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Last Week: A Few Cool Things

In addition to the awesome day trips we took to Wilderness, Ponce and Maricao, we also had lots of fun in Rincón at the Spanish Wall, Farmer’s Market, Art Walk, at a couple of events and just hanging out at the house. Here are a few snapshots that didn’t quite make it into a post on their own, but that were pretty cool.

Kitty resting
We all love an afternoon catnap

Graffiti
I found this graffiti somewhat ironic because it says to take care of your beach and not leave trashbut apparently graffiti is ok

Music and palms from the beach
We listened to reggae on the beach one night

Hooping
And had fun hula hooping to the beats (Yah Frances and Theresa)

Brisas
Another night we listened to our friend Jessika rock it with her band at a local bar

Colors of skin
Friends come in many shades!

Mosquito net
Mosquito nets are helpful in a cabin without doors or windows

So tiny crab
And we found the tiniest little hermit crab you’ve ever seen

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Snapshots of Life Now

Not many words are needed. Here are a few snapshots of our day yesterday.

Cassie and the turkeysJust hanging out with some particularly friendly turkeys

Swinging BK
Britton literally hanging out

Heliconia and palm
Surrounded by beauty

Pretty Kitty
A pretty Kitty

Tina Turner Singing
And a funny Tina Turner chicken named Grandma singing “What’s Looove got to do with it?”

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The Iguana Hunt and a New Camera

So…this happened.

Camera

Yep our trusty old camera bit the dust. It had already lost its lens cover, couldn’t zoom any more, couldn’t take very good night shots, had sand in it and the screen would fog up with humidity when it rained.

Here’s how it finally gave up the ghost.

We were out in the yard and I saw that the chickens were acting really weird. They were all together and seemed disturbed by something. We immediately thought hawk, but we looked to the skies and we saw the little pitirre in the nest was not disturbed at all. Finally we saw what it was: an iguana. We  had been talking about bagging one for a while (as they are very destructive especially to plant and bird life and an invasive species). And this was our opportunity. Britton grabbed the pellet gun and the camera. Then he handed me the camera, and he took the gun. The iguana stood still on the low-lying tree branch and Britton had a clear shot. The iguana jumped and fell backwards on the branch. Britton went to get his gloves to grab it but it somehow came back to life and fell into the brush, completely camouflaged.

So I watered the trees while Britton went on a hunt under all the branches and trees for the wounded iguana. While watering the trees, I also accidentally watered the camera that was hanging from my wrist as well! Oops. I didn’t think too much of it because it has survived so many mishaps, but when Britton came back carrying an iguana upside down by the tail, I tried to take a picture and it would not work.

We didn’t want to let this moment go without a photo, but we could not fix the camera and we ended up just having to take a crappy picture with the laptop.

iguanaFirst iguana!

We cut up the iguana and were going to try and eat it but the skin/scales were like super hard leather and we ended up just hacking at it so much that we gave it to the chickens who devoured it! Now we know a little more about how these creatures are made, so that when we are ready to actually eat it we will be able to properly butcher and skin it and then cook and eat it.

Unfortunately our camera was toast and so we made the difficult decision to buy a new one. I have a really hard time letting go of stuff because I know all the quirks and how they work and it seems like new stuff always has too many weird functions that I will never use and they get rid of features that I like! But we finally picked another Canon and it seems to work pretty well, though we are still trying to figure it out. It does take pictures with filters which is kind of fun to play with and so we took a few test photos of the animals in the yard.

Turkeys filter
Turkeys!

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Chickens

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Kitty

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Even the pitirre bird!

 The filters are fun, but it seems to take pretty decent regular shots as well though we are experimenting with the color a little.

Poof turkeyThe turkeys are getting big but still look funny when they do their little turkey poof

So it seems that while we shot the iguana, the iguana sort of got the best of our old camera and it will never take another shot.

However, while all things come to an end, new iguanas and new images are sure to come.

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January in Greeley Versus Rincon

 

I took a picture of Kitty and me today to show Britton just what he was missing -a cold morning that didn’t come out of the negative degrees until nearly noon. He then sent me the below shot of him on the beach on an 80 degree winter day in Rincon. Quite the difference. I know where I want to be (and more than likely will be) this time next year! 🙂

Kitty Cold
Brrr January in Greeley, Colorado -Kitty and I are trying to stay warm in the world of white

bk at beach
Ahh…January in colorful Rincon, Puerto Rico

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