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Chapala.com administrators - again, since it has been so long and so many changes since 2013 shouldn't you put a LOCK on threads older than 2 years.  They would still be there for background info but it is so wrong to let items like this show up 5 or 6years after they are valid.  It cannot be that hard to lock down a date every 4 months.  I suggest June 2017.

A 8-10 inch trunked ficus has a root ball that can be dug out by hand with a couple guys and a pick axe.  It is actually easier if you trim the leafy top back hard  and then deep shovel cut (poacher spade works great) around the root ball out about 18 inches from the trunk.  Then rock the trunk to loosen the grip on the earth and push it over to pull the root ball out of the ground and then cut it up.

The mail service which we used for a couple years did the incoming packages like this:  The package went to the Laredo address.  It was a drop office. We went there once to pick an item up on our way into the country.  The small 10 x 10 space  had some shelves and one table and the room was a mess of opened boxes,  pieces parts of items strewn about and cast off packaging thrown in the corner.  Once the girl opened the box she took the  item in its sales package and put it in a suit case.  She was paid to do only one suitcase a week.The suitcase went across the border into N. Laredo in her mothers vehicle as personal belongings.  On the N. Laredo side the items were packaged into a cardboard moving box and sent by post to family in Guadalajara.  Then it was brought by car into Ajijic and unloaded onto the shelves in the mail service office.  Every item had to have a cost invoice and the duty was a standard % of the item cost. The standard percentage was negotiable depending on who you were, how many friends you had using the service and how much you brought in thru the service.

The Maskaras crew have tried this hospital thing 3 times.  The idea that they are looking for shops makes me think it might not be quite what they proposed it to be.  Professionals would have all that space contracted to appropriate vendors and service providers long before 60 days before they say it will open. We will see.

Thank you for mentioning Andrea however I will pass on using her services thanks.

WE are interested in doing the citizenship this next year also and will be looking for a faciliatator.  Know of anyone?

The best this Mom can do is interview at  all the local private schools to determine  if any of them are interested in taking on her sons education.  ASFG is considered to be the best of the best.   

Which ones?  There are so many over the years.

We refer to Rosa as "muchacha" and we still call waiters "joven" but we call our friend Delores who irons for us, Delores, she calls us Senora and Senor and its been like this since 2005.  That said after all these years and 4 household helpers our most recent, Rosa, has been here almost 5 years and she earns from her first day $500 pesos a day, which is 10 am to 5 pm and she will get a raise this summer to $600.  She is responsible for cleaning our home and the short term  rental next door in that time.  She does our laundry, folding it and readying it for Delores who has been with us since day one and makes $200 pesos no matter how full or empty the ironing basket might be.  Rosa now wants her Aguinaldo and vacation pay in Us dollars for her account in Texas.  She would like to be paid in all US dollars but I explained how I might be able to do that after our next trip north but buying the dollars would cost her too much.  

Woman on my street told me not to park in front of her door since that is her space and since she doesn't have a car her friends have to pull over down the street a couple doorways when they come to pick her up.  The entire street from the old Number 4 restaurant south was empty.  When I mentioned I had paid the outside gardener to weed that side of the street curb area she said that when he pulled the weeds in the gutter he pulled out all the grass and now she hasn't any grass for her two dogs.  No wonder I smelled urine when I got out of my car everyday since the rains stopped.  

Anyway, The Globe and Mail had this for snowbirds who haven't decided where to go yet...https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/globe-wealth/five-more-hot-spots-for-well-to-do-snowbirds/article37000857/

A dated Tattoo over a nipple - friends up north are doing this because there is an unfortunate trend to some religious family members objecting and then the hospital staff stuttering and it goes to court which is lengthy etc...  in addition to tattoos we have friends making time and date stamped videos of their verbal directions, and explanation of the written directive and then every family member must agree on video.  Who knows anymore why anyone else thinks it should be their decision but for me thisis a decision I want checked, double-checked and then reconfirmed so my terror at lingering isn't the net to the last thing I experience.

And how about in reverse: I just became Permanente, and my husband is still Temporal. The car was imported in my name but I can't make the trip to get it out of the country for a few months. Can my husband drive it in the meantime?

I wonder if you can add his name to your title and then take it to the border and bring it in under his name?