Saturday

I was recently asked what it felt like to be living in such a manner that days of the week are a moot point for the most part. If every day had the same schedule and weekends meant nothing, what day does it feel like? How does it feel to not go through the week anticipating the upcoming weekend?
This prompted me to think. I had never really thought about that. For the most part every day here has the same schedule. There are small variations each day and occasionally something larger like an emergency of some sort. 7 days a week I'm up by 6 o'clock. There are no weekends off. Friday does not mean I'm off the hook for the weekend. Sunday is not depressing due to being the end of the weekend.
I think I've come to the conclusion that most every day feels like Saturday. As of now I can't be terribly sure because of the simple fact that it IS Saturday. Saturday makes sense though. Each day I don't feel as if I'm going to work or school the following day. Entienden?

Tomorrow night is supposed to be the peak of Geminids Meteor Shower. I just came in from a maybe 20 minute walk down on the beach. I saw a few, but all just in that annoying place in your peripheral vision in which you can't be completely sure. The tide is rising still and there are really no other large clearings in which to view the sky so as much as I would like to go back out and look some more, there would be little purpose. Hopefully tomorrow the tide will be low enough at some reasonable hour. I may just set an alarm for the wee hours of the morning.

The internet is out again as of about 6 or so. As is the power in Jimenez. It is about a quarter to 11 on Saturday night. Hopefully when power is restored to the town the modem in town will turn back on and it won't need to be reset. If that is the case and it needs it's reset button pressed, I won't have internet until Monday morning. Costa Rica will be getting 3G service next week and Earl is signed up for a 3G card. This can be plugged into the USB port in the wireless router and then we can access the internet using it. Having two sources of internet is a good idea here because one or the other will very likely have problems quite often.

I don't believe I mentioned this in any past posts. Carol has been gone for a little over a week. She has a friend who lives in Zancudo. This friend had to take a trip to the States for a family emergency I believe. The person who was going to house sit for her fell through so she asked Carol. Carol gladly accepted as it also is a good excuse for a little vacation. She ought to be returning Monday though if I remember correctly.

This morning we saw ocelot tracks on the beach. Very exciting! I would absolutely love to catch a picture of one of these felines with my cameras in the forest.

*Thought I had posted this yesterday, but it just got saved as a draft. So I'll just add to this one for today's post*

12/14/09

Went out last night to watch the meteor shower. The tide was already moving up so I found a boat anchor and tied it to the kayak. Went out about 20 feet and anchored there to watch the sky. This was at about 9:00. Figured it might be a little too early, but if so I can just sit there in the peaceful up and down of the water. I'm sitting out there for maybe 15 minutes and the clouds roll in. Okay, so I'll just go back ashore and kill some time. Checked sporadically until 11 and then just gave up. I'll give it another shot tonight probably.

The lapa that we got in the the broken wing a few days after I arrived here is doing pretty well it seems. He won't keep his wrap on, but he is holding his wing very well. Today we are moving him to a larger cage. We had to remove a section of the tin roofing in order to lower the cage into the room we wanted yesterday. Poor little guy has broken a lot of his tail feathers from jumping off his perch. He also must be incredibly bored in there. Twice a day we put in tree branches and he just tears them apart over the course of a few hours.

On our way to town one day.

On the way back from town that same day I believe. Meanwhile off the the left side of the boat (port side?) is the oncoming rain...

Monkey foot.

Hasta luego.