Footprints in the sand

Back when the weather was nice, a few days ago.

What’s going on here?

A year ago, I posted these photos of a most wretched and entirely shoddy little house being built. It is still unoccupied, but more money has apparently been found.

First they added a strange brick structure on the left (gray) with no way to enter it from the house (maybe changed?). Now they’re enclosing the thing with ticholo, which has better insulation properties than brick. So what will happen to the previously exposed pine boards now hidden behind the ticholo? Dry rot? Black mold? Termites? Other critters?

It will be fun to monitor. Throwing good money after bad….

Real books!

For the third time in twelve and a half years, I have power of attorney or house keys for someone not here. This time it’s keys for a guy who died and whose wife is a home with Alzheimer’s. A happy discovery was that they have a substantial number of books. Real, paper books like I rarely read anymore. I tried this one years ago but found it boring. Now it fascinates me.

The physiology of the eyeball and…well, then there’s this Post-it note as a bookmark:

Quarter them, steam a half hour. It’s umm, well, kind of…

…OK, maybe it’s just me.

Adandoned Piedra Liza

Abandoned building in the dunes.

Your chance to poison yourself!

Our neighbor Alvarito in his tiny house is quite the organizer. The park project, a children’s book swap (the refrigerator, and public service notices opposite our neighbors’ new and classy minimercado.

However, this puzzles me. Why would anyone, ever want a flu injection? We’ve had 20 minutes of sun in the last three days. What does your body do with sun exposure? Creates vitamin D. What does vitamin D do, among other things? Keeps you from getting sick.

The idea that health comes out of a needle is probably THE propaganda masterpiece of the Rockefeller-pharmaceutical-medical industry. Get injected with toxins designed for last year’s “strain” to get well.

Más ó menos ;-)

Close enough.

I asked the butcher for 4 kilos of menudos (chicken gizzards). He disappeared into the freezer, returned a minute later and plopped a bag on the scale.

Yeah, whatever 😉

Rainbow

From a recent dog walk. Interesting to think what it might look like to the dogs, or the other critters we encounter: birds, bees…

First frost (2022)

My wife asked me just last night when we get our first frost, and I said usually in June.

First frost of 2022: June 1.
Last year it was July 5.
In 2019 it was July 7.
2018: June 25.
2017: June 20.
2016: June 11.

You can almost feel the ice caps melting.

If a tree falls…

Long expected, this huge dead tree went down in a windstorm last week, taking with it a parrot nest. I saw one dead parrot, and of course there could be several more.

The tree had a double trunk. One side fell on one side of the power pole, and one side on the other. But the power line was still there! How was that possible?

It took us an embarrassingly long time to figure out that the power company had already been out to repair the line: note the shiny new clamps on the darker pole….

Surreal Street View

One of the stranger Google Earth images I’ve encountered. Downtown Atlántida.