I saw my first two wild iguanas the other day, but today was the first time I saw one one my garden wall! The neighbours must think I’m a crazy gringa because I stood there filming and shooting pics for ages. The iguana very nicely posed for me and then continued climbing to the roof!

It took a couple of weeks, but I finally figured out how to get fresh corn tortillas! I’ve been buying tortillas at the grocery store and they haven’t been good, rather stale and tough, not like the lovely soft ones I get with my chicken.

Well, the last time I got chicken, a boy on an ATV pulled up, took packages of tortillas out of a cooler, and passed them to the chicken lady. She opened up one of those packages and put several of the tortillas on my plate of chicken. Interesting. Now, where did that boy get his tortillas from?

This morning, I saw the Lala dairy truck go by, so I took that as a sign that the supermarket probably had been restocked. I just about ran to the Super Deli and was able to stock up on cheese and yoghurt (got the bigger peach one this time! *g*).

On the way home, I spotted the tortilla boy and noticed that, wait a minute, he’s making door to door deliveries of tortillas to people’s homes. Perhaps he’s just delivering a set order or maybe I can buy directly from him?!

I caught up with him by the basketball court and asked how much for the tortillas, expecting to be told he couldn’t sell me any. Nope! He replied ‘Ocho’ (about .65CAD) and I scrounged around for change. He handed me a package of STILL WARM tortillas.

Hopefully, this boy won’t be as elusive as the vegetable trucks, which I haven’t seen since that day so long ago that I caught one! I’m used to paying about 10 times as much for half as many tortillas. The plan is enjoy the tortillas until they get a little stale, throw the rest in the freezer to eventually make my own chips which (finding them superior to premaid chips), and get a new batch of fresh ones.

It’s been a good food scrounging day since I also found an edible-looking avocado at the supermarket!

Lunch was two very satisfying panela cheese, turkey ham, mustard, and tomato roll ups in my lovely warm tortillas. Tonight, I’m having chips and guacamole and beer. 🙂