Surprised Meeting with Gallo

Tuesday February 11

Since the worker didn’t come in today because he had to visit the doctor, Jayne and I went the mall so she could go on the internet.

While she was online in the restaurant I walked to where the public internet is so I could get some things done at the same time. While I approached the coffee shop I saw Gallo, my contractor there.

He welcomed me. This is the guy who wanted the plans back saying that he paid for them (which we were told that it’s a gift). Anyhow, I said I was waiting for him to come and pick them up and he said don’t worry about it as he doesn’t need them (strange!).

He said he was waiting for Mario, his architect to arrive. I told him that Richard was going to call him this past Saturday but got side tracked and didn’t. I told Gallo that Richard would like work done on the hotel that he has by the volcanic lake. Gallo made a call to his cell phone but was only able to leave a voice message.

While on the internet I got two requests about my house. One guy wanted to rent for a year before he decides to buy my house to see if he likes Ecuador. The other guy asked if I would finance. I wrote back to both of them, telling one that the house if not for rent but that he could go to my friend’s website to rent. The other guy I said I do not provide financing.

I don’t want to get tied up with problems by either someone not paying the rent or the mortgage. With the house rented who knows what damage might be done and the condition of the house when someone does come and sees it. Plus, a buyer would want to live in the house and not have a renter there. I’ll just wait until I get someone who has the money.

So far I have had nearly 400 hits on my website with two responses, and it’s only been about 10 days since the website was up.

In the late afternoon Jayne saw this flying insect with an orange body pulling what looked like another tarantula! Like the time before but this time it was not on the patio but on the ground. It was interesting watching it and pulling it somewhere. It left the spider and went to a place that has a small hole in the ground next to a rock. It went back to the spider, pulled it some more, went back to the hole by itself, then back to the spider and brought it into the hole.

This was like a National Geographic show! Too bad I didn’t have my video camera.

Anyhow, Jayne thinks it might be a black widow spider as she saw some orange on it. Whatever it was both kinds of spiders are poisonous. The yard is not as safe as we thought it was. The insect looks poisonous, too. However, he is our friend by finding poisonous spiders!