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I had a birthday on Saturday and the whole city celebrated! There were parades and floats and bands on every corner - lots of heart balloons everywhere as well. Sweeeeet!
I didn’t feel like making a party at the house since it was Carnival and so I invited some friends to join us at our [...]

First off, I’ve got to tell you that I’m not a big trees and forest gloom kind of girl. I prefer open vistas, lots of sky and sun - lots of sun. I’m not sure why I thought buying a house with a huge banyan tree for a neighbor was a good idea [...]

So, today I finally made the fruitcake. I’ve been thinking about it and sort of preparing for it for over a month. It started when I read Joyce’s blog from Panama and earlier I read about making a Christmas pudding in Nicaraugua on Ancel’s blog. That had gotten me to discuss the details [...]

So, last Wednesday, Mimi and I and our friend Mary and the new kitten Raui came to Akumal. Mimi and I had an owners meeting to attend for the condo building and Mimi was heading north the next day. Mary just loves Akumal and wanted to hang out with us and snorkle. [...]

The other day we drove out to the Gulf of Mexico at Celestun to go for a boat ride in the mangroves, see flamingos and eat shrimp.   The flamingos were mostly gone, they were there the week before in the hundreds of thousands but left after the rain.  Turns out, when it rains the water [...]

The Angel fish are spawning again.  This is at least the third time this pair has laid eggs and guarded them for at least a couple days.  Then, either they eat them or the Mollies eat them which kind of means they gave up the guarding.  Life is not easy as a fish, it’s kind [...]

First Blanket Day, or maybe we should just call it Blanket Night?  I’m talking about the night you first put a blanket on the bed.  It should be one of those rotating holidays established by the mullahs or whatever that sit out and spot the new moon so muslims can eat.  As an aside, how [...]