I had one of those moments this afternoon when I asked, “What are we even doing here?!” I’m afraid our nice stretch of “easy living” came to an abrupt halt today. I drove up to the transmitter site this afternoon to investigate a problem on the AM and our part time guard met me on [...]
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37 Amazing Years
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I don’t think I’ll write much today. It’s our anniversary. We went to Gio’s for lunch. If you’re not familiar with them (and you probably are not, since they are local), they are arguably the most high falutin’ eatery on the island. We’ve eaten a couple times at their restaurant up in French Harbor. They [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Touring a Coast Guard Cutter
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Peter had to drop off his vehicle at the repair shop this morning, so I followed him into town to give him a ride back. There is a Coast Guard cutter in town today and I mentioned to Peter that last time there was one here I’d tried to get a tour, but my timing [...]
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What a Surprise!!
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I had a pleasant surprise this morning. Last week on Tuesday I talked to the manager of our electric company, RECO about the possibility of getting a new power feed to the radio station. He said that he would have his engineer look into it and I should call him back the following Tuesday, which [...]
Uff da!
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That’s one of many spellings of one of my favorite non-English phrases. It’s a Scandinavian catch-all term for anything overwhelming. It can be a good thing or a bad thing and the speaker’s tone makes it obvious which it is. In this instance, it’s an expression of exhaustion after being thwarted in many attempts at [...]
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Getting a Crate Off a Truck – the Poor Man’s Method
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We are well and truly back home now. The power went out last night not long after I got my shower. We have three-phase power here normally, but the electric company can’t keep one of their fuses from blowing. So they are feeding us single phase power until they get around to finding the cause [...]
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Out of the Woods
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Yes indeed, we are out of the woods. And we have mixed feelings about that. It means we are about to leave what we call paradise and return to what you probably call paradise. This morning we worshiped with our beloved Oakwood family. Last Sunday we celebrated with our equally dear Candlewood family. And the [...]
End of the Trail … Sort of
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Mildred and I are back in Tampa from our whirlwind trip around what seemed like most of these United States. Because we weren’t able to access the web while on the road and then in the evenings we were too busy with our hosts to spend more than a couple minutes on the computers, I [...]