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Not saying she can't help, but the OP's issue has nothing to do with immigration matters, it has to do with labor law.

Sonia, could you clarify something, which doesn't pertain directly to this but is related. I am a permanent resident and a few years I inquired at INM about sponsoring my adult daughter. I was told that to sponsor a child, that child has to be a dependent- either under-age or dependent because they are handicapped or something like that. In other words, if she had been 16 instead of 32, I could have sponsored her. Does that hold true whenever mention is made of sponsoring a child?

Well, yeah, I could just get a board wide enough and of the correct length and keep it in my car, but I was thinking a heavy-duty plastic ramp might be lighter to move around.

So sorry you lost your beloved buddy. My dog is getting old, too and has trouble now jumping up in the car, so I'd buy it from you if I didn't live in Sayulita. But where do you purchase something like that, I was wondering?

That chart makes no sense in terms of comparisons, which it purports to do, because the age groups vary between diseases. COVID 25-34 compared to Flu 18-49? COVID 35-44 compared to Flu 50-64? That's like comparing the price of one container of juice to another container of juice purely looking at the price, while ignoring the fact that one container holds 1 liter and the other holds 1.5 liters. In order for a chart like that to have any value, other than to those who have an agenda of dismissing the seriousness of COVID, the age groups would have to be the same- COVID 15-30, Flu 15-30.

That could work fine as long as the employer has a realistic idea of how long something would take to do well. Someone who has never done a bit of gardening might think that it should only take 2 hours to accomplish what would actually take 4. Most people don't bring their car to the mechanic and start off by telling him how long you think fixing your car should take and what you are willing to pay. To have a realistic idea of how long work you aren't familiar with ever doing yourself would take, rather than say "I'm willing to pay this much for that job", it would be more informative to get quotes from 3 different workers for doing XX, which is basically what people do when they are doing a building project and talk to a few different contractors.

Good to know, except I haven't had any reason to go to Guad or lakeside for several years. Here's something quite funny- I saw a jar of Mexican-made zatar at La Comer. I looked at the ingredients, and it wasn't really the zatar I know, which is just ground thyme, sumac berries and sesame. They had substituted jamaica for the sumac, which seemed like a decent substitute, they have similar flavors and I've never seen a sumac tree in Mexico, although that doesn't mean there aren't any. On the label, they had the ingredients listed in Spanish, then supposedly in English. They had translated "jamaica" as "charity ball".

That's exactly how often and long my neighbor has her gardener come. He's very good, and very efficient and her place looks great. And I've never seen him holding the hose 😜 In fact, he suggested she get soaker hoses and laid them out for her, so only a few things now need hand watering.

Now that would be a perfect trade. Not familiar with Persian food, but I love all the others. (I'm almost out of my stash of zatar I bought in Canada last summer) Too bad I live in Sayulita.

I've been stung about 4 times now. The first time was no big deal, the second was worse, the 3rd was really bad. I know that can happen with wasps and bees, too- the more often you get stung, the worse the reaction each time. The third time it took 4 months to get the feeling back in my thumb. I never went to the hospital for any of them, but my throat burned really badly for a couple of days after that 3rd sting. The fourth one was different. It was the only time I put ice on it immediately, as well as a plant poutice. The pain went away in about an hour and had no more bad reaction. For those of you saying that the experts say the little clear ones don't pack a bigger whallop- the experts can say what they will, but for everyone I know who has been living in Mexico for a long time, including my own experience, that's just not true. It's like if you look up whether bouganvilla is toxic, supposedly it isn't, but anyone who has ever stepped on a bouganvilla thorn knows different- even if you clean the wound thoroughly right away, and you can see that the thorn came out whole, with no bits left inside your foot, it throbs for days and hurts badly for weeks.

Yes, I don't like to kill things that are harmless, like my house spiders, or ants that are just moving through, but I do draw the line at scorpions and cockroaches in the house and they all get smushed. I look after a little cabin next to me for the owner and had a girl renting there who would carefully carry all the scorpions outside to "rehome" them. I told her I was pretty sure that scorpions weren't an endangered species, and that I really wouldn't care if they went extinct.

I heard that that is one of the reasons that Mexicans put those glossy, decorative tiles on the outside stair risers- it's not just for decoration- it's because it's hard for scorpions and other crawling insects to climb up.

Well, we are all different. I don't even have a gardener, just hire one for a day when I need tall things cut or piles of debris moved because taking care of my garden is something I really enjoy, it's not work to me at all. But I sure would love to have a full time cook because cooking bores the heck out of me and I can think of a hundred things I'd rather do.

Those are really designed to be used around the edges, where the walls meet and where they meet the ceiling. I've never seen them advertised as being used to paint an entire wall before, and can imagine that they wouldn't work well for that purpose.

There are so-called gardeners who do little more than walk around and hold a hose and rake up debris, and there are some who are quite knowledgeable and efficient. I won't keep a gardener who thinks his job consists of walking around holding the hose. The hose can be left in one area, turned down to a small dribble, while the gardener attends to cutting dead leaves and trimming things, then go back and move the hose to another area. Ideally, you would have sprinklers to water most of the plants and the gardener watering would take a very small amount of time. So you really just have to try people out and see if they are being efficient and attending to things well, or think their job description consists of something you could easily do yourself while walking around with your morning coffee.

I've never seen a light red one before. Only the dark brown and almost translucent ones. Someone may correct me, but I don't think you need worry about the cat. My neighbor's cats will play with them and eat them. Maybe the stinger can only deposit toxin on bare skin, not through fur, or maybe it's not a toxin that affects cats.

Flying around over a lake sounds like quite a pleasant thing to do if you have wings. I think animals do things that simply feel good sometimes- there doesn't always have to be some basic survival/biological reason for it.

Skiing and snowboarding.

If you had bothered to notice, I was responding to Shag's post, not yours.

Yes, there are people who have asked me who did my plumbing, my ironwork, my electricity, but I heard back from some of those tradespeople that some of the folks who asked for their numbers from me treated them so poorly, and tried to chisel them down on their quite reasonable prices, that I would never recommend anyone to those people again. Now if they ask, I'll just say "Oh, he must have changed his phone number or something- I haven't been able to get ahold of him for ages."

You are addressing a poster who started this thread over 3 years ago. I doubt Lisa needs any advice on this anymore.

Well, I've been to the Caribbean and didn't find the food there to be bland.

Everyone I've ever talked to about Costa Rica always mentions the bland food. I wonder how they arrived at such cuisine when they are surrounded by countries that use spices and have flavorful food.

Google translate sure massacres things. It should read "the pledged word is valued".

I bought water from my local bottling plant for years. They supply many of the local restaurants. But my stomach was never quite right, and because I have a clear glss water dispenser, I could see their water go green within days in the hot summer. I switched to Ciel, my stomach has now been fine and their water stays clear. I don't know how it is where you live, but I don't think anyone from the health dept. monitors the practices of the local facility, whereas I would think the large companies get some regular inspections. And a local doctor told my friend not to drink the locally bottled water- that he was sure they didn't change their filters often enough.