that's the truth - there ARE no bad days down here!!

And the night before she left, we all enjoyed the hot tub!  We were all excited to watch the full moon rise over the ocean but the clouds were too heavy that night - darn!

But we did have a spectacular sunrise the next morning before she left - I'll post those later!  

We parked at the airport and waited while she did her COVID test - it was about a 40 minute wait to get her results and all was good so we said our good-byes and waited for Joleen to fly in!

Sure enjoyed having Sherry join us for a week!

Baja Fun

 We always enjoy taking the ATV down the beach and around the corner where the rocks are - we used to find a lot of glass down that way - this year not as much!  But it's beautiful around those rocks and it's just fun to walk around!

This was a calm day so the pickings were pretty good!!  On windy days, not so much!

Remember when Glenn and I won the "predictions" money at Christmas?  I was hungry for garlic shrimp so we decided to eat at Barriles Grill and the shrimp was very good (as was the pina colada)! We even had some leftover money for ice cream at a later date!

With all the wind we've been having, the kiters have been out in full force!  I can't imagine how they manipulate those things but it's great entertainment to watch it!

Celebrating A Milestone

 Our friends that we traveled to Mexico with - Del and Linda - celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Feb. 13th!  Although their family is not flying down until April to celebrate, they wanted to do something special - so invited a few guests over for dinner - and hired a chef to prepare a meal for us!

We enjoyed drinks and appetizers before the meal was served.

I wish I could tell you the name of the one dish but I don't remember - it's chiles stuffed with a meat mixture and it was VERY hot!!  I was glad I didn't take one but did have a bite of Glenn's and that was enough for me - HA!  The chicken enchiladas were delicious, along with the rice, refried beans and salad!  And of course the guacamole is ALWAYS delicious in Mexico!

Here's the group that attended!  It was fun meeting a new couple, along with seeing again their realtor (they just bought this house).

We enjoyed the evening and were glad we could celebrate this special occasion with them!