2/5/6

Life goes on. Nothing really exciting to write about for a couple of weeks now, and we have been real busy. We used the dirt from the drainage trench to landscape a bit, and took a big tree out of the driveway ( a very big job). Some nice afternoons on the beach. My friend Larry from Posada Aeropuerto brought his family to visit for a couple of days. Russ asked us to check out a real estate development on the beach in Manzinilla, a small town near here, so we drove up to see the Amistad Bridge over Rio Tempisque and came back down the back roads through Colorado and Manzanilla. At the bridge, we met a nice couple from Florida who were touring around and invited them to visit. They continued on to Arenal and showed up a couple of days later. We showed them around the neighbourhood, went swimming at the river, and our neighbours came over and met them in the morning. They really enjoyed experiencing the real ( non-touristy) Costa Rica. By the way, there is only a tiny beach in Manzanilla with no real estate development.

It never rains here in the dry season, so the past three days of hard rain have been very unusual. Good for the trees, but bad for the melon farms and salineras which, like all farmers all over the world depend greatly on the weather. This will put a real dent in the economy of this area. We went to a nice little party in El Roble last night, and the driving was very difficult in the hard rain. Today it looks like we’re back to normal with lot’s of sunshine already, it’s 7 am, birds singing, monkeys going through the yard, and the squirrel eating the fruit off my trees before they are ripe enough for me to eat. Big election today, but I don’t care. We’ll probably go to the beach again, and if the yard dries up, we’ll clean the mud off the floor in the house.