Christmas Eve-Eve

A toy owl ("buho") and frog ("rana") riding our Christmas Donkey.

Yesterday, Madison & I went to the Tuesday Market- Tianguis. We've been meaning to go since we arrived in San Miguel, almost two months ago, but yesterday was the first time we managed to leave the studio and go up the hill (The market is actually just a bit further up and over on the hill where we live, but we have this addiction to going to the studio more or less any and everyday that we can. )
birds in cages stacked as high as I am tall.
Tianguis is an enormous market: part flea-market, part mall, part vegetable market. It makes me think of the "Portabello Road" song from Bed-knobs and Broomsticks- section after section of vendors selling clothes, radio equipment, tools, vegetables, fresh honey (one man had part of the comb in the wheelbarrow from which he was vending)... The vendors aren't grouped by the merchandise they're selling- a stand selling nail polish and hair ties will be next to a stand selling medicinal herbs and across from a taco stand. There were cardinals in cages for sale, beautiful roosters, turkeys, several long tables sacked with knock-off Pumas and AirJordans. All in all, it's a little overwhelming. The "tents" under which this is set up is actually just a patchwork of tarps, contributed and set up by the vendors.
A package of "SKERPLE" markers I purchased at Tianguis for 15 pesos, maybe a dollar and fifteen or twenty cents. I haven't opened them to see if they work, yet.

It's Christmas Eve. We still need a few things for dinner, such as chicken and herbs. I'm hoping someplace will be open. I'm making Chicken & Biscuits for our dinner. I think I'll be able to get away with baking biscuits in our little toaster oven. Our kitchen is so tiny, I wanted to make something that would be feasible on two burners (or less!).