What, No Apple Tree?

Well, I am not persuaded that the last entry, Next Big Thing. was needed, as it garnered only two actual views, but still, I think the news I am about to relate warrants something of a buildup. I have decided to move; not only that, but I have found a new home in the cooler highlands near Diriamba.

When I lived near Johnstown, I lived on Route 403, which went way far from Johnstown. It was a very long and, I thought, important road.  Well, my new house is on the actual Pan-American Highway, which starts north in Canada and ends down in the southern tip of South America. That's a pretty fucking long road No one who passes my new place will notice anything but a large cement block wall with a pair of black metal garage doors.

But behind that wall is a little Eden!  The wall is the western edge of the space, which is a corner of a larger family-owned multi-acre property. The northern edge is lined with coconut trees.

Looking south from the northeast corner is a small 2-bedroom house. That tree on the far side is:

An avocado tree, with a nearby lime tree!

And the view from the lime tree is through the porch to what I thought was a grape arbor.

But turned out to be an off-season chayote frame -- My new landlady, a radiologist with the National Police, assures me that the frame will be covered with the savory green  pear-shaped vegetable by mid-summer.

 Here's the living room.

The kitchen, taken from a small dining area.

The larger bedroom

And there, to the right of the larger tree -- where the gate has been opened --that is the Pan-American Highway!

More to come! I will be back in the chicken business in May, and I have already hired a gardener! Stefan, my Managua rock, is handling dog fencing and kitchen retiling. Updates coming!