Vampire Bats and the rest

Just realized it's the 20th of November and I haven't written since the 3rd. Where does the time go????
Here in Mexico it seems to be taken up by trips to town to get paint, hit the hardware store, the cellphone place and finish the many other errands that need to be completed.
One of those errands was to go to the local boat and fishing store to buy fishnet to keep the Vampire bats from sucking the blood from the horses. AND this happened on Halloween!!! Kinda weird!!!!
Shoshanna went out to feed the horses that morning and discovered what she thought were scratches on Rumi's girth line. Little trail of blood seeping out but nothing to serious. Then one of the workers showed up and said oh no! not scratches but bat bites. Turned out he had 3 bites on him, poor baby!!! Vampire Bats love horses blood and their teeth are so sharp the horse doesn't even feel the bite. The bat then hangs out for about a half hour and fills itself up!! Yuck!! Amazing the things you learn when you move to a different country! We spent the day hanging fishnet all around their stalls, this seems to have done the trick and the horses haven't been bitten since. Yeah!
Meanwhile, we are still buffing and fluffing the place and hope to be in full swing by the end of this week. The website is being constructed and should be up and running soon. We hope!!

Adventures in Mexico Part 2.2

I arrived in Oaxaca city, with Shoshana, on the afternoon of the 6th. I was completely worn out! But as they say , no rest for the weary. Spent the next 2 days helping Shoshana and her hubby, Alejandro pack up their belongings. Then back on the road again.
A 1991 Chevy van pulling a 4 horse trailer, a Jeep Cherokee pulling a smaller trailer, Shoshana's car with 2 large dogs and my yellow Bug made up the very slow caravan heading to the coast. Up and over the mountains we went, at a speed of about 35 miles an hour! Took us 14 hours to go about 300 miles, with stops for pee breaks (human and canine), breakfast and dinner, no fast food here. Thought we would never get here!!
THEN we got here!!! Let just say the place wasn't in quite the shape we were expecting.
The big plan is to turn this rancho, on the Copalita River, into a guesthouse/retreat and wellness center. When we signed the 2 year lease a whole lot of promises were made. But things down here in the tropics don't move very quickly and the promises were not lived up to. The whole place needs tons of work before we open, painting, carpentry, cement work, new screens, yard work,eletrics and plumbing, you name it we are doing it!!!
Hopefully, we will be able to open in the next few weeks.
The place is gorgeous! 2 1/2 hectares filled with all types of fruit trees, colorful birds everywhere, a big corral for the horses (more on them and the vampire bats later) ,a large palapa roofed area for the wellness center, the river, 100 yards away and the Pacific Ocean a 30 min walk.
Can't wait to see you all here!!!!!!!!!!!