This morning on our walkabout with Buenagente and Inteliperra we walked down to the Dirección General de Dragas, Presas y Balizamiento de la Armada de República Dominicana at Puerto San Souci to look at Rio Ozama. We never thought we would be rescuing a baby Grey Kingbird, also known as a Pitirre. I usually call […]
Wowwee’s
My Lost Taters
Today a Weird Wild thing happened. I found my long lost potatoes! I am doing the happy dance about finding my magical, enchanted taters. I was looking in my string box for a perfect piece of string. It’s a small box with string, wire, fishing line, leather straps and whatever else might be used to […]
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 […]
Trying Out Exercise Machines
I decided to try one of these exercise machines out at the Parque La Francia (Villa Duarte, Santo Domingo Este) this morning. I pass by and see others using these machines all the time. They looked easy enough so I decided to give this one, the farthest away from the other humans exercising, a shot. […]
Mas Duro
Some words and phrases used in the Dominican Republic confuse the heck out of me. Más Duro is one of them. Ok. The phrase “Más Duro (a)” always confuses me. Definition: más means plus, more, most, other, else duro means hard, tough, harsh, rough, difficult A friend often tells me I have a Cabaza Dura […]
Snake In A Bottle
This day has started out to be very interesting. Things both happy and sad have happened and all before 7AM. Rescuing a Hispaniolan Boa was the highlight. All night long the street dogs were having a mating party. 2 of the neighborhood girls are in heat and it brings out all the men hungry for […]