My dad was a carpenter who had a whole trunk full of tools — a car trunk, that is, a ’55 Chevy Bel Air trunk to be more precise. One day, when I was in the fifth or sixth grade (if I remember right), we had a huge snowstorm. Our garage was in the alley [...]
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Digging Out
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Just Call Me Willoughby
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If you read our previous post, you’ll know that we’ve been buried under an amazing pile of things to fix. The pile is still there, but it’s smaller than when we got back here from vacation about a week and a half ago. Now, if you want to get everything in chronological order, scroll on [...]
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Working On My PHD
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What Phd!? Well, Peter used that phrase once and I asked him what he was talking about. He said it means, “piled higher and deeper.” As rough as things were here for us while Peter and Sandi were on vacation, I think it was even tougher on them while we were gone. I enjoyed our [...]
If Sleep is Good for You …
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… then I must be healthy as a horse by now. I can’t believe how many hours I’ve been sleeping. A couple nights back, I had an episode of busy brain syndrome — planning and organizing all the things I need to do when we get back to Roatán— and didn’t fall asleep till after [...]
Do We Need to Ban Vacations?
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Vacation! That starts with “V!” And that rhymes with “C.” And that stands for “catastrophe!!” (My apologies to Meredith Willson, Franklin Lacey, Marion Hargrove, and everyone else involved in The Music Man, but my line rhymes better even if the meter is a bit off.) At least it’s starting to feel we need to ban [...]
Just Plain Awesome
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Resident Visa! It’s here at last! Well, sort of. Our lawyer in Tegucigalpa has our resident visa cards now. He was so excited that he even sent us scanned images of them. Normally, he would put them on a Sosa flight to Roatán and we would get them next day. But this time, all he [...]
Renewing One Kind of Link, Maintaining Another
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What with the water well issues, the termites, and even a parade, I haven’t given you much news lately on the ramifications of the lightning strike we suffered a few weeks ago. That’s largely because there wasn’t any news until the new radio and an identical spare arrived last Thursday. I spent a few days [...]
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3 Ways to Get Soaked in One Day
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Before I start, I need to take a moment to thank our son, Jesse, for all his awesome help with some of the behind the scenes work on this blog. He handles the hosting and did the original design for it. He just moved it to a new server that’s much faster than the old [...]
Termite Kiln, Version 2.0 and Other Shenanigans
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The termite project is succeeding! But it’s been slow due to a sunshine shortage so I invented a way to get the wood hot quicker. All it took was a small piece of plywood, some aluminum foil, a little tape, and something to lean the contraption against. I think that the reset of the desks [...]
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Raining On Our Parades
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We have been unusually dry lately, so we should welcome the rain, right? Well, I’m trying to welcome it, but the timing might have been a little better. The rain is hindering our efforts to kill termites. How does rain make it hard to kill termites? Well there’s a little story behind it all. Several [...]
Not Quite Normal, But Better
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No, I’m not referring to myself, even if that does seem to apply. I’m talking about our situation following the big lightning strike last Tuesday, August 30th. With Mildred’s and Romel’s help I now have both the FM and AM back on the air with nearly normal programming. But it sure took (and still takes) [...]
Only the Hard Part Was Easy
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In spite of the fact that Peter and Sandi were and still are away on vacation, Mildred and I bought plane tickets to the big city — Tegucigalpa. We have been struggling with red tape for four years to get our resident visas so we could stop sending our passports to Tegucigalpa every month, praying [...]