Week before Christmas Ride

Favorite breakfast in Algodones, Mexico.  The potatoes are cut when you order, everything fresh.  The tortillas are made there on the grill. Exceptionally good!

Going to hit 70 degrees today, so Pat and I are off on the Burgman to attend the Tamale Festival in Somerton.  We had a great ride and all round good day!

3 blocks, both sides, 40 some tamale vendors of many varieties!  Long lines!

Sweet corn and green chili's inside the corn husks.  The cup is full of Mexican Chocolate with Cinnamon & Coffee.  Ummm, good!

Nice wall painting.

Sherm liked the pottery cup, so he bought one full of chocolate.

Spanish eyes!

This elementary school Mariachi Band was unbelievably good!  They were totally professional quality.  

The "fiddlers" were fantastic, their hands were a blurr.

This band was as good as those we heard in Guadalajara!

We rode through some citrus orchards, some lettuce fielsd, and even a few acres full of friendly little sheep.

One of several Swap Meets near Yuma.  Nice hats!

Socks must be a popular sell, there were 3 or 4 large booths full of them.

Pinata's for Christmas

Both ladies and men's shoes are popular here in this swap meet.  

Don't know why someone would want socks with diabetes!  Seems like healthy ones would be a lot better.....

Friut, vegegables, clothing,  electronic equipment,  hardware, and just about anything else you can think of is for sale here.  And lots of food vendors.

Big dog collars?  Maybe too heavy for Julie!

Probably a dozen booths with lady clothes

Looked like about 7 inch stilleto's 

There were 6 little Chihuahua's here for sale.  By the time we left, they were down to 2.  They were asking $150 but were negotiating a lot.  2 months old.

A cute little female.  They can steal your heard!

All the grilled hot dogs are wrapped in bacon.

The mannequin on the end used to be a pole dancer in real life.

These are the small ones.  They the large "dogzilla" ones, and also polish sausages.

There was a lady sitting in this booth paint thes pictures.  She would paint on what you brought in, or on rocks, or about anything.

These were painted on pink flagstone slabs

Pat and I sharred this plate.  Since we're going to a Potluck in the  park this evening, we didn't want to eat too much.

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Mexican pastry 

American donuts.  Look at the size of the Texas donut compared to the ones of regular size.........

All the vendors has some different food, would be nice to be young and hungry so you could sample them all.

Anna, "yesterday's bride".  She worked hard today preparing some nice Chinese dishes for the park potluck this evening.

Getting ready to serve the meat and potatoes.  The rest is "on your own"

Was too busy eating to take many pictures.  The meal is over, everyone is pleasantly stuffed!

This lady hasn't missed a pot-luck at Lynda Vista for the last 8 years!

Good neighbors Mickey and Laurie are doing a little trimming.  A chilly morning!

One of the old septic tanks that was removed truned into a muddy sink hole in this carport after the recent rain.  The contractors were pulled off a different job to come back to add some dirt and compact it.

I wanted some dirt added to the front of our house where we plan to put in artificial truf next week.  The workers didn't speak any English, so I didn't pursue getting it done right now. 

We spent each Friday evening at the Bard, CA Community Building, listening to music.  There were 12 musicians there tonight.

Were short some of the regulars tonight because of them being out of town for  Christmas.  Those that were here, did an exceptionally good job.

Following the "Sing" we always end the evening at the Mad Chef in Old Town Yuma.

For several years, Amber has been our favorite waitress.  She got a few more "decorations" last Summer.  She's saving her money to go to truck driving school.  Excellent waitress, with a good sense of humor!