Cruising Adventures of the Red Witch

March 7, 2025    One afternoon we checked the weather and spontaneously decided that it would be a good evening to go into La Manzanilla for dinner.   We wanted to go to Mateo’s restaurant for Chimichangas.   Mateo is the person who my Mom and Dad rented their air bnb from in January when they visited with us here, and he had offered at the time to be our contact person and location for getting one of our propane tanks refilled.   One day, about two weeks prior, we had taken our empty tank to him.   The propane tank truck drives around the area most days playing music, like an ice cream truck does, to alert potential customers that it is coming.   One can either call ahead and say that they have an empty tank, or one can flag the truck down when they hear the song.   Mateo had called in advance for us and we waited at his restaurant for the truck to arrive.   We prepaid and the truck took our tank. The next day our tank was returned full to ...

February 28, 2025    We went out in our tender to get the best view of the sunset on the best viewing night of the great planetary alignment.   In theory, with a telescope one could have seen all seven planets in the sky at one time, which apparently is a very rare occurrence.   We sat and watched the sun set and ate cookies that Falcon and I had made, watching to see which planets we could see.   We managed to see the slightest sliver of the 0% waxing moon as it followed the sun over the horizon.   Then we could see Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Mars all in an arching line just up from where the sun had set.   Falcon also had fun playing with our dive flashlight and shining it into the water saying that he was going night diving.   It was quite neat and Falcon still talks about it.   We have also been out snorkelling.   Falcon wore his water wings and swam along with us as best he could, and I pulled him along when he didn’t keep up....