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Week 12 Ajijic 8/16-8/22

Writer's picture: Rhonda Tell Me Your StoryRhonda Tell Me Your Story

Updated: Aug 28, 2021


Another fabulous week whizzed by in lovely Ajijic. We spent many mornings racing up our steep hill to prepare for Peru. We are both extremely excited about our upcoming trip... it’s just 9 short days to go! I think we are ready for what Peru has to offer us. We were able to get one long hike to the hidden waterfalls. It wasn’t a long mileage hike but we spent a lot of time enjoying the thick, beautiful green forest and all it has to offer as far as wildflowers and critters go. After the very steep climb up, we caught our breath and just meandered through the woods. We saw hundreds of bugs!!! So many that I didn’t want to miss even one.

We took photos of many colorful wildflowers that stood out in the brilliant green background. Many of the flowers we saw were only the size of my pinky fingernail. We plan on doing this hike one more time before we leave for Peru. I was hoping to see a snake or lizard but we only saw tiny frogs.






Many cows shared the trail but were kind enough to move to the side so we could pass. I don’t want to mess with cows with horns. I chased butterflies and moths the entire time.


Our 3.2 mile hike took us 5 hours!! We had a blast even though the waterfalls were not as big and full as expected.


Chile and his family have been over just about every evening. He’s making amazing progress on the mural. It’s getting better and better all the time. I’m waiting for him to start the iguanas….that’s when I’m jumping in to help! I have a large lake with trees in the distance plus a few trees that are up close. The trees are going to get some of the birds that Larry and I have since over the past year here in Mexico. I’m super excited about my birds but even more excited about the other creatures that are coming.


Larry and I got to warm up our arms for painting this week. Sheron the set designer let us know she would be starting on the next play at the Lakeside Little Theater. She needed us to paint the flats and some window trim. We headed over one afternoon to work with Sheron and Joy. Joy is new to the area and moved from Clearlake California…...so close to where I’m from. Small world. She’s an artist and music enthusiast. She sponsored a big blues concert in Clearlake. Sheron helped us get started with paint...it was pretty basic. We ended up working for 6 hours….with a small snack break. It was fun and the gals were very interesting.

Sheron invited us back the next day to do some real painting…paint a rock wall. That sounded great but also very intimidating. Larry wasn’t even sure he wanted to try. I figured Sheron wasn’t going to let us screw things up. I trusted the fact that she would guide us step by step. Well…..she got us started with chalking out the wall and then mixed 3 colors of paint. She told us just to go for it! Oh My!! Believe it or not we did quite well. Larry got super into it and was by far the most creative one. He studied the rock wall outside on one of his breaks. We would step back from time to time...to check our work. I was having fun and pleased that it actually looked like a rock wall. We painted for 4 hours and when we were done, we were both extremely proud of ourselves. It turned out even better than we thought it would. Thanks Sheron for teaching us something new! We went out to dinner at Scallions afterwards Her son Loic was able to join us after his Spanish lesson.