Revolution Day. Another worthy cause for celebration—or at least for the young kids to get dressed up in their traditional Mexican garb.
Ouest and I stop here after school almost every day for tacos and/or taquitos. Oh my god—the pork tacos.
Lowe spends the majority of his days playing with cars and trucks. His favorite pastime by far is to simply drive them along the edge of the bed. Back and forth in his own little world.
Ouest continues to color, write, and draw pictures with most of her down time. She presented me a folded piece of paper today with Papa written perfectly on the top. Inside were rows and rows of letters.
Ouest was quite proud of herself for slurping down what was supposed to be Ali’s tortilla soup. Guacamole and tortilla soup—I wouldn’t have touched these with a ten-foot pole when I was three years old, yet that was tonight’s dinner.
Mechanic couldn’t make it out to the boat this morning. Mañana.
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My Mexican Family tells me that “mañana” does not mean “tomorrow”, but, rather, “mañana” means simply “not today”.
A distinction with a difference.
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Love hearing about the kids but how are you ad Ali dealing with everyday Mexican life? Getting antsy to get going or have you two kinda found a comfort zone there? Might be getting some cooler weather down there. Our high this weekend in South Bend Indiana is supposed to be freezing/32 degrees and the front seems to be going all the way down past Miami.
Actually, manana does mean tomorrow. It also means “in the morning” or as an adverb “soon”. Not today is “no hoy”.
Well, jody give the literal translation, but I think that Stephen really has the spirit of the word right.
Some of you might enjoy a short story by MARIANO JOSÉ DE LARRA called VUELVA USTED MAÑANA. My Spanish lit professor introduced me to Larra’s short stories when I lived in Spain many years ago.
http://www.estrategialocal.com/_es/libros_y_manuales/_internal/repository/VUELVA.pdf
Translated version: http://spanishliteratureintranslation.com/wordpress/?page_id=16
Enjoy!
Sharon, what an excellent story. Love the writing. I’m a south Texan and immersed in the Mexican culture, and yes, mañana basically can mean “not today” in slang. Laziness at its best. Much like my Italian grandmothers slang Barese, where some phrases are more innuendos than their literally meaning. Here in Texas it literally means tomorrow and is used frequently. Spanglish at its best. :*)
*gives
Please excuse the typos! I’m a terrible typist on the iPad.
Yeah, the spirit of “manana” can be “whenever, man…((shrug))”. I just love your blog. Thanks for blogging it.
Hi, Just thinking about your engine leak problem. With a leak as big as you are describing I doubt it is either a cracked head or cylinder. They would only leak under pressure when the engine is running, and you described a major leak big enough to drain all your coolant overnight.
It could be a rusted casting plug. When engine blocks are cast there are usually a couple of holes left in them used to hold the molds together (I think). These holes are usually plugged with some press fit metal plugs that look a bit like small cups about 25mm diameter and 15mm high on an engine that size.
They can rust out, and they would leave a big enough hole to dump that much water into the oil.
We had this problem with an old truck engine a while ago. Might be worth checking out if your engine has casting holes / plugs, and if so where they are located.
I wish I could take photos as good as yours, I am trying to work out why your site is something I keep coming back to, and I think it is the really good photos coupled with the open access to your family life. I love watching children grow, even from that distance.
cya
I have been seeing that Central Mercardo taco stand in my dreams for the last few night…it’s so good to know that somewhere the world is right and you can still get a fried taco from heaven before boarding the Bus in Mazatlan!
I love that stand. Ever since we discovered it we’ve been eating there almost exclusively for Ouest’s lunch. No more gorditas, no more quesadillas, just tacos from this stand—some days the fried taquitos and others just a normal taco, but always with puerco.