Dec 18, 2008 | Miscellaneous
We spotted a rare Costa Rican tree frog in the door way to our bedroom the other day. While sleeping it tightens it’s body into a thin sliver so that you can barely see the lines of it’s limbs, eyes, or feet. With a little poke it awakens and red eyes...
Dec 4, 2008 | Miscellaneous
We just survived our first tropical storm…. barely! The storm was in fact the worst anybody can remember. The amount of rain that fell out of the sky over the period of 9 days was more than fell in 6 weeks of rain 13 years ago. Neither Brendan nor I had ever...
Oct 29, 2008 | Miscellaneous, The People of Tierra de Suenos
On Monday we published the Pedro blog. Now it is Wednesday and two comments that were made are even more relevant:”If Pedro tells you you’re getting a shipment of wood in September only he knows when you’ll actually get it.”Yesterday Pedro brought the wood...
Oct 28, 2008 | Miscellaneous
While these pictures of Pedro may be worth a thousand words, that would only help to break the surface on what he means to Tierra de Sueños. He’s primarily our gardner, also our general fix-it man, the first person we call when we’re in a jam, a fountain of ideas on...
Aug 8, 2008 | Miscellaneous
Ironic that it was Yamu who gave the septic man that name. It was he afterall who when I asked advice about our overflowing drainage tank from the kitchen sink told me not to get a septic company involved, but to clean it myself. And yet, when an enormous septic truck...
