We slept in today, then took a walk around to see if there was anyone here that we knew from last year. Nope, it's too early in the winter for the regulars to have arrived. We talked to Jesus, one of the maintenance men, and he thinks he can fix it. He says he is a welder, we'll see. Mimi and Jesus spent the rest of the afternoon taking it apart and deciding what they would do. Jesus has to buy the solder and has his regular job to do so they will start again tomorrow. Mimi and I went to a shop that sells bolts and got new ones that will extend farther. We also stopped at the tamale shop and had several types of tamales for dinner.

Later Mimi discovered she had lost the pieces that Jesus intended to weld back onto the bar. She spent a fruitless evening searching for them, she's really bummed and thinks it won't work now.