Living On Jungle Time

It is 2:30 in the afternoon , where did this day GO ?  Sherry and I started our Sunday as usual , a cup of cafe con leche , get the Escalade and T - Bird unlocked from the Palm Tree..........haven't gotten the bamboo garage up yet for our bicycletas ( Ooops......Escalade and T - Bird ) and off to the north point we headed for our morning ride .  Made a stop at the mercardo ( market ) on the way back through town for heuvos and tortillas for desayunos ( breakfast ) and a quick visit with Elena at Oceano just to see if she had any cinamon rolls........better yet she had pumpkin bread made with whole wheat.......awesome .  So....we get through desayunos and I sit down to start the Blog at 9 am.........and what shows up

2 kilos of fresh OH YES fresh lobster.....cost 10 mil

10 mil = $20.00 US for 4.4 pounds of fresh lobster..........1 hour later and this is what we got

Dinner

and this brings me to............What can we get here in the jungle on the shores of the Golfo Dulce on any given day right here at our doorstep...............on Thursdays and Sundays Emilo comes with all the tropical fruits ( mangos , papaya , pina , manzanas , naranjos , bananas , sandia , and this week sapote my favorite tastes like pumpkin pie ) and then the vegetables.......you name it we can get it .  Then on Saturdays an older couple stops out front and beeps their horn with a trunk full of mandarinas , limons , bananas , tomate , pimentos and OH YES........String Beans...........too  awesome .  Also on Saturday the poultry moto ( motorcycle with a cooler strapped on the back ) comes through with fresh slaughtered old hens.........then along comes the egg man also on a moto with fresh brown eggs .  Now let us not forget the milk man on horseback and he will let you have the butter fat skimmed from the fresh milk . 

We are not done yet.......at least once or twice a week we get fresh tamale bread and / or coconut candy made over an open fire ( you can taste the smokey goodness ) with several other trucks with sandia ( watermelon ) , cantaloupe and often assorted fresh beans .  Now the one person we most anticapated finally showed up last week..........the RUG MAN ,  hand woven rugs that are awesome just wish we had more colones for a few extra rugs..........you would know why if you have tried to shop for rugs here or in Panama.......not what we are used to . Thank you Rug Man......hope to see you again real soon .  Oh....I don't want to forget the artifact man with so called ancient artifacts from indigenous indians ( made in China.....no not really.....just someones backyard probably )

So we sit and wait to see what will show up at our front door..........Oh please the Eskimo Pie Man  , just once .

Our Casa came without closets and we have been living out of our suitcases for the past 2 months......until a neighbor stopped by and wanted to know if I had any use for a couple sets of wooden shutters.......wood being hard to come by on a daily basis......I took a look and thought I could make them into wardrobes.........take a look

From shutters to a wardrobe and we got 2

 as always you really do need to be thinking a little differently when trying to solve a problem like a new handle for the toilet.........

Atleast the handle won't rust

Need to close......still have some watering to do as we are getting really dry .  As I have written in earlier blogs we only have 2 seasons.......Wet and Dry......we are Dry that is for sure but even in the driest times this jungle home provides some amazingly beautiful flowers

Heleconia and Ginger

We have celebrated 2 months here in Zancudo Costa Rica and seems as though we have lived here a life time and that can only mean one thing........we are muy contento.......Pura Vida