I’ve been working for the past several months, on and off, on a new documentary project for the producer of the documentary film I did last year and got a huge batch of audio this week. I like when a get large volume order like that because it means I can hunker down and work for a few days and then take it easy for the next couple. I’ve got a couple more days to do on it, but they should be shorter than the last few and I’m hoping to call off early and go to La Cañada for lunch tomorrow and then into Almería for more sightseeing on Thursday and/or Friday, depending on what else comes in.

The weather has been disappointing, with unseasonably cool temps. It’s been okay between about 1:00 and 5:00, when the sun is bearing down in full force, but earlier in the day and by the time I quit around 8:00, I really don’t have any clothes with me to make a walk around the block comfortable. If this keeps up, I’ll have to look into a warm coat much sooner than expected. 🙁 But, again, the afternoons are super comfortable and the cloud cover parted today to give me perfect walking conditions.

So I headed out around 4:00 and was a block (halfway, pretty much) to the beach when an older lady stopped me and started asking me questions. She had a really thick accent and I had to tell her, “I’m sorry, I don’t understand.” Undaunted and patient, she continued much more slowly, using different words when needed ,and proceeded to ask me a bunch of questions and pretty much got my life story in five minutes, LOL! It was a really lovely chat and I realised that I rather needed that bit of social interaction since I don’t yet fluently understand the cat here. 😉

This palm tree on the beach seemed like a cheeky fellow, with his fronds up in the air like that.

I liked this house with the unusual round corner and roof.

I must have walked a couple of kilometres trying to get back to my street since this neighbourhood is a maze. I was never lost, just kept coming up to dead ends!

I came in and worked for a couple of hours, then called off and started to make dinner when a client emailed to asked if I could take a couple of short jobs due in a few hours. *sighs* I just have to remember that I’m funding the next leg of this great big adventure! 🙂 I’m not ready yet to blog about a lot of things going on behind the scenes, but there could be multiple huge expenditures over the next several months that I had not anticipated when I left in June. Nothing bad, all very exciting, just a lot to sort through and process.

Well, dinner smells ready, so I’d better eat and then get back to work. That feels like that’s all I’ve been doing for the last two days!

By the way, the cat here? I’m totally in love. But I bet that’s not a surprise. 😉