Good morning!!!!

[jbrumberg]

Meet Paco the resident iguana. He almost caused a near riot when he showed up at our breakfast table , hung out with us, and then moved on towards the other tables. The (American) patrons were up and ready to run. They exhibited total abject fear. Kids were crying and screaming. I was afraid that the men would kill the poor guy; and I started laughing got up close and personal and had a photoshoot. The waitstaff told me that he has a family on the premises.

I truly hope my pictures bring up many pleasant memories for those so lucky as we to have been to this beautiful country and other very similar places.

I really do not know how long we will be able to do this vacation stuff, but we will try as long as possible before we "dirt nap."

My + thoughts, prayers, and wishes for all.

Pura Vida

 

[sodamo]

Be they vicarious living or memory jogs, vacation pics are enjoyable and welcome.

 

[jbrumberg]

Dave- Thanks. HI is on our bucket list. Hopefully sometime soon.

Once we return home our focus will shift to snow management (if it ever returns to NE ) and acquiring another Saint Bernard (or two :wink.

I miss my dogs; all of them.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Meet Paco the resident iguana. He almost caused a near riot when he showed up at our breakfast table , hung out with us, and then moved on towards the other tables. The (American) patrons were up and ready to run. They exhibited total abject fear. Kids were crying and screaming. I was afraid that the men would kill the poor guy; and I started laughing got up close and personal and had a photoshoot. The waitstaff told me that he has a family on the premises.

I share this place with many much smaller fence lizards. Their antics are fun to watch, and they help keep the bugs and spiders in check. Some people are just terrified by any reptile, my poor, long suffering mother was one. I'm almost ashamed to admit she suffered greatly from my misadventures with snakes and lizards as a child. :laughing:

On the other hand, I never did understand the appeal of placing heads that vomit water onto fountains and buildings. Was it some architectural joke, or did our forefathers enjoy some peculiar novelty that justified the practice?:confused2:

 

[daugen]

half frozen I have come in and am working on my second hot cup of coffee. 47 out, feels colder with wind blowing across the field.
Started planting at 7:30am, did an entire row of pak choy, pics coming, but more importantly my helper and I got the entire garden fenced in plus the gate installed. It's a bit redneck with nonmatching plastic fencing, though both are pretty much invisible. TSC did not have ten foot t posts; I ordered a bunch and will install them when they come in.

Going to warm up the neck wrap in the microwave before I go out. Like taking a little neck spa with me.
Not sure how much longer I'll last out there, and next two days are much warmer.

I'm going to be thinking of Jay under such terrible pressures as he wades up to the swim up bar, torn between
which drink with pineapple and rum he wants. Oh the stress of these decisions.
One for me please. :thumbsup:
As I'm headed out to a cold field.

 

[jbrumberg]

Rick- With my failing memory I seem to remember that open air restaurant abutted the beach. I walked down a couple of side streets leading to the beach in Jaco and could not find what I thought was where it was located. It is too hot to hike all the side streets.

Here is another place that I did remember:

 

[daugen]

pleased that all the onions and cabbages are now planted, and the garden is fenced.
This will look a lot better when the ten foot t posts come in, will cure the flopover on top.
TSC only had shorter posts so we went with what we could get. The electric fenced part was so easy to do I almost wish I had decided to do the whole thing that way.
But nothing beats an 8 foot high fence. Well other than leaping deer, and I know some have done that. I hang ribbons from the very top of the fence to both alert the birds
and remind the deer it's a very high jump.

Peas continue to grow an inch a day.

A very long but very good day. Baked chicken breasts in the oven, time to chill.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

You need RedNeck lessons, Drew. That looks way to nice!:laughing:

How ya gonna tell the peas apart when they all grow up onto the same trellis? Are the pods really different? See, I'm not a farmer. Two black thumbs on this keyboard.:laughing:

Think I've mentioned this before, but the neighbors dealt very effectively with their deer problem by tying long strands of metallic mylar onto the electric fence, then spearing the ends of the strands with peanut butter. They kept up with the peanut butter for about a week, and after that the deer left the garden alone.

 

[toppop52]

Drew, you’re a busy boy!

 

[daugen]

Drew, you’re a busy boy!

more than I wanted to be for sure, the cold really sucked it out of me, and while the hired help was here, I had to work with him, but it all got
done. It was the final two hours planting to get that all done that I could have left for tomorrow. Except...I found an entire additional tray of 200 pak choys and cabbages when I checked the "stock". Major groan. I already have an entire row each of them and don't even want that many.
And if I try to offer them to my farmer neighbor, he's in no physical shape to plant them in his own garden. They hauled him off again by ambulance a few nights ago. Happens at least every two, three weeks.

so who wants all these zillion pak choys. Boy have I learned to use 72's instead of 200's in the future for tray size. I have enough for Beaufort County here.
Maybe I can pawn them off on the local Chinese restaurant in exchange for a nice meal. ? Assuming they have a garden, I think most in that business work very long hours.

RNG, the one snow pea is slim and sleek, like you. The other is fat and lumpy, like me. Easy to tell apart.