I have texted with Deb about the coati I saw two days ago. She tells me that entire white-nosed coatimundi families have been seen here in her upper and lower yards almost any time of day, but they’re most active from sunup to sundown. She says her security cameras often catch them in the lower […]
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IMAGES FROM THE NO KINGS RALLY SAN JOSE COSTA RICA MARCH 28 2026 On March 28, I packed my Winco Cooler Box with multiple bottles of ice with a little water on the top, a thermos filled with Liquid IV, two peanut butter and honey sandwiches, two different size personal fans, a frozen safari
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WOO HOO! I’ll be attending the NO KINGS RALLY in San Jose, Costa Rica tomorrow afternoon. I’ll catch the van from here in San Isidro at 11:30 down by the soccer field. Really looking forward to it. I never missed one when I was in the States, and now I won’t be missing
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This morning, I have been reminiscing about the presumptions I had about Costa Rica before arriving here in September of last year. It has been a very pleasant experience discovering where I presumed amiss! First thing I did when I got up this morning was take a hot shower, my first in weeks. It
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Finally! WOO HOO! Success at long last! The transfer from where my IRA is now to Schwab International is finally squared away on paper so I’ll fax or mail the documents tomorrow from Grecia. I filled out the three multiple-page documents and then called the Schwab help line to get my last two
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I’m taking the day off from the Schwab IRA Transfer and RMD clusterfuck. I can only handle so much frustration in a week’s time, and today isn’t the day. The newest hiccup is I may have to pay a driver to take me to an appointment in San Jose at the US Embassy to
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The bathroom scale has confirmed something that I haven’t experienced since I was 12 or 13 years old. I am within “Healthy Weight Range” now! I’ve been consistently at 149 for the past three weeks, so I decided that this has become my baseline for now. So, I googled BMI Scale to see how
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Today is Saturday March 21, 2026 and I’m planning, now, to sit and spill. By this, I mean spill HERE all the stuff I’ve been handwriting for the past couple of days. The good, the bad, and the ugly. First, the Bad and the Ugly I have never, in my entire life,
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Here’s the Wednesday update since I haven’t posted since Sunday… I didn’t walk Monday … because I didn’t (still don’t) have a bandage large enough to cover the dog bite and didn’t want the new jeans fabric rubbing against it. So, instead I just sat still, read books, and did a little more
Today’s brief update in a single soundbite, for those of you who want to do something other than read a lengthy blog post today: I rode to Grecia with the Garrisons this morning for breakfast at ANDALUZ and to find some dog-proof duds. They had their Uber pick me up here at my place