Musings

I now introduce to you Don Quijote de la Mancha. He is the new addition to our clan. He's seems like an extremely tranquil creature, but don't let him fool you! He has a powerful little bite and can yelp loud enough to disturb the sleeping. Don't we know it too! Let's just say neither Jason or I got much sleep last night. But it's all good. That's how love grows right? Through trials, difficulties, and sometimes sleepless nights. We will keep him with us for good in a week or so. I took him back to his momma, bros and sisters this morning so that he could get his feeding and romp around with the other little ones. They all live right in front of the awesome beach. We probably aren't doing him a favor by giving him a home. Anyone is better off on the beach any day. He's a sweetie though! We like him already.

I've taken to making my own bread these days. I have the time to and it's a lot cheaper (not to mention the fact that two of the loaves I've bought here were moldy the next day). Today I'm making coconut bread. I took a machete and whacked the coconut open myself. It was quite an experience but at least now I know that I can open coconuts. It's also nice to be able to get coconuts for free. If your own tree runs out (which I can't see how we could POSSIBLY eat all the one on our tree) all you have to do is go to the beach and pick them off the ground. Ah yes, the beach life is a dreamy one.

I've also been making jewelry like it's my job. Well, it might as well be because I plan on selling it all to whoever is interested. I already have one pair of earrings on hold by Jason's spanish teacher. Yey! And the other day I was at the beach minding my own business and making some silver and red earrings when a lady sent her daughter over to ask me if I was going to sell them. I didn't have any finished jewelry with me so I didn't get to sell her anything but she really liked the ones I was making. Yey again! So one of these days "when I have time," haha, I'll take pictures of the stuff I've made for all to see. A fun part about all of this jewelry stuff is that we found a tiny, simple little church that we REALLY feel blessed to have found (and that is another story) but the pastor's wife, or the pastoress as they call them here, is trying to learn how to make jewelry and was stuck because she really needed a certain type of pliers. Well I thank God because I happen to have an extra multi-task set of pliers that I don't use. So sometime this week we will be having a learning-how-to-make-jewelry party. Not that I'm great at it or anything but I'm learning as I go too. I've found that it's a fun and maybe productive way to live through the minutes and hours of some of the days.

Oh yeah, the other day Jason and Jonathan found a sweet looking bright green iguana. Jason's blog goes through the whole story more than I care to get into but it was kinda fun in a gross or twisted sort of way to play with it. The green creature was eerily calm. It made me think that at any moment it was going to lash out at me for daring to hold it and scratch my face off. Ahahaha!

This weekend the first building team will be coming in to work on the project! We are very excited and praying that we will all be sensitive and alert to the Lord's will. May it be carried out for his honor and glory! Ta ta for now. I hope you all are well! Much love to you!

Oh yeah: "Es peligroso jugar con iguanas chucas," is spanish for "It's dangerous to play with nasty iguanas."