Finally! Installing new windows in the house next door. There is at least 30 of them. The house has been empty for 10 years. The renovation has been going on for 3 years. After a new roof 2 1/2 years ago, the windows would have been a priority to me. The house was built in 1918, and everything was original. Several of those windows had fallen out over the last 10 years and nothing was done to close up the hole. But interior work has been done in spurts first. There has been no rhyme nor reason to anything over there.

How wonderful, Lynn!!! My g/f, Gino's mom is vacationing in Prince Edward Island. She sent me some stunning photos. Everytime she goes to visit her son, she wants to move there.

jrb451, The picture of Taxco was taken in 2005, but I was also there in 2002 and in 1982 or 1981. I used to visit friends in Mexico City almost every year. Nicole, I did buy some silver there, but the ring I bought appears to be silver plate instead of sterling, and so it no longer looks silver. I think Guanajuato is a better place to buy silver (there are silver mines there), and it is a nicer and more interesting city. Taxco is not as nice as it was in the 1970s and early 80s. I try not to travel during Semana Santa in Mexico because everything is crowded. Once I took the train from Mexico City to Oaxaca during Semana Santa, and I could only get a Primera ticket and therefore was not guaranteed a seat and had to sit on my suitcase in the aisle. I think this was in 1983 when they still had good passenger trains in Mexico with sleeping compartments. Anyway, I must have made a big of a scene trying to find a place to sit or a way to upgrade my ticket but finally resigned myself to sitting on my suitcase. Then someone came to me from Primera Especial (where seats are assigned) and told me that two couples had upgraded to a large dormitorio, and so there were now seats in Primera Especial. So I got to upgrade my ticket and sit in a seat by the time the train left Mexico City, which was nice. The person I sat next to (who had told me about the opening) was from Oaxaca, and I had a nice conversation with him, but he told me that I spoke Spanish too quickly and asked me to slow down - he may have been Zapotec. I guess I had gotten overly excited. I spent so much time in Mexico City that I also developed a Mexico City accent and used the latest Mexico City slang, which people in Los Angeles thought made me sound like a Mexico City snob. My brother went with me to Taxco in 2005 and took some good videos, which he put on DVD, but he never uploaded them to YouTube.

I missed the assignment too - by six months. It was our shortest night. So, this instead: A super moon from a couple of years ago.