Monday, March 16, 2020

Monday, 2 March 2020: Casa Colibri


Lolita is here painting, she came yesterday too.  We are going with turquoise and white for the exterior!  We needed to inventory the remaining paint we bought so we can make arrangements for Lolita to paint after we are gone.  Lolita is good, but like Ricardo she is a bit messy.  Justin and I have spent all kinds of time cleaning and scraping up spills but now that she’s working outside, I really don’t want turquoise paint on the plants.  I hope Justin can convince her to be super careful.  

Allison and Jeremy plans to buy the property from Marylyn and Carolyn has fallen through. With the reassessment of the high water mark, the property now is about 60 meters less than it was.  With no adjustment in the sale price, they are cutting their losses.  The spent several thousand dollars last summer building a stair case up to the second floor so the two bedrooms could have separate access.  That and a hundred other expenses ... very discouraging.  

Toilet paper: the mystery 
So, it seems that every time I walk into one of our bathrooms, there is no TP.  With 8 toilets, it seems to happen a lot.  The guest bath has a lot of traffic -- the ladies from Pilates and workers go in there all the time.  But where does the other TP go?  I do remember stories of Sally Loh.  I worked with Sally a hundred years ago.  Sally's parents were Chinese immigrants who ran a Chinese food restaurant in San Antonio.  Sally was one of twelve children -- eleven girls and one boy.  Sally told stories of the older girls stealing TP from their jobs as teenagers.  Imagine keeping all those girls in TP.  Anyway, if this is an added expense with some of our workers, I think I understand ... maybe the mystery is solved.

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