Friday, March 10, 2017

Chasing Sleep and Recalling a Son's Visit

So far, my insomnia nightmare has shown at least one hopeful sign – a combination of two drugs seems to have produced three nights of restless sleep. I say ”restless” because I am feeling little benefit as yet. My brain is foggy, my body feels tired and achy, and my sense of general unsteadiness is unnerving and, well, tiresome. This is no way to live.

It took me more than ten minutes to write that first paragraph.

I wanted to share a few pictures that resulted from my son’s recent visit, and they have finally arrived in my email. Gabriel’s a busy teacher, or, at least, I buy that excuse. One in particular had me stymied for a second, and then I realized it was a view of Managua’s fairly new cathedral, which I had seen from a distance and wondered about what looked like breasts popping up from its roof.



See what I mean? The cathedral features ugly colors in its interior, and is rather stark and unappealing in general. It’s like something out of the old Soviet Union, devoid of romance and beauty.

One evening at home, the dogs were chasing a bug on the floor, and I went to remove the offender, only to find it was a tiny (baby?) lizard, about 1.5 inches. Gabe got this shot of the little guy against the wall. I escorted the lizard outside to safety.

We went to Catarina to shop, and had lunch overlooking the Laguna Apoyo, a crater lake. This photo faces south, to Granada and huge Lake Nicaragua beyond.



At Volcan Masaya. Look closely to see lava in the crater...


This morning, Maria José’s husband Jonathan came with her to try and repair one of my electric fans. While he was here, he cut down a coconut to give me a glass of coco water. He broke open the coconut to feed to my chickens, and Susie grabbed a sizeable chunk and went to town extracting the meat. Who knew dogs would love this? Brynn finished it off when Susie had had her fill.


There. This only took me about two hours. Hurry sundown.

4 comments:

  1. At first glance I thought the title of this post was "Chasing Sheep..." and that perhaps you decided to raise sheep alongside your chickens. And then that thought reminded me of the funny story when Mom and Dad's sheep wondered off and then got kidnapped (or lambnapped?) by those Tire Hill billies.

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  2. And when the sheep were found, the school where Mother taught paged her as "Bo Peep!"

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  3. Ha! I forgot about that. Too funny.

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  4. I forgot all about that story! Thanks!

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