A Very Low-Key Weekend

One and all,

You may have noticed that I neglected to bother you with the trivialities of our lives yesterday. Decided to rest on the 7th day (actually, I think it was the 6th!). Weekends tend to be pretty quiet (except for Mexican boomboxes!), so we try to play along with the locals.

The main topic might be the heat. If you can't stand the heat, stay out of PV in October. It has been 90-plus everyday, but as the weather apps like to remind you, "it feels like 102!. Humidity has been about 66%. Most people, when dining, are choosing indoors. For me, it has not really been the heat in the middle of the day, which you expect to be warm. It has been how warm it stays at night. We got up Sunday morning about 6 am and it was 81 degrees. The sun doesn't even come up until about 7:45, so the nights have been very warm. However, with a nice overhead fan and a standing fan, and our apartment sitting at the top of a hill and open to the air, it has not been as uncomfortable as you might expect. However, regardless of what the song might advise, you want to avoid the "sunny side of the street"!

We have done the regular routine, moving from "Chez Cerveza" to "Chez Margarita" to our own "Casa de Vino". Very nice! Due to the limited number of our favorite restaurants that have yet to open, we did dine two nights in a row at Vitea. We always feel special there as the staff seems to remember us and pamper us from year to year. Last night, we used a gift from our good friends, The Donovans

for a very nice meal at Vitea. The host even added to our enjoyment with a gift "from his heart," a second glass of wine! The first night, when it was so warm, Polley and I enjoyed a cream gazpacho and last night it was a Greek salad for me, and an argula, pears and goat chesse salad for Polley. Both are always excellent choices.

Aside from eating and drinking, it has been prolonged periods of reading. We decided to work our way through the Harry Potter books and I am currently engaged in an epic saga (800 pages) of three generations of a Texan family, called "The Son" by Philip Meyer. I am having a hard time pulling myself away to write the blog! Polley is enjoying is novel called "The War Brides" by Helen Bryan, set in the Second World War. I saw an article the other day that said they did a study and found that people of read "literary fiction," as opposed to "popular fiction" are more empathetic and socially sensitive. So, if we required a reason to being "wasting our time" with these books, we may have stumbled upon it. More later, I promise.

 

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