Wednesday Feb 15/12 update
Leaving home we see seven men with whipper-snippers mowing
the park 2 blocks away. This produces
jobs. They rake the clippings into
piles, then combine them into larger piles for someone to cart away later. We have seen and heard only one actual
lawnmower since we are here.
Today is Feb 15th so we had to make the third trek
to the Immigration Police to see if they can produce our Censo travel papers or
not. Naturally the answer is still no,
but at least they admit they don’t have a clue when they will get the proper
paper. At least this time we get a phone
number to call to check so we don’t have to run across town every two
weeks. I figure we should get this just
before Bella has to leave in August…
On the way there we saw a tree that made us stop in our
tracks as its branches sucked back into other trunks!! We had never encountered anything like this
before!
Bella is still suffering badly with the sinus cold and
insect bites. I am doing much better
with the cold and didn’t realize I had so many bites myself. I am controlling both with sun on my chest
and Polysporin on my legs. These will
pass soon.
Since Bella’s bridge game didn’t start until 12:30 we had
over 3 hours to kill so we walked down to the Feria Libre Mercado. Wednesday is fresh meat and fish day so it
was very busy. It is about the size of
two football fields so my pictures only show very tiny portions of it. Bella picked up about 20 small bananas for $1
yet one other vendor wanted 40c for 2 apples. That is why there are so many vendors. We were looking for more of the nice fleece
blankets but they weren’t in evidence where we wandered. Across the road we stopped in a pet
store/feed store and discovered a cat helping himself to the bulk cat food and
nobody seemed to mind.
In a particularly busy section some girls came up to warn us
to really watch our wallets, etc due to pickpockets. We
thought that was very nice of them as we tend to forget to protect ourselves in
the excitement of shopping.
We caught a bus up to SuperStock to try to find an oven
thermometer but they don’t expect any for 2 weeks. We walked back to the Coral store and they
didn’t have one either but we did pick up 3 more wooden-handled steak knives
and 3 similar forks for $4. Now we can
invite more that 2 people to dine with us.
I found a huge roll of these rubber anti-slip mats/drawer liners for
$1.68 so now my keyboard isn’t running away on me any more.
Suntanning on the terrace with the boys is so relaxing, and
it is so nice not to have to punch a clock any more.
That was today’s excitement. Enjoy the pics. Hugs to all.
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| 120215 He puts the CAT in CAT food |
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| 120215 Feria Libre 1 |
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| 120215 Feria Libre2 |
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| 120215 Feria Libre 3 |
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| 120215 Feria Libre 4 |
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| 120215 Feria Libre 5 |
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| 120215 Feria Libre 6 |
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| 120215 Feria Libre 7 |
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| 120215 Feria Libre 8 |
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| 120215 Colorful Flowers |
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| 120215 Tree limbs join back to trunks! |
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| 120215 Seven Lawn Snippers |
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