New addition and Christmas is coming!

We have a new addition in our home. We just recently acquired a puppy. She is a Nordic Spitz and if you are like most people, it is a relatively unknown breed. However, we "just happen" to have a breeder here in our area. The dog, when full grown, will be medium size. They are often trained in search and rescue or conformation, and they are very smart. (Hopefully smart enough to figure out the housebreaking thing before we leave her with housesitters!) Our puppy's name is Hilde and we are enjoying her very much.

We also wanted to let you see what the beginning of December is like here in Ajijic so we have thrown in a couple of pictures of what is in our garden and how we are beginning to celebrate Christmas. Of course our Christmas this year will be with eighteen "Heine's" in Thailand. Ten of us are flying from Los Angeles and eight are already there. Everyone is really looking forward to it.

When Walt's sister, Margaret, and her husband Dan were here, all three hiked up to a shrine that has a beautiful view of "downtown" Ajijic, so we thought we would throw those in as well. The path up to the shrine has twelve stations of the cross and at Easter apparently they go up to the shrine with the person playing the role of Jesus carrying the cross up the hill to the station where Simon takes over. Apparently it is quite a ceremony that takes place the week before Easter and up through the resurrection. We are learning more about our new home each day.

You can find the pictures we are talking about here.