Hell’s Half Acre

It has been a crazy 24 hours.  I have always reacted very poorly to the yellow flies here but after Thursday afternoon I can no longer keep my head in the sand and mumble “I’m NOT allergic! I’m NOT allergic!”
Yesterday I was bitten by 2 yellow flies. From what we can tell they are very [...]

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Quickie post while I eat breakfast and get ready for shopping today.
82 and holding.  I am VERY happy to have finally dropped that damn kilo.
Dysequilibrium/vertigo seems to be ear-related.  Taking garlic and putting drops in ear.  I’ll try this for a week and if no improvement in dysequilibrium I’ll go back to doctor.
Still no cubano [...]

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We went back to Bead Beach today; it was Pikey’s turn and both boys have been dying to go back, skin their shins and knees, rib skin off, add more grey hairs to my head and frolick with the tourists.  We have such a warped view here from many others who come here - we [...]

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“H” inflammation of “E” the mucous “L” membranes of the nasal “M” cavity.  This is how I spend too many of my days, reading medical texts while spelling out words to Ellen.  It’s a wonder I don’t have all of it mixed up and now that I’m over 1/2 way through the course I think [...]

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Today I attempted to connect with other unschoolers on an email list and was told that since Jesse went to Kindie (his choice; I SO TRIED to talk him out of it) I couldn’t call myself an unschooler for this and many other reasons.  Honestly, I don’t really care for labels.  I was, however, looking [...]

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We finally made it to Bead Beach! I had to wake the boys from a deep sleep at 2pm, but they were happy to be included. They only stayed up to 5am this morning. We used to go to Beach Beach somewhat frequently until Hurricane Dean last year, and then all the [...]

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Yesterday I went on a date with my husband.  I NEVER call him “my husband” but it was simply too delicious to write.  He was stomach-virus addled for much of his birthday so we arranged with the kids to take an afternoon off and go to his favorite fish taco place.  The fish wasn’t the [...]

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TS Dolly is heading through the channel and onwards to the GOM.  We’re stocked on Rum (first thing I checked!), water for showering, drinking and are now putting everything away that is outside.  Since more than 1/2 our house is outside it is a project.
More later.  Just a tropical storm, so no huge biggie, but [...]

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Yesterday was a rather numeric day…
30 - the number of minutes I jogged.  Jamie and I generally exercise WALK but yesterday I turned our hour walk into 20 minutes of walk and 30 minutes of jogging.
84 - kilos today.
4:30 - the time Pike got up for the “day”
5:00 - the time Jesse got up for [...]

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Mexico is full of little tricks and traps and unless you have a smile about your face and a willingness to laugh you can get very frustrated.  Someone recently wrote that one way the culture shows how downtrodden it is is in the form of asking for things.  I caught onto that early on in [...]

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