going with the flow......

We heard yesterday that our shipment has arrived!!!  Now it still has to go thru customs and who knows how long that will be but it is already here......such a shock!  We had thought that it wouldn't arrive until April.....

One of my plans when moving here is to have my own chickens for food and eggs although eggs are plentiful right now and not too expensive.  Then I began to think about having rabbits too but wonder if I would be able to use them for meat or just name them all and grow a herd/flock/huge number of them.....Anyway, we need to have the garden in first....then will start with those....do plan to get my beans in and a papaya tree as soon as the gardener gets the "black dirt" in from the jungle.....topsoil....that is.....the regular dirt is sandy and bright red.....I'll take a photo.....

Well, we just had a power outage and when it came back on something burned up in the kitchen….I heard it and then Ms. Kitty…my watch cat..... puffed up and was slinking toward the kitchen…so I went with her and thought it was the coffee maker because there was a smoky white substance on the counter behind the appliance and the smell of electrical burn….and was so sad…..but when I checked it out further, it just totally blew the fuse in the transformer, actually exploded it so there was glass inside the fuse space, so I hope the coffee maker is still good…..the light went on so I think it will brew…..I wonder what the power spiked to if the voltage regulator went to 240 and it blew out...  Lessons to learn every day......

My greatest frustration right now is that I can't speak the language.  I find that Portuguese is similar to Spanish but not the same.....it does give me a little advantage that I learned Spanish in high school.....back in the dark ages...and interestingly whenever I have studied another language over the years, Spanish has always come back to my memory......we have not found a teacher yet and I think it is because we want to study at 0630 before Bryan goes to the office in the morning.....so what I am doing is whenever I'm in the car, I ask the driver words and put them in my little book....I'm building a vocabulary.....slowly but surely......I just love to talk and not being able to communicate with the local people is a great frustration for me.  It is up to me to rectify the situation tho......