Hell’s Half Acre

It’s a good thing that Earth Hour starts after Prarie Home ends because Saturday would not be Saturday without our weekly dosage of Prarie Home Companion. We’re planning on heading to Jan Ten for a bonfire, fireworks and moonmallows.

I’m out of bed (and thus the posting will cease) after too many days of . . . → Read More: it’s a complicated system

Annie tagged me and for once I’ll do it.

What Was I Doing 10 Years Ago? Let’s see…2008-10 would be 1998.  Jesse was 4, Pike was 2 and Sissy was yet to come.  I was probably pestering Jamie about having Sissy.  I would have been working, so working part-time and pestering Jamie about having unprotected sex.  That about sums it up. Continue reading In for a penny, in for a pound

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More information for Mexico,

¿Qué significa Earth Hour o La Hora del Planeta?

El 29 de marzo del 2008, millones de personas alrededor del mundo se unirán para “apagar las luces” por el lapso de una hora para demostrar su preocupación sobre el cambio climático. La Hora . . . → Read More: Earth Hour

I hate them, but really liked this one. Feel free to answer on your own blog (but leave me a link so I can read it) or answer in comments. If nothing else, free blog material!

What are your top 3 favorite foods?
Coffee, rajas (those strips of pickled jalapeños, carrots and onions) and really good, street tamales. My top 3 favorite foods change on the spur of the moment. (is rum a food? ) Continue reading Meme

(use the Spanish pronunciation; “eeesh cafe”)

It is a really cute name for a coffee house as down here, “X” followed by “c” results in the “eeesh” sound and many words start with “X” (Mayan words). Maybe you had to be there. Continue reading issh cafe

The good news is that we’re still standing. The bad news is that someone lost their roof. The good news is they had insurance and had just packed up (and away from their home) all their personal property. The bad news is that the original problem (un-insulated wires too close to palapa roofs) still exists. The good news is that the wires will be insulated in 2 weeks. The good news is that we were able to forget the fire by afternoon and take my sister and BIL for a snorkel in PaaMul’s bay and they didn’t even drown. The bad news is that by the time my sister headed out it was much rougher than C’s snorkel and she saw little of fish and much of sediment. The good news is that we got the generator running and were able to do about 37,499 loads of wash today. The bad news is that we only put a dent in the laundry. Continue reading Family survives fire only to be asphixiated by father’s fart

We got up at the asscrack of dawn (EIGHT AM for the family, I’ve begun a cycle of insomnia and was up before five) and headed out to Cobá and Tulum ruins and then to Tulum beach to show the relatives the historical side of Quintana Roo. It only took us two hours to pack and get ready and close to the end, Sissy developed a headache and stomach ache, so Jamie decided to stay home with her. We’ve been on the road a lot (for us) as we are generally real homebodies but we are also finding that like many people who live in touristy areas, we only visit the tourist destinations when we can show people around. We hit our first cenote the other day (other than Cenote Azul in Bakalar) and the cenote fish are very different from laguna and reef fish, but we’re in the middle of Semana Santa here and every site we’ve been to has been jam packed. Continue reading Why does my neck squeak when I turn it?

Chrissy must have this as her mantra.  We didn’t kill her by sticking her kids on a sidewalk while waiting for the car to be fixed.  We didn’t kill her by putting her on a ferry that used hydroplaning as a method to park big rigs.  We didn’t kill her by feeding her rotten . . . → Read More: that which does not kill you can only make you stronger

A funny thing happened on the way to pick up my sister. Backing up, a funny thing happened with my monthly cycle which is neither funny nor a thing, but after numerous ultrasounds and blood tests we’re going to try hormones and then maybe a biopsy of the uterus. But as usual, I’m getting ahead of myself (even though I’m weeks behind). Continue reading and then we got home and there was water all over the floor…