Selva Negra is an organic foodies dream come true. It is a well established self sustaining organic farm which pushes the envelope of recycling and optimization of the organic food chain to its limit. NOTHING is wasted at Selva Negra.…
Animal update
Family portrait of the day. Pablo seems to have adopted Mango as his surrogate Mom. Happy to report that Mango is taking this in stride and is overall tolerant of the kitten coming in for a cuddle, jumping on him…
foreign friends
Meet Jonathan and Tamara – here from Seattle, Washington for a year, with their two high school aged sons. Peta met Jonathan one day due to her curiosity. A newly renovated blue and white house with an alluring pool beyond…
sunrise yoga
We are not morning people. We go to sleep late and our preference is to sleep in until we absolutely positively have to get up. So you might be surprised to read that lately we have been doing yoga at…
Much going on, on the art front for Peta
Item 1: This week starts a month long exhibit at the Witter Art Gallery in Iowa, of 20 large paintings. See below a nice write up in Iowa’s Storm Lake Pilot Tribune. “How often will you see a veterinary…
What I love about living in Granada, Nicaragua…
* the fact that we don’t own a car and walk just about everywhere.. unless its really hot or our feet hurt, in which case there are plenty of taxis (or horse drawn carriages) around for a mere 10 cordoba…
Baseball rules in Granada tonight…
Forgot what we said about Friday and Saturday night being the hopping nights of the week – this basic rule was thrown out the window yesterday when Granada won the finals of the Nicaraguan national baseball championship vs. Esteli. Winning…
Belly Dancers and Snake Charmers
Much as Sundays are quiet and sleepy, starting Friday evening to late Saturday night, there is much activity in the streets of Granada. Nicaraguans like “ruido” (noise) and our neighbors, whose household consists of eight teen age and mid twenties…