Wed, 18 Jan
much better today, thank you!
Madi left today for Chetumal and will return on Monday. Emilie and Nicholas left as well to return back to cold freezing Canada. that left Alex and i with the cats and dogs. i helped him with the feeding in the morning then started working on projects again.
after an hour or so, i heard him asking me to come out to the water and take a 'smoke break' with him. not exactly sure what he mean t i went out to investigate. he was using a long pole with a hook on the end of it from Wilbur's boat ... to grab coconuts from the tree.
they were young green coconuts and had a lot of coconut water in them. it wasn't even cold, and it was still so refreshing, as i dribbled it down the front of me. it's not that easy to drink water from a hole in a coconut! after i drank it dry; he handed me a piece of the outside of the coconut shell and told me to hold on to it. he then cut the coconut in half and told me we would now eat coconut jello ... and if he wasn't right!!!!!!! the inside of the coconut had not formed the coconut meat yet, and there was a thin coating of 'jello' inside the coconut. ... it was really good !
that was such a nice 'smoke break' and i returned to a nice quiet afternoon of working. around 4pm, Madi's brother in law came over to fix my shower and toilet. (he was supposed to come over first thing in the morning) they were both leaking, so we had the water turned off to both; which has been a bit inconvenient. it was also time to do the evening feeding of the cats with Alex,.... but i really felt like i should stay with her brother-in-law until he was finished. about the time he finished, it was almost dark and Alex was rounding up, what i thought was the last of the cat-routine. at the same time, Eddi arrived. Eddi and i met at Madi's 2 years ago and we have kept in contact. she had shared a taxi with a young guy, Damian, from San Francisco area. he had no plans of where he wanted to stay, so she brought him to Madi's. all of a sudden there were too many things going on. i got them settled in the Cabana and they wanted to go to dinner. i hurried with my shower, and when i came out i saw light and heard noises in the cattery. Alex was in there and just getting started with the feeding! this is usually done before dark; i had thought he was finished. he was in there all by himself, with at least a hours worth of feeding ahead of him !!!!!! oh man, i couldn't leave him in there to do that by himself his first night. since i've done variations of the 'routine' i'm pretty familiar with the 'drill' ... but it is overwhelming the first couple of times! so i apologized to Eddi and Damian and agreed to meet them later and went into help Alex. he is so laid back and calm, pretty much the opposite of Madi; and said he was fine. but between the 2 of us, we finished up the feeding, and i washed the dishes and closed the place down while he went into the other cattery and did that feeding. you really have no idea how time consuming this job is until you do it yourself. i am still amazed at how Madi does it all by herself day after day after day!
they were young green coconuts and had a lot of coconut water in them. it wasn't even cold, and it was still so refreshing, as i dribbled it down the front of me. it's not that easy to drink water from a hole in a coconut! after i drank it dry; he handed me a piece of the outside of the coconut shell and told me to hold on to it. he then cut the coconut in half and told me we would now eat coconut jello ... and if he wasn't right!!!!!!! the inside of the coconut had not formed the coconut meat yet, and there was a thin coating of 'jello' inside the coconut. ... it was really good !
that was such a nice 'smoke break' and i returned to a nice quiet afternoon of working. around 4pm, Madi's brother in law came over to fix my shower and toilet. (he was supposed to come over first thing in the morning) they were both leaking, so we had the water turned off to both; which has been a bit inconvenient. it was also time to do the evening feeding of the cats with Alex,.... but i really felt like i should stay with her brother-in-law until he was finished. about the time he finished, it was almost dark and Alex was rounding up, what i thought was the last of the cat-routine. at the same time, Eddi arrived. Eddi and i met at Madi's 2 years ago and we have kept in contact. she had shared a taxi with a young guy, Damian, from San Francisco area. he had no plans of where he wanted to stay, so she brought him to Madi's. all of a sudden there were too many things going on. i got them settled in the Cabana and they wanted to go to dinner. i hurried with my shower, and when i came out i saw light and heard noises in the cattery. Alex was in there and just getting started with the feeding! this is usually done before dark; i had thought he was finished. he was in there all by himself, with at least a hours worth of feeding ahead of him !!!!!! oh man, i couldn't leave him in there to do that by himself his first night. since i've done variations of the 'routine' i'm pretty familiar with the 'drill' ... but it is overwhelming the first couple of times! so i apologized to Eddi and Damian and agreed to meet them later and went into help Alex. he is so laid back and calm, pretty much the opposite of Madi; and said he was fine. but between the 2 of us, we finished up the feeding, and i washed the dishes and closed the place down while he went into the other cattery and did that feeding. you really have no idea how time consuming this job is until you do it yourself. i am still amazed at how Madi does it all by herself day after day after day!
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