Palapas can be anything

We found this Episcopal church right across from the airport, and near enough for us to get to it easily. The priest was in the Dio. of Calif, came down with his wife in a Crealock 42 6 years ago to cruise and stayed. The service is very much the traditional but Rite 2 with no interdenominational changes - hooray. And the fellow at the keyboard gets great organ sounds out of it - but he sings like a former nightclub lounge singer. Oh my. The congregation is made of winter visitors and some year round types, and the priest gets on the morning net to talk about the various events at the church. Immediately the priest's wife asked if I woudl help on Christmas Eve - I sidestepped that one, as being able to sit with

Robert has been a long time coming. We will be there on Christmas eve to sing carols and have a pupu dinner with wine.

We went out to La Cruz, a small village that has more bars and restaurants than normal little villages. We figured out that it is because of the fairly new marina: what does that say about cruisers?The fair was going on in the village square and we saw the new generation of Mexican "hippies" - or is it that creative types tend toward counterculture dressing, or undressing. Nothing really new under the sun. We bought some beautiful yellow tomatoes that disappeared off the boat. As Sherlock would say, therein lies the clue. I used to barricade the tomatoes in Fountain Hills with baling wire, chicken wire, rebar -anything to keep the unknown tomato thief from making off with those tomoatoes. We accused Fred the bull snake, sneaky javelinas, racoons, rats - but it, given the loss of the golden tomatoes, turned out to be the crime dog. Sha'ash. And his stomach was not all that happy for the crime.