For the last year or so we have had problems starting the truck. When we turn the key in the ignition sometimes the engine starts and sometimes it doesn’t. Usually it takes a few goes before it gets started. It was becoming such a routine that the Catholic Gnome would turn the key with a Sardinian prayer. Finally I said to him that it was just getting too ridiculous and we should just get the starter replaced. I said to him,
“What if we get stuck out in the middle of nowhere!”
And he replied,
“Babes, we are in the middle of nowhere!”
Oh…so we are.
Anyway we took a trip to the Big City last week and got the truck fixed up. Everything is now fine; we even saw a freezer on a pick-up. That’s 850 points.
Remember the rules? Here they are again…
This is a Point Allocations game for the spotting of Goods (and assorted paraphernalia) on a Pickup (with a picture):
- Fridge 1000pts.
- Washing Machine 900pts.
- Freezer 850pts.
- Estufa (Spanish for Stove) 800pts.
- Boca (Central American Chip Packets) 750pts.
- Pig 500pts.
- Tractor Wheels 500pts.
- Large Ruminant 350pts.
- Small Ruminants 250pts each.
When you spot the Fridge on a Pickup, the rule is to jiggle your bottom on the car seat and shout out,
“Fridge On A Pickup!!”
with whistles, loud expressive whooping and hand gesticulating.
Thank-you Ginja Bwai for continuing to play this game with us!!
Hi There!! Here are some pictures from the weekend event at the Grand Opening of Rail B Service Station on the Southern Highway, Toledo, Belize. We had fun…good to get out and socialise! There was a lot of interest in our Copal products; it is good to see that there is a demand for natural medicines. Anyway, here are some pictures:
See you at The Grand Opening of RailB Service Station today from 9am to 2pm. This is Dick’s Service Station on the Southern Highway, Toledo, Belize. We will have our popular Casa Mascia products including Copal Medicinal Soap, Copal Medicinal Oil and lots more. Many products will be at a special discounted price just for the special day. You can’t beat our Runaway Best Price!!
Hello Everyone! Just something short and sweet today. Gnome likes specific things that usually allows for practical applications…this is one of them. If you know what this actually is, you will know how to procure one. Otherwise, you will just think it is a piece of junk and if you ever happened to have one cross your path. Finding one of these makes a Gnome happy:
More harvests from the farm…the ducks have been laying so we have been eating lovely eggs. Here in Belize, the shop bought eggs are really, really bad…they are runny and the yolks are anaemic. You can’t even make a proper custard with them…believe me, I have tried and I ended up with a yellow snot that won’t thicken. Thanks to our Zazen duckies for their contribution to the farm!
It’s getting hot again in Belize as the dry season continues. Vanilla Agar Cubes is a really nice cooling dessert for these hot days. I managed to find agar at the Taiwanese store though I am sure that you could find some in a health food store in Belize. It’s a really easy recipe…light and refreshing.
After the big rain, everything has started to pick up again. We have bananas coming out of our ears; we have been making banana flour. Also, just eating them ripe and green. Dogs, cat, piggies and duckies have obligingly helped us out with the bountiful harvest.
The vanilla vines are flowering and it’s time to pollinate. The flowers are really beautiful; we have grown the plants up our coconut trees. In our experience, the flowers open in early morning and start closing by about 10am so there is small window of opportunity to pollinate. In past years, we tried to leave it to the stingless bees (meliponia) to do this labour-intensive work for us but we have only managed to get about 2 to 4 pods a plant. If hand pollinated correctly, each plant can produce about 50 to 100 vanilla pods.
