When you have 4 kids and one gets sick it seems like the sickness will never end. Especially if it begins to rebound (knock wood; not yet) and ping pong, the first to get well is now sick again. Pikey has a weak chest. Anytime there is a sickness meandering about he will get a cough. He’s been with cough and sore throat for over a week. He will take garlic (our drug of choice) for a day here and there but nothing consistent. Then Jesse fell with a tummy thing. Tummy things are pretty common; we can never figure out if it is the pool water (definitely had Ellen vomiting one night) full of tourist gunk or bad food or mom’s bad cooking or some tummy bug. Thankfully we’ve found a cure for amoebas, which used to be our downfall, by taking prophylactic Amenox which cures us for 3 months at a time. Which reminds me, we are overdue for our next dosage. It seems like the boys have been playing on the computer 24 hours a day “sick” with some unknown malady. It is hard not to fall into suspicion of using a sickness to avoid, um, what? The Caribbean? The sun and sand? Honestly, it is just a suspicious adult mind. But still it is hard. At any rate, yesterday Sissy came down with the unknown malady and was running a low tempertaure. Everyone just seems low energy and interested in TV/computer and pretty much nothing else. Continue reading If we are never sick again it will be too soon.
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 September 3, 2010, 1:32 pm
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knock knock knock, is this thing on? Yeah, it’s been awhile (as I type this I don’t honestly know how long it’s been) but there really hasn’t been anything of note to report. The abaniles left, we haven’t yet decided whether or not to finish the bodega (during THE season, as opposed to . . . → Read More: the highlight of the week was watching the cat bath
“For the North Atlantic…Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico… Just the way we like it. Unfortunately, Japan is staring down Man-Yi and hoping it decreases from the anticiapted Cat 4 to a Cat 2 by landfall. Wind shear is supposed to knock it down and wind shear has kept the North Atlantic (funny to think that we’re in the NORTH Atlantic, just as it is funny to think of California in the EAST Pacific, but that is what happens when you switch from a US-view to a world view, I suppose) calm this past month. Continue reading TWOs and turtles
Manuel came over and as per his routine asked for money. I reminded him that the last time I paid him I said he’d get no more money until the job was finished. He either conveniently forgets these conversations (even if they were mere hours earlier) or just doesn’t believe me. So over and over we went; his demand that his workers be paid (I pointed out that I’d given him 7000 pesos on Tuesday and he could have paid his workers with that); my insistence he wouldn’t be paid “ni un centavito mas” until the job Continue reading Palapa Saga, Part Duex I really wish we’d taken out the 10 year permit for the trailer when the Aduana presented the opportunity on New Year’s Day this year (when we crossed the border). Sigh. We’re looking at possibly staying through the month of July now which means I need to get the van AND the trailer to . . . → Read More: Regrets It’s been a wild week. I scratched my cornea, had a fight with a shop steward, paid off contractors and celebrated a birthday. So now you’re all caught up. http://picasaweb.google.com/jamnkats/DayInTheLife Generally, when doing construction, or a project, or pretty much anything you do with a contractor, you pay 50% up front and 50% at the end of the project. It is a standard Continue reading Palapa Saga, Part One |
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Today is Jesse’s birthday and I will update; the palapa is finished, but what a rough road it was. Here is my project for the day; I’ll update this post throughout the day with something substantial.