Hell’s Half Acre

I’ve been incommunicado while I decide how my entire life will pan out from this moment forward. So sayeth the woman who cannot commit to where she’ll BE in four months.
We had a fantabulous Christmas; Pike, after bemoaning the fact for WEEKS, that we would, against all rules of sanity and nature, celebrate Christmas [...]

Now I know why people love summer so much here. Well, I knew before, but it is abundantly clear now. All the winter people come and have oodles of work done. We have (alternately) a chainsaw going one palapa over, varnish blowing in the wind, hammers and chainsaw going at the palapa [...]

You might ask me, “hey, you; what’s with the, “I’m so busy” waaah waaah “I can’t find a minute to post” waaah waaah waaah? And you’d be right, I totally forgot that part. Or, maybe I just wanted another post to put up another picture that I haven’t even downloaded yet.
I’ve been [...]

What a wonderful day to celebrate the return of the sun. Filled though it was with Sissy barfing, Jamie falling ill yet again (tummy?), Ellen hanging out with the sickies and with funny tummy herself but the boys and myself quite well.
I figured out my Noche Buena meal; Sopa de Limon (that Jamie is [...]

and can’t be faulted that I did it in my head and not here on the Internet.  So I’m off the hook!
I’ve been crazy buzy and will try to remember what I posted and put it to post…

is a place of horror that I am currently avoiding.  I’m bad, I’m awful, I’m a terrible person.  I know this.  I am working on it though, and hope to tackle the dreaded inbox after a long infusion of rum (as I don’t believe I have the courage to even approach it without some mind-altering [...]

One of the good things about living in PaaMul is that we can have our house (trailer) with us all the time. We also get to have our house with us, steps from the Caribbean. We further get to pay merely a trifle for this pleasure. BUT, living in a community of [...]

It’s a good thing we’re on Mexican time because I don’t think we could go any slower. Yesterday Jamie and I installed a light. We now have luz in the comedor. It is a pretty light; it is one I picked out many months ago as being “perfect” for the comedor but [...]

You know that rich, full, heavy, somewhat burnt but really only heavy smoke sensation your tongue takes upon itself after a nice full cup of coffee? I’m sitting with that right now. And it was worth every torturous minute we spent acquiring it. We have both a Cubano roast and an Italiano [...]

The weather has changed ENORMOUSLY since we left, the bugs are almost gone, the mozzys no longer torment us, the fire ants have vacated their homes and hanging laundry is no longer the risky sport it once was, but the sun is bashful. We flew into cloudy skies, frighteningly similar to the SF Bay [...]