Creation and Destruction: So Sad

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Front Door
Inside Street Door
Outside Street Door

The men came today to tear down my beautiful arched entry that was damaged by the last earthquake.  They’ll also have to take out the wall beside my front door–and all of Jesus’s wonderful artwork.Below is the destruction in process. So sad, so sad…..And so strange, because my computer won’t allow any photos of the destruction to download! I ended up having to email them to myself and then download.  Numerous cracks that run the depth and height of my house, inside to outside will also be repaired–and the wall between my house and my lot below.

Teardown before repair

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      Thanks, Perry. I’m having a show here for the next two weeks of pieces I made when in La Manzanilla.. all of the “ingredients” of the wall pieces are things picked up on the beach!

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      Cee.. my damage was cracks that went all the way through and so they had to take the arch down..More damage done by men so they can put rebar in the new arch they build to reinforce it.

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  8. JUDY REEVES's avatarJUDY REEVES

    Oh this is so sad, Judy. Your beautiful entry arch.

    Also wanted to let you know I haven’t responded to your “Innocents” chapters because I wanted to wait until I had all of them so I could read in sequence at my leisure.

    Talk soon,

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      Judy, I don’t expect you to read them! I know you have enough reading to do on your own. I’ve gotten enough comments that I know what I need to do if I decide to publish them as a book or to mix them with one of the other two books I’ve written on Mexico. I’m just shirking the job. Dealing with my China Bulldog now. OMG.. as I was typing this, a tiny tiny bird–not a hummingbird but as small as a hummer–flew up and perched on a little mobile i have hanging from my chandelier outside over my table. It is of beach sticks and tiny shells and beach glass. He perched on a small stick–probably of cholla cactus–that hung horizontally as its main support and started swinging back and forth in circles like it was an amusement park ride… So adorable and I couldn’t get my video camera out fast enough! Horrible sounds of drilling overhead and I expect them to come through the ceiling at any moment, but nature knows how to balance our pain with pure delight and joy! This is the image I’m going to choose to remember from today.

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      1. Judy Reeves's avatarJudy Reeves

        Thanks, Judy and still, I do want to read your story. You know how I lover your writing voice and always stories of your interesting life. And about that tiny bird–these are the gifts when we look out our windows. The other day a squirrel bounding on the neighbor’s roof had me laughing out loud. He twirled himself (herself) around the power wires draped across the roof, using it as a sort of trapeze. Hilarious.

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      They just showed me that there were no supports holding the two wings of the house together so it had completely split in two..They will be able to remedy that and my builder, who is a longtime friend, says they can reconstruct the arch at the entrance so it will look like before…and I’ll hire the same artist to repaint it.

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  12. Sam's avatarSam

    Oh Judy, so sad, I understand because I am still fighting a similar problem from last winters ice storm. Right now I must go out and cut a few more branches before it gets too hot.. Thank God you can at least get workmen which is still a problem with me.. MORE LATER WHEN I MUST COME BACK IN TO COOL OFF~!

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        1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

          Many years ago Rodolfo Morales…a famous Mexican painter—restored three churches in Oaxaca. He used all Mexican colors and designs and made all the statues with Mexican faces. They are spectacular and as I understand it, he did it all with his own money.. I photographed the one in Ocotlan, Oaxaca and used all the designs and colors in these designs around my front door and inside and outside entrances, using the colors he used. When Trump gave us the incentive checks or whatever they were the first year of Covid and after he’d done the border foolishness and stolen the children from all of those poor people, I vowed to use all the money I got to help Mexicans. Jesus had lost all his commissions for the year when Americans went back to the states without paying him even for work he’d nearly finished.. this was paintings and he still had the ones he had finished or was still working on, but still, so many had gone back to the states and new ones weren’t coming down . So I used my $1200 to have him paint the murals around my front gate and around the top of the house and studio. Trying to give recompense for some of the ill Trump did re/ U.S. Mexican relations.

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          1. Marilyn Armstrong's avatarMarilyn Armstrong

            That is a story well worth telling. If you don’t want to give names — though why not, really — it’s really worth other people hearing about it. You are something VERY special, Judy. Very special.

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  17. slmret's avatarslmret

    Somehow I missed this when you posted it — how awful to know that your house could have collapsed around you! I’m glad you can repair it and make it stronger as you do. It’s good that you have great photos of the painting detail so you can have that redone — and I love the story behind the paintings (in your comment to Marilyn). How does insurance work in Mexico — do you get any help there?

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      I think the cost will be less than the deductible. They couldnt’ really tell before they opened it up and insurance wouldn’t send an inspector until they had an estimate so I just went ahead. Needed to get at least the house part done before the rainy season but seems it is never going to come..Usually comes in May or June. So far, only one rainfall..and predicted to remain dry throughout July. All of Mexico in a state of drought save two states.

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  18. slmret's avatarslmret

    Wow! I have to replace the screen on my front door — the deductible wouldn’t even cover the cost to do that little project — is that a benefit of living in Mexico?! El Nino is “in full force” here now — must be affecting you too!

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      1. slmret's avatarslmret

        No — I got it backwards! The screen will be somewhere between $200 and $500 — definitely less than a $6,000 deductible!!

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