henrylaxen

Thanks Tiny, I actually bought that too.  I have the one gallon jug from Amazon USA.  The application procedure is a little involved, and as a last resort I will try to get my handyperson to apply it, but I'm hoping that some company in the area does this for a living.  I thought with the number of old dogs, and people, in the area this would be a relatively common problem, especially given how easy it is to fall down in a damp bathroom or kitchen.  I even remember reading an ad for this in the Ojo 9 years ago when we first moved here.  Sadly that ad is no longer being published.

Best wishes,

N&H

Thank you Liana, but we are hoping for something clear that won't take away the appearance of the tile.

Hi Lily, we bought those from Amazon, as well as the "non slip socks."  Both were a non starter for Athena.

Dear Group,

Our seven year old puppy, Athena           is having a very hard time getting up on our slippery tile floors these days.  Is anyone aware of a local (guadalajara) company that can come in and apply some type of non-skid coating to our floors?  I have tried these guys but they said no because their product is a film that is only applied to small areas.  Sr. Google has not been helpful.  Any pointers would be apprciated.

Best wishes,

N&H

Yes, here is the contact info:

Eliberto Velazquez de Anda - Legal & Immigration Services
   phone (cellHim): +52 (331) 327-5506
    phone (cellHer): +52 (331) 444-1214
       phone (work): +52 (376) 766-4240
       phone (work): +52 (376) 766-4249
    phone (cellHim): +52 (331) 020-4848
     address (work): Constitucion 13-B
                     Ajijic, Jalisco 45920
                     Mexico
              mail: eli4162@yahoo.com.mx
             spouse: Susana Rodriguez

His wife Susana is the one who does most of the leg work.

Buenos días, paisano , deberíamos ponernos nuestras mejores togas y escuchar a Cesar en el Foro?

Last Thursday (Nov 1st) I went to Guadalajara for my citizenship
exam.  It was the end of a long process, that involved a trip to Mexico
city, numerous rewrites of my entrances and exits because the trips
logged by INS did not match my passport, and the final stumbling block
was that I had lost my permanente card back in 2014, so even though
I've been a permanente since they first came out, the date on the back
of my card was Feb. 2014, and unless the chief let me slide, I hadn't
been here for the requisite five years.  Fortunately he did let me
slide after I produced a photocopy of my 2012 FM2.  Now on the the
exam.

Since I'm over sixty (though I look 45) (hah)  I did not have to take
the dreaded history exam.  I could have never passed it either.  I had
to take the language exam, which consists of reading about 4
paragraphs of Spanish text, answering 5 questions about it, and then
writing 3 sentences about a picture chosen at random from as set of
about fifty pictures.  The total time for this test is ten minutes,
and you must get 5 out of 6 answers correct.  Question 6 is the 3
sentences.

Now I can communicate pretty well in Spanish, as long as you don't
care about the gender of the noun, the tense of the verb, or whether
the adjectives agree with the noun in terms of gender and quantity.
Pretty much typical gringo Spanish, I'd say.

They made me read the "story" out loud, which was bad for me because
when I'm reading aloud I concentrate on pronouncing the words (more or
less) correctly and not on the meaning of what I am reading.  After
reading it out loud, I quickly reread the story to myself.  There were
a lot of words I didn't know.  It was about some area in Mexico that
has a river with a dam and a bunch of endangered animals, and was
turned into a nature preserve.  After reading it again, I still
couldn't answer the questions, so I matched the words in the question
with the text in the story.  I understood what the question was
asking, but had to refer to the text to figure out the right answer.
This was somewhat non-trivial, and there were always several dependent
clauses referring to the gist of the question, so you had to
understand the question in order to pick the right clause.  I really
took my time on this part, so that by the time I got to the picture I
only had about a minute and thirty seconds left.

The picture turned out to be the easy part, thanks to the magic of
three and four word sentences.  I came up with:

1. Hay muchas luces.
2. La gente juegan futbol.
3. La mujer toma vino.

They weren't happy with sentence one, so I added arriba to the end and
then they were satisfied.

Everyone at the office was kind, encouraging, and helpful, but the
exam was a lot harder than I expected it to be.

So my advice is, read it out load as fast as possible.  Don't try to
understand it but try to remember where in the text the "main ideas"
occur.  Then go immediately to the questions, and look for the
corresponding text in the story.  Now figure out what the question is
asking, and search the text for the answer to that question.  One of
the 4 multiple choices answers will match pretty closely the answer
provided by the story.  Don't worry about the picture.  If you can use
Hay and conjugate ser in the present tense, you can always come up
with something.

After passing the test, I was told that in only three to six months I
can expect to receive my citizenship papers, provided they don't
change the rules between now and then.

Viva Mexico!

Henry Laxen