Fur On The Furniture By Thetis Reeves How do you protect your furniture from dusty-pawed dogs and hair-shedding cats that simply refuse to stay in their place on the floor? Do you spread towels over the seat cushions? Or sheets over the entire chair or sofa? Or drape colorful Mexican spreads from the markets,
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Tuba By Terry Sovil Manzanillo & Colima’s Culture of the Coconut Tuba: a large, valved, brass wind instrument with a bass pitch? Correct, but the tuba I have in mind is a coastal drink. This drink is made from coconut palm sap and is sweet and pleasant but can be fermented to a type of wine.
By Shelley Edson Phone: 376 – 765 – 4049 Email: Shelley.el.ojo@gmail.com September 2011 PAST EVENTS: Congratulations to all of the winners at the August CASA meeting. The presentation categories were Category A: Moroccan/Middle East Main Dish, and Category B: 3 Ingredient Dessert Challenge (with fruit, nuts and a liqueur). The decisions were difficult as there were so
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From Russia To Mexico With Kettlebells By Ron Krayewski When you thought that the latest hi-tech exercise machine had arrived at your health club, the truth is that the best conditioning apparatus was in the free weight area, where the seasoned veterans congregate. The kettlebell or girya, is a cast iron cannonball with an
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How Old Is Too Old To Move To Mexico? By Bob Dietz My 91-year-old father, Ray, sold his Florida condo and asked to move to the La Floresta Convalescent Home. It is seven blocks from my home in Ajijic. This is the story of that transition. I flew to Gainesville, Florida to pick up a
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Focus on Art By Rob Mohr Deep Fun: The Game of Art At play, Lakeside artist Eduardo Xilonzochitl painted exotic animals on telephone poles along the road to San Juan Cosala, Estela Hidalgo combined found objects to create Ajijic’s new lakeside “Tears for the Forest” sculpture, and Judy Dykstra-Brown using found objects created story boxes
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THE OJO INTERNET MAILBOX (Wherein we publish some comments about our previous issue.) THUNDER ON THE RIGHT – AUGUST 2011 Dann Alexander The amount of misinformation in American Media about Canada is startling to say the least. But this is what we get in the age of Nancy Grace. EDITOR’S PAGE – AUGUST 2011 Gloria
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Hearts at Work A Column by James Tipton “…the people most important to you” Anyone born in the United States in the first half of the 20th century learned a lot about how to live from western cinema heroes like Tom Mix (a movie star who actually served as a pall bearer at the funeral
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Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt Mexican Architecture Houses in Mexico aren’t like houses further north in North America. Coming from the bleak north, the riot of colors, shapes and sizes are sheer eye-candy. Large walls or gates secrete some of the most beautiful gardens, fountains, topiary, and homes. The houses themselves feature miradors, patios,
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La Orquesta Tipica De Chapala By Margaret Van Every Traditional Mexican music is suffering a serious crisis, says Javier Raygoza, founder and director of the Orquesta Típica de Chapala. It is being displaced by “the noisy, horrible band music (narcocorridos y onda grupera) of the drug culture. Raygoza observes that the mariachi band no
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