Miracles, small and large

Had my own little miracle today, one I had been hoping would happen for months. Betty, our condo owner's husband stopped by with a friend today to pick up some medication that had been left in the frig. The friend, Irma, did not speak English and she asked if I spoke Spanish, I said no, but I could understand ok. Well, she was off and running and I was able to follow her and sort of lost consciousness of the language we were using. I found I was speaking Spanish and was getting along pretty well. We actually conducted most of our conversation with Betty's husband, who is from Madrid, and their friend, Irma, in Spanish, switching over occassionally when our brains got tired. I had gone down to have breakfast earlier this morning at our corner cafe and had spoken Spanish quite well with the waitress. Harry was not there to rely on and that was good. I had known my comprehension was improving of late and I may have inadvertently jumped over a small hurdle of fear today. I was enjoying the conversations so much I found that I had to do more than understand, I had to contribute. Maybe because my comprehension is better I am not quite so afraid to speak. Or maybe now that I understand what people are saying most of the time, being the extrovert, I cannot just smile and nod. I find that if I pause and wait for the native speaker to correct me when I cannot conjugate the verb properly things go pretty well. It was so much fun I could hardly stand it!!! I have to just get up my courage and do more hurdle jumping. Of course I could also study up on conjugating verbs properly.

The weather today is another small miracle. The temps are in the low 90's instead of the low 100's and the humidity is down. We actually turned off the air con. I am sitting on our small balcony with the sun shinning, (this is Cabo after all) a slight breeze blowing and not a cloud in the sky. I do find this weather addicting. I like the way you can count on the sunshine everyday here. (unless of course you are having a tropical storm or hurricane) Last week was unbearable weather wise, sunshine or not, and it will probably be unbearable tomorrow, but I am just going to enjoy the moment here on my little porch.

Harry is still battling the kidney stone but feels it is moving and not stuck, so that is good. I just hope we do not end up in the ER like last time. We do not know how to navigate for medical help here very well yet. We may be learning to do that shortly however if things get worse. I am on the second to the last treatment Baja Doctor Gloria prescribed last May and am feeling physically much improved. The treatment has been a bit grueling at times but I persisted. I guess when one is not well for so long you really do not know what if feels like to be healthy. Now I am beginning to feel healthy. Since miracles seem to be my topic today I would say this is a big miracle.

The picture is one I wanted to post from San Miguel. It is the little donkey I wrote about in one of my blogs. She (?) was the one leading the group of singing people down the street one night in San Miguel and I wished I had had my camera to take a picture. Well she showed up a couple days later for a musical event in the town square and I was able to photograph her. She was wearing a different outfit but I would have recognized her anywhere!