The Neighborhood Dogs Love Treaties When I take Buenagente and Inteliperra out for their morning and evening walks around Villa Duarte and Mameyes I always take some treaties with me. The treaties distract my dogs if they feel like barking at another dog or a passing cat. But now, the neighborhood dogs know I have […]
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How To Trim A Tree Dominican Style
I am always amazed at some of the things Dominicans do and how they accomplish the end results. I have lived here since 2001 and still am amazed. So here is The View From My Balcony – Tree trimming – Tree wacking 101. On rare occasions, I have seen people cutting trees with a chainsaw […]
Begging Parrots For Jina
I always see interesting things going on around the Dominican Republic. Some things I do not understand at all, even when people try to explain it to me. Other things are just mysterious and what I call wowwee’s. Watching this Parrot Whisperer asking for Jina Fruit was for sure another wowee moment to add to […]
Sunday Morning Walk-About
Twas the day before the last day of the year and the streets were quiet except for the patter of the dogs’ feet on the streets and me talking to them like they were my human children. The dogs and I do walk-abouts every morning. I try to take them to places on a rotation […]
Duarte Day Walk-About
When there is not a lot of traffic either on weekends or on holidays I like to do a long morning walk with the dogs. We take turns picking the direction we go. Just like when I was a kid and my mom would take me and my sister out for a ride. We would […]
