TIM

Thats an acronym my friend Dan Stewart invented for when things that are just different here and it's his way to explain it.... This Is Mexico....things like this picture of my last years fishing hat that I left on our custom built cedar hat rack. The moisture here in the summer works on everything and of course the hat had sweat on it and the so the perfect formula for this to occur....I really like the look of the little round  beanie on the top of the cap.

So I'll be needing a new fishing hat from our friends at Great Yellowstone Fly Fishing Outfitters. The humidity here is particularly hard on electronics. TV's only last a few years, appliances last a little longer but eventually the quit. In the 13 years we've been here we've gone through 3 TV's, 2 Air conditioners, 3 microwaves ( we actually had one that we rebought that we left in a unit we rented ), Several coffee makers and lamps, we have one right now that blinks in a kinda S.O.S, fashion and our pretty new Refrigerator makes a sound like a 737 take off every so often.....But...what we hadn't seen was this.

I barbecued Chicken and as we sat down for our first meal on the patio a piece of plastic came off my chair when I put my arm on the arm rest. So we discussed the UV rays and what they can do and it wasn't long before a leg collapsed and sent me floundering around the tile floor. MP sure got a kick out of that . Turns out all 4 had to go to the basura

 

So when we walked in this year and everything worked perfectly we were ecstatic. Instant and fast internet. Cold blowing air and we're happy campers...what's a few plastic chairs in exchange for this wonderful life style...Funny thing . In Moootana my guitars need vigilant hydration to make up for the dryness and to not damage expensive musical instruments but here in Mazatlan my guitar just loves it. I just clean it and put it away each season and every year it's ready to go with no neck adjustment or anything. In fact it's thriving here. Through the years the climate and humidity has it accepting the most beautiful and unique patina, a kinda of yellowing of the plastic binding and darkening of the spruce wood that I really like. So that makes three of us that love Mazatlan, me MPeasy and this guy.

So our first night we go out to sunset. we'd only been here for an hour and it was plum hot and humid, kinda uncomfortable really. But we visited each other as we seem to be the first of our group down this year and Walla....look how close I came to getting a ' naval assist ' on our first sunseta. We're off to the great start.

And if you're green flash watcher which I am also I'll say this...Ya can only get it by being here. I've taken hundreds...ok dozens of pictures trying to time it when it flash just as it drops off the horizon and it seems to be impossible....or....it could be that a camera can't capture what the human eye can...or...it doesn't really exist...now isn't that fun ? Some of you might say what in the hell is he talking about, he has that captured right there. Well, that looks kinda yellow to me, maybe a little green at the top so it could be....or.....or....?

And in the holy $^*& department how'a that for chompers on a fish. The waters warm so the guys who like to be in the water are loving it. This guy speared this slimey just 10 yards off our beach as we were resting under an umbrella. he also had a Pompano and 1 nice big lobster...and they tell me the fishing's slow, well, we'll see about that.