Merrily merrily merrily merrily, life is but a dream,,,

Tuesday was a town day for us. No stopping off at the bar for gossip, just get in, get ‘er done, and get out. There was a few note worthy sites along the way.
The recently un-paved section of road is just about back to being as bad as it ever has been. It’s heading that way quick. They are still getting creative with the speed bumps tho. Using palmetto trees and boulders.
The new big building going up across from the Chiney is moving right along. I don’t know for fact, but it would make sense that this will be the new community center. I’ll ask around.
No, absolutely no sign of any road work anywhere. And the road is now as bad as ever with all the rain. With each glimmer of hope for a pave job, it makes every trip out just seem worse and worse.
The big huge land project near Turtle Inn has gotten their pee pee’s slapped. They were issued a stop order from the forestry dept for destroying mangroves after the moratorium was put into place. As you can see from these photos, I’m sure they are saying ‘what mangroves? I don’t see any mangroves.”


As we all know, it will not stop anything, it will only delay it for a bit till some palms are greased or whatever it takes.
Here’s a quote from the Amandala,

“Even with the moratorium in place, enforcement has been a challenge. On June
25, 2008, the Forest Department had to write a developer, Reagan's
International, calling on them to cease mangrove clearance, citing
regulations for the protection of mangroves and a possible fine of up to
$1,000 and/or 12 months jail time for contraventions of the regulations.”

Oh Whoop-De-Doo,,these are the type people that spend $1,000 on lunch! I’m pretty sure they just laughed at that.





{Developer celebrating! Bad example but you get the idea.}




Besides, as you can see the damage is long since done. What now?

And with the recent round of trash washing up on 20 miles of what is called Belize’s nicest beachs, we have had armys out trying to restore that nice-ness. So then what happens? The fleet of trash trucks break down! It’s a cold day on the peninsula when everything is working smoothly. Phone, electric, cable, internet, trash service, cops, the road, a bridge at Kendall, delivery trucks, or sunshine. There is not a day when all those areas are functioning well. OK,, every once in awhile it seems like alls well but the next day KAPOW, one or more will fail. Trash is really showing up on the top of everyones bitch topics lately. As more and more people show up and more construction goes on, more trash appears. And the system can’t handle it right now. So it seems anyway. There is a V.C. meeting coming up on the 14th and I bet ‘ol Brian gets hammered about the trash situation.

I’m gearing up for a scouting mission to Mango’s for gossip. It’s been awhile so this should pay off!




Let’s face it: modern life is a shit storm and booze is the only umbrella without any holes in it.

You want fries with that,,,?

You never know what will be blaring at you from a Belizean newspapers headlines each week. I have seen close up photos of a dead guy, while dead! Look at last week. Photo of a guy bitten right on the schnoz by a tommy goff. Blood running down his face as he lies in the back of a truck.
But my all time favorite was a few years ago.
I get my paper and head to the library for some ‘quality time’. Right there, jumping out at me in huge letters,
“PUSS BUSINESS IN CAYO”.
Well now, this catches my eye. Actulay it was a story about fisheries or health dept (I don’t remember which) conducting searches of restaurants for illegal lobster and such.
The inspectors are checking a Chinese place in Cayo when they go out to the back and find a guy cleaning a dead cat in the slop sink. The cleaner denies it saying ‘it’s a Gibnut’. The inspector sez, ‘that’s a cat head not Gibnut right there on the counter.’ The cleaner guy fesses up, ‘yes it’s a cat, but it is for our personal use.’
They continue their inspection and find more puss parts in the freezer. Now they close the restaurant and confiscate the puss parts.










We figure we had heard the last of it as it seems rare they ever publish a follow up on something like this. But the next week, we see that they did a follow up story. They could not prove the restaurant was selling Cat-Suey to the public, not for their personal use. Charges were dropped, AND evidence returned!


NOTE: This posting has no relationship to yesterdays posting with the photos of Fuzznutts. Behind Mexican, Chinese is still one of my favorite foods!













I can walk into a 7-11 at 2am, look at the cheese dog that’s been mutating on the grill since 8am and think, “Man, that looks tasty!”

It's a jungle out there,,,,,

What a spoiled brat! A rotten little brat.
I’m talking about Scurvy. Yes, he is spoiled.
I don’t know how it happened but it did.
I think a big part of the problem is he doesn’t speak English. That would make things much easier.
One maneuver he pulls that just absolutely drives me crazy is to chase Quash.


No matter how much I preach to him that he should leave them alone, he runs them up a tree anyway. There are many problems with this. One is that he will sit under the tree and bark incessantly for an hour at the Quash. I want to get him away from it but, #1 he won’t listen to me and come out of the bush, #2 he is so far in the bush I can’t go get him. When I try he dodges me just like a kid would. Soon, my blood pressure has skyrocketed and I just have to leave.
This happened yesterday. He got one up a tree by Ray’s house. Luckily, it was a small one so if they got into a rumble, Scurvy may have come out all right. That’s what I worry about most. Him coming home with his guts ripped open.
So I left him there and came home to steam it off. He finally gives up and wanders back home. The little dick!
I think it all began in the morning when he was chasing Doris’s turkey off our property. Her turkeys and a group of chickens came by to peck around. Scurvy was having none of that! He herded them all off but would not get close to the big Tom!
Pretty funny to hear him gobble gooble-ing outside my window. I need to ask Doris ‘if scurvy kills him, he’s ours right?’


















Fuzznutts was out during the turkey trot. I am not sure if I have ever seen him so spritzed up! His tail was as fat as my arm, big hair stripe running down his back. Must have been his first turkey? Holy shit,, look at the size of that Chacalacha!! He steered clear of Tom but later I saw him trying to sneak up on a hummingbird? Fat chance there too pal.
Adriane got some photos of a typical day for Fuzz. I read somewhere once that an 11 year old cat has slept for 7 of those years. I believe it! The other 4 years he is eating, crapping, and making me bleed!
Worthless bastard!





photos by adriane.




I went on a diet, swore off drinking and bar food, and in fourteen days I lost two weeks.

Wow man,, look at the lights,,,,

Whoa,, I don’t know about you but we got some rain last night! A couple times it even came in from the west, that’s rare.
I haven’t been to the beach yet to see if I gotta go rake again, but the way it was blowin I don’t doubt it.
I wonder if the dirt bridge is still up over the Kendall river? It’s up, it’s down, it’s up again,, we’ll see.
All this mud would make it kinda rough on the people paving the road. Who? You know, that old fairy tale about paving the road.
I understand it is a huge job, so they best get started! I have not seen or even heard about anyone doing anything! They were the ones who said they were to begin immediately. Hopefully, they are ‘on it, like Oprah on a baked ham’.

I have some time as of late and things have been kinda stale since the hummingbirds. But I also have some ideas bouncing around the ‘ol brain compartment. I get a lot of photo inspiration from a blog I read every day, like it was the Bible daily beer sale ads. I really want to learn this style of lighting. Half of my gear is not from this decade so I can’t use all the fancy-pants radio controls and super swanky auto exposure that others can, but the results could be the same.
And when that lighting guru made one of my photos a favorite on flickr!! I got all inspired!

So, that’s my mission,, learn this. I already have a good grasp and some good results but watch for the new stuff. You can teach an old dog to drink beer, er, no, wait,, new tricks, yea,, that's it.




To you "Last call!" sounds just like "Please don’t leave! We love you and you're charming wit!"

Yer Honor, I was inside de closet mindin me own bizniz,,,,

Look at all the news reports we have heard about GOB officials benifitting from bribes, and under the table deals. Musa giving contracts to his buddies and relitives. It has been the top news, next to murders for years now. Just how corrupt they can be.
The new admin wants to reel them in, clean out the thieving bastards, and China has set a fine example of how to do it!
Kill ‘em!
But Belize has to be careful. Remember when I mentioned about how without speed bumps the population would fall drastically? Well if they start snuffin out crooked, theivin politicians, it could get real lonely around here.


Update on the moron who let the tommy goff chomp his nose.
Seems he will live. Due to quick response from his neighbors and the fact that the hospital had anti venom. He sez he will pursue other ways of income rather than showing off his snakes.




I'm not sure when Mary Ann snuck out my apartment last night, but I figure it was about the same time Mrs. Howell snuck in.

Forks and spoons and bad guys oh my,,

If you read the news this morning, there were a couple interesting items.
First, the scumbag that the cops killed was also the same scumbag who was terrorizing Mennonites in Spanish Lookout!
The world is a better place without this dick walking around. Good job cops!
Another item worth mentioning is that there is an arrest warrant out for the president of Belize Bank. Yep, Barrows troops want that missing money back and rightfully so I say.
Interesting point, the guy is ‘out of country’ right now. He would be arrested at the airport if he returns so I bet he doesn’t return till Ashcroft clears him a path that doesn’t include jail! And that most likely won’t take long seeing how money works around here.
I can only hope that they keep churning through the crap and finally get to the top. I want to see the cops go after Musa and Fonseca like a rat after a cheeto!

0600 and the winds are just about howling. I can only imagine what the beach looks like this morning. I am told plastic has been washing up everywhere again still.

I wonder if we will ever hear where it all came from. And I also wonder if the trash trucks will be picking up the bags everyone is setting out? It’s a mess.

Kendal bridge is out again. Yep, warshed away Thursday night.
If anybody sees a truck with a Bailey Bridge on it just wanderin ‘round lost, give the guy directions to Kendal would ya! I’m starting to hear jokes. Similar to ‘paving the road’ jokes!



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Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Wash-up of a different kind,,,,

The Olympics are in China this years as you know. But they have had some issues to deal with. Pollution is a biggy along with the Green Monster.
They have an algae bloom off the coast that is just huge! They have dredgers out in force scooping up the goop and hauling it away. Seems it would mess with the canoes in the games or something. It's all over their newspapers.










We have a plasti-bloom! Got an e-mail from Whipri cayes a few days ago warning everyone there was this huge mess of floating plastic heading our way. It’s here.

From the point all the way to here and beyond, the beaches are covered in this crap.
I went out and raked yesterday and noticed that 90% of the stuff is plastic spoons and forks? And plastic bottle tops? Miles of it!




Oh, and this huge ball of wax?


We looked pretty good yesterday afternoon but I heard the waves pick up last night so it’s probably a mess again.
Have heard all kinds of rumors about where and why it came from. All point to Honduras.
But it all works in favor of Adriane's little plastic beach crap collection she has going!








Good news!
The cops shot and killed the lowlife scumbag that killed Sam and Shaggy in Placencia! Maybe I would rather have seen him suffer thru life at Hattieville, but you take what you can get, right?




Death is a merciless killer and will stop at nothing to wipe out the human race. Overpopulating the planet is a great way to fight death, but it's not enough.