Mars & Venus

A motorized garage sale came to town on this quiet day in November. Click on any image to enlarge, the viewing is much funnier full size.. The Thanksgiving tourist rush is over and we’re getting ready for the Christmas season which starts in mid December. Business has slowed down, we’re taking a little breather, but, times like these make me wish I had my camera strapped to my back at all times....

Positive Feedback

BLAM! High season is on! And not a moment too soon. The big 3-bedroom Alamina Beach House is 80% booked up until Easter (woohooyeah!). The little efficiency apartment is still available though, but I'm confident that it will book up as I'm hearing positive feedback from the other hotels that this is going to be a bang up year. For the past 2 years our Village Council has actively worked on marketing...

Weather Report

Its coldIts supposed to get down to 61 degrees F tonight after midnight and a high tomorrow of 72 degrees F.Thanks.Thanks a lot you frozen northerners.Uh huh.Yup.Bigness is excited. He calls it free air conditioning. (He said we'll HAVE to snuggle tonight)I'm wearing my hoodie sweatshirt to bed, and the only pair of socks I own (pink sweat sock)Oh, way sexy, I know!I'm not complaining though, these "cold" days make us sell about 4x the amount of...

Question for the Cosmos

Why oh why is it, that out of the 10,000 hairbrushes we have in this here house, the only one in MY bathroom is the Bob Marley Dreadlock Rasta Ripper brush? You know it... its the one with the tiny stiff pirannah teeth bristles meant only for short hair or brain torture. The one that you THINK you can use if you're real careful, cuz you're in a hurry and can't find the 10,000 other hair brushes or wide tooth combs. But alas, you can't use it, because...

Garifuna Settlement Day

"Iunraha Wamei Irisini Higiru Wayunagu Waba" means "Lets Uphold the Values left to us by our Ancestors" in the language of the Garifuna. Its BRUKOUT time on Caye Caulker and in all of Belize on November 19. This commemorates the 174th anniversary of the Garifuna people landing in Belize. Garifuna Settlement Day started as a national and bank holiday in 1943 with big celebrations, drumming, traditional...

The Story of My Life

I was bornThen I had computer problems--- to be continued ...

Oh, So That Explains It...

Full Moon... the next dayJuanita: Did you hear de joke bout de hit and run?Me: No, what?Juanita: Miss Puneesha stone Cousin Rageo with her slipper, on de street, lasss night pon midnight.Me: What?Juanita: That's the joke.Me: What joke.Juanita: She call he chancey beca he live with he wife AND sweetheart.Me: She took up for her daughter.Juanita: That's the other jokeMe: Tell me...Juanita: Dey say wife no noh bout de sweetheart. Hmp! Must be he like...

Illustration Friday - Nov 3 - Smoke

I painted this original on silk a few years ago and it is based on a Mayan glyph of a female rul...

Domestic Goddess

As high season approaches in a few weeks, we also celebrate the American Thanksgiving here in Belize. No, really we do. Maybe its the fact that the American Thanksgiving week is the first really busy tourist week we have in the new season, or its just fun to have an excuse to eat turkey. Its not quite the same, take a plate of turkey and mashed potatoes and gray, add plenty of rice-n-beans and stovetop stuffing and canned cranberry relish, and voila!...

Tales From the Evil Waitress

I bet you're wondering where I've been. Last time I disappeared for this long I came back married. I stopped announcinng my departures a few months ago. Too many people on Caye Caulker read this blog and behave badly if they know for certain we're off the island. We never intended to be gone so long, but the check in calls went just like they did the last time I left to paint and paint and paint.Me: Sooooooooo what's goin on...Supergirl: NothingMe:...