Well hello dear readers...its been a while since I gave you any meaningful updates and alas, this week is no exception. We would normally be in Merida tonight but since we´ve been getting work done on the house, we had to stay home. That also means no pictures....I know, what a bore....I imagine some of you got hooked on a daily post and are finding yourselves in slight withdrawals....I truly apologize. If you´re ¨jonesin´¨for something to read between postings,I can offer up some books I have gulped down in the last week...yes week, not much else to do while the work is being done. First - Stone Cowboy- peruvian setting, rambling social outcast, magician, romance, mystery....what else could you ask for? OK..another option- The Geographers Cabinet...history, mystery, romance ( I´m sensing some common themes.....) and today I finished My Name is Memory..what´s it about? Well, part history, various locations around the world, mystery and romance..what can I say?
Minor updates/ tidbits...as we left the house tonight to come in, I noticed something in the road..you have to look sharp because it´s like a real life video game out here.....it was a ...crab! Yes, a crab about as wide as my hand was scuttling across the road. From where? To where? Who knows. Last time in it was a SNAKE the size of my arm..seriously..as big as my upper arm ( and I´m not exactly boney). It was pretty squished so I couldn´t really tell exactly what type of snake it was before it became roadkill and somewhat of a sideshow attraction to others driving by...the day before it was a very large dead toad that looked like a stuffed animal from the Adams Family home that had been left lying on its back when Pugsly and Wednesday finished playing with it...it was large enough to fill a dinner plate. Last bit I will leave you with is the super cool fence that John and I have built in the last few days..in between reading...... My favorite all time book when I was young was Roninson Crusoe and I now get to live that out somewhat.In keeping with that theme, we constucted a fence out of palmfronds from our 32 coconut trees. First we started with John cutting all of theleaves off and just leaving the spine which we wove in and out of the existing barbed wire ( we´ve seen others like this ) then we branched off into our own variation by leaving the frond intact and weaving the entire thing through. Some of them stuck up wildly beyond their counterparts so in the end we wove them over across the top like you would french braid hair...there´s not another one like it to be found! I will send a picture of it next week along with a lovely picture of a green lizard that was on our wall and vultures holding their wings open to dry.
I believe that is it for now. It´s 8:30..we have our nightly Seinfeld episodes to watch and the drive home in the dark will be slow because who knows what lurks beyond the lights.......
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