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pastries/kitty litter

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Door to door sales are a common thing here.  Vendors stream through all day selling everything from lollypops to wall mirrors.  Food prepared in someone’s private home is a big thing, especially empanadas.  If this is a foreign concept to you (buying food on the street from a stranger?!?!), let me assure you, you get used to the idea quickly and learn who has tasty (i.e., safe) homemade goodies.
On this particular day, someone unfamiliar came around selling sweet empanandas.  I couldn’t help snap this photo of her.  I’m all for recycling plastic products, but if you’re going to be carrying around a bucket full of food for sale, it might be a good idea to remove the “FRESH STEP KITTY LITTER” label from the bucket, prior to filling it with your little oven baked goodies.  From a marketing perspective, I think it’s a good idea to have as little connection between the morsels you sell and your furry little friend pooping and scratching it to a fresh scent.  That’s just my opinion though.

 

Imagination

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A few months back, I was sitting on my porch relaxing, watching the world go by when I noticed the little neighbor girl, who is probably about 5.  She was sitting on the windowsill talking animatedly to her playmate, which was her shadow being cast on the adjacent wall.  She chatted on, one hand on her hip, the other waving in the air with emphasis — lost in her private fantasy.
A few weeks later, I noticed these two little boys playing on the stoop of a beachfront bar. There were a few rocks between them.  Maybe the older brother was teaching the younger one how to play jacks?  How’s that for some “Leave It To Beaver” flashback.

 

It’s beautiful to see young minds at play without any outside electronic stimulation.

Bikini Contest

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I met a girl who relocated here a number of years ago to start working as an administrative assistant for a well known surf company.  This surf company puts on an annual fund raiser for a local non-profit organization that works closely with the community offering job training, mentoring, after school programs and the like, in an effort to give low income youth alternatives to the less than positive roads that often attract people in their situations.
Her first year here she was the main coordinator for all of the fund raising activities, which included a bikini contest.  Near the sign-up deadline she still had no one on the list so she decided to walk around our small town (where there is no shortage of cute young girls in next-to-nothing bikinis) to see if she could recruit a few using the $700 grand prize as enticement.  To her relief, she found a handful of young women who were more than willing to prance around stage in hopes of some easy cash.
On contest night, these ladies show up for the contest and unbeknownst to Ms. Coordinator, she had recruited the handful of “working girls” that work the town at night.  Of course, being new in town there is now way she could have known who these women were, but everyone else who had been here more than a hot minute knew immediately who the women were.
Can you imagine the dismay in finding out that she had recruited prostitutes to do a bikini contest to raise money for this non-profit whose aim is to steer young women in an opposite direction!?!??!
Which brings me to my question.  Isn’t a bikini contest (as fun as it can be) a bit questionable in the first place given the goal of the non-profit?
Funny story though.

Ask And You Shall Receive

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It’s funny how blessings can manifest themselves.
We recently moved into a new house that had been abandoned since 2008.   Unfortunately no one was keeping an eye on the place and by the time we stumbled across it, it had been vandalized and appeared that perhaps transients were using the place from time to time.
We had agreed with the landlord to restore the place in exchange for a few months of free rent.  When we first arrived to start the process of cleaning up, someone had left a number of large trash bags full of random items, old clothing, broken radios, etc. inside the house (the locks and front door were broken so entry at this point was easy).  We took the bags outside to the yard in hopes that the bags’ owner would come by, realize the place was getting cleaned up and find a new stash place.
A few days later, we came back and the bags were back inside the house, along with a nearly new refrigerator.  Ironically, we had been having problems with our refridge and had been discussing how we might get ourselves a replacement.  However, with the cost of appliances here, we weren’t really sure how we were going to come up with a new one, guessing we’d cross that bridge when we got there.
So, we again put the bags back outside, again, hoping the bags’ owner would figure it out.  Not sure what to do about the fridge, we left it where it was.
No one ever showed up for the bags or anything else and we scored ourselves a practically brand spanking new refrigerator.

 

Just goes to show, you never know how your needs will be met, but if you just have faith that they will be, things are able to happen in the most unsuspecting ways 🙂