Hell’s Half Acre

If you are a Democrat (or wish to vote Democrat, I suppose), you do not need to establish a US address and file a voter registration for that state.  Apparently 20 delegates have been set aside for those of us living outside the US.  While we have always been able to vote in an election, [...]

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I take obscure pride in the fact that I can pop in on the kids while they are absorbed in Legos and sing one line, “One little thing can revive a guy, and that is a piece of rhubarb pie” and they will sing every word of the rest of the jingle (serve it up, [...]

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Mozzies are back in force after a few days of awful weather (we didn’t see the sun for almost and entire HALF DAY). It is also getting a bit warmer and I no longer wear long pants all day long. Definitely in town though; it isn’t nearly warm enough for shorts in town.
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A cockroach. I had a Goddamned, piece of shit, farking COCKROACH crawling on my ARM yesterday morning. It was NOT a good wake up call. I spent most of the day tearing the trailer apart, cleaning, spraying chemicals everywhere (note to self; you can probably stop with the organic shit now that [...]

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Well, the great dog experiment 2008 was an awful failure. She is a WONDERFUL, smart, loving doggie but Jamie is allergic and we have suspicions that Sissy is also. It isn’t a mild allergy either, so after 2 nights here he bravely told the kids that she’d have to go back to the [...]

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We’re picking up a fourteen week puppy this afternoon.  We’ve been helping the local animal shelter by washing puppies (honestly, I’m not exactly certain how much help the kids are) each Saturday and have talked Jamie into a doggie.  AND a kitty!  Jonna and Mimi have seriously cautioned us against a puppy though, so as [...]

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My heart is SINGING this morning (Jody, you might want to skip this) after downing a blissbul cuppa. We had run out of the recent discovery of wonderfully roasted coffee and were subsisting on Jamie’s re-roast of Chiapas coffee we’d purchased at City Club. Ooooh! The new City Club is open! Yesterday [...]

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Ha!  Not a chance!  But I was heartened to find that while I still need to perform a fine tooth combing of November and December, we spent only around $33K last year.  Of course, that doesn’t include palapa costs.  A quick perusal of the palapa spreadsheet shows we spent about $8200 on the palapa renovation [...]

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I wrote the beginning of this post in my head this morning which means it is now completely and utterly lost now that I have a moment to update the blog. Sigh. One of these days I’ll remember to write the damn thing down.
Pike is still down. When the doctor came by [...]

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There are so many reasons we are here in Mexico and today typifies one. Pike has had a 103F/39.2C fever for three days. He has alternately had bad headache, no appetite (getting him to drink is difficult), stomach cramps (gone after the first day) and no energy. I figured the lack of [...]

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