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  1. In the small shops around here, that is exactly how the eggs are.  All different shapes and all different shades and they aren't perfectly clean neither.  You usually tell them how many you want and they place them in a small plastic bag, so be careful.  If we buy eggs at Walmart or Soriana, we usually save the cartons for when we buy the local mom and pop store eggs.  Many people here (like us) will have neighbors that sell their chicken and ducks out of their house.

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  2. It was reported this week in the Guadalajara Reporter that Chapala recently announced that it would soon start resurfacing many more streets within the municipality in the next coming weeks.  Well, tonight I took my evening stroll down on the malecón and I noticed that they had begun removing sections of the octagon shaped brick adoquines, down in front of the main Church and were replacing it with the nice smooth faux-type adoquines that they have already used on Calle Morelos in Chapala and also on Calle Juarez, behind the Mercado Principal.  I'm calling them faux-type adoquines, because I have no idea what they are really called.  It looks like large flat and smooth sheets of cement is being laid down, and on the cement, little squares are carved into to it to resemble adoquines or paving stones.  I have no idea how far up Madero they are planning on going, but I am really pleased to see them finally improving the major Avenue in Chapala, I guess if I live long enough, I might one day even see my street resurfaced with these nice, smooth, and attractive little paver stone look-alikes.

  3. Well, you said "the two big cell phone stores in Chapala", I know which ones they are.  There are two, kind of large ones, a few doors down from each other.  The reparaciones de celulares is actually fairly small and is on the corner, directly across from Coppel.  The other two larger ones are a block down, opposite the bus station.

  4. Once you arrive at the bus station in Nuevo Laredo, you can take a short taxi ride to the border and get out, walk across, go through customs, then on the USA side, take another taxi to the greyhound station in Laredo or where ever you plan on going.  That is my understanding.

  5. If you are looking for worm castings, I purchased several bags of it at Walmart last week to mix in my little organic vegetable garden.  I have know idea how good of a deal it was, but they were 25 pesos for a 2 kilo bag.  By the way, for those that don't know, in Spanish worm castings are humus de lombriz or worm humus.

  6. For a free remedy, if you have plant pots on the ground, water the area real good around the pots (because this is the dry season) and check early the next morning before it gets hot.  And check what you find.  With just a few they will lay eggs and reproduce rather quickly in the right conditions.  Or try laying card board down in a shady area and keep it moist, within a few days they will come.  Make sure the cardboard is laying over plenty of wet leaves or mulch to attract them.

  7. Yes, the Chapala skate park was starting to look pretty ghettolicious, but it was totally repainted and all the graffiti removed about two weeks or so ago.  But of recently, I see the new graffiti starting to pop up again, little by little.  If they could just triple or quadruple the prices of those spray paints in the local tienditas, perhaps the graffiti blight, I meant to say art,  would be just too expensive to create.

  8. For those of us that did not sign up prior with Illox, have they finished stringing fibre optics throughout the area, and is it available in downtown Chapala yet?  Thanks.  And how reliable and fast is it compared to those that have decent telmex internet?  I'm taking into consideration infinitum varies by location.  It is decent in centro Chapala to do most things, and reliable, but fast it is not.

  9. If you google iFibra, you will see that google says it is a cable company in Mexico City.  I talked to the guys installing it outside Coppel a couple weeks ago and they told me it was for iFibra also and that Illox was a different company all together.  But when you google it, there isn't much information about them.  Maybe, they are  new company.

  10. Yes, I agree, just click on pagar en efectivo, or pay in cash, and select on Oxxo, 7eleven, or Bancomer or Banamex.  I always feel better paying in cash.  In Oxxo or 7eleven you will pay a 11 peso or so commision charge.  I don't even print off the confirmation of order form, I just show them the confirmation email they send on my phone that has the code on it.

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  11. Black sapote might be a form of the persimmon, but I believe they are in the same family and a distant relative would be the avocado.  I am still looking for those blue java bananas.  I recently saw a video that they are growing them happily in Costa Rica now.  Hopefully, they will make it to Mexico soon.  I have the red Surinam Cherries, they taste really sour and turpentine like.  But if you get the black variety (available on mercado libre) they are supposed to be much sweeter.  Talking about cherries, I ordered a Jamaican cherry tree last summer on mercado libre.  The fruit is supposed to taste like a cross between cotton candy and sugar cubes and be very juicy with very fine strawberry like seeds and to produce year round. Check it out.  Mine is just going into the flower stage, later I will reveal how the fruit really is.

  12. More Liana, your suggestions and information via the trip up North were wonderful and very informative, thanks, your sarcasm was questionable.  And like you said, you never answered la verdadera cuestión.  As you suggest, ETN sounds like the better way to get to San Antonio.  So we should take ETN from Guadalajara to Nuevo Laredo, take a taxi from the terminal to the border, walk across, and then take a taxi to the greyhound station?  Is that how it is done?  For newbies, and with kids, it sounds complicated, but doable.  Thanks again.

  13. We fly every summer to visit family in North Carolina.  This year we want to try a different mode of transport.  We would like to take a bus from Guadalajara to San Antonio and get on the Amtrak train with destination to Greensboro.  I have googled it and have read that autobuses Grupo Senda is the way to go.  My question is what happens when one gets to the border.  Does the bus cross over and an inmigration officer get on to take passports?  Or do they drop you off at the border, you take all your luggage and you walk up to the border with your passport and cross over and the bus meets you on the other side.  Or do you get on a new bus alll together.   How does the border crossing work when you take a bus from Guadalajara to San Antonio.  Thanks.

  14. 8 hours ago, Alfa said:

    I would certainly like to know the name of the farmacia in Chapala at which she gets such a good price for her meds. I know there is often a difference in price between drug stores but this variation is beyond the norm.

    I don´t know exactly which pharmacy the OP was referring to, but here in Chapala many people claim to get the best prices at the Farmacia Ahuacatlán, right across from Santander Bank.  And Ahorros Pharmacy right before the bus station is another option for good low prices.

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  15. In Chapala there is a store next to Arbol de Café Coffee shop past Santander Bank on Hidalgo that is a sort of head shop that sells all types of tobacco products and, ahem, tobacco related accessories.   I don´t know if they sell cigars yet, but it would be a place to check.

  16. On December 10, 2016 at 2:10 PM, ezpz said:

    I forgot to mention, I have also seen an orb.  It appeared to be floating around the tree in back of my house, in the middle of the night.  It looked and acted a little like a firefly but it was about the size of a golf ball.  I have never seen a single firefly here at Lakeside, let alone one the size of a golf ball, which would be huge for the little lit tip of a firefly.

    There are fireflies or lightening bugs here.  There aren't many but a few.  Being in the city they are not very visible.  But if you lived further out in the country you would see a little more.  On the other side of the wall from my garden passes the arroyo here in Chapala, there is some open spaces and lots of trees and plants growing all along.  Some nights in the somertime I see them pass over my wall and fly around my yard. Or I spot them from my mirador flying around along the arroyo.  

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