lazy Sunday

Such a nice lazy day-- slept in until 7am and stayed in bed until 8:30, reading the chronicle of a couple circumnavigating the globe, whose boat sank 1200 miles west of Panama after being attacked by a school of whales. They have been drifting  in their little life raft for almost 30 days, their food stores now exhausted, and have to catch fish to eat raw-- can't wait to get back and finish the book. Also, it's good for me-- makes me think any challenges here are small potatoes.

I made pancakes for breakfast today ( a nice change from peanut butter toast) and have been cleaning and doing miscellaneous chores with Steve this morning.  I enjoy  putting our house back in order-- it gives me a sense of rest and relaxation. My friends Janny and Lisa have been here since Wednesday ( from Minneapolis), moving furniture into 3 houses that were just completed, and "staging" them for rental. It is an exhausting, chaotic process that involves pulling furniture from shelves in 2 different warehouses, putting it in a truck (with crew of 4 guys) and moving it about 1/2 mile up the steep windy rocky road. Then you unload it, take it out of the boxes, clean it before taking it into the houseand lots of the furniture has to be assembled, etc. Anyway, it's quite a workout. It usually takes 6-7  truck loads per house.

I am SO glad they are here doing it, because otherwise it would be me trying to do it. No thanks!

I am excited to be coming home to Minnesota late this Thursday for Scott (my nephew) and Heather's wedding on Saturday. I will be home just a few days and back here on the project the following Wednesday morning. Here are some pictures from my week--- yesterday we spent some time looking at plants here and taking some pictures of things we might want to plant in our yard. Many of these plants are relatively easy to propogate, so we can just go into the jungle and take shoots off of plants we like and get them going that way.



beautiful flowering tree up by Kayukos restaurant



Lisa and I relaxing in our new pool after a hot tiring day.

Lewis and the famous white truck

another gorgeous flowering plant

two adorable little girls from neighboring rainforest

we just put in sod in along the sides of the new road in the lower nieghborhood-- left a lot of dirt on the pavers, but this is a sight for all of our sore eyes to have this milestone reached

All for today-- I hope you all have a wonderful week. I look forward to seeing my family this weekend!!