sticky hands, slimy legs, and Jesus in my X-Mas

The first days of last week started with lots of visits to the beach, and Beach Comber with its tasty fresh French fries, and Jonathan, its waiter. While we are enjoying our fries or beverages, he always introduces himself politely and one time ‘one-linered’ us with the question: ‘If it wasn’t for Columbus, would we have discovered the world was flat just sitting here?’.

But the following days we have been doing quite some work. We chopped away a lot of trees(every time a tree falls down, together with the sound of a chainsaw, makes me think of dramatic commercials of WNF : Our rainforests are disappearing, Act now, Before it’s too late!). This caused a little less bugs and privacy, and much more breeze and sunlight for trees around the house. Then we collected and sorted out the wood, which in the future will serve as wood for the pizza-oven. We are planning to build a pizza stone-oven behind the house. So Anthony and I digged out the shape for the base. While Baxter was relaxing on the old sceptic tank, Anthony,(Rammstein-style; armed with a helmet and pick-axe), chopped away stoney ground and I raked and shovelled it away. Balancing on a funky ladder, we also scrubbed away dirt on the white roof, so now the house looks like a shiny pearl again. Then this weekend, we worked on the kitchen. We sanded the cupboards everybody here pretty much disliked (cause they were looking somewhat like coffins for tiny people), painted them cream (ecru)and the walls white. Bye bye termite traces, I’d say. And hello traces which show hard work: cuts, paint, splinters, blisters, a very muscled right arm and nicely tanned bodies

We’ve also been doing finer work in the kitchen, yeah, Baking. This week we created a Madeira Cake, very simple, but very tasty because of the nice butter we used. And for some more excitement, we also tried a lime-meringue pie. People here seemed a little anxious for tasting, but when we gave it to them, they really actually liked it. (Due to an electricity fail, the fridge was off for a while, so we didn’t trust the raw-egg-cake, and so fed it to the dogs. They also really liked it). Also, Ann made us really nice banana fritters for breakfast, and Ant baked really nice American Pancakes again! It’s funny, all the kinds of bananas they have here. The tiny dry ones, the normal ones, ones you can cook and put in the soup, ones you can bake(like bananas from Chinese people) and this week we had really huge bananas: Plantains, which we fried. They stick like crazy, but you only reckon this after you have been preparing them, off course. So we walked with sticky hands for some time. The Plantain Chips taste like French fries. Further on, we'd done some fancy shopping and bought ourselves some olives. We made pizza with it. Also, I got myself introduced with Relish, a sort of sour cucumber stuff you can put on your bread, or whatever else, like, you know, hotdogs, or something. Our own garden brought us papayas, limes and pumpkins. There is a huge coconut tree in the garden, with lots of ripe coconuts. But we really can’t reach it, so, for several times, Ant tried to get them out by throwing stones on them. Unfortunately it didn’t work. What he did receive though, was making one coconut burst, haha.

We had a visit from a friend of Roger, who is a butcher. He took the animal, or meat as you can also call it, he had slaughtered and sliced himself, to barbecue here. You really saw the natural bones and stuff. Very interesting somehow.

The sky seems to be very bright last days, what makes all stars very visible. It must be the brightest sky I’ve ever seen, up to know! Sunsets are pretty pink, and there are lots of boats sailing by. Yesterday, a cruise bigger then the titanic passed by. Amazing.

Tomorrow we’ll go to the city to get a driving licence, cause Roger bought a jeep! You can take off the roof and it is coloured pretty 'Gothic Black-Bordeaux'.

There seems to be a lizard invasion. They are Everywhere. And they grow bigger Every Day. Except for the Lizard Babies(!). Their heads seem to grow bigger too, but their bodies are staying behind. One lizard walked trough the wet paint and made a little lizard feet trace on the louvers , another one likes to sleep while balancing on/cuddling the dread where the curtains hang on.
Further on, we saw a big big big spider(tarantula alike), a wriggling maggot in the earth which was being eaten alive by ants, an insect looking like ‘Plankton’ from Spongebob, some dangerous centipedes and a suffering Millepied on which I accidentally stood(fuck that feels nasty) and made it even suffer more. Anthony killed the maggot to prevent him from suffering. But since this isn't really much of a habit, we couldn't prevent ourselves from some slime hitting our legs.
Also, we have been bitten by a wide variety of ants: red ants which make burning bites, normal ants which just bite because they are angry, and that just hurts because that is rather mean, and huge Tag Tag’s, which just bite really hard and nasty, and appear to like dancing on your foot together, and then count down and bite both at the exact same time.
Sometimes, all insects drive us so crazy(I am considering baking this anti-insect pork pie now). Even so crazy that a bug (which I, if I were a biologist, had called ‘bumblebee-beetle, due to the yellow-black stripes on its body) first landed on Ann’s hair and got hit on to the table. I found it looking very interesting. So I tried studying it in a peaceful pace. But before I could even blink my eyes, Ann, while eating with her right hand, smashed the bug off of the table with a fork in her left hand.

Wow, it’s almost Christmas. If it wasn’t for the radio I wouldn’t believe it. The radio sings to us advices, wishes and stories, such as: ‘Put Jesus in your Christmas’, ‘ I wish you a reggae Christmas’,’ I saw mommy kissing Rasta’ and ‘you are a rotten banana, with a greasy black peel’. Somehow, these lines don’t seem to really get me in the same old ‘Christmas feeling’, so Ant and I started watching Christmas movies as well. For starters we had Elf!

I already posted a blog about the new address where you could watch pictures and movies on. But it seems the link is a little incomplete. You should just copy paste it in your address-bar, and then you see the pictures. Maybe, the link now will be complete though, so I’ll give it another try: http://www.flickr.com/photos/71971877@N07/

I hope you are having a great Christmas feeling. And I hope you are all well.