I would like to take this opportunity to Thank all our readers.  We are completely new to the Blogging community having started only 5 weeks ago.  It has been encouraging to have “Likes” and “Followers.”  This is especially important to us because we had to really work hard to get Internet.  Firstly, getting Internet connection required logistics; after all, we do live in a very isolated area in the most rural part of Belize.  We had to get on a list and this took a year of weekly visits to the Telecommunications Company.  Then, when we got the technicians out to our farm, they had to find a signal with their antenna.  Well, that involved very tall ladders, climbing onto the roof of our house, plenty of cool drinks all around and finger food.  We finally got a vague signal at about 30 feet from the ground.  We were so thankful at that point because we were so close to giving up.

The next part was the installation; this entailed more waiting and weekly visits to the office.  Meanwhile, Gnome erected a 40 foot post next to the house single-handedly with a clever system of pulleys and lots of time and patience.  When the technicians finally arrived they took one look at the post and got scared.  They said that they would have to call the boss in to permit the use of such a big post.  The post was a 12 inch tree trunk!

Anyway, after a bit more time (weeks!!!) we did finally get the antenna and we had Internet happening!  The final height of the antenna was 60 feet.

Before all this, we had lived without Internet connection for 10 years.  We used the Internet cafe weekly to email and that was about all we could do because of the limitations of traveling into town and the slow Internet connection.  Truth be told, we were actually fine with our limited technological interaction.

However, after a lot of thinking we decided to embrace technology again so that we can reach out to more people.  We would like to show people that they can choose to live a simple way of life, down-size and live off the fruits of their own labour.  It is my hope that our regular posts reflect our enjoyment in living a simple life.  Thank you for reading our stuff!