No new posts....busy summer

The summer has been a long and busy one. Work has been better for the firm, which has limited my time writing this blog (which has been a good thing from a personal perspective). We have only been to the house three times since May, which is not our typical deal, but with Matthew's baseball and such we have not had the same time off as we would like. That said we have had some good weekends with the 4th of July as well as Labor day being in the mix. We also got a chance to bring down a couple of new friends to visit our little beach community which was also fun.

The big news I guess is that power has arrived at the beach. For two years we have waited, and for the Labor Day week end we were able to air condition the entire main floor of the house. Very nice. No generator noise or auto start issues....I slept like a baby. It was not cheap to get it all done and hooked up...and it is still not totally perfect as the voltage provided by CFE is very high. So high in fact that our solar inverter will not hook up to this power source for auto transfer; which means that we may need to switch manually from city power to our solar system for now until more and more people hook up to the system which will lower the voltage. But...it is very nice to have city power when you need it, and it will make next summer a cooler one.

As for other stuff at the house, by the time I write this blog the other 1/2 of the house should be painted. If you recall, we painted the beach facing side of the house last year, so this was the year for the other 1/2. I hope that by using a high quality paint we can now paint the house every three years, but time will tell.

October is about here and with it comes the great weather we long for here in the Southwest. Last weekend was one of the hottest on record, and as luck would have it Matthew played a double header the day we had 111 deg...this is September right? (crazy I know). So to have a weekend of temperatures in the low 90's will be great....and for Mexico that would mean temperatures around 85 degrees. October is also the month that the sea turtles come back to the beach and I hope and wonder if we will get a chance to see them first hand....never know, but it is one of the sights we keep missing.

That is about it for now. As we explore I will try and update things as I can.