Fat Aunt Fatima, RIP.

 So Inappropriately Hot Foreign Wife lost another one of the old aunts last night. 

  There was Skinny Aunt Fatima, and Fat Aunt Fatima. Fat Aunt Fatima passed away last night. 

      Seriously, that's how they're separated. 

 Tia Fatima Gorda (fat Aunt Fatima) and Tia Fatima Magra (skinny Aunt Fatima). 

     Subtlety is not a Brazilian trait. 

   Inappropriately Hot Foreign Wife is half Italian, half Indio (Brazilian Indian, a native). The indio side... well, Indio women are famous for their looks and also being able to catch pregnant from just a hug... which is why my wife has over 300 cousins.  

      As we discovered after my Mother-In-Law's funeral last fall, my wife will probably be the next matriarch of the extended family, after a fashion, as we plan to not be more than snowbird-style residents even after retirement. 

 But that's a thought for another day. 

   I got the renderings for my outdoor kitchen for the house in Brazil. August will hopefully see the bathrooms completed and the interior kitchen made ready for finishing, but the exterior kitchen will be the social hub, so it's set up for modular cooking, so it won't be difficult to cook for 2, or to cook for 50. Much of that will be hidden, to keep it looking simple when not in use. 

 The builder keeps jamming a car in the renderings. He's really not getting that I'm not using the side yard driveway as a driveway, (as I have driveway space on the far side of the gate behind the car in the photo),  but the pergola above it will be a grape arbor and the driveway an area for tables and seats for family. 

      Progress was scanty the past 2 months. We're entering a busy phase again, thankfully.