Melt Down Under The Palms

Yes..........my first melt down in paradise .  Why you ask........PATIENCE.......I have none .  The cause of the melt down was just one door , one door that was hand built , paid for 2 months ago and has been sitting in the shower in the 2nd bedroom waiting to have framework built to hold it in place .
    

The Cause

Having  OCD ( Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ) here in the jungle definitely is not a good thing .  There is always something falling from the canopy above or crawling and trying to make your home their home.........ants........more ants and then there are the gecko's who have not been toilet trained.....well it is not like they leave a very large pile.......but it is there .  Then mi casa has no real storage space.......and again I have to remind myself I am only wearing bathing suits and tee shirts with flip flops all this fits nicely in one section of the wardrobe .   Let us not open up my organizational problems since I have not cut enough bamboo to build the storage facility.........Now back to the ugly part of the melt down , I yelled to mi esposa ,  " THE FOR SALE SIGN IS GOING UP WE ARE HEADING BACK TO DELAWARE " this happened on Lunes  ( Monday ) of this past week . 


Today is Domingo ( Sunday ) , just 6 dias from the MELT DOWN and what a difference when you just have PATIENCE and of course LUMBER .

A Very Beautiful Puerta To Mi Casa

Looking Out

Lumber , oh what a wonderful word .  That really has been one of the biggest issues living here , waiting for your supplies to be delivered or just trying to figure out the most cost effective way to get what you need .  I mean really........the closest ferreteria is about 20 miles away on a road that is rock , gravel and pot holes and  the fact that mi Escalade has only one very small storage basket attached to the handle bars used primarily for carrying cervezas and one would need alot of cervezas to make that trip on a bicycleta  and I really don 't think there would be much madera coming back to Zancudo . 

But on Mericoles ( Wednesday ) I caught a  ride to the frontera ( border ) with our friends who were picking up ceramica for their real estate office and anytime you can catch a ride with the possiblility of having your groceries transported back to Zancudo without having to use the backpack.........you got to go for it .  Home Run........not only did  I get all of the really heavy grocery items along with molita (ground beef )  and pollo ( chicken) ,  I got 7 pieces of beautiful milled and squared 2 X 4's at the new Agrocoopeallanza by the Aciete plant ( date palm oil plant ) just southwest of Laurel .  Now the funny part of my adventure is I caught a return ride to Zancudo with the Amigo who was delivering the ceramica and mi amigo habla no Engles and mi habla poquito Espanol so in my best spanish I yelled ALTO ( stop )  and I got my wood for my screen puerta that had been driving me crazy . 

And the 4 pieces of TEAK that we had purchased to cap the knee wall on the porch had finally dried and could be squared , planed and set in place

Teak sill on knee wall

Now , I wait again first for mas colones por mas madera por maya ( more money for more wood for screen ) .  PATIENCE

We have finally seen the rain we have been waiting so long for especially ME , why........so I can start working and developing the gardens .  It is kind of funny as our friend Surfer Mike had said it will rain at 3 or at 5 and he has been right on the money .  The afternoon showers either at 3 or at 5 have made the greenery of the jungle even more intense and the hibiscus are blooming like crazy.   And that banana that I planted on April 1 well see for yourself .

Me and My Banana

Speaking of bananas , we have put in at least 4 more varieties over these past couple of weeks along with 10 new palms , 8 yellow palms and 2 fish tail palms .  Have outlined our driveway with 76 small rooted Ixora shrubs that bloom an  awesome orange .  In the coming week I need to get the 24 papaya plants I started from seed in the ground and protected from IGUANAS .

24 Papayas

So , I really don't think I will put the For Sale Sign up just yet........there is still alot to for me to learn and as far as working on being tranquillo  (tranquil) ..........it 's going to take several years to get there but the journey will be great .

Pura Vida