2014, a Recap, as I am a REALLY BAD PERSON and am totally remiss!

Yes, 2014 has come and nearly gone without a single post!  I have read so very many BAD blogs, that I didn't want to be grouped there, so ... NO, I haven't been updating!  Life is just that, life.  Nothing exotic, uber romantic or out of the unusual for life, but I promised, so here ya go, my winterbound friends!

Where to start?  I know ... January 2014!

• January - Paid annual property taxes/garbage bill at around US$125.  Gotta love that!  Work progresses on the new "bodega" (read guestroom).  Loving Spanish classes!  
  
• February - Work progresses as money ingresses.  Trip to Granada for a visa run, which is always fun ... they have *good* beef up there ... what the heck is up with that?
• March - Lots of runs to Ferreteria Los Angeles, as work progresses.  
• April - See above, en re Ferreteria!  Time for RITEVE, so, por supuesto, needed yet another catalytic converter for the car.  Passed it the first time though, thanks to our mechanic, Johnny, taking it in for us!
  
• May - see above, en re Ferreteria!  Time for another visa run!  Marco & Mari, Roy & I hop in their car, drive to Los Chiles, Costa Rica; take a boat to San Carlos, Nicaragua, have lunch, return & drink beer.  We've been trying to do a vacation or road trip with these guys since 2006!  Had a wonderful time and saw this:  
  
  
  
  

• June - Yes, Roy is still building! Money is tight, so we can only do what we can do!  So .... when we wait for $$ for building materials, Roy waits for nothing! He works on projects that don't require a lot of materials or $$!  Like this:  
  

• July - Same ol, same ol!
• August - Work on the guestroom progressing, my birthday (went to Los Trapiches with Steve & Brenda; this is the way they USED to make sugar), another visa run to Los Chiles/San Carlos.  

• September - Work progresses ... gee, where have you read THAT before?  Also, I attended the CR Independence Day Parade!  
  

• October - Where does the time go?
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• November - Yet another visa run, guestroom done, Mom not doing well, lots of phone calls; Thanksgiving with two turkeys in a wood fired oven and lots of friends 
  
•  ; Mom doing much better
  

  

  
  

  .... lots of phone calls, and we are (read Roy is) finally able to gut the house!

•   This is (more or less) where it is as I write, although there are MORE walls gone as of tonight and it is so bad late that I can't bring myself to take photos!   Will try to do better, but no promises!

 

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