Remember how I said yesterday, 'be careful what you ask the Universe for'? Well, I just want to make it perfectly clear that I do NOT want to move into our house as it is with just a fan and a light bulb!

Also internet, do you remember my vivid description a week ago of the amazing amounts of water that come out of the sky down here? We talked to the architect Friday about street flooding and he described how he raises the entry and slopes it in case the water fills the street up and over the curb. Well, we opened the door today and realized that this is exactly what has been happening. Also, the roof leaks in the kitchen, that's ok since it is going to change anyway. Still, the smell and the evidence of the receding water was a little overwhelming today.

Another effect of all that water is rampant growth, we couldn't even get through the gate into the back yard. The flooding was mainly in the entry way from the street flooding and in the kitchen from the roof. Actually, we were trying to figure out how we wanted the kitchen but it was hard as there wasn't anywhere to stand that you didn't get drips on your head.

It definitely brought us back down to earth. We're still happy and looking forward to living there but hoo boy! I really wouldn't want to live there as it is now. Did I mention the swarms of mosquitoes living there from all the water?

We took all the dogs with us to see their future home. They seemed to like it ok although they all moved into the dry room, the living room, to lay down. You can see that Cuba is thin, we're sneaking her an extra meal in the morning. This picture is for you Kelly, it's the only one I have so far of all 3 of them.

Chica is definitely pouting or depressed or pissed off, however you want to see it. She is not at all thrilled by the new female dog. Hombre seems his usual self although he is spending a lot of time sitting next to Chica, almost as if he is trying to reassure her. Cuba came up and licked Chica's ear today, I think that's a good sign and it is a submissive gesture which should make Chica happy. Right now, not much makes her happy though.

So far, Cuba is fitting in well with the humans anyway. She slept until 11am and pretty much stays on her couch watching everything. She's probably still sore from the surgery and she is still very nervous and scared. She seems pretty happy though and comes when we call her. Dobies are famous for their smiles which she did for the first time today. They kind of raise their upper lip up and wag their stubby tail. I was so excited when she did it that I had to call Country and tell her.

Back in the 1970's, when Country and I were first together, I was dog-sitting a friend's doberman. I went to work and left Country asleep at my house with the dog. At the time I was a bartender in biker bar in SoCal. I got a call in the middle of my shift from a hysterical Country, who was trapped on the bed because the dog was snarling at her. I tried to tell her he was just smiling but she would have none of it. I ended up sending a couple of the boys over on their Harley's to rescue her by locking the dog in another room. He really was just smiling at her.

There's a big iguana that sits in the sun behind our rig, I watch him from the back window but he disappears if I open the door. Today, Mimi watched while I went out and figured out he lives in the sewer drain pipe and jumps down it. Mimi took this picture of him through the window, sticking his head out of the pipe. I googled him and he is a yucatan spiny-tailed iguana, one site said they don't make good pets because they are aggressive and mad all the time. How do you tell when an iguana is mad?

He's big - I'll get a picture of all of him one of these days - and I thought it would be cool to have a big old iguana that lived in your yard. Then, I found out that the 2 biggest garden pests here are... iguanas and leaf-cutter ants. Apparently, they particularly like eating flowers and orchids and can wipe out your garden rather quickly. I've never had a garden down here, there's a lot to learn. BTW, I had unknowingly put that tile over the drain pipe the other day, he moved it out of the way.