Luis has been coming up every day to help Mimi paint. He can't be over 5' tall but he finds a way to get to those high ceilings. He's been teaching Mimi the mayan words for things like ladder and wall and ceiling. Mayan is really, really hard to pronounce. When Mimi doesn't get it after a few trys he switches to the spanish word but in his heavy mayan accent that one is undecipherable too. They're doing all right though, they communicate.

This is the way Luis blocked a shelf so he could get on it to reach the ceiling in the kitchen. It worked, even Mimi got up there and used it while he was at lunch.

It's coming along all right, still part of the living room to do and one bedroom and bathroom. We've got 2 weeks left before we have to leave and the place is rented. I've been searching for light fixtures to no avail. I've found a lot of them but none that I like or that I think will hold up well to the humidity and salt air. I searched Playa today, I went in every rustico furniture store and I've already looked in all the big box stores. I want wrought iron if I can find it, we have one fixture in that and it is the only one that has held up all these years, I've replaced all the others 3 or 4 times. No luck so I'll have to go to Cancun tomorrow.