I’ve finally decided to end my “complaining” about the cold Puerto Vallarta winter weather.  Admittedly it has started warming up – the daytime temps are great and the thermometer has at last crept into the 60’s (F) and seems able to remain.  I’ve removed the wool throw-over to a temporary location in my closet and it feels wonderful not to have to search for it several times a night – it had a mind of its own, locating a least several hundred different places on the floor near the bed to hide..  I even bought batteries for my trusty (and hardly used) flashlight so I could locate it before Dolores woke up and sarcastically volunteered to lead the “hunt.”  I’ve been following the weather in Seattle – the worst in recorded history (whatever that means), but still felt free to grumble, that is until a close Seattle  friend of Dolores sent her the Cartoon strip that refocused my attention on the main reason I initially moved to Mexico.  Hope you enjoy it!

As the expats return back to the USA and Canada, many to finalize taxes and reestablish “resident” status for Medicare (Canadians) the town is slowly returning to the peaceful and quite pace that we all relish with another frenetic spike of activity over the upcoming two weeks of Semana Santa and Pascua (Holy Week - Palm Sunday to Easter Saturday) and Pascua (Resurrection Sunday until the following Saturday) which will start this year in the 4^th week of April.  Dolores and I anticipate that the cooking school will slow down to 2-3 per month through May and then the season should be completed with only the possibility of some year-round locals requesting a class or two.

My sister and brother-in-law will be visiting at that time from Sicily, It., returning to re-visit PV and environs for the first time since their decision to move to Sicily some three years ago.  It’ll be a great time for “catch-up”, family remembrances, travel stories, and tall gin-tonics.