A difference

Well, I don't know if I have said anything along these lines in previous blogs.  Perhaps if I read my blogs I would know.  I was standing in the new apartment looking out the window at the street below and the clouds and everything in view.  The sky seems to be a different color of blue here.  It is almost surreal.  I noticed that the sky actually had several shades of blue.  The clouds seemed to have a 3-D effect.  I know that Fabiana misses the other house, she lived there for 13 years and it was her home.  It was the home that the children grew up in.  I know that this is a change for her and she seems to be making the best of it.  I hope that what I am doing and me being here has made it somewhat easier.  The owner of the apartment hasn't actually made it easy to live here.  The first thing she did was tell us that we cannot wash the clothes and have our wash water flow onto her back yard; okay we bought a smaller washer and had it installed in our bathroom and the wash water discharges into the shower.  The second thing she said was not to throw dog droppings into her yard. We haven't done that so I don't know where that came from.  I find it interesting that she has placed about 6 grocery bags full of grass clippings for the garbage collectors to pick up.  They don't do that here.  They have been sitting there for about 3 days.  The garbage gets picked up here every night between 8 and 8:30.  There are still some boxes that need to be unpacked but everything is coming along fine.  The built in closets are okay but I need to retrieve my ladder to get to the parts that are on top.  That is where things will go that don't need to be dealt with on a regular basis.  
Yes, I am happy here and I know that I am loved.  Things are better than they were when I first came here and I loved the country then, you can not imagine how I feel about it now.  
I walk 2 blocks and I am in the center of the city.  
I wish each and everyone of you could come visit Uruguay so you can experience what I do on a daily basis and then you would understand.  I am not asking you to move here because I know that there would be less than a handful of you that would or could do it.  Next time you want to take a vacation to an interesting place, please consider a visit here.
Okay, more in the next blog and I will read the previous blogs to make sure I am not repeating myself, although I will probably repeat about how I feel about living here and being with Fabiana.  She is the love of my life and always will be.