Happy Mother’s Day May 10
Ever since I moved to Mexico my mother has enjoyed having two Mother’s Days. Today, May 10th, is Mother’s Day in Mexico and people everywhere are making their moms feel really special. They are singing her Las Mañanitas, taking her out to eat, giving her flowers, keeping her home from work, giving her candy, buying tamales to eat at home together, giving her jewelery, hugging her, kissing her, singing her praises to others, getting drunk over her memory, driving hours to go home to visit her, taking flowers to her grave, hiring mariachis to sing at her door, calling the radio station and having the D.J. play a song for her, and many more things. Doesn’t that just give you the warm fuzzies?
Roger Grainger May 12
Hola Ms. Taylor:
In one of your posts you discussed scorpions and a viper in your house. Where in Mexico do you live?
I’m preparing to emigrate to the Banderas Bay area and in all the many posts I’ve been reading about that area I’ve never seen mention of scorpions or vipers around Puerto Vallarta. This I don’t like….vipers are by definition lethal, and scorpions are very poisonous. BTW, I’ve travelled to Playa del Carmen, Ixtapa, Mazatlan, and P. Vallarta and never encountered or heard mention of these critters in any of these places. So, I’d really appreciate hearing the skinny from you about these critters. Thanks,—Roger G., California.
Julia Taylor May 13
Roger:
I’m in Cuernavaca. I imagine there are scorpions and snakes around Puerto Vallarta, but don’t worry about it. I live in a rustic “cottage,” with lots of “hidey-holes” in the walls and roof, on the edge of a wooded ravine. We only ever see a scorpion about once a year in our house and the snake took 5 years to show up.
All your traveling has shown that they are rare.
Be fearless in Mexico!
Julia