When the parents are away their pets will play. I try to infuse a little humor into life for those who are missing their family members. Here is my latest with Ocho.
House Sitting The World
I sold everything and I am house and pet sitting around the world
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I have to say I hate the word pet sit because here we are in Mexico taking care of the most lovely dog for two months. He is hardly ” a pet” and more like a lovely friend. His name is Ocho…can you see why?
This time around I am staying in the hottest part of the year. It has not been too bad thus far but the temperatures are rising!
I have to admit I love it here. Love the mountains and the local culture and fiestas. The food is fantastic especially at this wonderful taco joint in town. Pineapple tacos…yummm!
It is fun to be back with Michael this time just soaking up the culture. Life is good and housesitting is great!
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I decided it was time to lay up a few pics of the things I have seen while I have been house/pet sitting. Thus far I have been to Mexico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama. This is one of the benefits: exploring new places and seeing new things.
Museum of Archaeology-Mexico City 
Museum of Archaeology-Mexico CIty 
Sea Bass-Southern Mexico Style 
Mexico City 
Diego Rivera Mural 
Museum of Murals-Mexico City 
Cuernavaca, Mexico 
Museum of Religious Art-Cuernavaca Mexico 
Plaza de Cortez-Cuernavaca 
Cuernavaca, Mexico 
Day of the Dead-Mexico City 
Day of the Dead- Mexico City 
Day of the Dead- Mexico City 
Museum of Modern Art- Mexico City 
Museum of Modern Art-Mexico City 
The “KIDS” in Mexico City 
Musuem of Murals-Diego Rivera 
Mexico CIty 
Day of the Dead- Mexico City 
Doll Museum- Mexico City 
Doll Museum, Mexico City 
Sloth- Panama 
Panama 
Panama City, Panama 
Panama Canal 
Costa Rica 
Grenada, Nicaragua 
Volcano-Nicaragua 
San Juan de Sol- Nicaragua 
San Juan de Sol-Nicaragua 
Monte Galan-CR 
Costa Rica 
Tiger Herron-Costa Rica 
Nicoya, Costa Rica 
Samara Beach- Costa Rica 
Samara Beach- CR 
BERNAL, MEXICO 
San Miguel Allende- Mexico 
San Miguel Allende-Mexico 
Bernal, Mexico 
Queretaro, Mexico 
Queretaro, Mexico 
Queretaro, Mexico 
Queretaro, Mexico 
One of my “kids” 
Juriquilla, Mexico 
San Miguel Allende, Mexico 
Queretaro, Mexico 
Queretaro, Mexico 
El Pueblito-Quinta El Cerrito 
El Pueblito, Mexico 
El Pueblito, Mexico -
I have always wanted to be an artist but alas I cannot draw. I wrote for a newspaper and various magazines. I also write my own music/songs. But art…forget it. The gene was not passed on.
At the present time I am in very rural Costa Rica where it is very hot and humid so there are only certain times of the day that I go outside. The rest of the time I am mostly indoors and trying to find things to occupy my time when I am not working on my book or trying to learn Spanish. Therefore, it came as a complete surprise when I started indulging in art work thanks to AI generated drawings and I absolutely love it! I might go so far as to say that I have discovered I am addicted. Now everyday, I send the owners of the house pictures of their place so they can be sure that it is still standing using photos from different rooms in their house along with local critters. I have decided that I will do this for every housesit and honestly I think it will be fun for the owners too. Here are a few examples.
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One of the wonderful things about housesitting around the world is you get to make new friends and you get to learn some things too. What is even better is when you get to do both.
One Sunday in Juriquilla, Mexico, Alfa and Gabby came over and taught me to make sopas. We hand-made tortillas which I learned to shape…but not well. The filling was made of chicken, onion, citronella, peppers, tomatoes and onion with some lovely spices added to the mixture. It was a lot of fun to spend time with my new friends and learn how to make something extremely tasty too!
House Sitting The World 