{"id":5356,"date":"2016-03-08T16:21:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T23:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=5356"},"modified":"2016-09-08T15:11:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T12:11:07","slug":"mercuriality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/mercuriality\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercuriality"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was incredibly windy yesterday, with huge waves breaking on the beach and a storm warning for today. It made for a very dramatic ride.<\/p>\n

I woke up really early this morning and when the sun finally rose, it wasn’t sure what it was doing. It would shine for a moment and then be blocked out by heavy grey clouds that would spit angrily. This went on all day.<\/p>\n

Because I had worried about losing power if there was a storm, I only had a very light load of work that I was able to complete by about 10:00 this morning, and that included an unexpected proofing project that had dropped into my inbox around 7:00. I puttered all through the rest of the morning and into afternoon, then decided to go out.<\/p>\n

Even though there was more blue sky than cloud cover, it was still spitting and quite cool as I reached the nearly deserted beach. Semana Santa is coming up fast, so I might as well savour these quiet beach days while I have them. No restaurants had seating set up on the beach and some were cleaning up palmas from their palapas. So the beach saw some action that I missed in the last 26 hours.<\/p>\n

I came off the beach at the Goat Island causeway and headed towards home. The empanada guy was coming out of someone’s yard as I did so and I called him over to see what he had left. It’s a good thing I don’t run into him often because I cannot resist his fruity flaky treats! His empanadas are basically a folded over circle of pie crust with a jammy filling. Today, I went for strawberry. They taste best with a cold beer, so I stopped off at the Mercado Isla de la Piedra, a tiny shop kitty corner from the butcher shop, to get a few Tecate Light. They don’t carry Pacifico, but otherwise have a good\u00a0selection of beers for such a small shop, including XX in cans.<\/p>\n

Here’s a map of my world (and my walk today — click to embiggen):<\/p>\n

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