19 Marzo

Here are some pictures from last fall when both my father and Vikas were here.

Thursday, as everyone knows, was St. Joseph’s Day, or some type of fathers’ day. No one seems quite clear on who Saint Joseph was. Maybe he was Mary’s husband, the guy who toted baby Jesus around, but no one is quite sure he was a saint. He might have just been a guy with a donkey whose wife was pregnant. Anyway, what’s relevant is that all the stores were closed and no one was working. This gave me time to assess what needs to be done, and tackle some minor gardening. The list of things to do is as long as it was in October, but the magnitude of work has decreased. Now, instead of replacing a bathtub with a shower cabin, I need to install a towelrack. Things are slowly moving forward now that I have a handle on what needs to happen. I even managed to give Luciano a small bath. Somehow a baby palm lost many of its fronds. Coincidentally, these fronds face away from the street where they could be easily seen. This is good for me as this palm will be a huge pain in about fifteen years.