It’s 9:20 a.m. Saturday. My 7500-step rambling is behind me, so now I’ll ramble here with y’all for a little while! I found the missing (and sorely missed) last gel pen in my laptop bag recently, so I’ve been writing with it on lined paper almost as much as I have been writing in […]
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Today during my morning walk — a lot of it with Diane Cooner and some of it with my other dear neighbor, Homer — I asked Diane to take a picture of Homer and me. It turned out great (thanks, Diane!)!!! So then I asked Homer if it would be okay to share it
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This world is filled with people of goodwill. Sometimes it’s hard to remember that. “If it bleeds, it leads” The news always leads with what’s happened and/or is happening that’s tragic/wrong/bad/corrupt/uncommon. The good rarely gets press coverage. From roughly Thanksgiving to Christmas, networks do a somewhat better job of balancing
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So far today I’ve walked 7,000+ steps and visited with my landlady’s three doggies for 45 minutes or so (just down the embankment from my casita) because they were feeling lonely and abandoned. Cat was away for a little while and, since she’s their “pack leader”, they get mournful (yappy and whiny) whenever she leaves
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What a grand morning for Christmas songs on the calle! I hit the ground running — er, walking — at about 7 this morning. The first person I encountered at that hour was Homer, on his way up to Calle Los Angeles to deliver oranges to the part of his family that lives somewhere
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I just can’t get over the graciousness of Costa Rican culture. These people are truly salt of the earth. I love them so much! Today I took the bus in to Grecia to see if I could find another perezoso-in-Santa-hat-in-Christmas-tree cloth for Lisa. I was standing at the bus stop waiting for the
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I’m dog-sitting for Jon and Francisco again today. The dogs accepted me immediately this time without barking. They sought out a snack from me right away by nosing my food bag. I’m the Snack Giver, so I’m family! They’re barking right now because the lawn care attendant is outside doing some spraying, but that’s
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Here are a few images of the new kid on the block. I don’t know what breed he is, but he is absolutely beautiful — caramel colored! He’s a bit skittish right now. I imagine the transportation process was traumatic for him, but I was able to scratch his nose briefly before he withdrew again.
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I’ve seen keel-billed toucans twice in two days. These are the only times I have seen toucans in the wild here, and I think they were two different ones, because today’s looked decidedly smaller than yesterday’s. They are flighty and don’t stick around very long if I poke my head out of the casita to
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I’m just six days away from my three month anniversary of moving here to Costa Rica. That is AMAZING! A year ago on this date I was still reeling from the results of the federal election and busily putting my escape plan into action. I had let Jackie know that I was leaving because
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